I’ve been diving into the indie web world these past few days.
Really like it so far, so I’ve decided to be more active on Mastodon (and probably less active on here – at least for now).
Feel free to join me :D
https://mastodon.design/@dominik
Every time OpenAI announces something new is an opportunity to clean your feed from these “this changes everything” compilation-thread-accounts, who all post the exact same examples.
Not sure if I should be grateful for that or not…
RSS feeds are one of the best inventions of the internet age.
My problem with it is that many popular readers are very cluttered and not that great to use.
One day, I’ll build a clean and minimal RSS feed reader myself.
Great example of an interesting post that has just an equally wholesome and informative reply section 🙌 https://xcancel.com/neuranne/status/1756602062865932429
The floating notes in @raycastapp are becoming my favorite feature of this otherwise already great app.
Map it to a shortcut (⌥ + ⇧ + Q for me) and you can write things down and forget about them without losing focus.
Feels like a better braindump.txt
Seeing this also makes me more confident in my decision of learning @laravelphp.
For years, my TL was full of praisings for JS metaframeworks but in the last couple of months, I've definitely seen a shift.
- with @inertiajs, I can still use my fav js frameworks on the FE :) https://xcancel.com/Shpigford/status/1753188910304301260
First non-fiction read of 2024 ☑️
Reading about a more utopian vision of the future definitely makes me more optimistic that humanity can solve some of its biggest challenges in the near(ish) future.
English title is “Utopia for Realists”.
Been enjoying tinkering with @laravelphp lately, feels like a breath of fresh air coming from js-metaframework-land.
TIL – seems like a great CSS property to solve z-index hell. https://xcancel.com/devongovett/status/1749858152072249823
Currently helping @cedric_design with some advanced code overrides for the new Dark platform.
Working with custom code in @framer always makes me better at understanding the nitty-gritty details of React that I wouldn't have learned otherwise.
Love it!
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Since everyone is currently sharing their @code setups, here's mine.
Always a wip and heavily inspired by some of the setups I saw earlier this week.
Might create my own theme on day though 🤔
Handy @webflow tip to apply custom CSS only on the published site, not in the editor.
Place this attribute selector before the regular one: [data-wf-domain].
Useful if you have elements, that are moved out of view/blurred/… per default.
TIL, that there is a vector-effect property for SVGs.
It allows you to specify whether or not the stroke width is dependent on transformations applied to the SVG.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Attribute/vector-effect
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Minimal apps ftw! https://xcancel.com/raffichill/status/1726284792478761335
CS50 015
Started with lecture 3 – Algorithms
Back from Seoul, which means I have time to continue with CS50 🥳
Really enjoying learning about the more theoretical aspects of cs. E.g. I've heard of “Big O notation” before, but now I know what it actually means.
I think I just found the fluid typo tool of my dreams. This kind of thing was always on my “want-to-build”-list, but apparently, it already exists 🙌
https://www.fluid-type-scale.com
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CS50 014
Problem set 2 done.
After a little break, I finally completed pset 2.
After Readability, I chose Wordle and it was pretty challenging. I'd say not as much as last week's problem due to the boilerplate code, but nonetheless very tricky.
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“We already need more ephemerality within our digital lives… and we certainly don’t need more permanence seeping into our physical lives”
Couldn't have said it better! https://xcancel.com/julesterpak/status/1708960769885295076
“The best things asymptote to zero dollars per use over their lifetime.” https://xcancel.com/kepano/status/1708499101778923647
CS50 013
Finished lecture 2 – Arrays
Things are ramping up a bit, but still very comprehensible and interesting. It was really satisfying to see, how the puzzle pieces began to click together towards the end of the lecture.
Curious, what the problem sets are about 👀
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CS50 012
Continued with lecture 2 – Arrays
Most disappointing thing was to learn that arrays in C don't have a length property like in essentially every other language.
Well… I guess this makes me modern languages even more – once again 🙃
CS50 011
Started with lecture 2 – Arrays
Learned more technical things about compiling and debugging. Plus also added a rubber duck to my shopping list 🦆
A hot new inspo website just dropped 🔥 https://xcancel.com/cedric_design/status/1705250722311524353
CS50 010
Problem set 1 done.
The Mario exercise was pretty straightforward, but the credit card one took me way longer than expected.
Mainly due to all the things that C doesn't do out of the box and I had to code myself.
But the feeling when seeing this console is 10/10!
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It's always a pleasure when a framework provides such a good extension for VS Code.
Just discovered this menu, kudos to @sveltejs 🙌
CS50 009
Finished lecture 1 – C
This last part was really interesting because it involved some CS history and the problems with integer overflow.
This showed me once again, that when writing code, you should do so responsibly.
Now onto the Mario problem set 🙌
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CS50 008
Continued with lecture 1 – C
The programming fundamentals weren't new for me, but using C is definitely more challenging than JS.
Weirdly, I feel glad that I'm getting exposed to the quirks of C. I think this will help me appreciate modern languages more.
Did you know that there is an HTTP status code where the server tells the user that it refuses to brew coffee because it is permanently a teapot?
Me neither.
But this is exactly the humor that I love the internet for :)
CS50 007
Started with lecture 1 – C
New language, new adventure. But really glad to be back in a familiar environment aka @code.
Also, the Ctrl + L shortcut to clear the console was new to me, no more typing the word itself ^^
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CS50 006
Problem set 0 done – glad that I got this Scratch project over the finish line.
Scratch is a great tool for learning, but if you have some coding experience, you'll get frustrated with its limitations.
Looking forward to the next lecture with C ✌️
This video is such a gem for discovering these not-so-obvious Raycast features!
Plus the trick with searching a specific code snippet on Github is really clever, never thought of doing that globally before. https://xcancel.com/raycastapp/status/1702688280205267043
Good news for anyone planning on building something with @framer this weekend.
We've just updated all prices for the code components & overrides on @CanvasSupply!
Link & limited discount code below👇
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Very good take! The longer I use GPT-4 as a coding assistant, the more i see this point as well.
Copilot is great for completing the current line and making actually writing the code faster, but standalone GPT can only be used for a boilerplate that you then customize yourself. https://xcancel.com/iamgingertrash/status/1702038134790439277
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Quick CSS flexbox tip:
Use margin: auto to position a single child at the end of the parent (e.g. when using justify-content: flex-start, like below) 👇
