Funny. I was just throwing together a little website and was trying to decide whether I should include Bootstrap for the sole purpose of laying out a grid. This looks like a better option.
Man, CSS is crazy. I remember how much easier things were with tables and few attributes. We had everything we needed, but as usual with engineering, we thought we had to reinvent the wheel!
It is unfortunate that the course can't be taken anonymously and requires either a github login or an email and password.
I understand the general motivation for that (a quid pro quo, an exchange of a bit of information for a valuable resource) but even then it is a disappointing trend to require personal identification for such type of valuable resources.
We've spent over a year building this product and about a month creating the content. Now we're giving it all away for free. I think it's fair that we ask people to authenticate.
I was going to check this out, but couldn't find a privacy policy or other statement re what you might do with harvested email addresses. https://github.com/scrimba/community/blob/master/TERMS.md seemed like the obvious place to look. I'm not remotely anticipating anything malign, but clarity of intent is important.
One nit: I like listening to tutorials at more than 1x playback speed, and I was overjoyed that you added the feature but it’s not persisted between videos which is a bit annoying. But other than that This product is amazing!
It's a potentially reasonable quid pro quo, but it would obviously be reckless to sign in to scrimba without any information on what they plan to do with the collected information. I'm looking forward to seeing what the platform can do once they have published relevant disclosures.
This is literally one of the coolest systems I've seen on hackernews over the last decade. This is going to change how people learn to code, and definitely going to change how it is taught! Great work, scrimba team!
This is a big thing people don't always get at first with Grid. It only replaces Flexbox where Flexbox was being used in a convoluted way to imitate what Grid does. It doesn't replace the more "natural" use of Flexbox to control the direction, spacing, and sizing of what for want of a better term I'll call "things in lines that may wrap".
Great tool and great tutorial! I have a sense that I have a good grasp of CSS grids now.
In my Firefox I did have an issue with the sound cutting out after a while. Chrome worked great.
And I think your voice sounded a bit robotic at times. I'm guessing the threshold on your mic is a bit to high.
Or from some segments I gathered that small sound fragments were being played in quick succession. If that is the case, I think fade in-out with some overlap would give a more natural sound. Though, do note that I almost never work with audio, so I may be far off here :).
I saw the same audio cut-out bug in Firefox 58.0b12 on Mac OS X, about 1 minute 10 into the very first episode and like you found using Chrome was a workaround.
If you can only pick one CSS Grid seems more powerful. But they do mostly different things (with some overlap) so you really want to learn both if you can.
Just dive right into flexbox first, truly the best answer is to learn and master both, they were made to be used together for powerful layout combinations!
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My CSS fluency is on a need-to-know basis!
But of course, feel free to disagree.
HN complains.
https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/
https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
oops
http://flexboxfroggy.com/ is equally fun and instructive.
Have you guys recently started? Why not highlight quality videos at the top, to showcase this learning platform?
I shouldn't be complaining, this fast pace of adopting useful tools is a paradise compared to the stagnation we had 5-15 years ago.
In my Firefox I did have an issue with the sound cutting out after a while. Chrome worked great.
And I think your voice sounded a bit robotic at times. I'm guessing the threshold on your mic is a bit to high.
Or from some segments I gathered that small sound fragments were being played in quick succession. If that is the case, I think fade in-out with some overlap would give a more natural sound. Though, do note that I almost never work with audio, so I may be far off here :).
I'm not really a fan of frontend but I did always like CSS (probably due to its declarative nature) more than JS.