Many of the paid-for competitors give users the ability to import unstructured recipe data these days from sites like instagram or at least text-only websites.

I can't afford to offer this as a feature since my website has no advertising and I just pay for it out of pocket, but it's an incredibly easy feature to add if you have the money to pay for tokens.

If I could use a local llm to do it though that runs in the person's own browser then I think it would definitely be valuable.

That said, I'm not sure the state of local llms provides a good enough experience yet (small models and slow) but that doesn't mean that in the future it might not be useful.

The propsosed apis do work for this purpose, albeit more slowly and lower quality

Contrary to your concerns, I think that being visually impaired and being a frontend developer will most likely open up opportunities rather than close them down.

I'd expect there to be 2 positions between the "e" and the "t" that the cursor would stop at so I can either insert text with the formatting of "one" or "two"

It is more common these days than it was for websites to support multiple styles/layouts. Whether that's because they're responsive or because they allow you to enable dark mode or because they support rtl layouts. Class names such as text-dark-soft or align-right will be misleading if text-dark-soft ends up closer to white and align-right is left aligned as a website is evolved to support these features.

Not a criticism of this approach; this is easily fixed by using names such as text-emphasized-soft or align-start (for example), just pointing out the examples in this article could be lead to problems

CSS variables can also be used to encourage picking colors or padding/margin from a curated list. The approach in this article is not required to solve that problem

My CS degree only taught me what a linked list is, not how to reverse one.

It's not a great question to ask because it's such a common one and many people will have learned an algorithm from a text book, but if you haven't memorized the solution it's simple enough to understand the requirements yet difficult enough to work out that you can get a good amount of insight into how a job applicant can solve rather than memorize problems.

After all, being able to separate candidates who can solve unseen problems from those who can't is one of the goals of interviews

It's bucklescript that is an alternative backend for the ocaml compiler which allows you to output js, but you don't need to use it

In time, we'll not see this code as it'll all happen within the javascript engines, but all features of javascript are still abstractions over lower level code.

How about writing a loop over asynchronous functions? Now that is unpleasant to look at, and most examples I've seen use recursion which is pretty limiting.

That is one of the best reasons to embrace async/await