Marcus McLean

[Marcus McLean @mrcsmcln]

@rbriaux @threejs @threejsconf These badges were super cool!

[Marcus McLean @mrcsmcln]

@pqoqubbw I love @BunnyCDN

[Marcus McLean @mrcsmcln]

@Aella_Girl How much does wording matter? Example:

if >30% pick blue, nothing happens.
If under 30% pick blue, then blue pills die.

[Marcus McLean @mrcsmcln]

@adamwathan @joshmanders Dropdown items that are <a> or <button>…is there a part of the HTML spec I don’t know about?

[Marcus McLean @mrcsmcln]

@adamwathan I fully support this!

[Marcus McLean @mrcsmcln]

@jbrooksuk @OliverNybroe What screen recording app is this?

[Marcus McLean @mrcsmcln]

@adamwathan I'm struggling to understand the thinking behind devs in this thread not wanting to switch. Is there a genuine DX reason or is it simply "this is what I'm used to"?

[Marcus McLean @mrcsmcln]

@adamwathan I fully support switching! Maybe a config option to preserve the old spacing scale for backward compatibility.

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@taylorotwell Could it just be a CLI option? I feel like deciding which Laravel starter pack to use is pretty overwhelming to first time users, and I say this as an experienced Laravel dev.

[Marcus McLean @mrcsmcln]

@adamwathan I'll be there!

[Taylor Otwell @taylorotwell]

The todo application. 😅

But, seriously, here's the thing...

When Laravel and Rails developers say "full stack", they mean something totally different than when Next or Remix (React Router?) developers say "full stack".

In Laravel and Rails, it means there are built-in, opinionated solutions to things like validation, interacting with a database, authenticating users, scheduling background work, sending an email.

In Next and Remix, it seems to mean that there is simply the bare ability to run code on the server at all and an advertisement for Clerk. 🙃

From my perspective, Next and others are really, really great at the GET part of web development. Get data from some backend, show it on the page quickly. 👌

They are not mature for POST, PUT, and DELETE, especially when things start getting non-trivial.

And, I don't think this is really unique to Next or a single framework. It's something that seems to pervade current JavaScript as a whole - note the current proliferation of "starter kits" that try to bring some sanity to the full-stack story.

I think this has had actual consequences in the JavaScript ecosystem...

Rails and Laravel were built with the express purpose of allowing a single developer to build the next GitHub... or the next AirBnb... or the next Shopify. Prototyped from beginning to end.

That's what I'm passionate about. Empowering a single developer or small team to build something amazing.

I built the 1.0 of Laravel Forge, Envoyer, Vapor, Spark, and the backend of Nova by myself.

$40M in revenue over 10 years from my home office. That's an empowering tool for a solo founder.

I don't see a full-stack story in JavaScript yet that would allow me to realistically sit down and build something like Forge or Vapor from start to finish. Maybe I'm missing it. 🤷‍♂️

The MVP start-ups I do see fully built on current JS meta frameworks are much thinner. The stereotypical API call to an AI service. Not much meat on the bones.

Laravel / Rails have been building their modern front end story with Hotwire, Livewire, Inertia, and more... Next and others are building their modern back end story.

Smart people on both sides working on these problems, so I'm confident we'll both get to where we want to go. 💪

[Marcus McLean @mrcsmcln]

@RoyDigerhund @adamwathan This is a great point. @adamwathan would it be possible to have both options?

[Marcus McLean @mrcsmcln]

@adamwathan fwiw, I hadn't even considered vector and angle as an option!

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@adamwathan The only time I've used CSS variables for spacing is when it changes based on the breakpoint (e.g., nav height so I can do something like `mt-nav`)

[Marcus McLean @mrcsmcln]

@figma could you allow prototype devices to be set at the frame level?

Right now it's set at the page level which makes it impossible to have mobile and desktop mockups next to each other, which means more context switching for dev.

[Marcus McLean @mrcsmcln]

Building pages in @astrodotbuild with YAML is super easy. Just have your page file to accept data from a content collection and you're basically done!

[Marcus McLean @mrcsmcln]

@adamwathan /* … */ looks like a fun emoji

[Marcus McLean @mrcsmcln]

It absolutely blows my mind how many hours @mrdoob has saved by creating Three.js. Imagine having to calculate the position of every vertex for every object, the light sources, the cameras, etc.

WebGL is so much lower level than most people think it is

[Marcus McLean @mrcsmcln]

@MehulBawadia @tailwindcss Had to use filters to change the color of an icon but I needed to set the icon color to black first, hence the prepended brightness/saturation. I used this generator: https://t.co/diS8row2pr

[Marcus McLean @mrcsmcln]

The perfect @tailwindcss class doesn't exis—

[Marcus McLean @mrcsmcln]

@francismori7 @jordanpittman @tailwindcss Nah it was a copy and paste but looks like I accidentally inserted a bracket at some point