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The problem with Tailwind isn't that you put styling information into the class attribute. The problem is that it has no design system so you you a) have a zillion classes, and b) for re-use it has...
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The workflow I have been using for personal projects is:1. Design & Style using functional CSS (MelangeCSS in my case) 2. Use CSS for pseudo selectors and other speciality stuff 3. Manage re-use...
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In terms of being brutalist, this means that if you see styling in a .css file, those styles are stable and reliable for re-use. Styling in a re-usable HTML partial is less stable, but re-usable....
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My parents are both very cognitively disabled, so I have found myself having to explain user interfaces to them in words. It's a really interesting way to evalulate a UI and often makes some of them...
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I think designers often conflate a UI that someone must be convinced to use from a UI that someone is required to use. The latter does not—and should not—be fancy or custom. It should be stock and easy...
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@rubyconf Is the speaker bio really intended to be 100 _characters_? /cc @adarsh
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I don't get why Disney doesn't just do Star Wars versions of other normal shows. That’s maybe not very creative, but the results would be so much better than what they have produced.• Law & Order...
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Saga #67 coming on July 31!!!!!This is the only comic I still subscribe to/read. I'm sure there are other good ones, but it’s kind of a lot to figure out which ones I can jump into and I just have lost...
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I'm in this local tech leadership group. I haven't attended a meeting in a long time, mostly because like all things DC, it's not in DC remotely at all and is super early.But also, this group is...
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I've been out of the primary workforce for a while, since I am caregiving to my parents—both of whom are cognitively and physically impaired (ask me about incontinence underwear sometime 🥴 [er,...
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I have found, time and time again, that when you are away from a thing you've been deep into for years, you see that thing in a new light. Two years away from startup work and now about five from tech...
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DC _city_ fireworks are amazing. They last all night. Wife and I were walking around to take them in. Met a Lhasa Apso and his person. The dog was super chill. Explosions everywhere. Doggo is cool. I...
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I just started using the swipe keyboard, and it’s so much more accurate than the default on iOS. Is this what everyone is doing?!It still picks wrong words but less often and doesn’t create...
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“Soon you will no longer be able to sign in to your online Social Security account using your Social Security username and password. To access Social Security online services, including my Social...
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ExpressVPN has worked great for me on all platforms for many years. And they just spammed me with the iOS notification system for some internet router. WTF.
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The company that allegedly employs the best software engineers cannot maintain a stable service that requires no new features. How many monorepo, trunk based, top perfomring DORA, richest companies in...
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#TIL, (and I cannot find documented), but can easily replicate is that when a #WebComponent#CustomElement's `connectedCallback()` is called, `innerHTML` is undefined, UNLESS, you wait to define your...
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The upshot of this is that progressive-enhancing custom-elements have to be carefully defined or they won't work at all.It's somewhat amazing to me how unclearly documented WebComponents are, given how...
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I'm aware of setTimeout and requestAnimationFrame hacks and I hate those so much. The promise of a clean class that implements documented lifecycle callbacks to work properly is, I guess, still a dream.
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