[HN Gopher] GitHub Blocks
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       GitHub Blocks
        
       Author : msoad
       Score  : 52 points
       Date   : 2022-11-09 20:56 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (blocks.githubnext.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (blocks.githubnext.com)
        
       | milliams wrote:
       | On Firefox this is rather messed up and is not rendering well.
       | Doesn't give me much confidence.
        
         | [deleted]
        
         | mkurz wrote:
         | Same with Chromium (Linux). Is this even an official GitHub
         | project?
        
         | marpstar wrote:
         | Same in Safari 16.1
        
         | [deleted]
        
         | tim-- wrote:
         | Make your window less wide. That fixed it for me! Seems like
         | some broken CSS media queries.
        
         | idan wrote:
         | We're a small team, and we don't have a whole marketing and web
         | team to build stuff for us.
         | 
         | They're experiments! Think of this like an 0.1 of an open
         | source project; it's gonna have bugs, it's going to have rough
         | edges. We aren't going to pretend otherwise :D
        
       | spyremeown wrote:
       | If you don't add metadata to the README so I can still just open
       | with any editor, I'm all for it.
        
       | paxys wrote:
       | Seems like..embeddable Github Pages? Maybe only on your project
       | readme (or elsewhere, can't really tell)?
        
       | idan wrote:
       | GitHub Next here!
       | 
       | Kyle Daigle's "Building with :heart:" session[1] in just under an
       | hour is going to show this off, and we'll be getting people into
       | the thing as quickly as possible! No long waitlist here.
       | 
       | https://githubuniverse.com/events/detail/virtual-schedule/a0...
        
         | madeofpalk wrote:
         | What is 'GitHub Next'? Is this an official GitHub project? It's
         | not on the github.com domain, so it doesn't look like it. What
         | signals do I have to know that this site is trustworthy?
         | 
         | I click 'get started', and it wants me to hand over access to
         | my GitHub account to see all private resources I have and "act
         | on [my] behalf" to some unknown "blocks" third party.
         | 
         | How do I determine whether this website is some kind of
         | phishing scam, or legit? Everything everyone always says
         | ("check the domain!") rings alarm bells.
        
       | hardwaresofton wrote:
       | Github blocks = Notion style blocks and Jupyter notebook style
       | code execution in your GH repository text files
        
       | lloydatkinson wrote:
       | How funny that timing is. It showcases P5 which has absolutely
       | awful bundle sizes because the code is written in a way that tree
       | shaking (unused code removal) isn't possible. It attaches
       | everything to the p5.prototype.
       | 
       | This took a site I have from loading 200kb to 1.1mb. It also
       | includes browser polyfills that haven't been needed for years.
       | Unacceptable.
       | 
       | I hope that P5 can get some attention as a result of Blocks to
       | refactor it to solve this.
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       | https://github.com/processing/p5.js/issues/5740#issuecomment...
        
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       | threatofrain wrote:
       | Looks rather cool but right now there's only a signup page.
        
       | pokstad wrote:
       | But what I liked about git readmes was that they were static and
       | easy to reason about.
        
       | amusingimpala75 wrote:
       | Is this officially by GitHub?
        
         | idan wrote:
         | Yes!
         | 
         | GitHub Next is a small research lab, formerly known as the
         | Office of the CTO
        
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