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Invizon Hardest problem in computer science: centering things

margin: 0 auto; (or simply auto for two-axis centering) will not have that issue. For multiple things in line, gotta use :nth-child to apply margin-left: auto on first item in row, and margin-right: auto for last item.

Finally you can allow container to grow with the contents.

Invizon Old CSS, new CSS (2020)

there was a way to use package image in a non-standard way (iirc using Offsets in Photoshop) and use negative background position to emulate 3x3 grid image with less elements. Was an advanced technique.

Invizon High Definition CSS Color Guide

And flexbox? Was floats with all those clearings easier? or inline blocks that made us reset whitespace between elements? Or akhem... tables?

Definitely hyperbole. Syntax is not nearly _the_ problem of CSS

Invizon The air fryer is a hoax

Air fryer really works. Gets your food crispy with very little oil. Great for heating up stuff that needs to be crispy too.

Invizon Under the Microscope: Three Dirty Dwarves

One time i was making an interactive video website, where user could jump between sections of the video. I added an easter egg, where the video would have an extra section, to which you could jump by clicking "next" button twice if well timed. It was done via underhanded JS: Number of sections was computed based on video duration, so uploading a video with more than expected number of sections, could cause out of bounds jump

Invizon Apple is turning William Gibson's Neuromancer into a TV series

Recent blade runner though did 80s well, so it's not unseen anymore

Invizon David Hahn, the 'radioactive boy scout' who tried to build a nuclear reactor (2022)

I have a friend who claimed to have done the similar thing. He also got cancer. But he might not have advanced too far besides that. Do you think it's plausible? I only hear about David Hahn, but there ought to be more? Or not?

Invizon Coding in Vision Pro

Agree, i think 32 inch is perfect size. However what bugs me is that waking up from sleep it often only wakes up left side, and the right is all green. i have to restart the monitor. I wish it was glossy too, but i can live with the matte.

Invizon Coding in Vision Pro

2400 in some places, and i bought it in thailand closer to 2000. It's comparable to ASD27 either way. Thus it's still much cheaper than Pro Display.

Invizon Coding in Vision Pro

Dells 6k is quite alright at reasonable price. Has some quirks though

Invizon React has grown beyond its original promise and it's causing more harm than good

What are frameworks that support async components on clientside?

Invizon Htmx and Web Components: A Perfect Match

I think this is decent approach, although setInterval may be unnecessary. I do this similarily as a base Class, and i made a generic solution that would not allow for A's to be initialized until all of its children registered thsemselves.

Invizon HTML Spirograph (2021)

A designer I worked with had this personal website https://www.narrowdesign.com which incorporated scrolling into the golden spiral with spirograph

Invizon Shoelace: A library of web components

Yeah like no slots.

Invizon Shoelace: A library of web components

Yeah but flash of unstyled content? Plus you need to somehow adopt only related parts? Selectors wouldnt match easily necessarily, e.g. decision to adopt :hover selector must be made somehow

Invizon Shoelace: A library of web components

I guess it’s most-but-not-all part that got me confused. The are parts re-exported Manually? I guess that works

Invizon Shoelace: A library of web components

I don't see that these components use part/exportparts feature to do that. Am I looking at it the wrong way? Or do you mean that customization happens via CSS?

Invizon Shoelace: A library of web components

I'm looking for a library of web components that:

1) Uses slots for composition

2) Does not use CSS-in-JS

3) Lightweight

I understand that slots imply shadow Dom, and then shadow Dom usually means adding/adopting stylesheets into components, and that means css in js.

But there's also ::part that allows piercing the shadow dom. Is there any library that uses it?

Invizon Smart drugs reduce quality of effort, and slow decision-making

I use about 100mg (average amount) 2-4 days a week for the last 1.5 years, going through a very challenging project. I had a small stretch of time when my skin started drying up on the forehead and was peeling off in minor quantities, so i took a break for a month and it fixed it.

Some of the days I may not take it and not notice it, there's definitely no cravings. But during a break I felt slightly hazy when getting off it. I do notice an increase in typical stimulator tell-tale symptoms (like some jaw clenching), but i do have that from coffee as well (which i drink too). There can be days when i'm too wired up to fall asleep fast, so i may drop a 5-htp pill.

