Web Development

Today I am super proud to announce that I have finally picked up the task of finishing my book titled, "HTML: A Comprehensive Guide". I am writing the book in public and releasing it under the MIT license.

Came across this interesting article. But what do you all think?

Is it possible for me to grab (download) a full list of transcripts from a youtube channel's videos. I am working on a small project, of which I need a list of the videos, like all of them to control+f and find specific words.

I was wondering if anyone knew of such program I could use.

However, I wrote this AppScript in Google Drive, of which I'm not sure if this will work. It uses high level Google Account Access.

function getYouTubeTranscripts() {
  const CHANNEL_ID = "UCtMVHI3AJD4Qk4hcbZnI9ZQ";

      // This below is what, before Oath (ing), is what Google is saying its unsafe, and does not let me continue...
  const youtube = YouTubeApp.getOAuth2Service().getService();
  const videoIds = youtube.search().list("id", { channelId: CHANNEL_ID, maxResults: 50 }).items.map(item => item.id.videoId);

  videoIds.forEach(videoId => {
    const captions = youtube.captions().list("snippet", { videoId }).items;
    if (captions.length > 0) {
      const captionId = captions[0].id;
      const transcript = youtube.captions().download(captionId, { tfmt: "srt" }).getContentText();
      DriveApp.createFile(`${videoId}.txt`, transcript, "text/plain");
      Logger.log(`Transcript for video ${videoId} saved.`);
    } else {
      Logger.log(`No transcript found for video ${videoId}.`);
    }
  });
}

Just wondering of anything else I could use...

I am working on a personal website that loads perfectly on Chrome and Chromium-based browsers but crashes or doesn't bother to render on Firefox and Firefox-based browsers. I'm unable to narrow down the issue.

This issue doesn't occur in any mobile device browser(firefox or chrome).

website: https://gecom.alexdeathway.me

source code: https://github.com/alexdeathway/gecom

The amount of CSS novelty in the last two to four years has been staggering. Multiple innovations have been released and are now supported in all modern browsers, and some of them fundamentally change how to make websites.

An interesting read. Of course just an personal opinion as the author said, but I think he is correct in lots of his points.

I noticed that I think / feel like this myself sometimes, even while I'm a frontend dev myself.

Fortunately I'm in a nice team that values my frontend skills that all the other full stack/ Backend devs are missing.

Did you notice this bias / devaluing of the frontend work yourself?

When using dependencies such as NPM packages, Composer packages. Weather you use a CDN or host the packages on the web server, don't many packages out there require you to display the licenses of the package being used and show attributions?

How would one place this on their website? I even went to several websites to see how they do this and could not find a section and I am sure these website use packages that require the license to be listed and list the attributions.

I can find the licenses and attributions of packages used in many applications on desktop and mobile, usually in the apps "about" page.

This study compares two websites with similar design: the commercial Spotlight template from developers of Tailwind vs the same site with semantic CSS.

But even with a decade of experience every time I've approached an American company it's been a complete non-starter. Is it because they know they couldn't pay me peanuts like the other guys?

There's even two visa lotteries this year. Guess I'll just look on wistfully while various nameless east-asian countries game the system 🙃