Lydia is very good at presenting complex ideas simply and well. I've read and watched most of her work or videos. She really goes to great lengths in her work to make it come to life. Highly recommend her articles and YouTube videos.
Though she's been writing less I think due to her current job
I agree that Laravel models rub the wrong way, but that shouldn't instantly remove Laravel from the equation when thinking about what tools to use for building a website.
Laravel is great for shipping things fast. Sometimes, that's what you want, even if that means a less maintainable app in the long run. Because sometimes there is no long run; you know it will just be an app made by you only as a rather one shot thing.
Same goes for wordpress. Lots of devs like to shit on it by default. But its like people shitting on PHP because of the PHP 5 days. You'd be surprised how quickly you can build really complex content websites with Wordpress. Way quicker than with barebones laravel or symfony. And with not that ugly code ;)
vscode is noticeably slow compared to sublime text or zed, even without any extension. You instantly notice it when switching files or typing things that trigger auto-completions.
In the end the feeling is drastically different. It weirdly makes for a more peaceful experience to have such a snappy editor.
vscode wins thanks to all its extensions, where basically every language is supported and most features you can think of are there. But it's kinda like modern react. You know better alternatives exist, like solid or svelte, but the community is so big, it stays the easier choice in the end.
Yeah, nowadays the trackpoint is just a bad pointing device. As laptops get slimmer, trackpoints get less precise and less usable. And they hurt our wrists.
We just have to let go. A haptic trackpad is miles better now.
The kik user page almost says it all.
https://www.npmjs.com/~kikinteractive
One person in the company thought this would be cool to be on NPM, then ... the lpad story.
Used this in the past and it's my favorite tool to make presentations now. It's really the most dev friendly tool I managed to try, and I guess I tried a few.
The most interesting thing for me is that you can write your own Vue components for your most specific use cases. Makes it easy to write some rather interactive slides. And it saves you from having to learn some presentation-specific software, some motion design or video making tool. Just quickly code your way through everything.
> There is no secret incentive to make Sentry hard to operate
It's frustrating when half the comments on a company that dares to open their product is always about how they are obviously intentionally very evil to not do it perfectly/for totally free/with 0 friction/etc.
but in this case the order of events was not "awesome product that was open-sourced as-is later" but "OS product that became harder and harder to install over time"
Products get bigger and more complex over time, so "harder and harder to install, configure and manage" is somewhat normal. The money spent on free or "community" edition is very difficult to justify, so it slowly degrades with time until it becomes unusable and people move on to something else. It is part of the normal lifecycle of software.
It's not only considered, it's a an actual goal to be 100% usable by everyone. It's already the case for some of La Suite projects. Not quite there yet right now for some others, but it will be.
And I agree, lots of popular, proprietary solutions should do better in terms of accessibility. I believe open-source helps in that regard, as in many others.
Here in La Suite we have some wcag-geeks in the team and regularly include some of our users with disabilities for feedback.
