Going to go through all the people I follow on Twitter and unfollow them here as I find them on 🦋 to use it like a checklist. If I unfollow you it's because I've found you over there. For those that haven't moved yet, you're missing out
Tech salaries are not inflated, they are middle class. This is just the actual cost of living, but you’ve accepted/ignored that other careers have been pushed out of the middle class
All my disrespect to these Tesla engineers. I’d love to see their last 30 days of code printed out so I could absolutely tear through it. Because any engineer who thinks they can make this call in this way, knows nothing of their craft and shame on them
nytimes.com/2022/11/11/tec…
This unintentionally perfectly captures why UI design is no longer a distinguishing factor in product choice, no longer a way to attract new users
It’s become a rigid set of rules and good design is now judged solely on how well you follow these rules
Performance tip: Make your website smaller by replacing every <div> tag with <i> tags
You’ll just have to reset the italics with “body { transform: rotate(-15deg) }”
I think if you make it a rule to always use attributes instead of classes to apply CSS to element states (not variants), you’ll force yourself to make your app more accessible (Similar to React Testing Library)
If you’re using CSS-in-JS this also helps create more static styles
I love when designers artificially restrict themselves into a corner in the name of “consistency” and make it so all their designs can only be terrible
See: Every time a big company decides to redesign all their product logos
Sttooooop telling people to organize their apps like:
/components/
Feature
/utils/
feature
Every company has to undo this shit at some point when it gets impossible to manage and turn it into:
/feature/
Component
util
/feature/
Component
util
Do yourself a favor and split your “User” type into:
- “Identity” for authenticating
- “Actor” for performing actions
- “Role” for managing permissions
So tired of services that clearly hacked on features to an all powerful user type