mattwad

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by mattwad 5y ago
This is the first CSS tutorial that explains _why_ CSS works a certain way. I think so many new devs struggle with CSS because they don't understand why it is the way it is, which helps explain how it is supposed to be used.
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by mattwad 5y ago
tables are still relevant for layout if you work with email at all. In fact, if you want to be able to do email well, you have to be able to do layout like it was 10-20 years ago. There's also lots of legacy code out there to be workin
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by mattwad 5y ago
Been working with multiple document API's recently for my start-up. It's been a real challenge to understand how different document stores compare -- Confluence uses undocumented XML markup that "mostly" mirrors HTML, Go
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by mattwad 5y ago
I have to give a shoutout to the dev who wrote Nishan, a wrapper around Notion's internal API used by their webapp. I've been using it for a while and it will be a long time before the public API catches up. Getting users to find
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by mattwad 5y ago
I hope so. Just one example, but when you use the API to export HTML, nested lists aren't actually nested.. they just inject increasing padding on subsequent LI tags. This is ridiculous and causes big issues for me, but I'm sure t
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by mattwad 5y ago
Why is MJML a non-option? It was a huge time saver for me. Combine it with react-mjml and you can get typesafe email templates that work in pretty much any browser. I managed templates by hand for a long time, and it took me a couple weeks
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by mattwad 5y ago
Seems pretty simple given it includes not only test setup and continuous integration, but also publishing to npm and documentation
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by mattwad 6y ago
this isn't just a problem with SPAs. The quickly-built vaccine registration site I was using kept giving me 500 errors from Heroku.
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by mattwad 6y ago
Microsoft is really killing it these past couple years. I'm still not sure I'd recommend for a tech team over OSX. But mostly because most devs now know how to deal with the issues from Brew and OSX, not so much Windows. But hell,
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by mattwad 6y ago
He's got a point. My smart lights are the only reason I even own a Google Home assistant. The rest of the features are not very important to me.
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by mattwad 6y ago
Not for me. I tried this with Javascript a couple years ago, and it was painful mapping to and from gRPC types everywhere. There's no "undefined" for example if you have a union type. You have to come up with a "EMPTY&qu
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by mattwad 6y ago
I completely agree with the maker's point that class names are the bane of CSS design. However, styled components have been amazing in this regard. I've tried a lot of solutions over the past 8 years and this is my favorite by far
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by mattwad 6y ago
Try freetaxusa.com if you're looking for a free alternative that has an equally friendly user interface!
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by mattwad 6y ago
Try freetaxusa.com. Its interface is just as easy but it's free.
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by mattwad 6y ago
Filing taxes should be much simpler and free for everyone, but they lobby the government to prevent that, among other things. Quick Google search result: https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f... .
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by mattwad 6y ago
That's not entirely true. Even if you use something as full-featured as Material UI, there's still opinions on how elements are composed, when to use font colors and sizes, etc. Without documenting what to do in common cases, ever
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by mattwad 6y ago
drupal is much better, IMO, and assuming you actually know how the framework is designed. Wordpress has the 'loop' you hook into and everything happens in it. Drupal has more of a pub/sub model with hooks which seemed much ea
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by mattwad 6y ago
I think at its core, the issue is that the code has to run in many different types of hostile environments. At least now we can sort of assume what features of the language are available, but you still have no control over the browser, OS,
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by mattwad 6y ago
not everything supports HTML, like calendar invites and SMS messages, and some of these things have character limits.
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by mattwad 6y ago
Linux support for touchscreen is measly, and it's a really nice feature of many Windows laptops. IMO Windows GUI has the best out-of-box features, OSX second and Linux third. Now, if you like working from the terminal, that order is re
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by mattwad 6y ago
inline-block was cheating. Plus, for a long time after it was "released" you couldn't rely on browsers actually implementing it. I always used `margin: 0 auto` and if you know the height of an element, you can set the top to
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by mattwad 6y ago
> Every third sprint is a tech sprint. Can you elaborate on this? I love the sound. I get pushback even suggesting a tech sprint once every 6 weeks. What kinds of projects fall under here, and do you still work on product? What's th
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by mattwad 6y ago
Same here, but with Android. Since at least a few major versions back!
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by mattwad 6y ago
Programming is only a means to an ends for me. I once took a summer course in C++. It was so boring, made me never want to program. But then in high school, I learned to write programs on my TI-83+ that could do my math homework and confirm
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by mattwad 6y ago
If you use Typescript, it means type-safe templates. That's a game-changer right there.
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by mattwad 6y ago
I didn't even know there was a 'hide' option. Just never looked at anything below the title, really! Been here for a while too
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by mattwad 6y ago
The annoying part for me is I do use an app, and I'd love to open it. But I don't use Reddit's app, so the popup is worthless. If they had a way for me to pick the app to use, I'd happily open the redirects!
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by mattwad 6y ago
Same here. Most of the devs I know who don't like CSS actually never read the docs, or really understand the box model and padding vs margin, etc. They don't treat it like a real language, and so they hate it. I've even worke
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by mattwad 6y ago
This is the way of beginners. The truth is, read the source code of these libraries. You'll realize a lot of stuff on SO is just copypasta work-arounds, while a more elegant, more efficient solution may exist that just wasn't docu
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by mattwad 6y ago
Do most companies need an external API?

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