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colourgarden

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Senior UX developer based in London.
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colourgarden··on Tailwind vs. Semantic CSS
Not mentioned in the article:

- Semantic version is not responsive (sure it looks ok but isn't optimised)

- Tailwind version has 13 inlined SVG icons (on the homepage) which increase DOM size (Semantic version has none)

- Tailwind version uses optimised markup for SEO purposes which leads to increased DOM size (<ul> list for navigation; not wrapping entire article summary in an anchor; using <dl/dt/dd> structure in work section)

This is clearly not comparing apples with apples when it comes to semantic HTML+CSS vs Tailwind.

However, most egregiously, the author goes on to make a bunch of comparisons between the Next.js tailwindui marketing site and his Nuejs-generated template for the argument that "Tailwind is bad for performance". This is deliberately misleading.

There are plenty of valid criticisms of Tailwind but it's hard not to look at this article as anything but a puff piece for the author's framework rather than a serious comparison of two approaches to building UIs.

colourgarden··on Fark redesign is now live (2007)
Better than zero chance. He addressed it in the AMA thread last week.

> P.S. old.reddit.com isn’t going anywhere

colourgarden··on Arizona limits building as groundwater dries up
Tangential but RealLifeLore did a video a while back[1] outlining how Las Vegas manages water intake from Lake Mead and the Colorado River by minimising waste and having extremely efficient water processing facilities which then feed water back.

Maybe there are lessons to be learned there rather than simply taking more.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U1TkIdDbRA

colourgarden··on The brand new Thunderbird logo
Wait till he finds out where they culturally misappropriated the name Thunderbird from!
colourgarden··on Into Thin AirPods
The title relates to Into Thin Air which Jon Krakauer also wrote about the 1996 Everest disaster (of which he was part).
colourgarden··on Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant – customer data not compromised
Maybe not in the US.

> We argued they had no reason to expect to find what they were looking for and any seizures would therefore be illegal under Swedish law.

If this line is to be believed then the police would have been committing a crime by proceeding.

colourgarden··on PHP in 2023
If on macOS then Laravel Valet is great - https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/valet
colourgarden··on Ask HN: Where to buy cheap but good quality glasses in Europe?
I've been using VIU for a couple of years and can highly recommend. Good quality acetate frames, decent pricing and good in-store service.

https://shopviu.com/en_int/viu-stores/

My partner previously also used VIU and recently had a good experience with Ace & Tate (who have been recommended already).

colourgarden··on Vasa's sister ship Äpplet found
> He realized that Vasa had the wrong proportions even before she was launched

Not only did he realise it, he proved it. Days before launching the ship, he had 30 men run across the deck to demonstrate its stability. The ship listed badly and they stopped the demonstration before the King arrived.

colourgarden··on AppLovin bids $17.5B to acquire Unity
OP didn't directly say such dark patterns are fraudulent. They said AppLovin was committing fraudulent activity and then that Unity uses dark patterns.
colourgarden··on New UK data laws could be incompatible with GDPR in the EU
You may have a misunderstanding of what the ECHR is. A party can make an application to the ECHR against a member state of the Council of Europe (not the same as the EU) that that member has breached an article of the agreed European Convention on Human Rights. They don't "go after" individuals.
colourgarden··on Street View turns 15
Surprised to see no mention of Geoguessr yet - awesome game and community built on top of Street View - https://www.geoguessr.com
colourgarden··on Craft CMS 4 Released
> The instructions assume you have a whole PHP dev environment setup

How else would you expect to run a PHP-based application? WordPress also requires a PHP environment and database.

I wouldn't argue against Craft being more difficult to install than WordPress but I also wouldn't describe it as difficult (I'm a FE dev, no PHP wizard).

And I don't recall Craft every being marketed as a WordPress alternative - it's always been a "CMS for developers" (I think this may have been a tagline on their homepage at one point).

colourgarden··on Copilot is closing
Second paragraph.
colourgarden··on Channel 4 privatisation to go ahead
See Evgeny Lebedev. I imagine the odds on him being the successful bidder for Channel 4 are extremely slim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny_Lebedev

colourgarden··on Channel 4 privatisation to go ahead
It is owned by the government but generates all it's own funding via advertising, selling programming slots and selling content overseas (Film4, for example).
colourgarden··on Ask HN: Where should I live?
You don't mention if you speak any languages other than English?

