In a different world, every "social media" would have a thing open up every time you open the thing A slider entertainment <-----> "education" cater your own content Pick entertainment as much you want. Nobody's gonna stop you But we put gentle nudges if you do it too many days in a row #UX

Today's 🌶️take You matter. There's a lot going on but you... you matter I don't know you. be _we_ need you 🤌 Stay you ❤️

I love how excited we get about tech, but sometimes we forget that we (as devs) speak a different language. I tried to put that in perspective in a short post I titled: "This is what you sound like when you talk about federation" github.com/Sheek-org/Bl... #dev #community #federation #UX

Today's 🌶️ take: A community without a memory cannot learn, grow, or develop wisdom. It's doomed to repeat the same questions, arguments and mistakes forever Stop using chat for support for your projects. kthnxbye ✌️ #community #dev #ux

I wrote a thing about community glue and shared some of my rough ideas about that there. Tech can be amazing when it adapts to users and not the other way around. github.com/Sheek-org/Bl... #community #buildinpublic #forum #dev #chat

Took a short break because life is too short 😛 Back to work 🍿 I fleshed out app settings a bit more. I added default values, you can now cancel changes, reset, and if you save a change, it's saved directly to the db. Much better 😙 #javascript #dev #webdev #buildinpublic #UX #community

The internet's primary goal was information sharing. Beautiful. Amazing An unintended consequence of this was the formation of communities around shared information. Random strangers that care about the same thing But this stuff. This layer, the community layer, is what's broken. The tech failed.

I wrote another open-ended thing about online conversations and communities Just like the last one, it's essentially a train of thought and very rough around the edges. The ideas are there and that's enough #community #buildinpublic #forum #dev github.com/Sheek-org/Bl...

boring, bland, frictionless, dystopian internet. Everythings a 'space'. and every space is owned by the same five guys in california. we did this to ourselves. we traded ownership for convenience the old internet wasnt a global town square. it was a million different little dive bars.

Today's 🌶️ take Code related to a URL segment in the browser should - mostly - live in the same folder on your server. Wild stuff. I know. #javascript #dev #webdev

This took a surprising amount of time to get right, but I added app settings ⚙️ The idea is simple. You do the vast majority of config in an admin interface. #javascript #dev #buildinpublic #webdev #UI #admin

Nobody: Absolutely no one: JSX: <Setting setting={setting} /> #javascript #dev #webdev #jsx

This was and still is peak internet and I don't care what you think. www.cameronsworld.net

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I wrote a thing. github.com/Sheek-org/Bl... It's a train of thought for the most part, so I won's argue for my ideas, but I'd welcome your perspective. #community #forum

More fun with on the fly image processing ✨ Doing it programmatically means there's a "general" max width for display images (based on user's screen dimensions * DPR). This avoids useless bandwidth Plus, there's UI elements that have known dimensions #dev #buildinpublic #javascript #performance

Did some work on images 📸 You're probably seen this pattern before. Resize and transform images on the fly with query params Watch a 700KB image shrink to 20KB when we pass the right params we need (for its place in the UI) to the image server #javascript #dev #buildinpublic #performance

Worked on a first pass for the #chat page 👷 Wired up some db collections and some UI It was much easier to get into because the design patterns from the forum page translate well here. I've always been a fan of emerging patterns in place of extensive planning #javascript #dev #buildinpublic #ui

I'm going to stop the first (rough) forum thread list work here I feel like I got a lot of the ideas down. More importantly, the shell is there to continue when I get back to it. I'm moving on to chat next #dev #ui #javascript #forum #buildinpublic #webdev

Spent some time thinking about the thread list What info is actually useful once you do all the filtering? I mostly care about three things The title When it was last active (relative to my time) and how many people replied to it the rest is... noise #forum #UX #dev #javascript #buildinpublic

Ok, brainstorming a bit here. What if... we treat taxonomies as actors. "movies" is a category in the forum. But what if it becomes movies.category@site.com (the public name is "movies" this is the internal stuff) When you create a new thread there, you're "sending it" to that actor.

"The UI as the URL editor" is a nice mental model 👷 You have all kinds of inputs to add let the user control the URL, then you show a single list that incorporates that URL The URL is shareable and the list is live because you sub with the same filters #javascript #UI #buildinpublic #dev #forum

Made some more progress on the forum drill-down 🎨 There's still a lot of stuff to iron out, but I'm really liking how everything is locked to the URL. #community #forum #dev #javascript #buildinpublic #webdev #UI

Worked on UI layouts for the different types of content 🖌️ It's mostly drill-down because I think this is the most efficient way to explore content. #buildinpublic #community #javascript #webdev #UI

Breaking news. People discover that horrible triangle company is in fact...horrible.

I added the Node app server back, but in a much better way 🦄 It's now a very direct way to call functions on the server. Always returns JSON and the functions are "mostly" pure. It's integrated with the main db. ctx.user is the read user from the db. #javascript #dev #fullstack #buildinpublic

systemd auto restarts with delays and max retries is such a good pattern random fatal errors become more like minor hiccups unless there's something fundamentally broken #javascript #dev #buildinpublic #backend #devops #webdev

The scope of the project is increasing a bit and I now have a bunch of services I need to manage🏃 I added an install script that will offload all of that to systemd This means we get auto-restarts and all kinds of systemd magic 🏋️ Npm no longer runs anything #javascript #dev #buildinpublic #infra

I removed the main Node server in favor of smaller stateless processes A new dev-only process runs a persistent esbuild build. This detects changes and has it's own SSE endpoint for live reload Another dumb process will be for on off server functions - JSON #javascript #buildinpublic #dev #webdev

Today's 🌶️ take The internet was designed so that a bunch of nodes that contain a bunch of documents can respond to requests for those documents. See how there's no "central authority" here? Using mega corps to host your docs or to "protect you from bots" defeats that purpose. #dev #buildinpublic

Part of the RFC I shared is "The whole promise is this: you get a cheap server, you run one command, and your community is live" Getting to that point needs a bit of planning. #javascript #dev #infra #buildinpublic #webdev #community