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2.5 KiB
92 lines
2.5 KiB
<template>
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<main class="special">
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<div class="section">
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<NuxtLink to="/go" class="btn btn--primary">
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go to the site
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</NuxtLink>
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<br><br>
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<h1 style="font-size: 2rem;">
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"what is this site, really?"
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</h1>
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<br>
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<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap;">
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Last week, I was mulling over FlyLocal.io's speed issues.
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As an exercise, I made a list of all the things that the FlyLocal website does.
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- [1] get data from a server three times
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- [2] display data on a map, twice
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- [3] display data on a page, once
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I let it ruminate that, by design, all the heavy lifting, all the processing, is already being done by Airtable.
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From a technical perspective, the site is really just a *viewer* of our product, and our product is Airtable data.
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***
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Then I thought about all the previous iterations of the site.
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It occurred to me that all the fancy stuff I'd done in Bubble v1 and pre-Bubble was for a business model that no longer existed.
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There was nothing fancy about this *new* model. No forms, no calculations. Get data, display data.
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And it occurred me that all the time-consuming stuff I'd done with Bubble v2 over the last year was really about me learning Bubble and figuring out how to get it to do the stuff that I already knew that websites could do: Get data, display data.
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And really, there was nothing all that time-consuming about getting data and displaying data, especially in 2021.
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***
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So... I decided to take a couple days and make a website. And I'm pleasantly surprised with how quickly it all came together.
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Hand-coded from the ground up on a modern, popular web-dev framework, it's lean, snappy, mobile-first, it has an elegant backend, and it checks all of my boxes.
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It still needs some css TLC, but all the major dev is complete.
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</pre>
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<NuxtLink to="/go" class="btn btn--primary">
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v5, for your consideration
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</NuxtLink>
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</div>
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</main>
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</template>
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<script>
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export default {
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mounted () {
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const body = document.querySelector('body')
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body.classList.add('special')
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}
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}
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</script>
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<style>
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main.special {
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color: #888 !important;
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display: flex;
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align-items: center;
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padding: 3rem;
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background: #262626;
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overflow-y: scroll;
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}
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.section {
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max-width: 60ch;
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border-radius: 2rem;
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border: 1px solid #888;
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background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.05);
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padding: 3rem;
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}
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.btn {
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border-radius: 999px;
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padding: 0.4em 0.8em;
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font-size: 1rem;
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white-space: nowrap;
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transition: 0.2s all;
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}
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.btn.btn--primary {
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background: #007fff;
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color: #fff;
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}
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</style>
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