seanwilson

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by seanwilson 13d ago
Location: Edinburgh, UK Remote: Yes (I’m used to time zone differences and async work) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Figma, Sketch, TypeScript, JavaScript, Vue, Hugo, Jekyll, WordPress, Django, HTML/CSS, Bootstrap, Tailwind, OC
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by seanwilson 29d ago
What's the problem of only keeping test 3 if it depends on test 2 and 1 passing anyway? The article mentions not to do this because "Deleting test1 loses us another property from the Test Desiderata—tests should be specific. That’
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by seanwilson 1mo ago
Location: Edinburgh, UK Remote: Yes (I’m used to time zone differences and async work) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Figma, Sketch, TypeScript, JavaScript, Vue, Hugo, Jekyll, WordPress, Django, HTML/CSS, Bootstrap, Tailwind, OC
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by seanwilson 2mo ago
Thanks! Any noticeable downsides?
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by seanwilson 2mo ago
> over time decided the Django model was actually more effective as your cue to ask whether you should have been writing a Python function instead and calling it I get the motivation, but is disallowing brackets and proper variables real
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by seanwilson 2mo ago
For Django's default template language, does it still have these limitations? 1. Brackets aren't allowed to help with boolean expressions like {% if a and (b or c) %} 2. You can't do basic arithmetic like {{ x * 2 }}, but you
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by seanwilson 2mo ago
> Instead of failing gracefully if the resources it asked for weren’t available, it would simply allocate them, and cause a guru meditation, the Amiga equivalent of a blue screen of death or kernel panic. Hadn't seen this before:
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by seanwilson 2mo ago
> The important metric: how long does your entire development feedback cycle take, and what portion of that time is spent waiting on your compiler? > So far, we haven’t lost much in the switch. The type safety we gave up hasn’t been n
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by seanwilson 2mo ago
Some recommendations based on studies here https://www.nngroup.com/articles/dark-mode/ > In people with normal vision (or corrected-to-normal vision), visual performance tends to be better with light mode, wher
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by seanwilson 3mo ago
Location: Edinburgh, UK Remote: Yes (I’m used to time zone differences and async work) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Figma, Sketch, TypeScript, JavaScript, Vue, Hugo, Jekyll, WordPress, Django, HTML/CSS, Bootstrap, Tailwind, OC
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by seanwilson 3mo ago
Tweaks to my accessible color palette editor that helps you create Tailwind style palettes for web/UI design: https://www.inclusivecolors.com/ Most tools only let you enter a single color and then attempt to autogenera
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by seanwilson 3mo ago
This is still adding wrapper elements to get the layout you want. Even if you can force yourself to come up with some vague semantics behind the wrapper elements (that you wouldn't have otherwise added), I don't see how it's
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by seanwilson 3mo ago
I was thinking more of a document with multiple paragraphs and images, where some paragraphs are grouped with images and some aren't. In the code from the link, the <body> element is serving as the wrapper element, that gives you
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by seanwilson 3mo ago
The concept makes more sense for styling simple document style pages from 20 years ago, but it hasn't scaled to modern designs, complex web UIs and responsive pages that we want to code now, which isn't that surprising. > we wo
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by seanwilson 3mo ago
> If you “View Source” on any “real” website, you’ll notice that everything has layers and layers of wrapper elements, so you might be tricked into thinking that wrappers are how you solve layout problems. I can’t really agree or disagre
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by seanwilson 3mo ago
Location: Edinburgh, UK Remote: Yes (I’m used to time zone differences and async work) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Figma, Sketch, TypeScript, JavaScript, Vue, Hugo, Jekyll, WordPress, Django, HTML/CSS, Bootstrap, Tailwind, OC
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by seanwilson 3mo ago
> I keep seeing programmers say how angry it makes them that people are willing to write detailed CLAUDE.md and PROJECT.md files for Claude to use, but they weren't willing to write them for their coworkers. Similar for adding stati
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by seanwilson 5mo ago
Location: Edinburgh, UK Remote: Yes (I’m used to time zone differences and async work) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Figma, Sketch, TypeScript, JavaScript, Vue, Hugo, Jekyll, WordPress, Django, HTML/CSS, Bootstrap, Tailwind, OC
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by seanwilson 6mo ago
Location: Edinburgh, UK Remote: Yes (I’m used to time zone differences and async work) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Figma, Sketch, TypeScript, JavaScript, Vue, Hugo, Jekyll, WordPress, Django, HTML/CSS, Bootstrap, Tailwind, OC
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by seanwilson 6mo ago
Anyone else have CI checks that source map files are missing from the build folder? Another trick is to grep the build folder for several function/variable names that you expect to be minified away.
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by seanwilson 6mo ago
I like laptop trackpads because it means you're always close to the keyboard, so you can easily switch between cursor and typing without only relying on one. It's good for UI design work for example.
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by seanwilson 6mo ago
For color deficiencies, different lightnesses are safe e.g. dark for loss and light for gain (could be dark reds for loss and light greens for gain, but don't mix the lightnesses). Other options are icons/shapes (like up/down
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by seanwilson 6mo ago
> It is a bit weird to see LLMs suddenly being presented as the reason to follow what are basically long standing best practices. Maybe it's the speed of LLM iteration that makes the benefit more immediately obvious, vs seeing it un
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by seanwilson 6mo ago
> The real story is that Python is designed to be maximally dynamic -- you can monkey-patch methods at runtime, replace builtins, change a class's inheritance chain while instances exist -- and that design makes it fundamentally ha
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by seanwilson 6mo ago
An accessible color palette editor for creating branded palettes built from the ground up that pass WCAG/APCA contrast rules (which is much quicker and less of a headache compared to doing manual contrast checks and fixes later): http
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by seanwilson 6mo ago
The colors are all roughly the same lightness? If so, for people with color deficiency, you want the lightnesses to vary because people that can't easily tell certain hues apart should still be able to tell different lightnesses apart
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by seanwilson 6mo ago
I'm a fan of HSLuv ( https://www.hsluv.org/comparison/ ) for design work (when sRGB is fine and you don't need P3 colors). It's perceptual uniformity like Lab, but has familiar looking hue, saturation and
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by seanwilson 7mo ago
Location: Edinburgh, UK Remote: Yes (I’m used to time zone differences and async work) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Figma, Sketch, TypeScript, JavaScript, Vue, Hugo, Jekyll, WordPress, Django, HTML/CSS, Bootstrap, Tailwind, OC
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by seanwilson 7mo ago
> All the functions taking a string that might end up being a PhoneNumber need to be highly defensive Yeah, I can't relate at all with not using a type for this after having to write gross defensive code a couple of times e.g. if it

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