Nick Walsh

Principal @envylabs; compendium of now-useless CSS knowledge; overenthusiastic about semicolons.

[Front-End Design Conference @frontendconf]

Happy front-end Friday, folks! It's time to start our tradition of attendee spotlights. Today's goes out to @nickawalsh, who snagged the first ticket this year!

Nick is a Principal at Envy Labs, and he shares his thoughts on https://t.co/rdkkDRLeqc

[Nick Walsh @nickawalsh]

@peagace_ @Anemolito It depends, unfortunately — this one is able to sort itself out in a fraction of a frame (screenshot), but it's also not interacting with any markup / React / other animations / other composite layers / etc etc.

[The Pudding @puddingviz]

Subscription services make signing up easy, but canceling especially hard. @carolinesinders documents the process of trying to unsubscribe from 16 digital subscriptions.

This is how companies use dark patterns to force you to stay.

https://t.co/UmTRMIIjyc

[UCF Business Incubation Program @UCFBIP]

The UCFBIP's 2023 Spring/Summer Mentorship Cohort is looking for mentors! Visit https://t.co/NFHMAXhF6M to find out more about this exciting opportunity and how you can make a difference!

#ucfbip #mentor #startup #entrpreneur #executive #mentorship #makeadifference #success

[Envy Labs @envylabs]

How does software start? With a whole bunch of questions:

https://t.co/1kaJ9fYO07

[Nick Walsh @nickawalsh]

Must-read piece. 💯

[Jon Yablonski @JonYablonski]

It’s time we expand what it means to create more meaningful relationships between people and technology by considering the intentionality of the products we build. https://t.co/WPOJiNj8j3

[Rob Harr @robertHarr]

Great article about project management. Do yourself a favor and read it.

[David K 🎹 @DavidKPiano]

Okay Twitter this is getting a bit ridiculous

[Jessica Hagy @jessicahagy]

The Old God prepares for final battle

[Maxime @MaximeHeckel]

📝 New Blog Post 📝

In this article, I tell you all about creating stunning 3D particle scenes with React Three Fiber 🎊

Through 8 unique code playgrounds, you'll learn *everything* from attributes, buffer geometries, animating with shaders and more!

https://t.co/KWXPFFzxkY

[Nick Walsh @nickawalsh]

@davatron5000 Love this. Similar experiment with video production that you may be familiar with: https://t.co/ZtK9Eolewg

[Nick Walsh @nickawalsh]

@drwpow don’t mess with me like that

[Nick Walsh @nickawalsh]

adding non-breaking spaces as a service

[Harry Roberts @csswizardry]

📖 I’ve been working on this for, well, years I suppose. I’ve finally written up my thoughts on Critical CSS: https://t.co/FuZhXnRAd2

[Envy Labs @envylabs]

What's a "senior" developer? Where'd they all go? Can @nickawalsh liken them to a record producer?

All this and more in our latest action-packed article: https://t.co/Yo7Voe2FuH

[Addy Osmani @addyosmani]

Software Engineering - The Soft Parts: https://t.co/GI6jJFuvlI ~ my advice for engineers, reflecting on 10 years of learnings in @googlechrome.

[American Soccer Analysis @AnalysisEvolved]

What happens when you combine your current love of soccer with your childhood love of Pokemon? @Thundering165 goes farther down this rabbit *ahem* I mean "Diglett" hole than any of us here at ASA expected.

https://t.co/2r3MclLww8

[Nick Walsh @nickawalsh]

@dandenney @drewbarontini We definitely picked the ultimate ‘strong opinions, loosely held’ career together. S’been a pleasure — and, as @BarrierWilson recently pointed out, front-end design is *still* underrated.

[Nick Walsh @nickawalsh]

@JustinMezzell it’s always the ‘casually dice ten tomatoes’ step while things are trying to burn on the stovetop