Learned about freaking decovar in this talk. @Mandy_Kerr is a really inspiring speaker! Now I’m all excited to read variablefonts.dev
@cathyblabla is a unicorn. I have not actually met a woman and frontender who is a principal developer. A lot to unpack in this slide alone about how to develop your career
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Tech twitter especially frontend discourse is dead or at the very least dying and becoming increasingly disconnected. 👇
Open source burnout - Apathy and general lack of compassion towards open source work has made it unviable for talented devs. Many popular names I followed for tech content have stopped working in the open, closed projects for funded patrons only etc.
My favorite tech streamer felt unappreciated by the platform and quit streaming. Prolific open source authors were 💩 on by the community and went dark. Even the famous ones were 💩 on for not being activists and reduced their commitment to community.
Okay so here’s what I’ve gathered about defi/web3/blockchain ecosystems.
Not sure how long this thread will be.
Ethereum is a runaway success but it has a few flaws atm. It’s not scalable, not secure enough, uses too much energy and fees to make a block are too high. The foundation is fixing these. Will take a few years.
Meanwhile there are other block chains with these improvements already in them. They are continuously testing scaling, security, staking and low fees + ethereum’ as functionality.
Backing up my PC and finding code snippet projects and putting them up on github :)
Here's one super basic trial of puppeteer taking browser screenshots. github.com/pksjce/puppete…
I once spent 2 whole weeks trying to create a vite storybook builder plugin and failed miserably. And then I saw someone on the storybook discord crack the same problem and get it working. I abandoned my project and now I'm thinking I'll delete it.
I'll atleast have this screenshot of those days I struggled with a problem way above my capacity! Did learn a lot about storybook and vite internals though. Maybe will visit those topics again sometime.
Since my last meltdown over how my twitter feed had gone completely out of my control, I've managed to really get a grip on it.
Unfollowed a total of 63 people esp people who shared hot-takes, polarising and spread negativity. I could feel my feed relaxing with every unfollow
So who are the people I actually follow?
- People who don't tweet a lot but when they do it's worth bookmarking.
- People who create blogs, videos, code, live streams.
- People who educate across my interests - Tech, politics, philosophy.
As part of ongoing maintenance, I now mute liberally. Be it convos or high engagement posts I'm tagged in, terms that I've heard enough of.
I also have a few people blocked. People I'm no longer interested in hearing from. She-who-must-not-be-named is on that list.
Still in my cart. Read some raving reviews on Amazon. I have been trying to come up with a brand color for myself and nothings resonating. This book might help.