Tarek Zaher

[Tarek Zaher @tarekdevelops]

I’m new here so I thought a get-to-know-me thread may be in order! 🧵

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And special shoutout to runner-up @tarekdevelops for his Ambient Backgrounds submission: https://t.co/YhdHQRZgOC

I loved fiddling with the sliders in the editor experience, and the output is 🤩

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3.5. Simple complex is always better than complex complex. Take chess: on its face its rules are fairly straightforward but the complexity that emerges is almost infinite. Now think of how complicated taxes are. Make stuff that's more like chess and less like taxes.

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I’ve been making my own board game for fun lately (think a combination of Risk and Catan with some fun twists) but it has given me a deeper belief in these product principles that apply equally as well to software 🧵

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3. Functional Harmony > Raw Functionality. It's so tempting to pack in every feature you can think of but the truth is that the more layers of complexity you add the more daunting your product is to new users.

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2. The player’s (or user’s) intuition is almost always correct—if your functionality doesn’t match it, whatever you’re making would probably be better if it did.

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1. Make something bad and share it with others—the game I arrived at is nothing like my first idea. If I had spent weeks perfecting every aesthetic detail before testing robustly with friends I would have had to completely start over or (more likely) just given up.

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Hyped! 🍞🍞🍞 (<—my bread ready for some jam)

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It's okay if you want to call it a comeback.

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@jamesckemp I’d expect it to append personally!

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@clifgriffin Donald Hoffman has done some fascinating research on the question of whether evolution favors the perception of reality as it truly is (tl;dr he thinks it doesn’t) which I’ve found to be pretty interesting/persuasive in this area! https://t.co/baLwqybNgG

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@pootlepress These kinds of product pages have been replicated using three.js + GSAP (see: https://t.co/UCWNZumvoI) both of which you can use in WordPress via https://t.co/iXRbKXxNZL and https://t.co/kd18eoiVGD So it would still take tons of custom code but possible!

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Feels good! Next stop: Submitting to https://t.co/UuuOjCa86v🤞

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The primary reason I decided to learn Next.js for my personal site was to play with the seamless page transitions you can see here when I click my blogpost. Curious if there’s a good solution for this in WordPress yet, I haven’t really been able to find anything

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I have to come up with a Business Name to publish my WooCommerce plugins under. Welcoming any advice! Seems like vague yet evocative is the way to go? What do you think of “Platonic”

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My dilemma w/ AI tools is I enjoy problem-solving, learning, losing myself in a flow state. It’s how I freely choose to spend much of my time. Offering to take these pleasures of my plate feels a little like offering to go to my friends’ houses and beat them at board games for me

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Will also make for a great UI playground (current UI is trash but proudly hand-made!) For instance, experimenting here with color-coded heartbeat monitor style mini-graph to display current wpm instead of the actual live numbers which I found too distracting. Fun to play with!

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I made a tool that helps you increase your typing speed while also bettering your soul! Track your average wpm and accuracy as you absorb one of the most important books of all time in digestible, daily chunks. Check it out here: https://t.co/l5BUPjTyUV

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I really just wanted something I could do each morning to warm my fingers up and improve my typing that was also productive/meaningful. Nicomachean Ethics has natural section breaks built-in and is severely underrated imo so it felt like the perfect choice!

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@troychaplin Patterns could be epic, I think some people just want a plug and play solution where they only have to click a few buttons out of the box for it to work, but I personally prefer ability to fully customize and control so I’m a fan of that approach