galenko

I ask because I got curious about sveltekit when the 1.0 release happened and am now trying to build a little app with it.

My experience has been extremely frustrating.

It feels like a lot of the tutorials and code examples I can find (or those provided by copilot) are outdated and not working (like try finding how to create a post route).

And then simple things (connecting to mongo for example) also become extremely convoluted or flat out stop working (I have an example where one bit of code works perfectly fine in express, but then doesn’t find anything in svelte).

The thing that sold me on svelte were all the experiences shared by many in YouTube videos and blogs about how logical and straightforward svelte is, yet I seem to find nothing but frustration.

Am I alone in this?

Short: my girlfriend is a good graphic designer, her account on Elance of 2 years got closed for no reason and now she doesn't know where to turn to.

Long: I'm a developer (I do everything from server management to psd to template to html to php to ruby etc), 6 years in office experience (London, Hoxton), around 4 years freelance. Since I started working freelance, I wanted to have a good designer as my go-to person, could find someone reliable and good enough for my standards. So I made my girlfriend who was always good at drawing (fresh out of uni with an unrelated masters at the time) learn photoshop, illustrator and a few other tools. She's ace with vector graphics, her psd/ai files are a pleasure to work with, she's creative and intelligent (I'm biased, but seriously). I actually managed to pull it off and make her a good designer for a developer to work with.

This worked well for us, for the last 2 years, she would help me out when I needed her and find work via Elance when I didn't need any design services.

In the last few months, I've been focusing more on optimising and reworking existing applications, making them faster and more efficient for my ongoing clients, so I haven't needed a designer for a while and about a week ago, Elance closed her account out of the blue, her feedback was flawless, great ratings, top 10% on lots of tests. We tried emailing them a few times, but after googling and finding out that they just drop hordes of accounts from time to time we understood that it's a complete waste of time.

So I ask you HN, where could I point her? I feel as a failed partner for having her change the course of her professional career and now seeing it come to a very abrupt stop.

We've been asked to provide logs which include:

 Date

 Time

 IP Address

 URL and Query (Domain will be found within the query string of the __utm.gif, as will Referrer of the page)

 User-Agent

 Method

 Status

 Cookie (so ensuring that _utma is logged)

 Referrer (which will show the URL of the page, since it is the Referrer of utm.gif)

And the best solution we seem to have so far is to have a standalone server, which only serves this gif and then use its logs to supply to the third party inspection body.

This seems very wasteful to me, is there any service we can use, which does this out of the box?

There was a good amount of publicity when it launched, all of my developer buddies said "cool, definitely worth a try, next time I need to hack together an MVP".

Since, it's been bought by Facebook and all of my friends have forgotten about it (much like hoodie, meteor and few others I can't even recall tbh).

Even now, I'm working on a project we started a few weeks ago and parse seems almost perfect, but still, we went with a weird hybrid/multi server postgres/node/php solution instead, without even seriously considering it.

So what has your experience been?