Possibly of additional interest is a writeup of the tech stack powering faavorite.com which somebody submitted a couple of weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3802872 :)
None at all actually, that's just a mahoosive oversight on my part. I've been working on lots of server side caching and server optimisation (e.g. mod_pagespeed) and committed the cardinal sin of ignoring the basics. Thanks for pointing it out - one for the issue tracker.
I'd hope a bit of gentle education surrounding the pros (i.e. very few, just a slightly slicker effect) Vs the cons (i.e all those you outlined) would make most clients see that it's not worth the effort, in this instance at least. But yeah - I take your point :)
Hey - I have pondered using less / sass / etc but so far haven't yet had much need (though the repetition required by the theming is perhaps a strong case to start considering it). To be honest, the vast majority of the site's CSS is contained in Twitter's bootstrap framework anyway so up until this point it's not something I'd worried much about :)
Hi all - thanks for all the comments, great to see this article made it to Hacker News! Glad some more people are finding a use for the library. Feel free to get involved with the project on Github - not sure of HN etiquette so won't post the link but it's available via the article.
Hi Nick! Thanks for making this, I'm going to add it to a project right now.
One quick note -- it'd be cool if you had a big "find me on Github" button near the top, just for convenience. And so that people understand right away that it is a project they can easily download and mess around with.
You could even go for something snazzy like an unofficial Github watch or fork button:
Those unofficial watch / follow buttons are awesome! I'll definitely find a way to integrate one or both of them into articles which relate to Github repos. Cheers! :)