The upside is that there's a lot of times when I manage to really concentrate on some activities. Doing 8 hours shifts is trivial. People note that I am pretty responsive at the end of the working days. Quite often I manage to do some personal hobby work after a full working day too.

Modafinil doesn't have the ecstatic effects of Adderall and its friends, so working a lot can make me feel overly emotionally invested into some things that are not important in a grand picture. The stress can add up if not managed well. So I do not recommend working a lot for working's sake, there has to be a cause to pull heroic stunts like this. My excuse is to save up the money to enable myself to do other activites not related to programming later.

Invizon Smart drugs reduce quality of effort, and slow decision-making

Modafinil is a great tool to have in one's toolbelt.

There're days and situations when having uninterrupted focus for 10-14 hours does make a big impact. Condensing certain workloads into one day can save a lot of time in a longer run. For example going through huge refactoring with a lot of moving parts can be very draining to work through if you need to load in the context every day. Striking the iron while it's hot can help a great deal.

Invizon Smart drugs reduce quality of effort, and slow decision-making

Would you mind sharing where's your antagonism towards modafinil coming from? Is it your personal experience or is it everybody's enthusiasm rubs you the wrong way?

Invizon Loro: Reimagine state management with CRDTs

Well it's honestly about time. I've tried to build something like this personally with OTs, but it can be pretty brutal with all the fuzzying and N-way merges. I even chose one of rich editors just because it supports OT (then i learned it's only in commercial version not even available for small-timers).

I like the completeness of the Loro solution: the state, the rich text, the tree. Local-first database approach sounds like a great idea. Wondering how large is the code size overhead for using this though.

Invizon Debugging tricks in the browser

One trick i use all the time is debugging by searching through loaded scripts by UI string:

1) Go to Network panel, start recording network requests

2) Open left sidebar and invoke search to type in the code/ui string you want to find

3) It'll usually find it in some weird bundled js chunk file, click on the result

4) It opens the network request for that file, now right click anywhere in file and pick "Open in Sources" or something along that line, that jumps to debugger

5) Now place your debugger statement, this will probably load sourcemaps too

Invizon A Grand Theft Auto III Re-Implementation

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N3KhMOk_6HE&t=538s&pp=ygUMR3Rh...

There is a video of a guy reviewing some of the code. It’s quite readable. The game was much simpler back then, some special casing was made (eg Catalina copter). But it’s a cool look behind the scenes

Invizon Next.js 14

I agree. RSC is extremely powerful and impactful, compared to everything that has been going on for React since hooks. It is easy to understand as a concept, and it allows for proper composition of features on the server side. In fact it's remedying a lot of unnecessary complexity that React brought originally. RSC is what allowed me to accept doing SSG at all.

Server actions seems like a neat idea. Probably does nothing for large projects, but at least IMO it can be very useful for the smaller use cases.

Invizon Yarn 4.0

What are your problems with workspaces? For my use it works pretty well:

* Deduplicates versions of packages across workspaces (desirable for some projects)

* No-configuration linking between workspace modules

* Doesnt force using a specific structure

* Top level module can be used to specify shared versions

Invizon Matter 1.2 – New device types and improvements

I wish CANOpen took off, what a world it would be.

Invizon Why decline in generalists leads to disjointed games and harms tool quality

At the time you posted this, the article didnt have the huge screencap of him from that video?

Invizon Omnigres: Postgres as a Platform

Oh it's Yuri Rashkovskii, one name I actually remember from the olden times.

I think you have a good project on hands, happy to see you could establish it as a tech startup. Over the years my mind keeps wandering into this place where an apps are much tigther integrated with the database. Where a full class of engineering tasks (and bugs caused by them) is eliminated completely. I'll be checking your progress.

Invizon Omnigres: Postgres as a Platform

I did something similar once, but integrated everything RESTful into nginx which connected to postgres directly, which ran triggers with JS. What I didnt like about it is being bound by max connections to postgres, and then blocking postgres thread when running javascript in it. The parallelization story just wasnt competitive enough.

Is this something that omnigres addresses?