James Basoo

@Jbasoo
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Front-end dev. Enjoys nerdy stuff, cars, cooking, tinkering etc. UK based.
Mehttps://jamesbasoo.com

You know, I could write a whole blog post about this—and I might—but I think we need to start addressing the very likely possibility that the *entire thesis* that “UI should get out of the way” and “apps should focus on content” is wrong.

Apps aren’t just for looking at photos or videos. They’re for navigating through these things, organizing them, editing them. The tools to do those things should not get out of the way. They should be clearly defined and separate from the content.

In the last five years, we've gone from "employees will never have to go into an office" to "employees need to be in the office because creative and innovative work can only be done face-to-face between humans" to "lol we don't need humans"

I'm currently working on a React+Typescript app and I feel like I have one hand tied behind my back. There's so much that I would normally do with web primitives but that's not always an option. 😢

Copilot is being helpful for the first time though!

Do any orgs like the W3C or OWD maintain a list of #CSS named colors in a data format like JSON/XML?

I was laid-off and am looking for a new role.

Working where design meets code is my jam. I am skilled at building accessible design system components, working with Web Components APIs, and creating scalable CSS architecture.

I work remotely from my home in Manitoba, Canada. 🇨🇦

Shares appreciated! #GetFediHired

Okay, #CSS corner-shape is pretty super. No SVG, no shape() clip paths, or gradients, just some basic border-radius and you can make Superman's logo.

https://codepen.io/jbasoo/pen/raVoGxQ

(Inspired by Amit Sheen's Frontend Masters article)

The Grenfell documentary is just so tragic and harrowing.

Terminal people: this is the 1 (one) thing I have found about Warp that I struggle to live without. But I just don't want to use Warp anymore.

See how the output of every command is clearly delineated by a horizontal line and proper spacing? And the prompt is on its own line?

These together help my brain enormously.

Is this doable in stuff like iTerm or Alacritty or some other "good" emulator that isn't Warp and isn't Terminus?

My first paid software development job was on accessibility software. I remember visiting a user to help set up our code, and the sheer joy he had at being able to communicate more quickly than he had been able to for years.

Seeing the effort put into improving modern Linux accessibility is heartwarming. There's been almost 20 years of almost nobody caring. It's important. It's worthwhile.

Say thank you to the people doing that work. Stop amplifying the people saying that work isn't happening.

I hate not having a job. I just want to make cool apps. If you need an #iOS or #macOS developer, I've been doing this since 2008. I worked at Apple on the Reminders app, and I've got lots of #SwiftUI and #Swift experience. I'm really quite the catch.