Jacob Rask
@ja.cob-ra.sk
web platform staff engineer at Volvo Cars. design systems, developer experience and scaling web teams. falling back in love with css.
Me at 8:30 in the morning
July 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Me at 8:30 in the morning
PE is not so much a case of “without” JavaScript as it is “before” JavaScript.
If you render ui, it should be functional immediately imo. Otherwise it should be completely client side-rendered, no SSR.
If you render ui, it should be functional immediately imo. Otherwise it should be completely client side-rendered, no SSR.
July 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
PE is not so much a case of “without” JavaScript as it is “before” JavaScript.
If you render ui, it should be functional immediately imo. Otherwise it should be completely client side-rendered, no SSR.
If you render ui, it should be functional immediately imo. Otherwise it should be completely client side-rendered, no SSR.
Hey, this was 15 years ago
July 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Hey, this was 15 years ago
Will read it all tonight 😊
July 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Will read it all tonight 😊
Great story!
I worked on both Opera Mini and Opera’s websites at around the same time (slightly earlier). Taught me a lot about design - with constraints
I worked on both Opera Mini and Opera’s websites at around the same time (slightly earlier). Taught me a lot about design - with constraints
July 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Great story!
I worked on both Opera Mini and Opera’s websites at around the same time (slightly earlier). Taught me a lot about design - with constraints
I worked on both Opera Mini and Opera’s websites at around the same time (slightly earlier). Taught me a lot about design - with constraints
Too bad that Redux haunts me even in Swift.
June 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Too bad that Redux haunts me even in Swift.
To be clear I absolutely agree with the article, but I consider Lit part of the problem, not the solution
June 20, 2025 at 10:29 PM
To be clear I absolutely agree with the article, but I consider Lit part of the problem, not the solution
99% of apps I’ve seen built with Lit require JS for any link to work in the browser, while React apps typically generate working <a href> elements. Isn’t that ironic considering the original article?
June 20, 2025 at 10:26 PM
99% of apps I’ve seen built with Lit require JS for any link to work in the browser, while React apps typically generate working <a href> elements. Isn’t that ironic considering the original article?
There's quite a lot you can encode in just a string/name too if you want to. For one color sync from Figma I wrote a 20 line parser and then rules like these to parse the variable names to structured tokens. Took us pretty far honestly!
![const tokenRules = {
color: [
{
name: 'property',
match: /background|foreground|ornament|surface/,
from: 'head',
},
{
name: 'scale',
match: /(subtle|medium|strong)/,
},
{
name: 'variant',
match: /[\w\d]+/,
},
{
name: 'category',
match: /\w+/,
},
],
font: [
{
name: 'property',
match: /size|family|lineheight|weight/,
},
{
},
],
// ...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pktcstl57sqndmxsevpa4h6h/bafkreifvvbbmvadmo2pnq7grpgbia6gve2xwe2gyzolljnugoqstx4euuq@jpeg)
June 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
There's quite a lot you can encode in just a string/name too if you want to. For one color sync from Figma I wrote a 20 line parser and then rules like these to parse the variable names to structured tokens. Took us pretty far honestly!
Love the simplicity + flexibility here!
Lots of great reading in the docs too, some interesting concepts I hadn't seen before.
Lots of great reading in the docs too, some interesting concepts I hadn't seen before.
June 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Love the simplicity + flexibility here!
Lots of great reading in the docs too, some interesting concepts I hadn't seen before.
Lots of great reading in the docs too, some interesting concepts I hadn't seen before.
It’s like when I was a teen and there were iPods but no smartphones
You could so clearly see that the dumbphone and music player should be one device, so I stubbornly stopped using a cellphone for almost a year because I refused to carry two devices
You can so clearly see “very soon we’ll be there”
You could so clearly see that the dumbphone and music player should be one device, so I stubbornly stopped using a cellphone for almost a year because I refused to carry two devices
You can so clearly see “very soon we’ll be there”
June 11, 2025 at 7:51 PM
It’s like when I was a teen and there were iPods but no smartphones
You could so clearly see that the dumbphone and music player should be one device, so I stubbornly stopped using a cellphone for almost a year because I refused to carry two devices
You can so clearly see “very soon we’ll be there”
You could so clearly see that the dumbphone and music player should be one device, so I stubbornly stopped using a cellphone for almost a year because I refused to carry two devices
You can so clearly see “very soon we’ll be there”
(In this case you’re never supposed to use these variants together, but rather migrate from one to the other)
June 10, 2025 at 7:52 AM
(In this case you’re never supposed to use these variants together, but rather migrate from one to the other)