Jacob Lichner

Stephen Hawking speaking without the use of his voice synthesizer, 1970's.

@ZubyMusic Easy. I would buy all the classics and take a couple years off to read them.

If you were given $100,000 to invest in YOURSELF (no stocks, real estate, gold, crypto) - how would you invest it?

@ShopifyEng "How hard can it be?"

Scare an engineer in just one tweet. 👻

@Kc111499 @HaveAHeartoX @DARIAKRUGER @lasanhist I'd recommend the 6-volume book series called the Symposium on Creation. Can be hard to find all 6 but worth it. From there you'll have a wealth of names and further sources to look into. Awesome topic!

@tomblanchardCSS Hmm I need this. Can you point PurgeCSS at liquid for the content files? Any issues with liquid logic within class attributes?

Yet another awesome benefit of utility-first/functional CSS; combine with a tool like PurgeCSS and styles easily fit within the AMP 75kb CSS limit, even on massive sites 🔥

@PhillyD Back to the Future The Sandlot Stand by Me

Quick. What are the 3 best movies of all time? No order necessary. Not for everyone, but for you.

@tobi The Rules of Double-Entry Bookkeeping by Luca Pacioli. Published in 1494, baby. The original accounting manual. Only 108 pages.

@tomblanchardCSS Sweet who new thanks bro

🔥 Shopify theme dev hot-tip: The `include` tag is officially deprecated, use `render` instead: {% render 'snippet-name' %} It works just like `include`, except with proper variable scope encapsulation. #render" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">help.shopify.com/en/themes/liqu…

@jeffbcross @Brocco @JeffCrossBeard Bro I'm seeing you for the first time lol

@Brocco why should I even have a beard if you don’t think it’s the best? ⚰️ RIP @JeffCrossBeard

@jhanstra But divide is such a negative word when really all that's happening is the web is growing. The problem comes when it's misunderstood what someone does. The term "front-end developer" is too ambigious now in the larger context of the web. 2/2

@jhanstra I see more of what you're talking about. Seems like just a petty debate on how to use and not use JavaScript. Meanwhile, the disciplines of UX, design, accessibility and so on are becoming more and more specialized as distinct full-time positions. That's the divide. 1/2

JS-JS-JS actually allows a lone developer to do much more than they otherwise could. it's possible to be both focused on UX, design, accessibility, semantics - and do it thoughtfully and programmatically with the JS ecosystem.

@jhanstra UX involves much, much more than CSS. It involves solving problems mostly outside of the codebase but while encompassing it. I see it as an architect role on the frontend that should consider the experience of everyone that interacts with any part of the site.

@jhanstra I'm seeing a much bigger divide between a growing number of distinct disciplines involved in the web today as a whole, not just a single project. With so many people doing so many different things it's hard to know what "frontend developer" means, exactly.

This is important for people to understand: css-tricks.com/the-great-divi… I've been doing the splits trying to keep a foot on both sides for a long time and it's starting to hurt. I love programming but I'm on the UX side at the end of the day.

@jhanstra Indeed, JavaScript can be used to compensate for the lack of abstraction tools and DOM context that CSS suffers from, but that creates a distinct world with specialized knowledge. Not a bad thing. The web is just growing. There's a lot going on now and much more coming.

@jdlich i've found css in js (specifically styled-components) to be a complete gamechanger for me. using javascript not only as interaction on the page, but also to compute styles and markup on the page (CSS and HTML) is super powerful

@jhanstra Check out Nujabes luv sic part 5 (there's 6 parts, but 5 is my favorite): youtube.com/watch?v=OZvlor…

I've pretty much spent the last month and a half listening to lofi hip hop beats while working lol. need suggestions for related but new music youtu.be/hHW1oY26kxQ

Group chat is like being in an all-day meeting with random participants and no agenda. m.signalvnoise.com/is-group-chat-…

@Carson @Shopify @chris_pointer @chris_pointer Great project man! 👌 (Note that Ritual Hockey commercecream.com/site/ritual-ho… was designed by @EmrichOffice)

“Running in Circles” by @rjs m.signalvnoise.com/running-in-cir…

Brilliant library for cleaning up dirty Shopify product descriptions: github.com/rgrove/sanitize