markdown [家庭作业1作为Gist Thomas Leon Highbaugh]

Posted 2021-05-05

### Hello Professor,

>Below are the components of my admittedly long winded response, which is a rather bad habit I 
>am completely unable to overcome, however the layout and text editing I am prone to is part of 
>why HTML documents are something I can enjoy structuring and as you will see is part of why I 
>do not use Lorem Ipsum for proof of concept examples. You may have already noticed but I have 
>included a link to GitHub where this will display fully in the light Markdown it was composed 
>with, I will also include a .md file. Being present in HTML and a way to practice it while 
>otherwise conducting non-coding types of businessmen part and parcel to the modern day, I assume 
>the file is sufficient but always am distrustful of technology being at present a self-employed 
>hardware repair tech *thus the below link*:



### 1. W 3 Schools and the Bounty to be Had There:
W 3 Schools is the site I have come to personally prefer over Mozilla Developer Network simply 
due to the content being more likely to function as it is presented because unlike almost any 
documentation I have consumed in the year or so since abandoning Windows 10 on any system and 
deciding to pursue the technology sector while it still lays golden eggs.  Unlike the shinier, 
but otherwise far inferior MDN, W3Schools is a site that focuses on delivering content that is 
updated enough to still function. Sadly, not even Mozilla seems to be as concerned with the 
functionality of their examples which in an industry that requires enough mental flexibility 
to go from Angular to React within the last 2 months, even when just 2-3 months ago Angular was 
the on demand library. While not as in depth as a textbook, and not as well proofread or edited 
by the Sysadmin running the site, the volume of basic introductions primarily covers the breadth 
of any skill sought in Web Development to a level you can at least grasp conceptually, 
including the much more analytical side of the server administration component that coming 
first from hardware. Its like many resources in this field in that it is only as useful as your 
research capacity, which explains finer details than any "coding camp" or free web based 
resources, which is why you see me sitting before you once a week because knowing those finer 
details that text books and professors impart is generally the best way for me personally to 
fully comprehend development as breaking and fixing hardware is why I discovered my later in 
life desire to go into software/web development. 

As someone without a CS degree or even math/science (economics doesn't count to anyone who 
really studied it) I have had the experience of needing some proof in excess of well documented 
(but still desperate for styling and coming soon when I get my portfolio hosted) proof I 
understand various concepts at least to hiring managers who glaze over looking at any code. W3 
Schools offers a solution that hiring managers apparently like, though personally I would 
never trust the web certs offer on the footer of W3Schools because they require honesty, which 
in my experience is a rare quality in humans, and a person who watches you not cheat yet 
would inherently be a significant other or close friend, otherwise watching would freak me out 
if I am at my workstation/home/anywhere. The nice thing is like all coding, cheating will only 
curse you to getting a job you cannot actually do or can barely configure your equipment for 
incurring the wraith of the Systems Administrator who plays video games all day when no one 
else would need help. 

### 2. Whatwg: Another Reason Academia Tends to be a Better Way to Learn
While I type out w3Schools in my sleep and the 3 browsers I use on my main rig all remember it 
well enough from constant referencing of it, I had never even been exposed to WHatwg prior to 
reading the chapter and remembering it being pronounce "what wag" from class. The site looks 
like an animated click bait front end to sum malicious database that if running Microsoft I 
might loose a hard drive from a Trojan. The site's inability to make Linux do what I make it do 
weekly, crash and burn, as well as the valid certs is honestly why I stayed on the site to 
find it has a rather great HTML validator that usually I have used IDEs for but could now 
easily program large web applications on a Chrome OS laptop (which are lighter and with 
Gallium OS replacements for Google are pretty fast machines even low specked). Because the 
website is actually an indicator of what aspects of the internet they are most likely 
interested in improving (the things that are not shiny, nor public facing I would presume is 
more important because the design of the site is too terse for designers who would have to '
know subtle methods of deploying compiled CSS libraries and/or vexing JS libraries that would 
make it a more attractive and likely less informative site. That sort of focus, which 
evidently I am free to review the standards and file issues on any perceived flaw, which I 
assume is aggregated and used to create better User Experiences (Or Developer Experiences in 
this case especially). I find it somewhat silly they include an "Is it free to contribute?" on 
their FAQ considering that the most recent business model is using early release candidates as 
test units the public tests for free, the company claiming the broken OS (Windows 10) or 
notoriously bad form of Unix everyone has in their pocket (Android) actually is a payment to 
the millions of free beta testers they leverage in such programs (I actual despise but 
contribute to Microsoft and Google as ways of anticipating business repairing said devices). 
Hopefully this will improve my portfolio in a meaningful way as I am, soon to dive in, 


