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When building the UK version of Stitch Fix (which they sadly wound down), our first milestone was a "functional tracer bullet", which was the ability to sign up and get a (fake) Fix entirely from the...
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As a developer, actually doing development is a core competency. And you have to control your core competencies. https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/78982
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In my quest for hobbies that do not involve computer screens, this is my recording setup w/ the best 4-track circa 1994. The POD v2 is awesome, still sounds great after all these years. Entire setup is...
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I guess I have my new low-powered computer: my iPad? reddit just…doesn't really work in Safari. I don't know what it's doing in order to display text and tiny images, but it seems to just give up after...
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It's the iPad Pro 3rd gen. Bought it in 2019 I think? Other than the battery life not being as great as it was, it generally still works great. Except that Reddit's IPO-ready engineering team can't get...
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Imagine you run this popular service and can't make it run fast, and one guy out there just spends all his time making it super fast and easy to use and all he asks in return is to be allowed to make...
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Wrote up my experience using #WebComponents in Earnest:https://www.naildrivin5.com/blog/2024/01/24/web-components-in-earnest.htmlThis is a long read about the app I built for making a palette:...
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A few highlights/learnings #WebComponents• “HTML Web Components" i.e. custom elements that add behavior to their innards, seems powerful and a good way to think about stuff (vs. full-featured...
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#WebComponents• It was also nice not having to deal with artificially-introduced callbacks or async behavior. Most of the browser's API is synchronous, and so the code was easy to follow and...
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#WebComponents• Build system is based on make. I type "make" and anything that needs building is built. 'tweak and reload' worked great. No dependencies from the JS ecosystem required other than...
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#WebComponents• Building react-style components that render themselves provide to be highly complex. That version is here: https://ghola.dev/take-1/ It's slow. I have no idea why. I tried to figure it...
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#WebComponentsThe interesting thing about https://ghola.dev/take-1/ being slow is that the slowness wasn't apparently until I thought I was done. Whatever I did to tank performance happened on a slow...
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#WebComponents I mean, I found HTML pages that contained words about the devtools. They were not elucidating. I was unable to map anything I was seeing to my code in any meaningful way. No mark/measure...
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One thing I still don't understand about front-end, Web Components, etc. is from that blog post about "building a JS framework from scratch”" is that it's "table stakes to have reactive whatever". I...
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Sorry for the deluge, but I forgot about one thing I really enjoyed about working with the browser's API: no mini programming languages embedded into strings!data-action="click->hello#greet"(from...
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Here's a better version that uses the web i.e. forms, form submission and FormData: https://codepen.io/davetron5000/pen/RwdLRMz?editors=1111
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I don't understand how printing is so broken on MacOS for some many years. Several device, several printers and I still have to usually restart the printer, use a cable, reset printing system, etc....
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Re: https://ruby.social/@davetron5000/111808072570241785 There is a tradeoff in gear price and immediacy. That tiny FM synth I have is incredibly hard to program. There are software editors for it but...
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My blog post about running Docker for local development is instead going to be a book of about 100 pages. First half is what is Docker and how to set it up for local dev. Second half is how to make...
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Safari is such a weirdly buggy browser. Sometimes it just stops rendering pages until I restart it. Sometimes it randomly says that both the page I am on and the page I am trying to go to have stopped...
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