The Beauty of Building

Why do we write? We write, in part, because our own reading was given as a gift to us and we want to extend that same magic we received to others. Here’s Mandy Brown (and my notes) in a recent article: The more compelling and interesting reason that most writers seek out readers is, I think, less utilitarian: we receive our writing as a gift, and...

When trying to define the difference between a link () and a button (), a general rule of thumb is: links are for navigation, buttons are not. That can take you pretty far. However, like most things, there’s nuance and that mental model can fall apart under certain scenarios. Why? Because buttons can be for navigation too. Where? Buttons in forms...

I was working on a project using Recoil for state management in React. I needed to persist some state to localStorage, and there’s some info on how to do it in Recoil’s docs. That works; however it doesn’t respond to state changes from other instances of your app in multiple browser tabs. If you want that, you have to add the code yourself by...

Take a look at these two animated gifs. First: Second: Can you tell the difference between them? Do you care? If not, we might not be a good fit. #designEngineering Reply via: Email :: Mastodon :: Twitter Tagged in: #designEngineer

Every once in a while, I’ll have a post gain traction over on ye ole’ orange site (Hacker News). I find out about it because my analytics digest will get a yuge uptick in page views. What’s interesting is all the referral sources that show up in my analytics. The Hacker News is always at the top, but then after it comes a bunch of clones or...