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My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces): I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept): Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow


"I was an ML engineer. And ML engineers think a certain way. They may not have been exposed to the things that matter in design. And that exposure really matters." - @variantui cofounder & CTO @bulhosa on the latest High Bit podcast. Variant generates beautiful UI and shows you multiple versions of your product at once, so you can explore instead of describe. Full episode ⬇️

My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces): I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept): Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow





















