Lara Schenck
Lover of programming, maker of monsters
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Becoming a better developer by using the SOLID design principles by Katerina Trajchevska
This conference talk is a great introduction to the S.O.L.I.D. software design principles. How do these principles manifest when it comes to UI programming with HTML/CSS?
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Twitter thread as blog post about "We Are Programmers"
I had a lot of impassioned thoughts while on a run today and decided to bang out this Twitter-thread-blog-post instead of letting them die a slow, silent death, alone in my brain, as they often do.
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Researching DSL stuff, ended up on context-free grammar
Hastily written post with the results of some free-form Saturday language research.
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#ShareYourDocs: Basic CSS Utility Class Generator in Larva
A bit of documentation I wrote for a Sass mixin that outputs utility classes based on a map of values.
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Saturday, plant-based monsters
These monsters are enjoying the weekend so far! Looks like they won’t be going anywhere.
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#ShareYourDocs: The start of Larva’s Naming Guidelines Wiki
There is a borderline overwhelming amount of documentation to be written, but gotta start somewhere! Here’s a kinda random first addition to Larva’s Naming Guidelines wiki page.
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.a-pull: A CSS algorithm for pulling one box outside another
Here’s a quick write up about a CSS algorithm we just created at PMC! It seems like it will be useful in future projects, and we now have a programmatic term to use to refer to this kind of UI design pattern.
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Sloppy Screencasts: Test-Oriented UI Development with BackstopJS / Larva Show-n-Tell
A very cool, test-oriented workflow has emerged with the introduction of Backstop JS into our design system tooling. I recorded some sloppy screencasts to show it off! Watch me struggle and make mistakes and also accomplish things.
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Something I spent too long debugging at the end of the day
I spent a while debugging a font-face issue. Can you spot the problem?
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selector-property-whitelist: a potential CSS algorithms rule for Stylelint
For example, a `color` property should not be in an algorithm that is intended for CSS grid properties. This is a potential Stylelint rule that would report that!
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Testing CSS Algorithms!!!!!!! Part 2 [WiH]
In part 2 of this enthusiastically titled mini series, we will set up some test methods in JavaScript. Next will be the test itself! Maybe I’ll write that tomorrow, maybe not…
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Testing CSS Algorithms!!!!!! Part 1 [WiH]
I think I figured out a really cool, fun, exciting, and not complicated way to write tests for CSS algorithms! This post introduces the concept of writing unit tests and test driven development.
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Be careful when checking for support of the `gap` property
I thought I encountered a browser bug, but I didn’t. I learned some things, and now you can read this and learn them, too!
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Designgineering Chronicles: Months 9.5-11ish?
A slightly delayed Chronicle, but no less juicy! In preparation for the kick-off of Blueberry, we are figuring out how to actually share and publish modules as the design system (named Larva) becomes a product that stands on its own.
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Story time monsters
Another slide from my talk, this image represents the end of a short story about how a CSS algorithm saved the day!
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Monsters working on a house of cards
These monsters are working on a house of cards, an experience similar to working on a code-base that has not been tended to appropriately over the years! This is a slide from my “Algorithms in CSS” talk.
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“Best Muffin Of My Life So Far” is Awarded to Spinach-Feta Muffin in Amsterdam
I am in Amsterdam, visiting many coffee shops (that’s actual coffee shops, not “coffee shops”, mind you). I just had a very incredible muffin and created an award to commemorate it!
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Is CSS Turing Complete?
I took a deep dive into this question, and the answer is: kinda, mostly, yeah! CSS + HTML + user input is Turing complete. Is it possible to remove the user input part? Then I can re-title this post to be more, ahem, declarative.
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Algorithms in CSS Tour Dates, Summer 2019
My talk and I are going on tour this summer! In other words, I submitted to a bunch of conferences and got into some of them. So stoked!
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Roadtrippin’ to Pittsburgh!
I am in the midst of a driving across America, from Los Angeles to Pittsburgh. That’s right: see ya later, Los Angeles, I’m moving back to Pittsburgh!
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Designgineering Chronicles: Months 8.5-9.5
Cantaloupe, a.k.a. Deadline.com, has launched!!! This installment of the Chronicles discusses the project’s huge success, the beginnings of a design system roadmap, and an introduction to Blueberry, the next code-named redesign for PMC.
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“Lock your computer”: What really happened
As a result of a “fun” prank, I learned a bit about cron scheduling!
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“Lock your computer”
Something really disturbing and malicious has been happening to my personal laptop over the past couple of months. This post is part true, part April Fools’ joke.
