Very interesting - handlebars.js's internals suddenly makes so much more sense!
Sol — a sunny little homemade virtual machine
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Re: Sol — a sunny little homemade virtual machine
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Rasmus, since you're reading this thread, I'm curious. If I understand correctly, you did the Spotify brand and looks as it stands. My compliments! What, then, has convinced you to move to a large and very much designed-out webapp like Facebook? I mean, it's not like the Like button and the blue Facebook bar weren't there before you came - this suggests that you downgraded from setting up an entire brand to doing a p…
Actually, we have some of the most talented designers I've ever met. Now, I'm working on things other than those you are bluntly describing. Most design work has been with special projects as well as our "native" apps. However, for the time being I've dedicated myself to software engineering around something I find very exciting. I probably said too much already.
Thanks for the heads-up anyway! :-)
Re: Sol — a sunny little homemade virtual machine
#53Bad choice of name >. SOL (meaning Sun in Portuguese) was a VM built a PUC-Rio. It was the predecessor to Lua (meaning Moon in Portuguese).
yeah - it's a neat project, but my first reaction, too, was to look for a link to lua.
Re: Sol — a sunny little homemade virtual machine
#54Re: Sol — a sunny little homemade virtual machine
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Rasmus, since you're reading this thread, I'm curious. If I understand correctly, you did the Spotify brand and looks as it stands. My compliments! What, then, has convinced you to move to a large and very much designed-out webapp like Facebook? I mean, it's not like the Like button and the blue Facebook bar weren't there before you came - this suggests that you downgraded from setting up an entire brand to doing a p…
Actually, we have some of the most talented designers I've ever met. Now, I'm working on things other than those you are bluntly describing. Most design work has been with special projects as well as our "native" apps. However, for the time being I've dedicated myself to software engineering around something I find very exciting. I probably said too much already.
It's interesting to hear you remark on your co-designers as, until now, I'd always assumed that the site was largely designed by it's developers. I know that would normally be unheard of for a portal the size of Facebook, but of all the sites I visit, I find Facebook to have the most confusing layout.
There's a weird mismatch of navigation features from hidden drop down lists, dialogue boxes and content that redirects to whole other pages; I'm never quite sure what onclick event will return what result. Plus the general layout of the site seems cluttered and counter-intuitive too.
Now this might just be me. I don't know what level of user testing Facebook performs before pushing features live, but I might be one of those small few who are just beyond help. However being a developer of similar age to yourself - I've spent my whole working life with badly designed developer tools and usually manage fine. Where as Facebook -a tool for the masses- seems to be one of the few exceptions that genuinely stumps me.
In many ways, that site's design is an "anti-rsms"; it seems to be the polar opposite of the design principles you adopt in your own projects (eg a clean methodical layout with clear separation between content and navigation tools). And while I'm discussing your own talents, I just was to commend you for what you've achieved despite choosing a non-traditional path into IT (ie straight to work rather than studying at Uni). Having trod a similar route as yourself, I know from experience that it can be significantly harder. So I can only imagine how much hard work and dedication you would have needed to be where you are now. Kudos.
Re: Sol — a sunny little homemade virtual machine
#56This warms my heart; It's wonderful to see people doing crazy stuff like this for fun.
I've been following this guy for a while. He did that editor a while back too. The polish on his stuff is excellent.
How does he have time for this stuff?
I would like to work on foundational projects too, but there are too many practical things that need go get done.
It is good to see that somebody has time for this.