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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, Jekyl…

Thanks! Any noticeable downsides?

> 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 motivati…

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 …

> 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 o…

> 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 i…

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 b…

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, Jekyl…

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 singl…

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…

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 element is serv…

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…

> 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 y…

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, Jekyl…

> 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 writ…

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, Jekyl…

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, Jekyl…

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…

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 desig…

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).…

> 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 t…

> 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…