Lara Schenck
Lover of programming, maker of monsters
Category: Tech
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Versioning Larva, PMC’s design system
For Larva, we are using semantic versioning with some modified definitions.
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An brief explanation of recursion for UI programmers
A high level overview of recursion with an analogy that will be familiar to front-end UI programmers.
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Log a Gutenberg block’s attributes to the console
How to log a Gutenberg block’s attributes to the console for helpful debugging and an introduction to WordPress data stores.
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What, exactly, is a pipeline? [WiH]
This is a very serious question.
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The One True Way [WiH]
The One True Way to write code.
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What is a CSS algorithm?
It’s been almost two years since the first time I gave my talk on CSS algorithms. What is a CSS algorithm? Great question.
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Designgineering Chronicles: Swan Song [PiH]
The last installment of the Designgineering Chronicles. The work itself is far from over, but I am very over writing these posts.
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Twitter thread as blog post: Thoughts on how we write CSS
(Warning: thought-leadery post) Problems with CSS are not a result of flaws in CSS. The problem is how we write CSS.
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A Larva win and small update [WiH]
A quick share of what I consider a significant win for Larva, the design system I started at PMC that is now a very official thing at the company.
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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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#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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#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?