tl;dr 003
w/c 20212604
Oh hey greedy guts. Back for your fill of tl;dr? It’s May, and a lot is happening.
In this instalment, we’ve got a classic hits of second-hand news, straight out of the Slack Workspace doing the absolute most. If you’re vibin’ this, send it to a friend, say something controversial in the comments, or like, tweet about it.
#graphic-design-is-my-passion
This week was the next stage of the CMC global rebrand. It’s a complex, meaty, global project with a whole lot of moving parts, which means reworking and revisiting, sprinting and iterating. So it was all about killing darlings, finding gems…
It involved crushing on some classic DIA.tv Greg Sorensen idents, and looking at Refik Anodol and wondering, as ever, how the actual fuck.
Oh, we’re also nearly done with our next round of Karst identity with the insanely talented Helge Kiehl, which is super exciting to me because working in 3D is something we might never understand/do, but feel like is the answer to pretty much everything.
What else? Dunno. Wanna use Arizona by Dinamo soon. And this, it feels…. topical.
#code-city
No @dérg, it can’t be. Things happened in code-city this week, and our adoring audience needs to know what. So, you’re welcome.
It’s all sass, and a little bit nerdy in #code-city this week, luckily our Jr. Dev, “Pop-a-Manu” Lāne (aka Manu), has been keeping an eye out on the latest nerd news.
This week Netlify announced early access to On-Demand Builders which is “a new solution to improve build times for large sites on Netlify”, along with a proposal for the underlying concept known as Distributed Persistent Rendering (DPR)
Here’s a tl;dr (meta AF) from Manu on DPR.
“So say you have a large statically built Gatsby site with a few hundred, if not thousands of pages. Instead of building out the entire site with every new redeploy, you can choose to only render only the most important or most popular urls/ pages on your website (e.g. Home, About, Contact etc...), and then defer rendering the lesser used urls until they have been requested by a user trying to visit that url.
Say you have an old blog post from 2017 on baking a Pavlova and the only person to look at that page in 2 years is your Aunty. Only until she requests the Pav blog url is when we build out that page.”
Did that make any sense? Here’s a screen shot.
#vibe
#vibe; the perennial home of things that don’t belong in other channels. Lately we’ve been getting a bit meta, and debating what even belongs in #vibe.
While we’re generally on Apple’s side when it comes to privacy – having recently launched an app ourselves we’re well acquainted with how tightly the App Store reigns are held and will be keeping eyes on the antitrust court case with Epic Games.
We took cues from our friends at Fluff and had our own Moment for Beauty.
Turns out The Hamilton Mixtape didn’t teach us everything we needed to know about genocide by the British – and the Irish don’t love potatoes because they’re delicious (though it helps).
Speaking of things that don’t belong in other (or any) channels, Wonkbork continued to be as belligerent to his makers as ever. We’re still worried he’s becoming sentient..
…and Ellen still hates him.
#processes-and-platforms
Hey, y’all heard of this? It’s not Google Meet or Zoom, get around the underdog. Max 50 participants in a call, or by our count, all of Dog’s friends plus another 50. Money needs to change hands at some point to get to the golden 50 but what’s worse, paying for a product or being the product? 🤷♀️
Can’t decide if it’s better, worse, or the exact same yet but we definitely enjoy losing the cryptic share links.
Figma aquiring Visly was a thing we chatted about. We tried to get a intro to the team so we could check it out but they didn’t want a bar of us.
Seems like Figma is going to start doing more on the dev side of things. Don’t really see anything happening too quickly but no doubt there is some fun stuff coming. Speaking of fun Figma stuff - y’all got in and figjam’d yet? How are you using it? Let us know.
Some actual proccess-and-platforms content though - we’d love some help with bug reporting. We’ve been using Bugherd for years. It does it’s job well enough but it is… well, buggy and no one has a fun time using it. There are a couple others we’ve found and tested - Heurio which has some great resources on heuristic evaluation tools but didn’t really land when we asked Kev to use it.
We’re going to test Markup next and see what that craics about. Doesn’t look like it handles mobile too well either, which seems to be the main problem for all these tools.
What do you use? Did we miss the best of the lot?
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