Whilst you'll get by OK in any large city with just English, some places are better than others. For example, in my experience, Lisbon (and Portugal in general) has a much higher level of English than Barcelona.

Maybe language isn't a huge concern for you but you still have a level of bureaucracy and settling in moving to any new place.

colourgarden··on Snowboarding for Geeks: An Ultimate Guide (2018)
> something changed in this regard about 15 years ago

Here in Europe, I think Michael Schumacher's ski accident in 2013 changed peoples' attitudes.

When I started skiing in the mid-to-late 2000s, there was maybe a 50/50 split of helmet and non-helmet wearers on the pistes. Since the mid-2010s, it's become extremely rare to encounter anyone not wearing a helmet.

I've been skiing in three different countries in Europe this month and could count on two hands how many people I've seen not wearing a helmet among thousands with.

colourgarden··on Using 'Git rebase' to Perfect Commits
> every commit I make is a good one that I would like to keep in the history

This is certainly not typical.

When working in a team, you may need to push something half-finished so that someone else can work on what they need to. Or testing something before refactoring.

For these scenarios, rebase is very handy for cleaning things up before merging.

colourgarden··on 'Dutch reach' rule change to Highway Code welcomed
The word 'law' isn't used once in the entire article. Can the mods alter the title?
colourgarden··on Elizabeth Holmes found guilty
Chelsea Manning?
colourgarden··on Tailwind CSS v3.0
> ITCSS (Inverted triangle CSS) works with the cascade and results in clean, minimalistic CSS files.

The real Tailwind lightbulb for me was understanding that the cascade and actual CSS files don't matter anymore - you don't need them. No more inheritance, no more naming, no context switching.

I'm a big fan of ITCSS and was using Harry's methods before he coined the name but we don't need to fight the cascade any longer.

> I do not build SPAs though and do get that quick styling works really well for that scenario.

Admittedly, if you're not breaking down your UI into small components then Tailwind will get real messy, real fast.

colourgarden··on Tailwind CSS v3.0
> You can still use CSS Modules while using Tailwind

Recommended even. I use Tailwind with CSS Modules as a fallback when there's simply no way to achieve the result using Tailwind (rare) or it's prohibitively complicated/messy.

Also for CSS hacks if you need to support an older browser.

colourgarden··on Ask HN: Why aren't there other biographies of Steve Jobs?
Where is the adulation in OP's question?

A person doesn't have to be likeable to be worth reading or learning about.

colourgarden··on The most brilliant bookshops in the world
Lello is more a tourist attraction than a bookshop nowadays though. As evidenced by the fact you have to pay to get in the door!
colourgarden··on Ask HN: What excites you today (technologically speaking)?
My take on this is that governments should be incentivising power/oil companies to create public infrastructure for electric car charging which would further speed up the move away from oil-based energy.

I'm not particularly well informed but I believe Barcelona city has made some steps on this by incorporating a jointly-held power company to add hundreds of charging points around the city. Public infrastructure achieved but via private investment.

More here - https://www.endolla.barcelona/en/

colourgarden··on Ship / Show / Ask: A modern branching strategy
Reviews are also a good way to learn. Particularly seniors reviewing the code of juniors and providing feedback (code suggestions are great for this).
colourgarden··on How to properly load a dishwasher (2020)
Miele dishwashers (maybe they exist for others brands too but I've only ever seen them on Miele) have a cutlery tray at the top of the dishwasher which allows you to lay cutlery down next to each other.

Emptying is then simply grabbing the entire group and placing straight into the drawer.

Example: https://www.miele.com/media/microsites/ubc/images/Jubilee/13...

colourgarden··on Britain’s plan for when Queen Elizabeth II dies
> milking the UK taxpayer

The Crown Estate (which King George gave up in exchange for the yearly Civil List/Sovereign Grant payment) generates over £2bn revenue each year with over £300m profit.

The Royal Family also brings billions of pounds of tourist revenue to the country each year (granted it wasn't so much in 2020).

Whatever you think of the institution or the individuals, The Royals are a gigantic net positive for the UK cash pot.

colourgarden··on Why have there been so many own goals at the Euros?
> Doesn't seem plausible that stress causes a factor of x10 or whatever number of OGs

It isn't. See other comments in this thread for the more likely reasons (changed interpretation of "last touch" etc).

My comment was mainly replying to parent comment about why the players are/could be under increased stressed in this tournament.

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