### 3. My HTML rating, Browsers and Note on Workstations 
Using both installations of Firefox, which for Ubuntu-based OSes is always a little behind 
other browsers and its Windows/Mac releases https://html5test.com/ gave the browser 499/555 
and both Chrome and its free open source cousin Chromium got 522/555. The only shock there is 
that the webpack for "Developer" Firefox is the same as the known-to-be-behind-due-to-general-
disinterest-in-Linux version. Evidently Google, both in its Upstream open source testing 
browser and the one it forces on all androids except Fire HD tablets, can completely support 
"text-level semantics"; "speech recognition" and strangely a much wider number of "Web 
Components" like HTML imports and "custom elements" that the Netscape boys cannot support even 
with more extensive leveraging of the main product getting more free testing and pre-release 
focus groups arising for free among those who use the product and then fix it and don't 
expect payment, great business model that is true to the SF form and Gates' stolen quote 
about lazy programmers (an absurdity except in Systems Administrators). 


For the record, I use a modified Pop_OS on both daily drivers and Ubuntu server on my server 
as the basis for a VZ enabled hypervisor I spin other distros off of for certain internal web 
apps and as testing environments having no taste for reinstalling my OS from NPM depenecies 
that seem to arise from JSX transpilers in general, mean9ing docker image writing is the next 
frontier in my quest to develop a home networking environment that enables me to explore new 
concepts and aspects of tech that continue to fascinate me simply as the whole field changes so 
rapidly I could never tire of it like many static subjects I know volumes about but lack the 
needed impetus to do long term without the malaise that other careers give me to think of. 


### 4. Webaim
This site evidently provides guidelines for compliance with the Americans With Disabilities 
Act, a truly dynamic law in the sparing way the SEC and FBI tend to enforce it but because of 
its general ambiguity is every working resident's best friend if situations at work start to 
become toxic. Because the application on the rapid sociological shift that computers at home 
and the internet as a culture generator, the lack of such a resource has vexed my portfolio 
as it is not something ever laid out clearly to me until a UDemy class hinted at it and I 
have aware even sense.  Like W3Schools it offers proof of knowledge certificates that are 
supposed to be proctored by individuals of trustworthy character physically present watching you 
to insure you don't cheat. All these are, if free, are essentially practice for other certs, 
which it seems in both software and in other components of tech that require ever diverse 
skills specific to certain jobs while lawyers must now be biting at tech firms in this way 
such that these certs are convincing enough to warrant a judge not to allow for prosecution 
and based on its HQ in Utah (weirdly its own tech hub and according to my sources very livable 
despite being in a high desert) it is probably an effort that started when several high 
capital tech magnets decided to use open source to circumvent the compliance industry that 
banks atrophy wealth to and are rewarded with the worst quality of videos I have ever sat 
through which the courts see as sufficient to enable the corporation to abstract itself from 
the actions of an employee who violates the ADA in some way. 

This information will be of extreme value if tech does not correct within a few years from 
unforeseen economic adjustments that would hold the lawyers back who even now are looking at 
any conceivable way to drain capital from tech either through the public administration alleys 
that drove finance and banking out of the state in the dark days of the late 70s or through 
the feedback loop of glory seeking that made medicine in the this country prohibitively 
expensive in large part because malpractice has huge payouts and low evidence standards for 
tort law. These types of legal threats exist where ever money accumulates, which tech 
currently is the sector accumulating and evolving quickly enough its out paced its own 
growing pains like the robber barons of the 19th century. Not complying but making 6 figures 
and not being aware of the manifold ways the "justice" system is usually employed especially 
in this state would mean vulnerable wealth to students who make obnoxious amounts of money 
while still naive enough not to know to be careful. Free legal resources, like the honor 
system certification, are clever ways to both benefit people who that compliance will benefit 
(those who require the code to be documented in such a way it can be read coherently by a 
screen reader to make up for visual impairments) while depriving the common law of the reason 
that lip service is still paid to English kings in this rebellious colony while in England no 
longer works as such. 



