Rob Middleton

@fixieai Nice! I'm considering flying up from San Francisco. Will you be coming here next? Or would it be possible to join remotely?

Join us in Seattle on March 11th for the Fixie.ai Hackathon! Build cool apps on Large Language Models, get early access to our platform, and win fabulous prizes! Registration: lu.ma/fixie

@jamison_dance I only implicitly use it via redux. Otherwise I think it's better to pass props down in most cases. The docs have a good section about using it sparingly: #before-you-use-context" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">beta.reactjs.org/learn/passing-…

If you use context to manage state in React, how do you avoid it becoming a mess? Easily broken by moving components around the tree, spooky action at a distance, etc. Am I missing something?

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@CHPAlerts @DalyCityPD Please use the appropriate severity of the alerts. This was marked as "extreme" severity

@AspyrMedia Was this ever released for Linux? I've been struggling trying to get the HD texture pack to install.

The Borderlands HD update is coming for Mac and Linux to Borderlands 2 and The Pre-Sequel. Stay tuned to this article for the latest updates: support.aspyr.com/hc/en-us/artic…

@sawyerh You should check out The Witness

r/place sets a new precedent for online events. This was something special and it's success will inspire more events that bring the internet together.

@burningman Dang, was here right at noon and never even got through the queue 😔

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There’s no real way to describe a Jerma stream, in the sense that you never know what's in store when he goes live. From games, science experiments, dollhouse simulations and even finding his replacement, @jerma985 rightfully deserves #TheStreamerAwards League of their Own Award!

@reactjs Good stuff but according to caniuse, only 92% of browser usage has queueMicrotask, which isn't enough for us. Will there be a fallback/polyfill? caniuse.com/?search=queueM…

Our next major version, React 18, is available as a Release Candidate. If you’d like to help us prepare for the stable release, follow this upgrade guide and let us know if you find any issues! reactjs.org/blog/2022/03/0…

@droneblog Correction on this article - droneblog.com/san-francisco/ "Golden Gate Park, the National Park land surrounding the base of the Golden Gate Bridge" GGP is actually not the park touching GG Bridge, it's a separate stretch inland (I made the same mistake before moving here)

at some point did someone just remove a persons liver, killing them, and they were like "without it you die so that's the liver"?

No-code has been a big trend, and it might seem like it's a maturing market/landscape, but that couldn't be further from the truth. We're maybe at ~5% of the innovation we'll see in this space over the next few decades. It's where the internet was in ~1999. Just getting started!

Infographic: The Evolution of Rummy and Variants playingcards.io/evolution-of-r… Isn't it interesting how different variations of card games have similar game mechanics? This infographic explores different variants of Rummy and how they came to be. Feel free to repost and share.

Dead zones are essential, I use 3px for mouse and 10px for touch.

@_chenglou @steveruizok Better yet, just start the dragging at the point it passes the dead zone, instead of using the mouse-down point

@steveruizok A typical problem with these is that now dragging seems to jank at the beginning due to the sudden catch up. I’d suggest adding a transition to it; ideally one that’s guaranteed to catch up gradually and not lag behind the cursor forever. E.g. an exponential curve

I wrote a blog post about how "dead zones" can improve dragging UX.💀 steveruiz.me/posts/dead-zone

@Hicksyfern @steveruizok My old laptop touchpad did this and it was the most annoying thing ever, so it can definitely go wrong. Might still be a good idea though.

@steveruizok I guess ultimately the idea is that you separate the actual position from the eventual position. In fact, this might lead to a solution to the janky dead zone-escaping someone mentioned above: Always drag the thing, but put it back if you think it wasn’t intentional.

@CodingCatDev Thanks for chatting, please let me know if a recording of this is available!

@CodingCatDev When designing user-facing no-code systems, how do you decide between low-level tools that are are very flexible and high-level that are solve specific problems?