SnoozingBoa

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by SnoozingBoa 2y ago
In technical context leaving unknowns with unknown boundaries behind is an approach that makes it hard to assess next actions in error cases, but even more importantly it makes the future system design work rooted on uncertainty. To me that
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by SnoozingBoa 2y ago
I am interested if someone has written a document/post/article that approaches ”web needs simplification” in current context in holistic manner. E.g. Considering energy consumption, development costs, tooling complexity, state of
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by SnoozingBoa 2y ago
”Start late” in relation to paying attention to details, testing UI and other quality aspects that are not visible in the beginning. In simple terms: budget some time to handle unknowns. Or at least some of them. When it comes to the amount
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by SnoozingBoa 2y ago
Increase effort/improve in these areas: - focus on authoring robust CSS - actually test the UI (different devices, browsers, viewports, scenarios) - reserve APPROPRIATE time to test UI - reserve APPRORIATE time to fix the issues - have
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by SnoozingBoa 2y ago
I am happy with CSS. It pays the bills and is quite fun to do. Same for Javascript. Web UIs have made some nice things possible.
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by SnoozingBoa 3y ago
You are not. As a dev I understand the temptation of Tailwind, but I don’t see the benefits really worth it in all cases where I see it’s used. Writing plain CSS just makes so much more sense in the long run.
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by SnoozingBoa 3y ago
Based on some experience (designer and developer), here’s some thoughts I currently have about them: - high-level idea is usually understood, although mixed with design tooling - practical usage rarely straightforward - most of the activiti
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by SnoozingBoa 3y ago
Here comes a question what many of the people reading the comments are thinking: As of November 2023, what is the canonical way to set up a Node project with Typescript and hot reload? Minimal setup with least amount of configs and tooling.
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by SnoozingBoa 3y ago
As a designer (UX focused, but technical as well), I have put a lot of effort to study prototyping in sw context. I think prototype itself is fairly well understood as a noun, but how to approach the activity is not that well understood. I
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by SnoozingBoa 3y ago
Agree. I also think that storing everything with some arbitrary tag/folder model enforces the misconception that everything that was once created is equally important. Notes/todo apps don’t really address this.
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by SnoozingBoa 3y ago
After trying almost everything I can imagine (probably twice) to manage my tasks and time I found the sweetspot from hybrid model of digital and analog. The system is rather simple: I write stuff to the paper (home and work) and then take a
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by SnoozingBoa 5y ago
Few points after reading the comments. From designer pov: - Although the definition of a Design System is somewhat loose, it can be stated that Bootstrap is a NOT a design system. - To reduce Design System to a branded collection of technic