icons VS ImageOptim

Not sure if you already are using, but bootstrap has a lot of readymade icons for a project like this.

Bootstrap Icons

You can take the svg element from here. In the filter section type emoji and choose your desired emoji and copy the HTML. It will look like this

💡 This step is optional, but I wanted to use an icon for the close dialog button, which you'll see in a minute, but if you want to follow along, head to https://icons.getbootstrap.com/ ,scroll all the way down, copy the CDN Link, and paste it in the head of index.html

I wouldn't say it is more or less difficult, it is just a lot of work that somebody or something has to do.

Just to take an example, that Excel clone is going to need a whole lot of icons which have to come from somewhere. If you're not picky about what they look like you can find some icon set like

https://icons.getbootstrap.com/

which I picked for my RSS reader because I am using Bootstrap CSS already which itself is a low-effort choice because I use Reactstrap at work. Somebody pickier could look at free and paid icon sets or hire a graphic designer which would involve a significant amount of talking about how you want it made.

I am mainly a coder but my exact responsibilities have varied a lot from place to place. YOShInOn, my RSS reader and intelligent agent, is a one-man show which eliminates the overhead of communicating about things but means I don't get the benefit of other people's insight. I worked at an academic library where my first assignment was to take a very detailed Photoshop comp and make HTML that looked exactly like it. In other places nobody told me how it was supposed to look, or it was obvious from the get-go that I was supposed to add a new field to this form and it is going to have look like the rest of the form. I worked at a web development company where I worked on about 70 web sites in 8 months and we did projects very fast and cheap and forms that we made from scratch always followed a style guide we called "spider forms" which meant we could get better-than-average results without spending much time thinking. Where I work now I don't make decisions about the database schema except when I do, other places I was basically a DBA.

So the point is a "coder" can have varying levels of responsibility for UX, business rules: they can get very vague descriptions of what it supposed to happen and they figure it out, or I can get very detailed storyboards for everything. One way or another a lot of design and planning work has to get done.

A "low code" or "no code" system, whatever technology it is based on, is going to have to have a lot of decisions already made for you within some particular domain. Most of the worlds' business applications involve filling out forms and updating a database. But you might want a toolkit for making games that look like The Legend of Zelda with very little coding, or maybe something for making applications that put objects into your space with a Hololens or Apple Vision.

You could bust out apps really quickly if you take the defaults in a domain but if you want to make something really special the sky is the limit for the talent involved. Take a look at the credits for a major video game for instance.

Bootstrap Icons are packaged up and published to npm. We only include the processed SVGs in this package—it's up to you and your team to implement. Read our docs for usage instructions.

Compressing images: This technique reduces image size without compromising quality. You can achieve this using various image compression tools like TinyPNG or ImageOptim. These tools are specifically designed to manage multiple image formats and compression methods. They help reduce image files, resulting in less data transfer from the server to the user's device. It is advisable to compress images before uploading them to the web server.

ImageOptim: ImageOptim is a free and open-source tool that can be used to compress JPEG, PNG, and GIF images.

Currently installed apps: Alfred for searching applications/files and launching websites quickly i Stat menus to monitor my hardware Geo Gebra Classic 6 for school Rectangle for better window management Obsidian for note taking Resolve for video editing and all utilities that come with it Bitwarden as my go-to password manager Microsoft Word, Excel PowerPoint and Teams for school Dropover for moving or sending more files quickly Gestimer for work sessions iTerm as a better terminal than the built-in one Python and all things that come with the install Parallels Desktop and all stuff that comes with the install for running windows only applications Visual Studio Code for coding Blender for 3D Image Optim CurseForge for modded Minecraft Minecraft Find any file Mac Updater 3; would love to have the pro version

ImageOptim - file resizing and optimising images, even on the command line (free)

ImageOptim - Price: Free Image optimizer for Mac that allows you to reduce the file size of your images without losing quality, and strip the metadata.

If you're on a Mac, use ImageOptim to optimize your images: https://imageoptim.com/mac If you're on Windows, I imagine there's a similar app

Bonus points: before you re-import them drop the exports folder into imageoptimfor the most efficient lossless compression imaginable.

ImageOptim — shrink those file sizes!