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2022-01-23 20:10:13 #uiux

A simple hack, but too powerful.

Avoiding that extra click after inputting your code is what creates a "wow, nice" effect .

Worst case scenario - users will see an error if the code didn't match (but that can easily happen even with the button)

PS if your code is 12 characters long this is likely not gonna work as nice Open / Comment

2022-01-17 00:22:07 #learn

Going deeper

Always interested to see people taking a deep dive and exploring tech beyond documentation.

Our comrade @fromaline wrote two great articles in a series on exploring React internals.

Episode 1 - why React was created and what was the idea behind it (also pls read if you haven't heard what reconcilers are in React)

Episode 2 - what is the most popular npm package, that lives in the React monorepo?

Super interesting reading that deserves your attention Open / Comment

2022-01-10 21:56:29 #thoughts

You've probably already heard of Marak - an open source dev who corrupted his widely used repo (faker.js and colors) that in return blew up tons of projects that had it as a dependency / peer dependency.

More on the story

Mark's justification TLDR: world is unfair, monetising open source is hard.

This reminds me of a situation when someone started to add ads in a terminal and got into so much problems with the community.

This is an important precedent though, showing that we probably might be relying too much on open source and current module's versioning creates a room for blowups with just minor version auto updates.

At the same time, I can understand the frustration the guy had.

What do you guys think? Share in comments.

My humble opinion here is super simple - if you are not happy with the money you get for your work, then open source is probably not the right place.

PS I also find it interesting that he had a bug in his initial "fuck it all up" attempt Open / Comment

2022-01-02 17:44:06 #learn

Did you know that every time you change an element's height the maximum rendering cycle will be necessary?

If your user has a display of 120 FPS you pretty much have a 4ms window to complete the rendering cycle (per frame), if your app fails to do that you’ll inevitably see unsmooth motion and jitter = poor user experience.

Things like that we typically start thinking about when we add complexity to our apps with a lot of changing elements in our DOM.

A great article on this
12 min

If you can take 1 practical learning from this, I’d say try to utilise transform, opacity and filter properties as much as you can instead of e.g. height/width or position. I’ve personally caught myself relying on position properties too much whereas using transform with translate can be less obvious, but so much better for performance.

Next time you want to increase height/width try using scale and when using eg left consider translate Open / Comment

2021-12-30 22:38:15 If you update telegram, you now will be able to react to posts (and not use those "reaction buttons") Open / Comment

2021-12-28 23:41:31 #thoughts

What a perfect time to be a developer.

Apple just issued unusual shares/bonuses to some of their engineers ranging from 50k to USD in an attempt to retain their workforce (right after Meta or ex-Facebook grabbed +100 engineers from Apple)

Don't think I've ever seen such an impulse in the industry for a need in devs.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-28/apple-pays-unusual-180-000-bonuses-to-retain-engineering-talent Open / Comment

2021-12-28 21:02:34 #learn

A lot of you wanted more of this and here we go.

A few years back I started invest more time into educating myself and my team on different patterns and architecture. Because this is what makes a massive difference down the line long-term.

Have recently found https://www.patterns.dev/book/ that has a free book (haven't finished it yet, but so far so good).

Quite a decent evening read before 2022 kicks in.

Hope you find it useful.

PS I'm also gonna share soon more info on our common open source project re building website altogether. Meanwhile if you are a designer and want to participate dm me and we'll add you to the group right after finalising requirements. Open / Comment

2021-12-18 16:33:39 #uiux

Carousel - think twice before you add it to your project.

I'm sure you've seen it a lot and probably even added it yourself

But this just means you ll find the below interesting.

Why it's bad at homepage

Why it's almost always a bad idea

Carousel usability from NNG

If above is not enough you can always use https://shouldiuseacarousel.com/ to check if you should use it in your specific case Open / Comment

2021-12-14 21:19:01 #thoughts

Just got an email from namecheap that all my .io domains (6) will become more expensive after 30 Dec 2021

A quick googling confirmed it

Have we just bumped it up with our crazy love demand for .io just because it looks cool? Open / Comment

2021-12-14 14:10:01 #learn

PS right away - we are not hiring (at least for now)

It's just that our comrade @SrZorro had this vision on bringing this channel to a little bit new level and making it super interactive and (imho) cool.

In short, we are thinking of wiring this channel to a website, where all posts can be categorised in a nice way with a telegram bot automatically and all of you can share something with the rest of the community be it a cool tutorial you found, superb design or a personal nicely written article. You can add an article, people vote for it and the one that gets the most votes get published in the channel.

Community driven resource that is.

Anyways, if you are a designer, bot creator, developer (Svelte) or want to learn and do it - shout out in the comments or DM me, I think with all the right people we can easily make something out of it to go a bit beyond telegram platform.

I'll be sharing a bit more info soon, but just want to get general interest first. Open / Comment