tl;dr 004
w/c 20201705
Missed us, did ya? Good thing we’re back with hilarious in-jokes, insights and irreverence – it’s tl;dr 004.
And just like that, we’ve kept this going for nearly two months, and there are literally 1000 of you. Welcome back to the latest overshare from the Slack Workspace still doing the most.
#graphic-design-is-my-passion
Every kid of the 90s loved David Carson, right? He was the seed of our thinking on an upcoming project for PepsiCo in the UK. We’re pretty stoked with how it’s coming along. It’s not full on Raygun, but it’s definitely bringing up a lot of good memories. And because the world’s a creepy place, Instagram started reminding us we could watch David Carson’s Masterclass. Which then reminded us we’re big fans of the work Gretel did for them a few months back.
#code-city
This week we determined that all code is spaghetti. You can straighten it out, but by the time you do, it’ll be cold. Better to eat it hot and accept that it all winds up the same on the other end.
Code Swaps gave us a window into a world where you can work collaboratively with other developers online in a workspace. If rubber-duck debugging doesn’t cut the mustard, just replace the inanimate duck with a human who knows how to code. Or a duck that knows how to code.
The hunt for a Headless Horseman continued with candidates including Shogun, a codeless(ish[looking]) E2E platform with pagebuilder support. It also seems like we aren’t the only ones trying to build a platform-agnostic headless Ecommerce boilerplate, with Elliot Store peddling one-click checkout snippets for aspiring post-pandemic entrepreneurs.
Zyla offers us a pre-built Ecommerce boilerplate including your front-end weapon of choice (Gatsby / Next / Nuxt), for use with a Dola or Vercel Ecommerce back-end. Encouraging to see their tech roadmap matching our current stack for front-end and content management (Gatsby / Sanity). Will we replace Shopify with Vercel? Find out next time on Only a Nerd Would Even Care.
#vibe
Friday? More like Friyay, am I right? Every week we celebrate with a high quality Friyay image curated by our DD Flynn. He’s been unfalteringly reliable so far, but with a trip to the NT planned, we were prepared for a demoralising couple of weeks while he was away.
Fortunately, he surprised us this morning with another banger of an image.
Our apologies, Flynn. We should have never doubted your commitment to Friyay.
#processes-and-platforms
Turns out Flynn is flavour of the week. The specific flavour? #vibe, and salt. This week he really set the standard for saltiness, one that we can only aspire to reach:
Indeed, Figma can sometimes be a bit of an ass when you’re coming from Adobe or another design software. But it makes up for it with features straight out of the future, something you might expect to only see through shades like these.
The range of plugins available in Figma are unparalleled – like Pitchdeck Presentation Studio (no, we’re not part of a Figmatic affiliate program (yet), we just really love their stuff).
Pitchdeck is a plugin that exports Figma layers as PDFs/PowerPoint/Keynote/Google Slides etc, so it’s perfect for exporting something like a presentation. It means we can work with tools that play to our strengths, and translate our outputs into files our clients and partners vibe with too.
This week we found out that there was an update that allows us to link to other slides or external URLs. Pretty cool stuff.
Speaking of updates, we keep getting hit with this notification in Slack:
We didn’t really find it useful when we last integrated it. but that was a while ago. Does anyone know what the Figma app actually does in Slack?
Let us know if you think it’s worth clicking “Yes, allow”
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