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Sam Henri Gold

much like how there are only two hard problems in computer science, there are only two hard problems in graphic design: making sure things don’t look like dicks or swastikas

over-engineer :wordpress:

@samhenrigold I worked on a website once, where the designer made a minimalistic telescope icon for the “Our Vision” section of the “About us” page.

It looked like a fleshlight.

Anthony Georgeff

@samhenrigold Every time I draw something on the whiteboard in class - dick.

Surendrajat

@samhenrigold and swastika is only a regional problem.

Sam Henri Gold

i don't wanna be too hyperbolic but if your API throws an error but uses a 200 response code with a body like this:

{
"status": 408,
"error": "Request timeout"
}

i wish ill upon your extended family :)

Григорий Клюшников

VKontakte API does exactly this. It's very much decoupled from the HTTP layer to begin with. The status code is always 200. You can use either POST or GET with any API method. You can pass parameters in the query string, as x-www-form-urlencoded, or split them between the two. As long as they end up in $_REQUEST on the server, it doesn't care.

Григорий Клюшников

I remember explanations that some HTTP client libraries make it much harder to access the response body when the code isn't 200. They'd just return an error like "duh, your request failed".

Sam Henri Gold

college radio is seriously underrated. no ads, great discovery, typically a no-nonsense web stream you can dump into VLC with no fuss

Sam Henri Gold

i think we should play one (1) Slayyyter track for every member of congress and just see what happens

Sam Henri Gold

on a tangential note, i think it's wild how normani was like "okay here's one song. bye forever"

Sam Henri Gold

Didn’t really have a choice in the matter. Arguably preferable to getting towed.

Григорий Клюшников

Either that, or the delivery guy was simply gay and horny.

Sam Henri Gold

i really like this nunjucks syntax because it's like someone said "what if we did ternary operators but made them not efficient at all?"

Sam Henri Gold

biggest lesson i've learned in my career has been to not fight against the platform you're designing for. if you're working on, say, a Mac app, go full throttle into Mac-ish-ness. Fighting platform conventions is a losing battle.

Григорий Клюшников

I'd totally spam this post with thousands of Like activities because I agree with it this much but I'm too lazy to code that.

My version of it: if you're building a Mac app and you want a button, you are required to use an NSButton. You don't draw your own fucking buttons and then handle clicks on them by processing raw mouse events because your users will rightfully hate you for that.

Chase Carroll

@samhenrigold It feels like this is a sentiment that is both true and too dogmatic.

Bucking platform standards have brought some really great features to the Mac. Tweetie was a great Mac app, but it had pull to refresh before the native scroll view even supported over scroll.

We should respect platform conventions, but break them when it’s right for our users, business, etc.

Sam Henri Gold

love that Bobby Darin song Mac Tonight

Sam Henri Gold

between my biting commentary on a 2018 iphone model and now this killer Bobby Darin/80s McDonalds commercial reference, I’m feeling pretty good.

Sam Henri Gold

not SF specific but if you search up florists nearby, you can typically have them delivered AND get a much lower price compared to a middle man service like 1800flowers

Sam Henri Gold

the one in which i lose my mind over iphone naming conventions and relative units of scale: youtube.com/watch?v=npO4N_ptp5

[DATA EXPUNGED]
Brian King

@samhenrigold Paused Dirty Jobs to watch this. No regrets.

Sam Henri Gold

EDIT: I would like to apologize for the original version of this post. The views expressed in it do not reflect those of the Walt Disney corporation and I am deeply sorry for the pain it inflicted upon shareholders.

Sam Henri Gold

i can't believe she'd say something like this. so sad.

Sam Henri Gold

there are so many ways to style a <blockquote> and I find that really exciting

Sam Henri Gold

as an aside, i cannot believe that's a thing i just typed in earnest. people my age are supposed to be in college right now, making terrible choices

Sam Henri Gold

i bought a fancy new TV and I find it charming that it still has component in

Sam Henri Gold

mourning the lost art of dmg installer background images

Brad Ellis

@samhenrigold what?! Still going strong in so many installers! Maybe fewer people aren’t setting it these days? It’s not a frequently traveled feature of Finder.

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