Jacob Lichner

A man of few characters.

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Stephen Hawking speaking without the use of his voice synthesizer, 1970's.

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@ZubyMusic Easy. I would buy all the classics and take a couple years off to read them.

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@ShopifyEng "How hard can it be?"

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@Kc111499 @HaveAHeartoX @DARIAKRUGER @lasanhist I'd recommend the 6-volume book series called the Symposium on Creation. Can be hard to find all 6 but worth it. From there you'll have a wealth of names and further sources to look into. Awesome topic!

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@tomblanchardCSS Hmm I need this. Can you point PurgeCSS at liquid for the content files? Any issues with liquid logic within class attributes?

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@PhillyD Back to the Future
The Sandlot
Stand by Me

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@tobi The Rules of Double-Entry Bookkeeping by Luca Pacioli. Published in 1494, baby. The original accounting manual. Only 108 pages.

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@tomblanchardCSS Sweet who new thanks bro

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@jeffbcross @Brocco @JeffCrossBeard Bro I'm seeing you for the first time lol

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@jhanstra But divide is such a negative word when really all that's happening is the web is growing. The problem comes when it's misunderstood what someone does. The term "front-end developer" is too ambigious now in the larger context of the web. 2/2

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@jhanstra I see more of what you're talking about. Seems like just a petty debate on how to use and not use JavaScript. Meanwhile, the disciplines of UX, design, accessibility and so on are becoming more and more specialized as distinct full-time positions. That's the divide. 1/2

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@jhanstra UX involves much, much more than CSS. It involves solving problems mostly outside of the codebase but while encompassing it. I see it as an architect role on the frontend that should consider the experience of everyone that interacts with any part of the site.

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This is important for people to understand: https://t.co/hu9lRoORYN

I've been doing the splits trying to keep a foot on both sides for a long time and it's starting to hurt. I love programming but I'm on the UX side at the end of the day.

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@jhanstra I'm seeing a much bigger divide between a growing number of distinct disciplines involved in the web today as a whole, not just a single project. With so many people doing so many different things it's hard to know what "frontend developer" means, exactly.

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@jhanstra Indeed, JavaScript can be used to compensate for the lack of abstraction tools and DOM context that CSS suffers from, but that creates a distinct world with specialized knowledge. Not a bad thing. The web is just growing. There's a lot going on now and much more coming.

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@jhanstra Check out Nujabes luv sic part 5 (there's 6 parts, but 5 is my favorite): https://t.co/HyJozhAsQM

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Group chat is like being in an all-day meeting with random participants and no agenda. https://t.co/cQSBcqmQFL

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@Carson @Shopify @chris_pointer @chris_pointer Great project man! 👌 (Note that Ritual Hockey https://t.co/BfkKrV12uR was designed by @EmrichOffice)

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“Running in Circles” by @rjs https://t.co/dyuEm2PQNj

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Brilliant library for cleaning up dirty Shopify product descriptions: https://t.co/ZfsPG1qnLL