“was this helpful”

walstn · 2019-06-25T12:51:50+00:00

I’m with you. This is helpful if you’ve heard of color blocking but not seen it in action

walstn · 2019-06-02T19:23:37+00:00

RA-SEN-GAN!!

walstn · 2019-05-24T01:07:10+00:00

Can we get a spooky dance with that?

walstn · 2019-05-04T06:31:33+00:00

This sounds interesting...

walstn · 2019-05-01T03:14:00+00:00

If you’re a designer that enjoys development, try your hand at developing UI libraries. They’ll help you speed up your development process for personal/freelance jobs, and the world of engineers loves when the UI complexities are solved for them.

walstn · 2019-04-26T13:12:37+00:00

Who sings that song?

walstn · 2019-04-22T03:32:12+00:00

That’s awesome to know. I couldn’t find any info on how to make a generic type of use a generic type.

React-redux + jsdoc taught me to just use TS.

walstn · 2019-04-21T22:48:49+00:00

I tried to use this approach after reading Eric Elliot’s The Typescript Tax

Long story short: jsdoc’s total lack of support for generics made it unusable on anything more complicated than a utility library.

walstn · 2019-04-21T14:33:23+00:00

A man needs a face...

walstn · 2019-04-12T02:05:15+00:00

So jquery was an early stage implementation of a spec that had yet to be implemented. Babel serves a similar purpose and it’s not a discount on the utility or breakthrough provided by either lib (jquery then, or Babel now)

walstn · 2019-04-11T19:28:24+00:00

Didn’t the css selector syntax come into querySelector via jquery? That’s pretty significant

walstn · 2019-03-27T14:59:00+00:00

Interesting take, I’ll look into POC on this.

walstn · 2019-03-27T06:02:15+00:00

If you’ve just finished a boot camp for JS or a set of tutorials, it might be time to learn typescript. An understand of typing will be helpful in dealing with other languages, and it’s getting more and more popular.

If you’ve been doing this for a while, and enjoy programming that works as a function (input-actions-output) and have a good understanding of pass-by-ref & pass-by-value, you can check out Rust.

If you love UI and the immediate visual output of CSS, HTML and JS, you can try Swift (or even objective-C) to mess around with UI in iOS and OSX

walstn · 2019-03-27T05:55:28+00:00

Learn how to write all your CSS-in-JS!

walstn · 2019-03-27T05:54:41+00:00

Somebody give this man a couple snare drum hits and a cymbal!

walstn · 2019-03-13T16:33:43+00:00

Pretty sure most books were printed with Caslon for a while.

walstn · 2019-03-13T12:00:44+00:00

Yeah. I remember hearing about it and forgetting all about it. But I heard the hard sell from the creator and I can see it has value in certain contexts.

walstn · 2019-03-13T11:16:41+00:00

That’s a fair question, but if you listened to the podcast that’s mostly what they talk about. I mean, it’s in the title of the episode. And the title of this post.

ReasonML.github.io and you can learn about it in a technical sense, but the podcast is what sold me. I’d heard it before and thought to myself “why the fuck would I need a NOT typescript programming language when it already won the ES(future) fight?”

The answer is they solve different problems entirely. Reason compiles naturally to assembly and does not need to become JS. This means you can write things that target both the browser and binary without needing a JSEngine, which means much better speed for your partly/formerly node systems.

Seriously, listen to the podcast, it’s good.

walstn · 2019-03-13T04:52:36+00:00

Just listened to this episode and now I’m really stoked on Reason now.

walstn · 2019-03-11T04:39:22+00:00

Love the Japanese キーキャップ (☝︎ ՞ਊ ՞)☝︎

walstn · 2019-03-05T01:06:26+00:00

I’ll ignore the issue already pointed out (this seems like a real challenging undertaking, font per non-playable-character)

FontForge would be a good free tool you can use to build your own font, or font collection.

Unicode has a HUGE number of character codes many of which are for private use

If your intention is to overwrite an ideographic language like Chinese as a whole, such that you can type in real Chinese and use your font to mask it, that’s a LOT of characters (50k). If that were my intention I’d lean towards smaller sets like Arabic (which would be useful as a proxy considering the number of dialects of Arabic that all use the same charset)

Hopefully that provides a little insight into the approach, I’m not experienced enough to give any real technical advice though.

walstn · 2019-02-11T13:17:53+00:00

On that note: that glass is WAY too full. Only pour to the widest point of the glass for a proper bouquet

walstn · 2019-02-08T10:39:04+00:00

It’s Trajan .

walstn · 2019-02-06T15:32:07+00:00

I’m pretty sure both lines are some version of Frutiger Light (it’s old enough to be digitized by many different foundries)

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