[HN Gopher] GitHub Blocks ___________________________________________________________________ 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. | | https://github.com/processing/p5.js/issues/5740#issuecomment... | [deleted] | 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 ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-11-09 23:00 UTC)