You got some shitty comments in here but you handled them well. While I think there is _some_ valid criticism, I think what you've built is pretty cool. I'd like to be able to test this without next JS. Is a CDN option planned for those wanting a quick start?
LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio"
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Re: LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio"
#132> Confusing. Inscrutible. But groundbreaking if we can pull it off. You know what gets lift? Correct spelling (inscrutable)! Unless they chose that word specifically to misspell but that's meeting more than halfway.
This line alone made me want to read the rest of the page, so good work! Hilarious and self-deprecating is how I took it.
It tickled me too - and TBH I got sidetracked by the misspelling when my browser pointed it out in the HN comment box :)
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunately I've already ported in all the radix primitives. I actually found out about Base literally the exact day I finished it. Then I saw shadcn just upgraded to Base. So it looks like shad once again proves the gary oak in the completely one-sided rivalry that lives entirely in my own head. except instead of Ash I'm like youngster joey with a copilot subscription
> So it looks like shad once again proves the gary oak Shad did this way late AFTER everyone said Radix was unmaintained though. Quite a few of the original Radix devs moved to work on Base.
Man I gotta hang out here more, I really have no idea what I'm talking about do I? Haha
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
My favorite genre of graphic design is when you take a logo and work backwards to show the "very deeply thought about" construction, completely made up after the fact. The golden ratio is useful in that with a bit of fiddling you can fit pretty much anything to it. This is like catnip for "spiritual" types.
Now I'm imagining an app that automatically back-engineers a 'golden ratio' analysis or similar bullshit explanation for you to save you the time and trouble of making it up yourself. Being able to give fussy clients an instant graphic design placebo would be super useful. In a way it's anthropologically (and linguistically) interesting that such a bigram can gain this kind of status as a result of marketing, essenti…
See also
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2322:_ISO_Paper_S...
European paper sizes are based on a sqrt(2) spiral so cutting in half works well.
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
All other browser I've tried (firefox, vivaldi, edge, safari, atlas, many others) and all other programs with a tab-based UI I use (zed, vs code, sqlitebrowser) look worse.
> All other browser I've tried (firefox, vivaldi, edge, safari, atlas, many others) and all other programs with a tab-based UI I use (zed, vs code, sqlitebrowser) look worse. Both you and the poster could both be correct. Looking good and being a poor interface are unrelated. IOW, something could look absolutely beautiful and still have a nightmarish UI. "Looking pretty" is subjective. Being a good UI is objective.
Reminds me of how like 10 years ago there were the fanbois who wanted to do their cars in Material Design or tatto Material Design on their face and such.
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
The flipping-between is a great hack -- as you said your eyes (really, brain) just do the work for you. I learnt about it in Japan where proof-readers and editors would (or do) quickly lift a top page up and down to spot mistakes with kanji (pictographs). And sure enough, even from a page of dense script the dissonance of the error really does pop out at you. I likewise tucked that little trick into my belt -- it com…
If you put two proofs side by side, you can view from the right distance then uncross or cross your eyes like a stereogram till they converge, which makes differences shimmer. Instant "spot the difference" solve. // Long time in print and digital agency
And once you have the hang of this technique, congratulations! You can now enjoy those 3D "Magic Eye" images that stumped a significant portion of the population back in the 90s :)
e.g. https://old.reddit.com/r/woahdude/comments/1lxqd0l/the_most_...
Re: LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio"
#137"golden ratio" my ass, excuse my french, but you should let the design speak for itself, and the design here is just mediocre at best. What a weird joke of a company is this.
Weird joke is kinda my whole vibe so sounds like mission accomplished!
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#138Doesn't look bad but it's not semantic and using utility classes like tailwind
It KINDA does. But if you read the current docs you'll see it's clearly a rudimentary precursor to the sophistication tailwind has
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#139If the site stutters when I scroll in my browser [1], it's a great endorsement for the underlying library, right? [1] M3Pro, Firefox. No, I'm not trying in Chrome.
Well obviously you need to buy an M4.
/s
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#140ok npm. so it's a web thing. I had hoped it would be a UI kit for computers
I wish so badly that I knew how to do that