SteelWo1f

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by SteelWo1f 3y ago
Working on tools like these is always fun as a developer. And it helps speed the team up! Anybody have any good examples of ones they have made?
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by SteelWo1f 3y ago
"If your cache system starts returning the wrong values that's very scary" Very understated. The scariest part is that you really have no way of knowing if this is occurring other than to stumble upon it when it happens live.
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by SteelWo1f 3y ago
Definitely. I love using BEM when you have to nest things. If you stick to strict BEM, you will generally avoid having nesting more than 1 or 2 levels deep.
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by SteelWo1f 3y ago
There is no one silver bullet to clean up CSS. I think much of the problem is that many developers think of clean CSS as an afterthought. The same level of care and organization should be applied to CSS as you would apply to the rest of you
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by SteelWo1f 3y ago
You are absolutely right here. This problem arose because the surrounding code was much older. I would have liked to reformat it, but that would have been a huge lift compared to what I was trying to achieve.
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CSS is hard no matter how good you are at it(aha.io)
95 points by SteelWo1f 3y ago|81 comments
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by SteelWo1f 3y ago
What tactics do employ when a CSS issue has stumped you?
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by SteelWo1f 4y ago
Considering moving to a company operating with a hybrid approach? Maybe you should think twice.
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Fully remote companies are better than hybrid(aha.io)
8 points by SteelWo1f 4y ago|1 comments
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by SteelWo1f 4y ago
I can see that happening. But those changes are probably going to be relatively small and easy to understand. I dislike looking at pull requests where it's just a wall of red/green in a single file. It makes it almost impossible t
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by SteelWo1f 4y ago
Rails is great and so are monoliths. Read about one of the methods we use to build our Rails monolith at Aha! while ensuring it does not grow out of control.
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Service layer for business logic – Organizing code in a Rails monolith(aha.io)
5 points by SteelWo1f 4y ago|3 comments
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by SteelWo1f 4y ago
Now I really want to go build a chart extension.
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by SteelWo1f 4y ago
Much more elegant solution than the mess I hacked together.
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by SteelWo1f 5y ago
As a programmer it's definitely appealing to be able to create a theme mathematically by just inverting. But then design will get their hands on it and you really have to be prepared for that with something like a semantic layer. It wi