Blog posts from English (#english)
Site Update: How many share buttons can we fit in here? đ§đ
As a part of this monthĘźs Site Update (and to celebrate the anniversary of these color-sorted buttons), we redesigned and rearranged the share buttons so it doesnĘźt claim too much vertical space on mobile, and so users can skim the colors more efficiently. We also added new share buttons for SMS, which also turns into the Messages (iMessage) icon for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, alongside Gmail, Hatena Bookmark!, LiveJournal, mail.ru, Odnoklassniki (OK), Threads, Threema, Trello, VKontakte (VK), XING and Yahoo! Mail. Tip: You can also test out these share buttons on our dedicated page. On this great opportunity, we would like to encourage the developers behind the following platforms to add support for deeplinks to share content directly to: Bluesky (see Issue #1301) Forem (e.g. DEV.to and CodeNewbie Community) Ghost (blogging platform) Kenangan.com Matrix.org, or Matrix-specific apps (e.g. Element, FluffyChat, Nheko) (currently only possible to share contacts or chatrooms, not sharing messages to them) Medium Nostr-related apps (e.g. Damus) (see NIP-0077) Signal (currently only possible to share contacts, not sharing messages to them) SimpleX Chat (currently only possible to share contacts, not sharing messages to them) Woilo Why the share buttons? We are still interested to promote a diverse set of web services, from the common ones to alternatives, as part of our Computer System Multiculturalism initiative. Consider this as a free advertising from the services you love. /* Oh, Neal, weâve beaten your own share buttons for sure. */
Site Update: Just amazed with our great SEO without fancy things.
DRY-ing Go/Golangâs error handling with underscores.
The Go Programming Language, also preferred by others as Golang, doesnât include the concept of Exceptions and try-catch like Java. This is why many functions and libraries built around it are meant to be written like this: output, err := somelib.SomeCoolFunction() If you are writing simple programs with Go, there are many cases that you just donât put much care on error-handling. If you, for example, just want the program to exit and informing the error message, you might most likely to do this: data1, err := somelib.SomeCoolFunction() if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } data2, err := anotherlib.AnotherCoolFunction() if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } err := somelib.SaveTheseCoolData(data1, data2) if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } Well, thatâs bad if you try to place the exact same if conditions for every methods, just because you donât want to take much care in handling errors. This is why I decided to simplify things by introducing two new functions, __(err) and ___(res, err)! func __(err error) { if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } } func ___[T interface{}](res T, err error) T { if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } return res } Completely good for âDon't Repeat Yourselfâ (DRY). But remember, if you have more than one package, you will need to repeat writing the same functions to get the same convenience for every different package, because these underscore names are not considered as public functions.
The self-image ethics of a Christian VTuber.
Nix is now Jilly! (feat. Simon)
Site Update: Announcing our new typeface, Bumi Laras Selatan.
Site Update: Now with new color palettes!
Earlier this year, we have discussed a new set of color palette, then refreshed it, which someday could become an integral part of our brand. These palettes are so versatile enough that we have been confident over this entire year to produce artworks, campaign media, and even apps exclusively relying to these limited set of colors. And making the palette programmatically with OkLCH allows us to accurately reproduce the kind of color shades we wanted for every color spectrum. But there were two main problems that we faced sooner: ItĘźs difficult to reproduce colors which are optimized for user interface backgrounds. Sure, we can use either Galih-Ratna or Dilan-Milea for buttons and links, but these colors were not designed for background elements such as cards. There is no standard grey color shade. Or brown. Grey is significant in user interface design for neutral or disabled buttons and other interactive elements. So today, we are excited to announce a new color palette series: Rangga-Cinta, from the Indonesian record-breaking Ada Apa dengan Cinta? movie. These muted color sets are meant to complement the vibrancy prepresented by both Dilan-Milea and Galih-Ratna, and in fact, we are already using these on our reinhart1010.id website. Because of their nature of muted colors, the Rangga-Cinta version of Blue can be considered as the official version of our Gray. And they have generated some cool brown-like shades for use, too. Improving the consistency and interoperability between Dilan-Milea, Galih-Ratna, and Rangga-Cinta. We have also slightly tweak the Galih-Ratna color sets, so now Dilan-Milea 500 color scale is exactly the same with Galih-Ratna 500. Similarly, Galih-Ratna 50 also becomes the basis of Rangga-Cinta 50, and Dilan-Milea 950 is essentially the same as Rangga-Cinta 950. This has some technical benefits to our main website, which is currently based on Tailwind CSS. Before, we had assigned different colors for these glass card borders and background, not to mention the colored shadows and hover/active shades. These took a whopping 20 CSS color-related classes to render a single search bar! bg-gr-fuchsia-50/50 dark:bg-dm-fuchsia-900/50 focus:bg-gr-fuchsia-50 dark:focus:bg-gr-fuchsia-900 hover:bg-gr-fuchsia-50 dark:hover:bg-gr-fuchsia-900 text-gr-fuchsia-900 dark:text-white placeholder:text-gr-fuchsia-600 dark:placeholder:text-gr-fuchsia-100 border-gr-fuchsia-500 dark:border-dm-fuchsia-50 focus:border-gr-fuchsia-500 focus:dark:border-dm-fuchsia-50 shadow-dm-fuchsia-500/50 dark:shadow-dm-fuchsia-200/50 focus:shadow-dm-fuchsia-200/75 dark:focus:shadow-dm-fuchsia-200/75 hover:shadow-dm-fuchsia-200/75 dark:hover:shadow-dm-fuchsia-200/75 Now, by using these color synonyms, we can remove most of duplicate color classes (including colored placeholder texts in favor of standard grey ones) into just five! bg-rc-violet-50 dark:bg-rc-violet-900 hover:bg-white dark:hover:bg-dm-violet-800 border-dm-violet-300 Coming soon: A standard for applying colors. Well, as promised earlier, we are still going to announce new updates throughout this holiday season. But at the meantime, we are also still in the works of standardizing how these colors should be used. You may also notice that weĘźve implemented dynamic theming on different webpages under the same site. ItĘźs just another part of standardization that are taking place here. In the future, we will eventually standardize color schemes for form controls and so. But thatĘźs all for now!
Site Update: The new homepage that never was.
Why I donât care about surveillance capitalism anymore.
