Slightly off-topic: His single "index.php" with jQuery is helping him to earn th...

mgbmtl · on July 4, 2023

Are there ways to view tweets without an account? Kind of like archive.is? For now, I could enter it in Google and view cache, but I assume that will go away soon.

And if I understand correctly, it's not the index.php, but the actual service behind it, that earns thousands per month. Looks nice :)

aeyes · on July 4, 2023

Google cache works for me: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JHqAqv...

viraptor · on July 4, 2023

Nitter.net was that thing, but the rate limits killed it for now. We'll see if it gets back online.

Given_47 · on July 4, 2023

So sad. And even if one didn’t care about privacy, the speed of Nitter relative to the official Twitter client was amazing

oneeyedpigeon · on July 4, 2023

There used to be, but Elon nuked it. I think, as commenters, we should start embedding the content of a tweet right after we link to it.

ricardo81 · on July 4, 2023

Probably doesn't need jquery either as most of its functionality is now native to browsers.

Also fwiw, another one here without a logged in Twitter acc

keen_poincare · on July 4, 2023

Congratulations to him, but 14,000 lines in a single script? I would pay to not give maintenance to that.

Klonoar · on July 4, 2023

His business ideas and the fact that he just ships is what earns him thousands per month.

End users don't give a shit what you build it with, but none of it matters unless you're willing to shit products out.

AndroTux · on July 4, 2023

Just because you can doesn't mean you should. Just because it's one file doesn't mean it's better. It'll be shit to maintain, it'll make working with multiple developers a pain (merge conflicts much) and having one file means having minimal structure at best. There's a reason why we split things up into multiple files.

I could also write his cool startup in just one line if I just remove all newlines. Does that make it even better than 14.000 lines? Obviously not.

graypegg · on July 4, 2023

I’m all for jquery to handle sending and event and updating some dom elements, that’s simple and pretty easy to debug actually.

Not using any modern CSS layout though, ehhh I would never want to return to the age of .clearfix, that feels like the opposite of simple.