Jean-Jacques Strydom

Lisp, Scheme & Linux Enthusiast | My DMs are always open. I might not necessarily respond but you should at least try.

[Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch]

In case you're curious, these custom blocks are freely available at: https://t.co/AA5mkyMXaU

Still setting everything up, so it might be a little broken depending on when you look.

[Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch]

Got the runtime API designed. Outside of timelines, full scroll trigger, and full stagger support everything else in GSAP core should be covered.

#wordpress #gutenberg #gsap

[Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch]

The plan is to wrap GSAP in a runtime that uses data-* attributes. So something akin to AlpineJS or HTMX but specifically for animations.

Then expose the data-* attributes in WordPress as attributes on the custom block.

I plan to even have timelines working.

#wordpress #webdev

[Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch]

Just got done creating a proof-of-concept custom WordPress block.

I wanted all the power of GSAP in WordPress but I refuse to pay to for it. So I ended up paying in time. 🤣

#webdev #wordpress #gsap

[Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch]

Just got done creating a proof-of-concept custom WordPress block.

I wanted all the power of GSAP in WordPress but I refuse to pay to for it. So I ended up paying in time. 🤣

#webdev #wordpress #gsap

[Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch]

@Mazorrahavanar Yeah... But it's an absolute pain in the ass as a desktop environment. Much easier to just go with a normal distro. So I'm now trying out Debian 😂

[Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch]

I went on a side quest thinking I'm just gonna set up NixOS and dwm. I ended up learning a degree's worth of Linux and developing a dangerous obsession with Lisp, Emacs and FP.

Send help 🤣

#nixos #linux #ricing

[Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch]

@kiir0shii Lighthouse can give you a basic idea of how well your site's SEO is doing. There's also https://t.co/UjjhjK3jC9

[Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch]

Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom

#programming

[Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch]

The more programming languages I learn the less unique they all seem. It's just the same features and implementations. Only thing that really changes is the syntax.

It makes arguments over which programming language is the best seem EXTREMELY stupid.

#programming

[Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch]

What on earth is HR smoking?

"like a tree ready for wiring to discover the bonsai within" 🤣

Also, why is Python getting used for the frontend!?

#jobhunting

[Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch]

@JoshJosephB Recursion is a thing of beauty.

I keep staring at this function. The way it works is so damn stunning. Granted it's a whole lot easier to do this in an imperative language. But the beauty of this solution is something you won't find in an imperative language

[Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch]

Recursion + Collector functions are absolutely breaking my brain 💀🤯

#programming #lisp #scheme

[Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch]

@JoshJosephB A collector function is basically just a function which, in this case, get's called with the newely constructed list and a variable saying how many times the new atom was inserted to the left and to the right.

[Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch]

The cool thing about Lisp is that it's naturally obfuscated 🤣

#programming #scheme #lisp

[Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch]

Recursion for the win!

#programming #scheme #lisp

[Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch]

Programming languages are just Turing-complete configuration formats for their compilers/interpreters that tell them what to generate.

#programming

[Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch]

I am blown away by "The Little Schemer" by Daniel P. Friedman and Matthias Felleisen.

Instead of taking the typical academic approach of throwing definitions at you it trains your pattern recognition via small questions and answers.

#lisp #scheme #programming

[Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch]

On today's episode of bot-watch news: "Bots are beating cancer". Brought to you by Threads' algorithm

#bots

[Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch]

"Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp." - Greenspun's tenth rule of programming

[Shardul @isharduld]

Build something real with vanilla code first, then you’ll know when frameworks actually solve problems versus when they’re just expensive duct tape

Crude example - learn to implement your own linked list with raw pointers and malloc() before reaching for GLib.

This can be extended to JavaScript and more…

[Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch]

@_avdept Phoenix has a very similar router. I suspect both generate something similar to a nested array.

Clojure on the other hand couldn't be bothered with a pretty API like Rail's 😅

[Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch]

I never considered creating a router as nested arrays. I mean it's a good way to internally represent a router but I'm so used to seeing routers in a more OOP style of programming where you create a router instance.

#webdev #clojure

[Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch]

It's reasons like this that I believe learning programming from a generalist approach is so extremely important. You get to see many different view points. You get to see the same problem solved in dozens of unique ways.

Specialization leads to tunnel vision.

#programming

[Jean-Jacques Strydom @psionicalch]

I never considered creating a router as nested arrays. I mean it's a good way to internally represent a router but I'm so used to seeing routers in a more OOP style of programming where you create a router instance.

#webdev #clojure