- Posted in development react-native
Yesterday afternoon, I sat down with a friend and asked him for some advice on React Native. He recommended that since everything is moving towards Expo to use Expo Router, to use React Native Reusables (which is akin to a shadcn/ui for React Native) and also to use NativeWind. I got inspired and decided to […]
- Posted in apps design design-systems development workflow
This week I got a chance to try out Subframe. It’s a new design tool that is slightly hard to position within the category of design tools. Subframe follows the logic of Subform (RIP) where you are not working on a free canvas, but all your designs are “auto layout” by default. A tool like […]
- Posted in development figma figma-plugins screenshot-to-layout
I am looking for people who want to test drive the new Screenshot to Layout plugin for Figma. I am specifically looking for people who want to jump on a short call, share their screen and share their experience. It would be awesome to do some usability testing after all these months of work. If […]
- Posted in design development product
Good post from Jim Nielsen about the case for design engineers. He gives a good example of the kind of implementation detail where you might need insight from both the design and dev perspective. I find that some of my best work came from where code intersected with design. Lately I am on a path […]
- Posted in development figma figma-plugins
In the previous tutorial, we ended with 2 rectangles. The second building block that’s good to learn about is rendering text to the canvas. Working with text is its own challenge in Figma, because there are a lot of edge cases. The first thing to understand is that a font needs to be loaded in […]
- Posted in development figma figma-plugins
In this blog post series I would like to give an introduction to building Figma plugins. We will be learning using a series of “building blocks” and then turn it into a real plugin in the end. In this first tutorial we will be looking at the most basic of basics: creating a rectangle. We […]
- Posted in development storybook ui webdev
I recently started switching a Storybook that was based on the MDX format to the Component Story Format 3.0 format, skipping the 2.0 entirely… so some things were not that clear to me. I’m documenting them here for the reference of myself and others. Thse examples work in Storybook 6.5, and I believe also in […]
- Posted in development webdev
It is time to drop some esoteric knowledge again, for the Googling people that get into the same pickle as me. And for myself, when I have this problem on a new machine. So the problem is as follows: sometimes you get into a situation where formatting on save goes against the rules set in […]
- Posted in development wordpress - 1 comment
Ik heb zitten nadenken over de veranderingen in WordPress 6 “Arturo”, met als nieuwigheid dat full-site editing gegeven. Ik heb dat eigenlijk eerlijk gezegd nog nooit zien werken in de praktijk, dus ik sta daar wat skeptisch tegenover. Voor een eenvoudige website zie ik het nog wel werken, maar ergens ook weer niet. Elke vrijheid […]
- Posted in development javascript rant - 1 comment
I was doing some administration in the awful BillToBox (seriously not happy with this “solution”, but that’s another topic for another day), and to try and make sense of my uploaded documents I sorted them by name: Look at the “Naam van he…” column. What the hell is going on with this sorting? 82, 83, […]