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by devalexwells 18d ago
As far as I understand D* only uses id (which is a pretty normal HTML attribute?) to key morphs in SSE. I only use one id for fat morphs on the body, and even if I needed more I'm not sure I'd find that any less ergonomic than oth
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by devalexwells 29d ago
Just wanted to say thank you for this. In particular, the part where often it seems the "Founder mode" icons some evangelize (seem to) neglect their children and/or effectively put childrearing entirely on their partner. I wi
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by devalexwells 2mo ago
What is the strong argument exactly? Odin coexists happily with Zig, Rust, C3, nim already, no?
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by devalexwells 2mo ago
I think both Bill and Jon have discussed this at length and are both mutually respectful of what problems each are trying to solve, could be wrong. At the least, I think it's disingenuous to suggest that Odin is "mostly copied&quo
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by devalexwells 8mo ago
I have had similar questions, and am still evaluating here. However, I've been increasingly frustrated with the sheer volume of anecdotal evidence from yay and naysayers of LLM-assisted coding. I have personally felt increased producti
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by devalexwells 8mo ago
How does their stewardship of a CSS library exempt them from being a valid company? The fact that the market is competitive alone isn't justification. I agree that it's not obvious to me how or why Tailwind should turn a profit as
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by devalexwells 8mo ago
For your first question, IMO the purported advantage is mainly convention at scale. There's nothing inherently wrong with raw CSS in style tags or other authoring models (well, except CSS-in-JS at runtime...). Tailwind is one simple au
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by devalexwells 9mo ago
A few days ago I was trying to unsubscribe to a service (notably an AI 3D modeling tool that I was curious about). I spent 5 minutes trying to find a way to unsubscribe and couldn't. Finally, I found it buried in the plan page as one o
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by devalexwells 9mo ago
For me, no. I hate writing applications, but not sure automating all of it is beneficial to either party. Applying sucks, I get it, but... As an applicant, I often discover reasons for or against applying for a company during the applicatio
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Overengineering a Multiplayer Experience Instead of a Slide Deck(wlls.dev)
2 points by devalexwells 9mo ago|0 comments
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by devalexwells 9mo ago
Feels like I'm working on a million things (between work, side contracts, and creative explorations). Recently a friend asked whether AI is helping or hurting my workflow. And I realized I couldn't give a concrete answer. Lots of
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by devalexwells 9mo ago
I've also been wanting to make Gleam my primary language (am generally a Typescript dev), and I have not had any issue with using it with LLMs (caveat, I'm obviously still new with it, so might just be ignorant). In fact, I'd
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by devalexwells 9mo ago
The project at a glance looks interesting, but it's difficult to tell what the target audience is. It doesn't help that the "About" link (which is actually a button) doesn't seem to take you anywhere. As others have
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Tailwind - How I think about CSS authorship in 2025(wlls.dev)
1 points by devalexwells 10mo ago|0 comments
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X Did This Years Ago(wlls.dev)
4 points by devalexwells 10mo ago|0 comments
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by devalexwells 2y ago
I stand corrected--didn't notice at first. I do prefer the crossfade, admittedly.
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by devalexwells 2y ago
Bun is built on web standard APIs [1]. Is your point that it's not _industry_ standard? [1] https://bun.sh/docs/runtime/web-apis
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by devalexwells 2y ago
Couple other notes: You appeal to simplicity a lot, which is great! Contemporary frontend is way too complex. But a lot of what you're saying comes off as too black and white and rejects some of the learnings of the past decade. Some e
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by devalexwells 2y ago
I resonate with much of what you've written in here. In particular, the cultural costs. I work on a "frontend platform" team at a mid-sized company and spend most of my day trying to get the React/Next ecosystem to play
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by devalexwells 2y ago
I believe the "obnoxious blur" is a common view transition API animation [1]. Astro uses similar as a default [2]. 1. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/View_Transi... 2. https:&
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by devalexwells 2y ago
I think the point is that "the man behind" connotes direct responsibility, not indirect inspiration. It's misleading wording. You might try "Dieter Rams inspired Apple's design philosophy."