Looks pretty cool. I wish I had something like this when I was moving to Seattle for my job. Anyway, because this looks like a ‘product’, here’s some constructive criticism:
- Consider adding ability to find places with low rent. This is one of the most important things people want.
- Please consider extending this to atleast the entirety of the United States.
- I couldn’t find a filter for good schools. For many of my friends that’d be a major dealbreaker when buying or renting a place to live in. Quality of high schools nearby has a pretty strong effect on home prices.
- Try to use the ‘Show HN’ prefix in the post title if you want to demo something you personally made.
Too much probably, I started web dev before CSS was even a thing, but there's still parts of it I've never used. But I stand by it. The basics of CSS: text styling, colours, padding, margins, etc. are really simple. Layout can be tricky, but even then most sites are just header, footer and two or three columns, and that is really simple to do, even without flexbox and grid.
In fact I think it is easier now than ever: cross-browser issues are much less of an issue, and grid and flexbox have made layout easier.
The font styling and padding stuff aren't really the meat and butter (edit: sorry, bread and butter... English isn't my first language) though. They're the kind of stuff you learn on day 1, then from day 2 to day 1000+ everything else remains hard.
"Layout can be tricky" is a... slight understatement? These days almost all web layout is handled through CSS, which means multiple layers of flex and grid, yes, along with axes and media queries and unit scales, pseudo classes, inheritance and priority, animations, transitions, gradients, shorthands, variables... and all of that is before adding in frameworks like Bootstrap or transpilers like Sass or abstractions like tailwind and other newcomers.
Remember how many years it took major browser vendors to reach a decent score on the ACID tests? (https://www.acidtests.org/) That was before flexbox and it was already insanely difficult to properly render CSS. It's gotten orders of magnitude more complex since then.
Cross browser issues are more of an issue than ever, since nobody uses CSS alone anymore there's different permutations of layout engines, permissions, web APIs, JS features, etc.
It's... just not simpler. You used to be able to learn nearly all of CSS in a week or so. Then over the last decade or so, I've been unable to even discover new features, much less keep up with them. Granted I'm getting old too, but man, it's really not a simple language.
Markdown is somewhat simple, but even writing a parser for that is hard. CSS and the DOM are waaaaaay complex. There's a reason there's only like three actual parsers for them (Blink, Webkit, Gecko).
> multiple layers of flex and grid, yes, along with axes and media queries and unit scales, pseudo classes, inheritance and priority, animations, transitions, gradients, shorthands, variables...
You don't need all of that to build most websites, and certainly not to get started. I'm familiar with all of that but I don't remember most of it — I just look it up again or re-learn it as needed.
> and all of that is before adding in frameworks like Bootstrap or transpilers like Sass or abstractions like tailwind and other newcomers.
Yeah, don't do any of that until you've mastered basic CSS layouts.
> You used to be able to learn nearly all of CSS in a week or so.
You can still learn as much in a week as before, and you don't need to learn it all to start being productive. If you want to be a professional web developer, then yes, expect to spend more that a week learning CSS; if you just want to build your own blog or hobby site, then you can learn enough in a week to build a nice site. CSS is not a simple language, but the basics are simple, it's easy to get started, and the learning curve is not too steep in my opinion.
Not true mate. Have setup plenty of machines with this as the choice and have also seen others running with ENG IN as the layout in their off-the-shelf laptops.
I like how this tracker doesn't talk much about India or China at all (even though there were 2.3m deaths due to COVID there according to the Economist).
Interestingly, they do talk about Japan, South Korea, etc.
Omission of China was very strange. I get that you may not have data. But to not mention that fact, when it's 1/5th of the world population, ostensibly the point of origin of Covid-19, and a country where most people are curious as to the effectiveness of its policies, is weird. Together with India it was one of the first countries I Ctrl+F'd out of interest.
John Hopkins' sources do cover India, at 600k excess deaths (table at the bottom). Also covers China at just 4000 or so, clearly wrong. But it's not clear anymore which figures are right or wrong, as the table contains much of the exact same data as the Economist article on most other countries. Seems like there's a data consolidation happening in the background from many different sources, you'd have to review the methodologies of each yourself (or trust the news reporting to highlight doubts or margins of error, but if they report China without comment as having just 4000 excess death in ±2 years, you obviously can't do that).
My impression is that Chinese and Indian stats seems to be intractable for different reasons (China because they fake every number they can, India because they have a hard time collecting them).
I believe the Indian government has been meticulously (under-)reporting them. There are government websites that are updated daily with this information. That is likely not the reason. But I'd prefer to attribute this omission to foolishness/laziness rather than malice (once again).
I am having the same issue!!! One of my important passwords was leaked and in free use by a bunch of people who were all accessing my evernote account (thankfully it had nothing important in it). I've been on a spree to change my passwords since then.
I have been wondering - is this because of the following lastpass bug?
