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hexasquid··on Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)
This needs to be built into figma and taught to product managers. FE devs are telling each other this all the time (mentioned in every single FE conference), but most of the time

- they don't get to make this decision - they fail when pushing back - Hacker News eventually blames the FE dev

hexasquid··on Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)
In 20 years of front-end web development I've never encountered a designer willing to use standard form controls. I assume they exist.
hexasquid··on App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off
"I'm going to put this fire over with the rest of the fire" but in app form
hexasquid··on Claude Glass (Or Black Mirror)
Not what I expected
hexasquid··on Apple at 50
Not exactly "heres to the crazy ones" anymore eh
hexasquid··on Copilot edited an ad into my PR
I'm so tired of what initially looks like a perfect normal communication between two people, only to find that some third party has inserted itself like a parasite to exploit and extract human attention. That's why I use our sponsor, nord vpn ...
hexasquid··on CSS is DOOMed
I'm asking the same question!

No doubt the very loudly opinionated not-web-dev community, who have So Much To Say about web devs and web tech, have produced an uncontroversial, perfect layout system, styling system, and language to produce the replacement for this awful web tech. Where is it? What is it? Please provide (the better version of) a hyperlink to the docs.

hexasquid··on Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website
Last year they couldn't draw fingers on hands properly, this year they can't convert at checkouts, I wonder what they'll be failing to do a year from now.
hexasquid··on Show HN: Axe – A 12MB binary that replaces your AI framework
"Clanker" is a sign that we're dealing with a Blade Runner, and better be careful
hexasquid··on Claude helped select targets for Iran strikes, possibly including school
Two-faces' coin is responsible for his actions
hexasquid··on LLM Writing Tropes.md
Can we do this for everyone?

It's a bold strategy cotton. Bold of you to say that. Wild how mundane things get call wild. Thay're making calling things wild their entire personality. In that case, by your logic, (least generous misrepresentation of your logic).

hexasquid··on A standard protocol to handle and discard low-effort, AI-Generated pull requests
How do you know if someone doesn't like AI? Don't worry, they'll tell you
hexasquid··on You don't have to
"If I cared as much as I want you to, I'd have written a shorter article"
hexasquid··on This time is different
Electricity bros want to put a socket on every wall. That is such a non-starter from a safety POV. It's a fundamentally unsafe technology and it can never be made safe.
hexasquid··on General Graboids: Worms and Remote Code Execution in Command and Conquer
Atredis has detected wormsign
hexasquid··on Apple Creator Studio
They're running a conspiracy to trick people into not shutting them down by offering two ways to pay, the devious foxes.
hexasquid··on Desperately Seeking Squircles (2018)
Intake of breath from the zune owners
hexasquid··on Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed
Make me think of how every iPhone is the best iPhone yet.

Waiting for Apple to say "sorry folks, bad year for iPhone"

hexasquid··on No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter
...and keep your hand up if you've ever donated to Firefox
hexasquid··on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?
When I was young I imagined a future where nobody had to work because computers and robots could do it all.
hexasquid··on My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)
https://gitjournal.io/ is something I've started using recently. I edit Markdown notes on my mobile device, and they are then automatically synced to a Git repository.
hexasquid··on UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16
(sigh) waggles hands
hexasquid··on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban
First they came for the people who worry about slippery slopes. I didn't speak out because I don't worry about slippery slopes. And that's that.
hexasquid··on Anthropic acquires Bun
If I was to pick a language, I'd pick the one all developers agree is the best.
hexasquid··on Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibility
Not sure I understand :) it's certainly available in nixos https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-25.11/pkgs/by-na...
hexasquid··on New layouts with CSS Subgrid
It's quite straightforward to find the discussions that lead to the specs, if you're interested in participating.
hexasquid··on It is ok to say "CSS variables" instead of "custom properties"
I've seen HTML and CSS being denied status as a programming language many, many times. It is a signal that the person making the claim hasn't encountered one of these debates before.
hexasquid··on Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected
"Rewrite it in rust"
hexasquid··on My favorite cult sci-fi and fantasy books you may not have heard of before
Nearly. People born in the 20th century can do it, everyone born post-millenium cannot.
hexasquid··on Element: setHTML() method
It looks like this isn't a standard yet.
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