The targeting of Divine Playhouse is a frustrating reminder of why I left the Church
With so many stones cast, we must be living in a sea of saints
Sidney Alcantara’s Writing
Hi, I’m Sidney. Living in Sydney, I work as a design engineer by day. Otherwise, I’m just a human in search of the profound.
Latest posts
The Wasian discourse is weird (as an Asian Australian)
Asian Americans can find shared identity in more than just infighting and their inherent privilege
Design notes, 2026
Intentionality at heart
Arc, the first browser by The Browser Company of New York, dies at three
An obituary for the Arc browser from a current user
Does AI herald an industrial revolution for art?
Reflecting on the status of art amid the rise of AI-generated content
Samsung’s ViewFinity S9 27″ 5K could be a great monitor—if it had reliable software
2,500 words for those as pedantic about high-density displays as I am
How to add hotlink protection to your web fonts with Netlify Edge Functions and Deno
Because the people crafting quality typefaces deserve to be paid
How and why you should store React UI state in the URL
Deep linking in React, as simple as useState
UI design trends of today and how to apply them in your apps
From outline icons to switch designs, the UIs of major OSes are all starting to look similar.
We refactored 10K lines of code in our open-source React project
Know the how, the when, and the why behind our refactoring
How to useRef to fix React performance issues
And how we stopped our React context from re-rendering everything
How we built our virtual live event platform with Firestore and Firetable
Behind the scenes from Antler’s virtual Demo Day
Gatsby won against Next.js in this head-to-head
I made the same web app in Gatsby and Next.js and found Gatsby performed better
Lessons from becoming a web developer at 18
Almost a year ago, I started my first proper job as a web developer at 2hats…
How I (accidentally) started my web developer career at 18
Developing a passion, enduring an interview from hell, and finding an opportunity by luck