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by dimal 5y ago
Interesting. I've had a theory that Tailwind appeals to full-stack developers more than dedicated web front end developers. If you have to jump from context to context a lot, adding one new context (separate CSS), is an actual burden.
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by dimal 5y ago
I guess I've never seen the problem with switching files. I have two tabs open and use cmd-shift-] and cmd-shift-[ to flip back and forth quickly. There's no friction at all. The benefits of keeping the concerns separate outweighs
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by dimal 5y ago
Ah, I see. I was working on the web portion of a system that was meant to encompass web, mobile, and smart TV devices, and was very custom. The designers would not have even considered using off-the-shelf Tailwind values, and the mobile tea
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by dimal 5y ago
> It really fixed a whole slew of my biggest pain-points with CSS. The biggest one being that you have to jump between files when modifying a single UI. I’ve heard this before, and I’m always confused by it. The way I build components is
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by dimal 5y ago
Absolutely, I would love to see a longer write up! I’m definitely in the CSS Modules camp, but with so many people saying that Tailwind is great, I feel like there has to be something there. I want to do a deep dive into it at some point an
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by dimal 5y ago
Exactly. This post is extremely unconvincing. The vast majority of the post is explaining the background of what CSS Modules is, what CSS-in-JS is, what Tailwind is... Then then "Implementation Strategy" section is three whole par
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by dimal 5y ago
> If you find this useful, let me know, and I’ll write another one about helping students who are pair programming. Just want to say, I found this very useful! This is a problem I’ve been trying to solve recently, with only some limited
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by dimal 5y ago
I think your generalizations are very wrong. Ketamine may be bad when abused, but when used correctly for depression, it can be extremely effective and good. It changed my life greatly, for the better. And I wouldn’t say that psilocybin is
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by dimal 5y ago
Oh wow. Thanks for pointing this out. I had no idea this was happening. I've wanted it for forever, but I thought browser vendors had always shut down talk with "just don't style native controls" dogma. Good to see it ch
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by dimal 5y ago
There’s a pattern I’ve seen in a lot of class components that doesn’t fit as well in a functional component: every time the component needs to render some new bit of JSX, create renderThing(), renderOtherThing(), etc, ad infinitum. These ju
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by dimal 5y ago
I agree with your concerns, but about this… > Hooks are nice for small components, but overall haven’t improved DX over classes much I think one of the best things about the transition to functional components and hooks is that you’re st
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by dimal 5y ago
Is it a problem with BabylonJS? ThreeJS stuff always works fine for me.
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by dimal 5y ago
I gotta admit, I like the open core model. When it's done right, it seems like a reasonable way to monetize while still getting development done and encouraging a community and ecosystem. I've been looking at how Ghost[0] set thin
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by dimal 5y ago
Oh, that integration does changes things. I admit that I did forget about the built-in cloud storage, but that was more cumbersome than email for me. And plugging in a USB cable seemed particularly low-tech for 2021.
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by dimal 5y ago
I bought one and I don't understand the love. The device itself is wonderful. It's great that you _can_ ssh into it and do whatever. But by default, you can't even hook it up to DropBox/iCloud/GoogleDrive/whate
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by dimal 5y ago
Yeah, I was afraid I'd see myself in this post, because I'm known for giving tough reviews. But I don't. I feel terrible whenever I give a tough review. I agonize about how to say the difficult things that need to be said but
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by dimal 5y ago
Interesting. I never thought of “factoid” that way, and if that is an alternative meaning, then the “new” version has been around a long time. My introduction to it was from reading the “Factoids” section in “3-2-1 Contact” magazine as a ki
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by dimal 5y ago
My initial reaction to this was to think, “heresy!” SB has been amazing for developing components in isolation and setting up a design system. Then I thought it over. Yeah, the great thing is implementing a design system and developing comp
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by dimal 5y ago
Looks very cool! Is there a way to change the hotkey? I have option-space deeply encoded in my brain to bring up Alfred, so I'd rather not change that. And is there any way to navigate between open pages with the keyboard? Seems like a
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by dimal 5y ago
> For seniors (say 10 years and beyond), they're not going to be with you long enough for progress to make a huge difference, especially if they're decent to start out with - maybe that's not true 100% of the time, some pe
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by dimal 5y ago
If you don't have someone that understands the generated code, you'll be kinda screwed. Most of my work isn't writing a function to do X. It's reading and understanding all the surrounding code and architecture and then
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by dimal 5y ago
I had been thinking of getting into audio processing (to create a custom Eurorack module) and thought Rust would be nice, but everywhere I looked, people recommended C/C++ -- I think since there are so many existing libraries to pull f
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by dimal 5y ago
Interesting. I write CSS with absolutely no overrides. I compose at the JSX component level, so there's one Button component used everywhere, not a btn class that gets applied to random <button> components. I usually need to reus
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by dimal 5y ago
Can we start to talk about massive desalination projects? The Israelis seem to have made it work.[1] [1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/israel-proves-the...
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by dimal 5y ago
Allowing any random 18 year old to sign for a $300,000 unsecured loan is insane. At that age, most people simply can’t calculate the risk they’re taking. At that age, you are programmed to think you’re invincible and take unreasonable risks
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by dimal 5y ago
Twitter behavior is leaking into the real world.
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by dimal 5y ago
I always had positive connotations of Smalltalk. Seemed it was talked about as if it was OOP “done right” before Java messed things up. That’s just me though.
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by dimal 5y ago
I think it's still worthwhile even if you don't have "success". I spent about two years steadily cranking away on a side project almost every day. At a certain point I realized, "Whoops, this isn't going to wor
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by dimal 5y ago
It feels like the promise of neovim is finally being realized. So much good stuff in 0.5, and now we're seeing cool things being made with the lua integration. It's gone beyond just being a more maintainable fork. It's starti
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by dimal 5y ago
Seems cool, but why not show the actual apps I can install using this? I’m not going to install it on my Mac just to find out there’s a bunch of stuff I don’t care about.

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