If this is an indication you are using TypeScript for upcoming Voat stuff I highly recommend it.

I've transitioned most all of my code over to typescript (not yet the ui yet though)

https://github.com/notabugio/notabug-peer/tree/master/src

VS Code is pretty nice too; I do feel a bit dirty using MS software again though.

TypeScript says why not both?

That joke was mild, okay.

Incredibly mild; the only way you can perceive that joke as sexist is if you fundamentally believe that only men enjoy sex; which is itself a rather sexist view.

No.

table is not a valid child of table

h1 isn't a valid child of table either.

The missing closing tags for <p> is technically valid but bad practice.

same with the use of "bgcolor"

The CSS looks valid.

Voat’s community is borne out of petty politically motivated censorship elsewhere.

So yeah, we like what we like.

I member being too poor to have a sound card so I had to deal with the “pc speaker” (the thing that beeps on boot) for sound effects for years.

See also: https://github.com/MostlyAdequate/mostly-adequate-guide

Some languages are worse than others, but this sort of thing can happen with any of them I think.

I think it's stuff like this that causes me occasional existential crisis as a developer. It's really demoralizing when all you have to show for X hours of frustration is a single character change.

Not really, your best bet might be to include a cryptographic signature of the document with the signature. This would be the only way to effectively prove exactly what document you approved.

I love Ember, but I advise avoiding ember-data, it's more pain than it's worth most of the time.

Yeah it's a ruby program with a function concatenate_strings and a line that calls that function but does nothing with the result.

Glad you liked it, I'm personally working on switching to a more pure functional style myself and this video helped convince me a former die hard OOP guy to consider such a change.

https://twitter.com/gavinjoyce/status/691773956144119808?lang=en

Not always, the people bringing up privacy concerns are right; so there are some cases where it isn't appropriate.

I recommend using a CDN, the benefit is that if a visitor has already visited another site using the same CDN those assets are cached, also you save yourself the bandwidth; and browsers commonly limit themselves to two simultaneous connections per domain when loading assets. Having some of your assets at another location can help parallelize your load time.

Which is why I'm surprised JavaScript isn't on the list

It never really bothered me, I quite liked python. But I do pretty much all JS all the time now. ES6 is really nice.

Yeah I seem to recall having some issues with this as well, but realistically I don' think there are any other python friendly toolkits that mesh with Windows/Mac/Linux UIs as well as pyqt even given its shortcomings.

PyQT is not bad at all once you get it installed/setup but getting that far can be a bitch and a half.

To expand on your idea, you could always go the HTML UI route, with python serving as a local web service.