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Andrew Lisowski 💻

@hipstersmoothie.com

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Senior Software Engineeer snowflake.com Co-Founder @graze.social Co-Host of @devtools.fm hipstersmoothie.com

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Andrew Lisowski 💻 @hipstersmoothie.com · Dec 31

Been working on the algorithm for the web dev feed a bit. Think it’s finally becoming really good!

I find a few cool new things and devs on it most days

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Andrew Lisowski 💻 @hipstersmoothie.com · 8h

Shadcn type thing

Andrew Lisowski 💻 @hipstersmoothie.com · 8h

I’m so tempted to make a stylex + react aria

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Andrew Lisowski 💻 @hipstersmoothie.com · 1d

Almost done moving my day job’s design system fully over from Radix to react-aria 🔥🔥🔥

Huge improvement imo. And all without a single API change

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Andrew Lisowski 💻 @hipstersmoothie.com · 9h

And now that ive noticed that I yanked mine and their works like expected!

Andrew Lisowski 💻 @hipstersmoothie.com · 9h

For example when I created our Select they didn't support multi select but I was able to use their hooks to create one that worked exactly the same! As a part of that you have to read a bunch of src too and imo its better authored than radix too (radix does some neat stuff though)

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Andrew Lisowski 💻 @hipstersmoothie.com · 9h

Since react-aria was built in the opposite approach, building hooks and re-usable patterns and the components coming much later, you have much more ability to break out of the supported stuff and build custom

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Andrew Lisowski 💻 @hipstersmoothie.com · 9h

yes exactly this!

On their faces they seem like the same thing "headless UI libraries".

Radix started with components for APIs, so breaking out of them, using the component state or even re-using their patterns can be rough.

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Andrew Lisowski 💻 @hipstersmoothie.com · 1d

Almost done moving my day job’s design system fully over from Radix to react-aria 🔥🔥🔥

Huge improvement imo. And all without a single API change

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Andrew Lisowski 💻 @hipstersmoothie.com · 2d

Didn’t know css is getting functions 👀

Sindre Sorhus @sindresorhus.com · 3d

CSS is getting support for functions, so I made a small utility library for useful things. It's also a copy-pasteable reference. WIP.

github.com/sindresorhus...

Andrew Lisowski 💻 @hipstersmoothie.com · 2d

Last time I Tried To edit the pds to fix a typo it never showed in the app

Andrew Lisowski 💻 @hipstersmoothie.com · 2d

Thanks man!

Andrew Lisowski 💻 @hipstersmoothie.com · 2d

We’re only gonna give them DIDs at birth. They can decide on a handle later 😉

Andrew Lisowski 💻 @hipstersmoothie.com · 2d

Yup they are in separate sacs with separate placentas. That was widely believed to me as they were fraternal for a long time. But recently they figured out there’s still a 1:3 chance of identical

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Andrew Lisowski 💻 @hipstersmoothie.com · 2d

Many layers to this joke 😅

Andrew Lisowski 💻 @hipstersmoothie.com · 2d

No clue yet! Still a chance they are identical

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Andrew Lisowski 💻 @hipstersmoothie.com · 3d

They say the two hardest problems in programming are “of by one” errors and naming things…

In other news I’m having twins 🎉

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Andrew Lisowski 💻 @hipstersmoothie.com · 3d

Been prepping my whole life for that bit!

Andrew Lisowski 💻 @hipstersmoothie.com · 3d

“Oh you thought you were prepared for one baby? I gotchu”

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Andrew Lisowski 💻 @hipstersmoothie.com · 3d

I meant to make an off by one error in the post, I swear

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Andrew Lisowski 💻 @hipstersmoothie.com · 3d

They say the two hardest problems in programming are “of by one” errors and naming things…

In other news I’m having twins 🎉

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Andrew Lisowski 💻 @hipstersmoothie.com · 7d

A few questions:

1. What is the global search searching? Where is it rendered?
2. For alphabetical lists: like the list nodes?

we're working on the "multi-field" selector. would be a great unlock

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Andrew Lisowski 💻 @hipstersmoothie.com · 7d

Word lists now dedupe the list by default too

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Andrew Lisowski 💻 @hipstersmoothie.com · 7d

Nice little ux improvement :D

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Andrew Lisowski 💻 @hipstersmoothie.com · 8d

Feel free to jot them down here

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Hawk Ticehurst @hawkticehurst.com · 8d

I created a new feed for trending developer topics on Bluesky. Go check it out!

I've loved @hipstersmoothie.com's Web Dev Trending, but have for a long time felt like it could be refined and improved. So with @danabra.mov's "we can just do things" I felt inspired to just make the change myself!

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