cliftonlabrum

davedelong, 2 months ago to random

TFW you discover a major logical flaw in some code you've written that means you need to re-think your entire approach to the problem.

Oops.

cliftonlabrum, 2 months ago to random

We often associate waste with throwing something out that may still have value.

Perhaps the actual waste occurred when we acquired more than we needed to begin with.

cirrus, 3 months ago to Figma

Once again facing that classic #designsystem conundrum: Theme and/or customize a 3rd party component library, or build one from scratch.

Actually, we need two component libs: A #WebComponent one for web products and a #ReactNative one for iOS & Android apps. We already have designs in #Figma and want to have parity in terms of design & naming across Figma, web & RN.

My gut and past experiences make me lean towards building from scratch.

What would you do and why?

cliftonlabrum, 5 months ago to beeper

I just dropped my teenage son off at an activity and we had this conversation:

“How did you hear about this?”

"We have a group chat.”

"How many people are on it?”

"About 30.”

“Is it a blue bubble or green bubble chat?”

"It's blue. We don't let any Samsungs on it.”

I am partially to blame since I used to be 100% iMessage. 😞 But Apple has intentionally encouraged this bias.

I have since embraced Telegram and WhatsApp.

#beeper #beepermini #whatsapp #telegram

cliftonlabrum, 5 months ago to random

The M-series 16” MacBook Pro has been my favorite computer of all-time.

I was good with Apple making a bigger, heavier machine. The trade-off is worth it.

But I still hope they:
• Make it thinner
• Make it lighter
• Get rid of MagSafe (I rarely use it)

I think the 15” MacBook Air form factor should be the goal.

cliftonlabrum, 5 months ago to svelte

I had a conversation with some web devs and said I was thinking of starting a new project in SvelteKit.

They said, “Okay, fine, but you really should look at React/NextJS first.”

I looked and React/Next requires about twice as much code as SvelteKit for the same tasks.

People must understand that SvelteKit is the only framework (that I know of) that uses a compiler!

That means tons of syntactic sugar. See for yourself:

https://component-party.dev/

#sveltekit #svelte #reactjs #nextjs

cliftonlabrum, 5 months ago to random

China may be ruled by communists, but at least they don’t have 47 different messaging apps to juggle. 😂

It’s WeChat or nothing over there.

hankg, 5 months ago to Flutter

I've been experimenting with Riverpod a lot the last couple weeks and am now ready to try it in a greenfield project I've been meaning to write for some time. In lieu of a good design patterns/best practices book (if one exists I haven't found it anyway) I've been doing as best homework I can with finding videos/blog posts and little side experiments. One thing I discovered earlier this week was nested providers which I was thinking I may want to use to replace another idiom I had been using of having a provider that takes an item ID. Based on this presentation by @randalschwartz it sounds like that is not the way to go. In the video he does show how to do various scoping, both literal scope and logical scope, of providers in Riverpod. #riverpod #flutter #DartLang
The Riverpod "Global" Myth

layoutSubviews, 6 months ago to random

Working with SwiftUI brings me so much joy these days. What used to be tedious, verbose, and draining is now fun again.
I can tell designers “Yes!” rather than “Are you sure? That’s a lot of state to manage.”
I can change whole layouts in seconds, with confidence that AutoLayout will not barf all over my console on the next run.
I keep on finding new modifiers that make my life easier, and I am mostly delighted by the latest, opiniated API decisions.

cliftonlabrum, 1 year ago to random

Apple: "Our M-series silicon chips have incredible performance and make everything fast.”

Android Studio: “Hold my beer…”

Android Studio and its accompanying build functions have to be the slowest stuff on my Mac.