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had a daughter the other day, we’re big fans ❤️

submitted 51 days ago • 9 comments

we (@discord.com) rewrote our color token system to support these new themes, and its exciting 👀 in short: color tokens are defined using a constraint-based system where colors are defined with contrast ratios. change a base color and all affected tokens update in all themes, preserving contrast ✨

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

Whoever did the lighting in Kingdom Come II deserves whatever the award for really good lighting is

submitted 112 days ago • 2 comments

angry guy with amnesia:

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

$500 pack of cards casually sitting on the shelf 🫣

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

Not the Canada commercial lmaoooooo

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

my wife said “I think they can make a comeback” two seconds before that last interception. Sorry about that (or you’re welcome)

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

long overdue, but I did it 🫡

submitted 115 days ago • 2 comments

Somehow "Elon Musk Is a Genius" and "Elon Musk Doesn't Know How Hands Work" are being said by a lot of the same people

submitted 134 days ago • 96 comments

hearing a lot of good things about TikTok recently, downloading it to see what all the fuss is about 🙏

submitted 137 days ago • 0 comments

[as the Xenomorph extends its inner jaw to kill me]: oooooo big stretch!

submitted 139 days ago • 0 comments

What does it mean for something to be Turing complete? I answer this question, and more, through a series of fully interactive Turing machine simulations! Play, pause, step forwards and backwards, and even write your own Turing machine programs in my latest blog post. samwho.dev/turing-machi...

submitted 166 days ago • 23 comments

the worst part about being a parent is that even the most cookie-cutter, clichéd story can make you cry if it happens to be about kids or parenting it’s like a cheat code the world uses on you that you can’t disable

submitted 166 days ago • 3 comments

is there any existing research on what the best contrast ratio for readability is? WCAG gives a lower bound but there’s also such a thing as too much contrast so I’m curious if there’s been any formal studies on where the sweet spot is

submitted 167 days ago • 2 comments

I try to be as honest as I can with my kids, and sometimes that’s hard to reconcile with the fact that we as a society have decided to collectively lie about a magical, immortal old man who sees you when you’re sleeping and knows when you’re awake

submitted 177 days ago • 3 comments

opening our monorepo's VSCode workspace was totally killing my CPU with rg processes. It brought my M3 Max to a halt for like five minutes. Turns out it was the Tailwind extension I had installed for another project trying to find a tailwind.config.* file in our monorepo 🫠

submitted 181 days ago • 2 comments

can you guess what my favorite album was this year

submitted 182 days ago • 2 comments

One tension here is that current gen LLMs can have a ~high success rate for accurately predicting what a real answer would be (depending on your topic), so there’s undeniably some utility there but knowing when it’s NOT accurate is increasingly difficult which means you always need to be skeptical

submitted 182 days ago • 3 comments

Bluesky connections on Discord are live! 🦋

submitted 189 days ago • 4 comments

Working on our color system and a novel approach we've started exploring for colors is to define them in terms of constraints: instead of picking colors for every token/theme, you specify a reference color and contrast ratio. The system does the rest. this has a few cool advantages 👀

had a daughter the other day, we’re big fans ❤️

Whoever did the lighting in Kingdom Come II deserves whatever the award for really good lighting is

angry guy with amnesia:

$500 pack of cards casually sitting on the shelf 🫣

Not the Canada commercial lmaoooooo

my wife said “I think they can make a comeback” two seconds before that last interception. Sorry about that (or you’re welcome)

long overdue, but I did it 🫡

Somehow "Elon Musk Is a Genius" and "Elon Musk Doesn't Know How Hands Work" are being said by a lot of the same people

hearing a lot of good things about TikTok recently, downloading it to see what all the fuss is about 🙏

[as the Xenomorph extends its inner jaw to kill me]: oooooo big stretch!

What does it mean for something to be Turing complete? I answer this question, and more, through a series of fully interactive Turing machine simulations! Play, pause, step forwards and backwards, and even write your own Turing machine programs in my latest blog post. samwho.dev/turing-machi...

the worst part about being a parent is that even the most cookie-cutter, clichéd story can make you cry if it happens to be about kids or parenting it’s like a cheat code the world uses on you that you can’t disable

is there any existing research on what the best contrast ratio for readability is? WCAG gives a lower bound but there’s also such a thing as too much contrast so I’m curious if there’s been any formal studies on where the sweet spot is

I try to be as honest as I can with my kids, and sometimes that’s hard to reconcile with the fact that we as a society have decided to collectively lie about a magical, immortal old man who sees you when you’re sleeping and knows when you’re awake

opening our monorepo's VSCode workspace was totally killing my CPU with rg processes. It brought my M3 Max to a halt for like five minutes. Turns out it was the Tailwind extension I had installed for another project trying to find a tailwind.config.* file in our monorepo 🫠

can you guess what my favorite album was this year

Bluesky connections on Discord are live! 🦋

Working on our color system and a novel approach we've started exploring for colors is to define them in terms of constraints: instead of picking colors for every token/theme, you specify a reference color and contrast ratio. The system does the rest. this has a few cool advantages 👀

one day at Disney World 😪

see what happens when you use React Native guys