Nick Matantsev

Web UI development - React, a11y, automation, teamwork

[Nick Matantsev @unframework]

@ikeough @fredric_ @WebAMV Indeed, I have a to-do item to support "bake-only" lights that get turned off afterwards. Using emissive materials has been a good workaround so far though (i.e. glowy boxes instead of point lights)! Doesn't work so well for spot/directional though.

[Nick Matantsev @unframework]

@0xca0a @BryanChrisBrown @giuliozausa @NikkitaFTW Not sure if could adapt LGL itself for this because it does not render occluded pixels out of the box? But the https://t.co/s8njUvVU3j package could definitely be "productionized" for faithful offline pre-baking. Hard parts are auto-UV-unwrapping logic and just tuning, etc.

[Omar Rizwan @rsnous]

it strikes a chord because it reframes the problem of 'how to make long-lasting software' around people and culture, rather than coming up with the perfect technology platform

[Nick Matantsev @unframework]

@NoraJKS Is the Nations arcade open yet? Still saving points for that long-legged bear...

[Scott Hanselman 🌮 @shanselman]

@mleitz1 I actually do work here. And the thing is, everything you said can be true without working 80 hour weeks or being toxic.

[Scott Hanselman 🌮 @shanselman]

Should you get into software engineering only for the money?!? #CodeTok https://t.co/Mgbp26YMsK

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Once you’ve worked an environment where you move faster *because* of tests, you cannot unsee this.

Yet so much of the industry still sees tests as a waste of time - thanks to leaders who never saw these befits first-hand.

There’s a reason tests are baseline at all of big tech.

[Dan Grover @DanGrover]

I wouldn't mind living in a world where that's a virtue people are happy to signal a bit more.

[Nick Matantsev @unframework]

Even I got to have a brief but fun work adventure in this office... 🙌

[Mark Kryshtalskyj 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @mkryshtalskyj]

End of an era. Thanks for the memories, 80 Spadina. 😞😭🤗

[Nick Matantsev @unframework]

My post about getting TypeORM to work with Next.js and TypeScript #DEVCommunity https://t.co/f6tu9QpDEi

[Andrew Clark @acdlite]

Writing code is among the least important things you do as a senior engineer, even as an IC. But I still extremely enjoy it!

[Nick Matantsev @unframework]

Experimenting with using React without any event callbacks: https://t.co/MbI7jyKnex

[Nick Matantsev @unframework]

Wish there was a way to wrap a React hook to be "optional" - e.g. completely unmounted if some condition is not met; is there some kind of a composition helper for hooks out there?

[BekahHW @BekahHW]

Feeling like you belong brings so many superpowers with it.

[Pavel A. Samsonov @PavelASamsonov]

feature designers: creativity comes from constraints!

users: oh cool can you make the ui accessible to me?

feature designers: not like that

[Aaron Levie @levie]

This is the most exciting period for enterprise software that we’ve ever been in. Even amidst rapid adoption of modern cloud tools in recent years, 90% of the world’s knowledge workers are now getting them for the first time. We’re still in the early innings folks.

[Laurie @laurieontech]

Friendly reminder that written communication almost always comes across as more terse/harsh than you intended.

Good to be mindful of in these remote times!