I wish I could upvote this comment twice. Thank you for the walk down memory lane.

I recall, in about 2010, hiring a young engineer to help with small marketing pages at an agency in New York City. His work was pixel-perfect at a time when we’d spend days just trying to get things looking reasonable in IE6. He was fast. It was incredible.

He was gone for the day when a last-minute change came in, so another dev went to update his latest work. Turns out he had been exporting the entire designs (from Photoshop, of course, no Sketch or Figma back then) as a BACKGROUND IMAGE and then ABSOLUTELY POSITIONING form fields.

I thought it was brilliant. No one else but the boss agreed. Testing for all of his work had been flawless cross-browser. It just didn’t work well on mobile. But he didn’t have to center things in a div - it was all smoke and mirrors.

I miss those days sometimes.

I double dare you to

I’ve been down the “What is the SOTA PWA framework” rabbit hole a few times and returned with Ionic and not much else. Has that changed?

Checking this out now - I’ve used Wispr Flow for a while, and it’s….fine. I’d love more control, though.

By any chance, would you be open to paid licensees having source access? Obviously with strict non-compete/non-commercial terms.

I helped implement Mermaid as a part of Apollo GraphQL’s public documentation to address the “docs as versioned artifact with code” challenge. It’s a win, but still another Yak to shave since public docs are a product, not the source code for the internal teams’ use.

This comment is why I come to HN for the comments and articles, but really just stay for the comments :)

Honest question: is prelude.so suitable for marketing, including handling STOP replies and such?

We don’t manage anything else than transactional messages at the moment.

Do you have a marketing use case ? If so I would be eager to understand your main pain points.

Williams Gibson also describes this in Idoru - a virtual world with digital bugs that eat spam.

I love the idea and simplicity, thank you for sharing!

Small bit of feedback: would it be possible to make the UI a bit more mobile friendly? Or, alternatively, is there an API that others could use to build different interfaces?

Again, this is a Thing That Should Exist, so thank you for bringing it into the world.

I second this. Mobile is how I primarily read news. IMO it should be the first platform you support.

noted, thank you!

fixed mobile ui

Looks great!

I'll work on that, sorry yes i didn't spend much time on making it mobile friendly yet!

fixed some mobile issues

Your last paragraph tickles the part of my brain that has read William Gibson’s entire Sprawl series. Thank you for that.