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For a bit of a laugh, I wrote a Brualist ecommerce platform called Bruce https://bruce.huginn.uk/

I worked for an ecom company (in finance) and we were looking at replatforming. I wondered two things: how hard is it to write an ecom store, and could it be much more performant.

I suppose main problem with going too brutal would be that many people would find it hard to trust.




I find it hard to trust a site that sells cat by the pint.


To each their own. I've been looking for a good source for bonsai kittens for over 20 years now!


You might be able to tell that I wrote a script to generate products.

Product name * Unit of measure


Indeed! They should be sold by the litre, what with cats being liquids...


Pint is liquid measure.


I really like interfaces like this honestly. If it included the product images and clicking the image opened the full image in a new tab (the normal browser way by linking to the image source) it would be perfect.


> I really like interfaces like this honestly.

minimal cognitive load[1] from the outset: no (algorithmic) slop dumped onto your cortex - one of the reasons i've never been able to do, say, (music) streaming services

1: emphasis on lack of color for me


Yes. In this design, color could actually _mean_ something. Interesting how color grabs your attention in a helpful way when it isn't all over the place.


reminds i have to give goethe's theory of colors[1] a serious look one of these days

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Colours


Yeah, that would be nice. Images wasnct something I did. I think a search function would have been good too.


Small nitpick on your site. I added an item to my basket, and the value that appears next to the basket link is (0) instead of (1): https://i.imgur.com/AB8Xjqb.png


Now now, nothing says a shopping cart has to show the length of the array, and not the value of the last index.

I jest of course.


Yeah, the thing is I'm an accountant not a professional coder. I couldn't work it out. It did bother me, but not enough to sort properly as this was abit of fun.


That's much better than local online store SPA I used that leaked memory many megabytes per second, so I periodically reset the SPA so that the browser can free the leaked memory.


This is very funny but also the more I mess about with it, the more I like it.

As absurd as finding a glass of ice water in the middle of the Sahara: nonetheless refreshing.




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