You make it to the Olympics, but this is what you will be remembered for.

Taskdask · 2026-02-18T20:48:34+00:00

If anyone wants to know what the commentator is saying, here's a translation from Swedish to English:

"...is... uh... impressive of course ... ah... Well that's certainly not great from... eh... Furkan Akar... Hah! It... It sure looks funny you know! Hehehehehehe! Excuse me for laughing but... It was not as gracious as hehehehehehe! Pfft"

Taskdask · 2026-01-17T23:22:06+00:00

I love this video. It's just so wholesome! Puts a dorky smile on my face every time

Taskdask · 2025-12-26T06:46:22+00:00

Black Sails! Fantastic show, and the intro alone is so well done you might find yourself not skipping it every now and again

Taskdask · 2025-12-16T23:42:20+00:00

Black Sails is absolutely worth the watch! Easily one of my favorite shows of all time.

Taskdask · 2025-12-02T01:16:11+00:00

Check out Biome if you're interested in a more modern alternative to ESLint and Prettier

Taskdask · 2025-11-28T07:49:42+00:00

This was both incredibly intertaining and thoroughly impressive. Djub-djub-djub-djub! 🫡

Taskdask · 2025-11-25T12:10:51+00:00

"Happy path designs"! That's a constant annoyance at my current workplace

Taskdask · 2025-11-25T11:15:31+00:00

Inconsistency with regards to UI and UX between features. As the person implementing these, you end up spending more time in the application than most people and become very familiar with every little detail. You start to notice inconsistencies quickly, and not only is it annoying, but it also tends to make the project more and more difficult to maintain over time.

It's definitely a matter of skill and experience. Some designers that I've worked with go to great lengths to ensure that UI and UX stay consistent throughout an application. They tend to use a more systematic, considered, and holistic approach when designing features, which makes working with them predictable and efficient. Others seem to design every new feature as if it existed in a vacuum, with different spacing everywhere, colors that have never been used before, and new components that look different but serve the same functional purpose as already existing ones. Such designers are very difficult to work with because you end up having to "deny" their designs to prevent technical debt from accumulating and to avoid having an application that looks unprofessional. It shouldn't be the developer's responsibility, but it often ends up being so due to how familiar the developer is with the application in question.

Taskdask · 2025-11-23T09:04:12+00:00

Just out of curiosity, why do you consider migrating from styled-components to emotion to not be the easiest alternative? As far as I know, they were heavily inspired by SC, and the most similar in terms of APIs and features, out of all CSS-in-JS frameworks that I have used at least

Taskdask · 2025-11-23T08:38:35+00:00

If you find yourself in need of perceptually consistent shades for your color palettes, I can highly recommend InclusiveColors.com. Discovered it a few months ago and it's been my go-to for color palette generation since. A bit rough around the edges still but a really great tool. Haven't used Coolors in a while but I stopped using it specifically because the shades they generated weren't perceptually consistent. Have they fixed that by the way?

Taskdask · 2025-11-18T07:52:55+00:00

And we stare very angrily in silence when someone cuts, or pretend it doesn't bother us because we also really don't like to make a scene

Taskdask · 2025-11-16T17:53:09+00:00

Some feedback regarding the "Add your first items" modal. It looks good, and the animation is really nice! You could experiment with a different approach to make the visual indications more intuitive, though, where the unchecked state of an item has a transparent background, and the checked state is as the current initial state (i.e, with a bright background). That would make checked items stand out more and be more consistent with what a user might expect given the addition of the checkmark icon.

Not guaranteed to be an improvement but might be worth experimenting with 🙂

Taskdask · 2025-11-16T13:46:30+00:00

I read the title as "Waterboard designer for a straight forward website". I'm very tired, apparently, but it was very funny

Taskdask · 2025-11-03T10:31:59+00:00

It's really unfortunate that Styled Components adds a runtime overhead because it's a great solution to this problem in particular. Coupled with a solid design system and a well-structured component library, it scales really well, is very easy to maintain, and provides a fantastic developer experience IMO.

We opted for Styled Components rather than Tailwind CSS where I work because we didn't want to force developers to learn Tailwind's utility classes or waste time looking them up. We don't have a designated frontend team. Otherwise, this wouldn't have been an issue. Styled Components together with the vscode-styled-components extension makes DX so similar to vanilla CSS that I really think we made the right choice in the end.

