Joel ✨

Joel ✨

@joelstransky.bsky.social

Senior front end, UI/UX, graphics generalist, B.A. Game Art. JSX enthusiast, Flash Old Guard. He/Him. Ally. World's best followers™ joelstransky.netlify.app

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Used all 8 arms today. Retouched poorly generated illustrations, built a new 3d image component, built a responsive nav and the backend to support it. Finally, drew a custom illustration of a robot on a get-well vase for a coworker. My desk plate just says, "I got you."

There's a consorted effort in the YouTube app for TV to only provide lucrative video thumbs at all times. There's a video I've unfinished but returned to twice and there's no continue section at all. I have to go 3 screens deep for history. It's insidious.

I got an agent building assets in blender, exporting game assets and building modular stages in UEFN last night all over mcp and it was way too easy. However I need waaaay more gpu for this shit.

Been practicing getting comfortable on camera and when I try to hit bullet points I'm dry AF. Showed some coworkers dhh videos and they're like dude you talk just like that. So I guess I just gotta go off top?

If your plan is to deep link me into an app I don't have an account with yet and expect me to ever arrive at the destination, just don't. This can't be done.

The is an excellent baseline. Reset to clean the slate, html to define your projects flavor, layout for construction and a design system for component tokens. Seriously just learn this stuff.

Sorry but acting like css-in-js is suddenly better this time is further evidence of how far people will go to not learn css. StyleX is just a ton of useless mental overhead when SCSS is fucking brilliant. Tailwind at least had a ton of hidden benefits. Should I expound on this?

I can sense another iteration of a historical precedent. When an industry risks irrelevance they tend to buddy up and create weird bed fellows. Typically the juggernaut devours the smaller guys in the process. Watching the tech creator community lean on each other gives me pause.

I outlined a novel a long time ago about a certain master of loopholes. Slowly built up a believable origin story but now that the economy is squeezing people I'm seeing people act this out. Now I'm just going to seem like a copycat.

Hot take: css [@]layers is a terrible spec. It sits along side old css rules so then you just end up fighting two battles. Usage anywhere should intrinsically create layers everywhere.

My current position: there's no real benefit to skills, agents, memories, and spoken language based corsets around your harness. This isn't the glorified decorator pattern that React is. You're just making a gimp. Code is context.