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  • From the welcome page

    my secret mission with Perchance is to get people interested in coding with a smooth, fun learning-curve

    Seems like it worked!

    I do web dev on a daily basis, and I tend to think of HTML as "formatted" data.

    A database has data in it, but it's in a format of columns and rows, like a spreadsheet.

    My application fetches that raw data and uses code to manipulate it - it can inspect it, rewrite it, combine it with other data from other places, validate it against rules - all sorts of stuff.

    Since my app is a web app, all that code is designed to use the data formatted in columns and rows from the database, and use it to generate new data in HTML format to send to the browser.

    Technically, writing HTML for a browser is a form of programming - it's a set of instructions that tell the browser how to display the data in the HTML. It's not considered programming in a professional sense, though, as HTML doesn't get, send, change, or process data. Its purpose is as a format for data to be sent and read by something else (the browser).

    *professional as in job titles that affect your salary

  • Fellow Vue enjoyer! I love Vue, it's so friendly. Maintaining a complex React app feels like getting dragged behind a truck down a one way road.

    (Did you like my two way data binding joke there?)

  • It's good branding. "China," as we think of it, fragmented into states that recombinated into different versions of what they each claimed to be the rightful empire, many, many times. It's like a ship of thesius thought experiment, almost, but sometimes the boat is a pile of wood, sometimes it's a galleon, other times it's a fleet of smaller boats.

    And sometimes it's Turkish. (Sorta)

    Source: degree in Song Dynasty era Chinese history. (It's a long story)