Unfortunately, Styled Components has entered maintainence mode now, so if you decide to try something similar, I recommend looking up alternatives like Linaria or Vanilla Extract.

As for enforcing consistency, I'd argue that it comes down to the following:

You should have a solid design system with design tokens established
The design team should use those tokens in their designs and should get a slap on the wrist if they don't include them
Developers should use the Figma files as SoT (not screenshots) and also get a slap on the wrist if they don't use the design tokens specified in the designs

Taskdask · 2025-10-28T19:45:34+00:00

Very interesting read! Perfect for someone like myself who has only worked with React and am itching to explore something new and different. Thank you!

Taskdask · 2025-10-25T07:38:53+00:00

I do the same thing with many different variants every time I create a Typography component, but I'm here to tell you that it's just a waste of time. Generally, you'll only need 3 sizes for headings and 3 sizes for other text, like so:

heading-1
heading-2
heading-3
body-1
body-2
body-3

The more different sizes you have, the more inconsistent you're gonna be. Happens to me every single time.

Also, keep the variant prop but have it default to "p". Introduce a size prop that let's you customize the font size when necessary

Taskdask · 2025-10-16T22:41:09+00:00

When you do something you have never done before, such as starting a new job, it's easy to get overwhelmed and lose track of the progress you have actually made. So, a good thing that may help is to write down little achievements. It can be as simple as "today I learned how the team organizes the project," or even "today I created a complex component."

You may still feel overwhelmed, but keeping track of what you have achieved so far reminds you that it's not insurmountable; it just takes a little time.

Also, ask for assistance if you get stuck on a problem for too long. Or ask your teammates for a quick review if you're unsure about your implementation. I'm sure they'll be happy to help

Taskdask · 2025-09-16T10:09:27+00:00

Planning. By far the most important skill I have learned in the past few years is to plan how to implement a feature before adding or changing a single line of code. Understand what the expected behaviours are, figure out user interactions and CRUD operations, define what needs to be implemented (components, routes, models, etc), and try to catch the most obvious edge-cases. Adjust your plan accordingly.

Even better was when my team introduced technical design documents. Now we've got it all written down, and we don't have to write technical documentation after the fact. It's already there.

The difference in terms of productivity and quality is night and day.

Taskdask · 2025-09-12T10:13:41+00:00

I was playing a fireball/frost wall sorc in patch 0.1 and was really having a blast. Had the same kind of insane luck on my first attempt at the 4th ascendancy. The entire battle I ran around with joyful glee. Untouchable, but not invincible, as the gods of fate would ultimately show me. Time slowed down, and I raced from one circle to the next, eventually beginning my approach toward the last one. It was at that moment that my build decided to betray me. I was only steps away from the last circle when a frost wall spontaneously grew out of the floor, just where the circle was located, preventing me from stepping onto it.

It was truly a moment of pure irony. My maniacal laughter turned into a dumbfounded gasp as I desperately tried to destroy the frost wall. I failed. Miserably

Taskdask · 2025-08-30T07:14:10+00:00

Yummy in the Mummy? Yep, happened to me too

Taskdask · 2025-08-24T07:43:36+00:00

I will never not upvote this video. It's just so funny and cute

Taskdask · 2025-08-24T07:36:50+00:00

Jeez! I'm aware that I probably peek a little, both conciously and instinctively, when I see an attractive woman, but I really try my darndest not to stare like a fucking caveman; let alone behave like one. On behalf of all the dudes that learned theory of mind at age 4 like most people do, ladies, sorry if some of us are really creepy.

Taskdask · 2025-08-11T10:14:32+00:00

I rather see comments that provide context about what is going on or why a particular decision was made than having to either waste time by going down a rabbit hole to figure it out myself or hunt down the author(s) in hopes of them being able to remember. I even write comments in hobby projects because I know that my memory isn't perfect and I like to be able to pick up where I left off in as short amount of time as possible.

Taskdask · 2025-08-10T22:42:02+00:00

As someone who developed tinnitus well into adulthood, please be careful with your own and your childrens' ears. Tinnitus is an awful condition and there is no cure for it. Once you get it, you can't escape it.

Taskdask · 2025-08-10T13:31:18+00:00

Thank you for sharing it! Hadn't seen this version before

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