Ever thought about using Elixir + Nerves to control your car? Neither did we, but follow along with Konstantin Zolotarev as he explores the CAN interface, and IBus messaging on his 2003 BMW.
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CSS in JS is a popular pattern, especially in the React and React Native communities. In CSS in JS in real-life, Artur Siery explores pros and cons of CSS Modules, SASS/LESS, Style Components, Glamorous, Styletron, Styled JSX, and JSS. If you want to deep-dive into how styled-components works, Eugene Gluhotorenko goes into great detail on that as well. This is a bad pattern and a return to inline styles. Mixing presentation and logic never works out well, and generating a bunch of unique utility classes doesn't make for sustainable design implementation, and leads developers to violate all kinds of DRY principals.
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Some Clojure projects are giving out “liveness advisories”. Jeremy Pinnix pointed out one instance where no changes have been made in over 3 years. The project’s author assures that there just happen to be no changes needed, and the project is indeed alive and well. Some software projects don’t want to go on the cart.
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Electron Fiddle brings Electron a playground experience like JSFiddle for desktop apps. The article by Felix Rieseberg goes into details on its features, including a fantastic IDE-like experience powered by Monaco and the ability to easily build, export, and share your projects. The orange site discussion of accessibility patterns around the release of Electron Fiddle is just as interesting as the project itself.
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Patrik Krupar talked through how he built up his design chops. Patrik advises, “Design is a skill, and like any other skill, it can be learned.” Checkout the guide, where he covers software, tools inside of that software, mentality differences, and some basic design tenets. Also on the design front, Jason Rodriguez preaches that the easiest way to keep your web apps accessible is to just use text. He’s right, and that post is a great read.
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