Shaun O'Connell

If you had to describe your function as a Design Engineer to a layperson, what would you say?

What if that layperson didn't understand or know of terms like 'UI', or 'front-end'?

Grifters gonna grift.

YouTube video by 산마 (Sanma) 많은 분들이 실패한 악마의 수초, 이쑤시개로 끝냈습니다

This excellent and entertaining video captures many of the themes that make the aquascaping hobby so amazing: discipline, routine, knowledge, art, harmony, and foresight.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkwX...
(Subtitles on!)

cc @glsignal.bsky.social

Have you reached the "Why do we even need design tokens anyway?" point yet?

No, and not really.
Masonry is the Carousel of layouts.

Haha.
Similarly...

"Inviting wealthy people to your city will bring thousands of jobs" – Wealthy person

This line specifically:

"The complete library concatenated and gzipped is less than a single HTTP request."

Thanks Andy.

Freelance Design Engineer (or front-of-the-front-end developer) checking in here.

I help turn design work into web-friendly code.

I have decades of experience, and work remotely in South Africa [more affordable for you].

More details about me here: github.com/ndorfin/

Out of interest, did you get similar results with Brotli, and other web-friendly compression?

Also, did you mean 'one HTTP roundtrip (14kb)'

For clarity: What are you preloading, the manifest CSS, or the imported CSS stubs/partials?

📢 Design Systems are people! 📢

What is it with these yes-men-corps and their propensity for things like Carbon Fibre? 😝
Looking at you OceanGate, SpaceX, etc.

That looks great - those rocks are so distinctive too!

I'd love to see more photos of your setup 😁

The older thinking (especially in low-filter-capacity-per-volume) setups was to remove them, as they contribute more waste (ammonia) than they consume. Just keep an eye on your setup's ammonia levels I guess.

Are you of the 'REMOVE ALL SNAILS' camp?
I see a lot of aquarists just accept them now.