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and reading (aka “ocr”) is the fastest way for the brain to process language.
Those are some serious job requirements for $150k
I want this for my yard. Like a yard roomba.
Yes. The best explanation of Tailwind is when Adam describes it as “an API for your design system.”
The biggest problem with CSS when trying to maintain a design system is the same problems you run into any time you use inheritance in programming.
Inheritance has its place, but making your CSS composable the way Tailwind does makes it practical to actually adhere to a design system.
If you’re more worried about the purity of your HTML, then Tailwind is not for you.
This is what I like most about all 37 Signals products.
The fact that they are so polarizing with just design choices is their edge.
You either love it or hate. It’s a lot like Rails in this regard.
Isn’t a “micro front-end” just like a Turbo Frame in Rails now? Except, easier to manage within a monolith?
Do you not see how that attitude is totally selfish, and in practice comes across that way no matter where you’re from.
Treat everyone, no matter who they are, like someone you admire and you can’t go wrong anywhere in the world.
Ask culture at work and guess culture in your personal life.
Hawkwind is 100% Psychedelic Rock, not Prog.
Boy do you not understand punk:
“Punk mostly wasn't very good at all, because it was fashion and performance art and social criticism and musically quite conservative and dull in addition to being amateurish”
That is just an objectively wrong worldview—that Punk was just fashion and a mostly dull, amateur genre.
And I agree with everything you say about Prog.
Go listen to Pink Flag by Wire. It basically is Prog, but stripped all the way down to pure elegance and irony, imbued with the attitude of the earliest rock and roll. Still fresh today.
So many great bands and classic albums. Were the beatles and elvis proto-punk, or were the clash and ramones early rock and roll?
The kinks you really got me, the stooges search and destroy. You’re right Led Zeppelin is silly next to that.
But dull and amateurish, no way. That’s the mindset of someone with a narrow palette.
Good thing Punk is the ultimate palette cleanser. The smartest genre of music we’ve created yet.
does what you’re making matter to people or not? It’s like that no matter what you’re doing. Y’all can sit around here and discuss, “what is a software architect” all you want.
Good news, Render is WAY better.
ok yeah this is the answer
So maybe “code” is already at the right level of abstraction and not everyone needs to be a doctor or lawyer or pro football player.
So maybe “no code” tools should be thought of as photoshop for software.
I think “code” is already at the right layer of abstraction. “Code” already solves this problem and has the curve the author’s looking for. “No-code” is a simple case of the wrong abstraction.
I find my system/integration tests to be the most valuable because those test the behavior of my code, what the end user cares about.
It often helps to start with the design first (even if just a napkin sketch). Once I’ve done that I usually have enough information to write system tests (which also forces me to consider edge cases). Then I can then fill in with unit tests as needed as I write the code to get the system tests for that feature passing.
Ok, so what makes James Joyce a good writer?
It’s CSS with a design system. If you need to bump a value like margin or font size by one click you know you’re doing that within the context of a harmonious scale, not just writing free-form css, reinventing a design system (if you even have one) from scratch on every site.
Just use Tailwind utility classes in the html while you’re figuring out your design. Once the design solidifies you can write clean, semantic classes for your html and move the tailwind utility classes to your css file using @apply. It’s really the best of both worlds!
What often gets missed in the tailwind debate is how it forces you to use a design system. When you’re writing CSS by hand it can quickly get out of control when you need to bump something up or down, left or right by a notch. If you add padding it should be related to font size, line-height, etc on some sort of cohesive, harmonious scale. By using a Tailwind class of py-2 rather than writing a CSS class you can be confident that the change will fit with the design system as a whole. This is much better for most people than creating your own design system from scratch every time you need to make a web page. Once your design starts to solidify, just extract out common components like “button” out of the html using @apply.
That’s a fair point. I guess my underlying assumption would be the government funding the research would retain rights to the research as well. Thanks for pointing that out.
This is not corrupt. It’s money well spent. The benefits to us all are most likely more valuable than anything we’ve spent on vaccine research. Government balance sheets also probably come out ahead on that investment given that the alternative is an economy with a raging pandemic and resulting lower tax base.
Then there is the logistical effort of manufacturing the vaccine at the scale and speed required. There are huge capital investments and risks associated with doing that. If a company wants to do that and seek the profits from that, great.
Literally everyone comes out ahead. You, me, the government, the manufacturer, distributor, and every other business or person in the economy.
What is the alternative? We create a government agency that specializes in manufacturing and distributing pharma products?
How is it any harder for a publisher to embed a display ad than do what John Gruber does and have a weekly sponsor in his RSS feed? It's easy to insert ads into any RSS feed. The publisher/advertising argument for the death of RSS doesn't hold water. Folks prefer Twitter and Facebook to get a feed of news. The majority of people don't want to do the work of manually curating their feed. RSS just didn't win on the merits as a feature. I still love RSS and use it every day, but it wasn't "killed by publishers."