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Shaun O'Connell

@ndorfin.bsky.social

Front-end developer, Interaction Designer, and Web Curmudgeon. https://github.com/ndorfin/

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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'?

28.08.2025 18:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Grifters gonna grift.

28.08.2025 10:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
๋งŽ์€ ๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ์‹คํŒจํ•œ ์•…๋งˆ์˜ ์ˆ˜์ดˆ, ์ด์‘ค์‹œ๊ฐœ๋กœ ๋๋ƒˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค
YouTube video by ์‚ฐ๋งˆ (Sanma) ๋งŽ์€ ๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ์‹คํŒจํ•œ ์•…๋งˆ์˜ ์ˆ˜์ดˆ, ์ด์‘ค์‹œ๊ฐœ๋กœ ๋๋ƒˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค

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

28.08.2025 09:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

27.08.2025 06:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

08.07.2025 09:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Haha.
Similarly...

"Inviting wealthy people to your city will bring thousands of jobs" โ€“ Wealthy person

06.07.2025 10:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This line specifically:

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

27.06.2025 14:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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/

27.06.2025 12:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

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

27.06.2025 09:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

25.06.2025 21:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ“ข Design Systems are people! ๐Ÿ“ข

24.06.2025 14:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

What is it with these yes-men-corps and their propensity for things like Carbon Fibre? ๐Ÿ˜
Looking at you OceanGate, SpaceX, etc.

19.06.2025 14:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That looks great - those rocks are so distinctive too!

17.06.2025 14:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'd love to see more photos of your setup ๐Ÿ˜

15.06.2025 11:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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.

13.06.2025 16:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

13.06.2025 16:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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