Jonathan Dallas

@doctype_jon
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UI/UX #CSS Engineer
websitehttps://jwdallas.com/
@latte I wonder if anchor positioning would be a good fit for this
@cabel This also confused the heck out of me. I kept tapping the top thing
@heydon They legally can’t without the rights going back to Marvel. For Sony to maintain their ownership of the Spider-Man franchise they are required to produce a movie every few years

The notion that rapidly building high fidelity design work is more valuable is fundamentally untrue.

Your prototypes need to communicate the concept of the prototype.

I might argue that in depth prototyping is actually be counter to the point of developing many prototypes.

It can be distracting

«The 49MB Web Page» is a great summary of all that's wrong with much of the web along explanations of how we ended up there due to commercial ad incentives.

https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit

The 49MB Web Page

A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

👀 Submissions are open for the Internet Phone Book ❋ Issue 2

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Internet Phone Book ❋ Issue 2

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RE: https://front-end.social/@stefan/116204639613049731

This is nuts. Truly amazing stuff

@latte I put some thoughts down on variable naming in CSS a little while back: https://jwdallas.com/posts/namingcssvariables

And, separately, some other thoughts on how large CSS libraries, like for a design system, might think about their HTML interface (e.g. classnames): https://jwdallas.com/posts/htmlinterfacesforcsslibraries

Naming Variables In CSS

Some collected thoughts around how to name variables in CSS. Ideas, conventions, and some do's and don't for consideration.

Extremely interactive, extremely creative and extremely informative. Great stuff.

https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/shades-of-halftone/

Shades of Halftone - The Blog of Maxime Heckel

An interactive deep dive into building halftone shaders in GLSL, covering everything from classic dot patterns and CMYK color separation to Moiré interference, gooey effects, and animated displacement.

The Blog of Maxime Heckel

✅ Live long enough to see the Web win the Web vs Native debate

(also the custom cursors on @nikitonsky's site are adorable)

https://tonsky.me/blog/fall-of-native/

Claude is an Electron App because we’ve lost native

Article argues that Claude is not an Electron app not because LLMs can’t do it, but because there are no advantages left for native

tonsky.me