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by seanwilson 8mo ago
Maybe I'm missing something and I'm glad this idea resonates, but it feels like sometime after Java got popular and dynamic languages got a lot of mindshare, a large chunk of the collective programming community forgot why strong
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by seanwilson 8mo ago
> When we pack high-density information into a data table or a complex dashboard we are increasing the visual entropy of the entire system. Forcing the brain to decode intricate, non-universal shapes in a tiny 16-pixel footprint, creates
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by seanwilson 8mo ago
> The rules of the language insist that when you use a nullable variable, you must first check that variable for null. So if s is a String? then var l = s.length() won’t compile. ... > The question is: Whose job is it to manage the nu
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by seanwilson 8mo ago
So for my tool, I really need the live UI mockup without having to export first to tweak the colors until they work (e.g. often the off-white/very-light colors used for backgrounds are too vibrant otherwise), the control-point based cu
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by seanwilson 8mo ago
> I've been relying on ChatGPT to select color schemes/palettes for me Thanks! Any problems you've found with this approach or it's usually good enough? For me, I couldn't find a tool that would let me customize
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by seanwilson 8mo ago
A tool for creating CSS color palettes for web UIs that pass WCAG accessibility standards for color contrast, where you can fine tweak all the tints/shades quickly using a hue/saturation/lightness curve editing interface: ht
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by seanwilson 8mo ago
Location: Edinburgh, UK Remote: Yes (I’m used to time zone differences and async work) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Figma, Sketch, TypeScript, JavaScript, Vue, Hugo, Jekyll, WordPress, Django, HTML/CSS, Bootstrap, Tailwind, OC
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by seanwilson 9mo ago
There's also the significant cost to climate change because growing crops to feed to animals instead of eating crops directly loses the majority of calories, but it gets ignored because doing something about it is going to be unpopular
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by seanwilson 9mo ago
If the goal of the post is to pick terminal colors that contrast on both white/light and black/dark backgrounds, it means you're stuck with midtone colors (between light and dark). This is really limiting for color choice (th
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by seanwilson 9mo ago
I wish one of those regex libraries that replaces the regex symbols with human readable words would become standard. Or they don't work well? Regex is one of those things where I have to look up to remind myself what the symbols are, a
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by seanwilson 9mo ago
I know what you meant, but WCAG2 is actually flawed for dark mode. For gray body text on black, going with the minimum 4.5:1 ratio is hard to read. APCA attempts to fix this https://git.apcacontrast.com/documentation/AP
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Dark Mode vs. Light Mode: Which Is Better?(nngroup.com)
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by seanwilson 9mo ago
> They act as stand-ins for actual users and will flag all sorts of usability problems. I think everyone on the team should get involved in this kind of feedback because raw first impressions on new content (which you can only experience
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by seanwilson 9mo ago
https://www.seanw.org/
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by seanwilson 9mo ago
Any details about what problems you were having getting a usable Tailwind palette? There seems to be lots of different use case so I'd love to hear more. That's awesome, I haven't kept up in what helps to get into AI recommen
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by seanwilson 9mo ago
Still working on my tool for creating custom Tailwind-style accessible color palettes for web and UI design: https://www.inclusivecolors.com/ There's millions of tools that try to autogenerate colors for you using algo
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by seanwilson 9mo ago
Content should come from your database, Markdown, JSON, models etc. Presentation is determined by the HTML and CSS together. So your content and presentation is already separate enough to get the benefits. Breaking up the presentation layer
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by seanwilson 9mo ago
> They make the web worse for the world by tempting the developer to take the easier, less interactive route than what would have been taken in the pre-SSG world. If I didn't have the static site option though, I might not host a pr
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by seanwilson 9mo ago
Sounds like we agree! There's no perfect solution and I'm not saying SSGs are always the best fit. It really depends on the project and what the people involved value. For my own solo projects, the ease of hosting for static sites
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by seanwilson 9mo ago
> it starts to look like a slightly worse solution than what we already had You don't see how the server based solution is an order of magnitude more effort to maintain, monitor, optimize, and secure compared to hosting static files
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by seanwilson 9mo ago
You don't pre-render the search pages. You generate some search index files on the build step (something like a map of keywords to matching post URLs), and then client side JavaScript requests the search index files it needs on demand
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by seanwilson 9mo ago
I've used https://lunrjs.com/guides/getting_started.html briefly and it has lots of options for things like different fields, complex queries, fuzzy searching and wildcards. Didn't notice anything specific ab
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by seanwilson 9mo ago
See https://gohugo.io/tools/search/ . Not sure how well they scale to thousands of posts, but they work by statically generating multiple static search index files at build time that are queried via client JavaScri
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by seanwilson 9mo ago
> That's especially odd as I think those links were the defaults from the Archie theme Internal redirects are really easy to miss without checking with a tool because browsers aren't noisy about it. Lots of sites have unnecess
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by seanwilson 9mo ago
I really like Hugo as well. I've found it significantly faster than Jekyll which makes iterating much more pleasant and it's a single binary to download/run vs having to deal with Ruby and its package manager. I'm amazed
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by seanwilson 9mo ago
SEEKING FREELANCE WORK | UX/UI & web design Location: Edinburgh, UK Remote: Yes (I’m used to time zone differences and async work) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Figma, Sketch, TypeScript, JavaScript, Vue, Hugo, Jekyll, Word
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by seanwilson 9mo ago
Location: Edinburgh, UK Remote: Yes (I’m used to time zone differences and async work) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Figma, Sketch, TypeScript, JavaScript, Vue, Hugo, Jekyll, WordPress, Django, HTML/CSS, Bootstrap, Tailwind, OC
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by seanwilson 10mo ago
I'm still tweaking my tool for creating accessible Tailwind-style color palettes for web/UI design that pass WCAG 2 contrast requirements: https://www.inclusivecolors.com/ There's 100s of color palette genera
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by seanwilson 10mo ago
Major flaws in a specification for one function are usually quickly picked up when the proof for another function relies on the missing specification properties e.g. if you only prove the list returned by a function has a certain length and
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by seanwilson 10mo ago
> As for the divide between HTML and CSS: to me HTML is 99% semantic. That means I describe the information as it should be described and the rest is done in CSS. How? Check the code of this first hero header: https://tailwind

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