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wingspan

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About wingspan

Software Engineer at Netflix, building components for TV.

https://ianobermiller.com

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    It’s worse than that, since you can’t use CSS variables inside a media query!

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    > “And Knosso whatever-his-name was a physicist. That’s the Library of Nothing.” > “Nothing?” > The old woman had her spiel ready. “Physicists long since determined that most of sp…

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    Also a good lesson about including screenshots in any PR with UI changes. Once the maintainer saw the changes visually they were much more willing to iterate and get the PR merged.…

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    I was able to reproduce this in a simple example [1]. If you refresh it a few times you will be able to see it flash (at least I did in Chrome on Mac). It is probably more noticeab…

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    I love this approach and have used it many times in JavaScript. I often end up adding an additional map in front with the resolved values to check first, because awaiting or then'i…

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    Nice! I put together a single file offline HTML version [1] with a demo [2] using only a CDN-hosted QR library. [1] https://gist.github.com/ianobermiller/9f17f1022bc75c2228d742... …

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    Thanks for calling out that this was inspired by CodeFlow, I kept thinking that as I was reading. Still one of my favorite code review tools, used ~2012. One of my favorite feature…

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    Using thin-backend has been one of the most delightful experiences I've had making an SPA with a simple backend. The developer experience with the generated TypeScript types is par…

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    This is fantastic, wish I had it before we had our fourth and final child. One piece of feedback: when I use the app with my thumb, the natural position for it to rest is right ove…

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    The problem is that TypeScript does not scale to the size of the giant monorepo at Facebook, with hundreds of thousands, if not millions of files. Since they aren't organized into …

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    Really neat! I whipped up a single file HTML version [1] with a demo [2] using only a CDN-hosted QR library. Thanks for the distraction! [1] https://gist.github.com/ianobermiller/9…

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    You joke, but this is basically how Facebook uses MySQL for the main user table and for the majority of Entities: https://blog.yugabyte.com/facebooks-user-db-is-it-sql-or-nos...

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