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seaneking

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About seaneking

Cofounder of Simpla (http://simpla.io), UX guy and frontend dev.

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    Comment #10170295

    Kickstarter is to help launch the infrastructure around it - the prototype at http://simpla.io is the frontend library, you can't save changes yet. We've built out most of the actu…

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    Comment #10089260

    The API is intentionally transparent. The idea is that you're still writing in the CSS language (even if with non-spec features), rather than a DSL. So if you ever did want to rip …

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    Comment #10089236

    Yeah we're thinking of enabling users to pass through option blocks to the individual plugins (like how precss and cssnext does things), the problem is that not all features match …

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    Comment #9809252

    Well on a personal level, I really love living in Australia (in melbourne btw), so I stay. But to answer the other points - in a straight comparison to SF yes it's expensive, but w…

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    Comment #9802279

    To me this is a bit of a 'baby with the bathwater' scenario. CSS has problems (particularly lack of namespacing), but I don't think the solution is to just pack up shop on styleshe…

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    Comment #9802139

    I try to do just 10-15min each morning, though more often than not I don't even achieve that. I think the act of just forcing yourself to sit still and not do anything puts a lot i…

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    Comment #9802117

    Find people with the problem you're solving, and point them to your project. Quora is great for this. Obviously don't just look for the sell (or the star, in this case), but if peo…

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    Comment #9796219

    Depends how you define success. Can't beat Silicon Valley for investment opportunity, but by the same token as others have said its not all about getting funded as fast and highly …

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    Comment #9789053

    Use something like https://icomoon.io and just mix-n-match between sets. Personally I've found that no one set covers everything I need (though I generally default back to the Mate…

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    Comment #9789048

    This would be awesome. One of my favourite articles of recent is http://bost.ocks.org/mike/algorithms/ which covers this kind of thing.

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    Comment #9789040

    Another vote for ES6 - it covers the most important fixes from coffeescript and is the next standard, so you're not writing in a DSL (don't have to worry about it going out of fash…

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    Comment #9789036

    https://gionkunz.github.io/chartist-js/ - Doesn't exactly follow material guidelines out-of-the-box, but super hackable and easy to theme, looks pretty decent by default, and proba…