Left to right.
Thursday, October 20th, 2022 at 11:32 AM
Added a brush preview. Fortunately/unfortunately also got an idea for a new layout set-up that I'm probably going to pause this to try out.
Thursday, October 20th, 2022 at 11:32 AM
Added a brush preview. Fortunately/unfortunately also got an idea for a new layout set-up that I'm probably going to pause this to try out.
Tuesday, October 18th, 2022 at 6:34 PM
Got the freeform grid behavior going again. Last time it was in three.js to get nice zoom and pan, this time I'm sticking with the DOM.
Monday, October 17th, 2022 at 8:15 PM
To build a prototype, you must first build a window manager (not really, but I guess this time).
Thursday, October 6th, 2022 at 10:35 PM
Webstrates is a webserver where the pages it serves are collaboratively editable. From: https://webstrates.net via https://twitter.com/qualmist/status/1578210324326780930
Thursday, October 6th, 2022 at 7:49 PM
New feed site is up. Moved from hugo and a node server for posting to a next.js app backed by an actual database.
Monday, September 19th, 2022 at 9:02 AM
Yoshiki's sketches of visual and customizable list hierarchies.
From: https://www.notion.so/Dango-b46c07f3dc224f968c768885abe70e70
Monday, September 19th, 2022 at 8:54 AM
How to make spacing and appearance fully customizable while also making sure direct manipulation of things like size and position stay functional? AND hopefully avoid introducing "modes"?
Sunday, September 11th, 2022 at 1:56 PM
Lessons from Tailwind
Tailwind gives you a bunch of utility classNames to write CSS with. I've been loving prototyping with it, and I'm interested in why, because it's ideas often feel counterintuitive.
Benefits
Pragmatism
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Sunday, September 11th, 2022 at 1:56 PM
Leaky abstractions
Something I think a lot about is what level of abstraction to attack a problem on. Here is a loose cataglog of where I've been thinking about it lately.
React libraries
Previously I've been reluctant to use libraries in my react code, generally preferring to roll my own solutions, believing that you tend to hit a wall with what you can do with libraries and working around their limitations becomes as much or more work than building your own. There are things I would use, like state management libraries, but I figured most of the interaction stuff I'd rather do myself.
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