I craft digital experiences

What is good web design, and bad web design?

Sun, 26 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In this insightful article by Remy Sharp, a web professional since 1999, he explores the various factors that contribute to good and bad web design, drawing from his extensive experience attending design, user experience, and developer conferences for over 15 years.

AI isn’t going to replace you (if you’re good)

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This article discusses how AI, while capable of handling basic tasks, cannot replace skilled professionals who focus on quality, craftsmanship, and meaningful experiences. It emphasizes that AI is better suited as a tool to augment skilled workers rather than replace them, particularly in areas requiring expertise, creativity, and human understanding.

Steve Jobs’ vision about the future

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In his 1983 talk at the International Design Conference in Aspen, Steve Jobs articulated a powerful vision for the future of personal computing. He saw the computer not just as a tool, but as a new medium of communication, on par with the book, the telephone, and the television. Just as each of these mediums had shaped the way we communicate, Jobs believed that the personal computer would profoundly transform our lives.

My guide to personal productivity

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I have found this guide of productivity again: Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity so I wanted to write down my version of it.

How to ship Go apps with Kamal

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I have been shiping most of my Go apps with Kamal for a while now. I am sharing the main config files I am using, with two different apps: this blog and a object storage service.

Towards modern development of cloud applications

Tue, 06 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The paper, mentioned in the title, addresses the inherent challenges of the widely adopted microservices architecture in cloud computing, including performance bottlenecks, versioning issues, and increased complexity in application management. While microservices offer scalability, fault tolerance, and agile deployment, they also introduce significant overheads, making applications difficult to manage, reason about, and evolve.

Detailed example of web components usage

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I have been using web components instead of other libraries and their components for about an year now. They have a few key features, like built-in hydration, use of Shadow DOM or not, depending on your preference, that are indispensable in the UIs that I build.

I found a post today that shows in detail what their potential is and how exactly they are being used to build an actual product.

Launching naina

Mon, 29 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Even though it's only January, this year has already been very interesting for me. And since most of these interesting things are products on the web, and me being unhappy with design tooling for web products, I decided to build something different, something that fills in my needs primarily, but perhaps is able to help others as well.

Still in very early stage, today I am putting it partially out there for interested folks to provide feedback or even subscribe to progress notifications.

But first, let me tell you what it is.

The one web layout that rules them all

Fri, 20 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

I have a bold claim: there is a responsive CSS Grid / Flexbox combo layout that can be used to build almost any web layout. At least I haven’t found any layout I wanted to build and couldn’t.

CSS findings from the Threads app—by Ahmad Shadeed

Tue, 26 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Ahmad did two great reviews of the Threads app. Quite a few interesting CSS or unusual CSS technniques there.

Component hydration with no dependencies

Sun, 27 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Client component hydration has been a trendy topic these days. Some frameworks like Next, Astro and others are already doing it.

It is not common knowledge that we can achieve a very similar result with pure SSR and declarative shadow DOM.

HTML details

Fri, 04 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

On occasion we need to present a summary of content while allowing the user to deep dive if they want to. The details element is a great way to do this, with good browser support as well. Let’s see how.

HTML dialog, occasionally modal

Thu, 03 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Many times we need to show a modal to the user, to ask for confirmation, or to show some additional information in a manner which covers the rest of the page user interface. The dialog element is a great way to do this, and it is supported by all major browsers.

Better end to end design systems

Mon, 13 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Implementing a consistent brand across various devices and channels has never been easy. The diversity of connected devices and their screen sizes is also not helping simplify the process.

Let’s take a stab at how we could improve this.

Better routing with Go’s standard library

Fri, 17 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Previously I shared a very basic example of Go routing. Let’s see how we can improve that a little.

Under-engineer

Sun, 05 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The last several years of web development have been going into a direction of needlessly over-engineering even simplest tasks.

Maybe it’s time to get back to the basics, to use simple solutions for simple tasks. Let’s touch on how I think we should be approaching initial web product development.

The CSS has() selector

Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In my first not post I mentioned and example of something I find quite interesting in the recent CSS features,that is the has() selector. And while I was preparing to write something about it, which I mightstill do, here’s a great article on Smashing Magazine written by Stephanie Eckles about this exact topic.

I have decided to not blog

Wed, 28 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I have recently been reading a lot given that I had a lot of time on my hands. Many of my readings have been about my work, what I'm passionate about in my work — how to build amazing experiences on the web and native platforms.

So I have quickly put together this not blog to share not posts here. Read along if you’re curious what this crazy idea is about.