### 5. Search Engine Optimization or SEO

>SEO is an easily explained aspect of technology that enough people can make money directly 
>with that it is often featured in get rich quick books sold for 99 cents on Amazon (and 
>probably not as long as this document will be due to my ever increasing tendency to overwrite 
>in a way that reflects Charles Dickens' English more the voice I speak with, I also never use
>Lorem Ipsum as filler the above speaks to why.)

### "SEO, isn't that in a bunch of Amazon book titles?!"
It is actually a process of creating a website that is easily indexed by a set of programs 
that automatically discover, analyze and based on the site itself, the number of organic 
visitors to the site and its attractiveness to these automatic indexing programs, gets placed 
within the "top fold" of a Google, or other search engine. This is how ad space you sell to 
Google obtains its value, which is so capitalized that there have long been multitudes of ways 
one can easily create sites only interesting to such scripts and there you have the "link 
farm" sites that try to trap the extremely gullible in never ending links of websites owned in 
common or within a cartel milking Google's technology for the revenue it generates. While 
Google combats this, it is the primary means by which the technology industry was the least 
hampered during the last Recession, which makes me nervous having studied economics in 
undergrad, while also being a means by which some people do limited work and make enough to 
live well or take some stereotypical Silicon Valley year long vacation. Though like most 
technologies some have profited from immensely, the golden goose has stopped laying that 
particular golden egg and the profitability of such sites is mostly still greater than 
nothing due to companies that sell ad space selling Platforms-As-A-Service and reducing 
standard fees for those sites to fractions of the cost, a recent development that has meant 
the resurgence of such farms. 

### 6. Responsive Web Design, A Meaningful Term in the Age of Marketing-As-An-Innovation

Responsive web design is actually an important concept in the modern flux between traditional
desktop (and laptop) computers and mobile devices with ARM processors that seem soon to
surpass inlet chips in power and are inherently better featured for mobile use from people
who use them whenever they are in unfamiliar circumstances or while driving over 80 miles
an hour on the freeway. Websites never displayed well on those smaller screen the way they
did on the desktop because the font size and layout of the small screen is different in scale 
and proportion. To my understanding, Twitter developed an early solution which continues
in its 4th version called Bootstrap (yet twitter still has no edit feature in it main web
app). An excellent example of utilizing the public to do much of the  development on your library
for free thus reducing costs on those bottom lines while exposing a deliberately mobile-first 
and flexible library to any imaginable screen layout and using indignant from people who it 
doesn't work to gauge the areas one will need to focus on when further development is 
underway. 

Responsive design is a focus because the general trend for anyone not a self-described "gamer" 
or developer who manages VMs and an overly complicated intranet for one person. is to use more 
mobile devices and less traditional desktops and laptops. While some celebrate 
the transition, others bemoan it and most are unaware of it, one thing that Western industry 
is good at doing is seeing the direction that public taste will shift and playing to it, 
which is why the responsive paradigm is not actually very new or meaningless like "Serverless" 
hosting that works at the user level exactly like a cloud. The recent news around Google was 
the introduction of another variation of the GO language and Facebook developed React to port 
in new features of ES06 and later Javascript standards expressible in older code but only 
as extremely long statements generated by transpilers from the new script ( which allows HTML 
to be used within JS like it is PHP in my experience with that script and is evidently a 
similar workflow to Meteor and Redux). The associated work flow of these newer libraries is 
being smoothed out by frustrated developers who can and often do create new components of that 
technology for themselves but benefit larger swaths of the community in the free source 
paradigm accompanying the rise of the responsive site with tasteful color pallets and user 
interfaces (far from the Geocities days). The Google approach to mobile first web design also 
includes its in house "material" stabilization standard featured in the last several Android 
OSes and strikingly similar to the appearance of Bootstrap on mobile and desktop. This 
standardization process is both consumer driven as it reduces the frustration of mobile web 
experiences and something that will benefit the community (Bootstrap 4 sites are very easy to 
make, while hand coding is far too tedious and hard to position) while using the community to 
lower overhead ethically and efficiently. 

### **Thank you for your time,**
### *Thomas Leon Highbaugh*