State machines in React
You’re already using state machines in your code: Your application is always in just one distinct state. And that state reacts to a set of…
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The personal blog of Dane Burkland.
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Only noticed when you make a mistake
Overheard in the surf lineup this morning: “It seems like the type of job where you’re only noticed when you make a mistake” This phrase hit…
Experiments in note taking
Knowledge workers are living in an era of tooling overchoice. I’ve changed the way I take notes upwards of ten times over the past few years…
Models before tools
I often encounter questions like “how do I build thing in popular UI library?“. Questions like these usually betray an overestimation of…
How designers think about layout
A designer looking at the white space below this paragraph just sees space as a first class entity. But a web developer is likely trying to…
Make it Invisible
CSS held my interest for a time, but now I’m much more interested in making it invisible. I’m focused on finding the right abstractions that…