mthwl

Thanks! I’m of two minds about this.

The previous commenter is probably correct in one sense. Whatever version of React I was working with in 2017 is surely unsupported now and lol-nobody-uses-that-anymore-grandpa. And maybe everyone works with NextJS or Vue or Svelte or NewerJS.

But, at the same time, I’ve been programming long enough to understand that experience with a particular framework isn’t specifically valuable. The ability to learn and understand how software works and then help build/improve it is valuable and transferable.

Also, perhaps my least favorite part of web development is the ”everything is an app now” shift that happened however many years ago.

I kind of just maybe want a job writing high quality, accessible, rigorous html and css? Is that a thing? Jobs for companies that leverage static site generators maybe?

Hi! Launched Reasonable Colors today. It’s an open-source color system for building accessible, nice-looking color palettes.

The reason this might be interesting is that it’s built programmatically within the LCH color space. All of the color shades are pinned within certain relative luminance ranges, which means all of their contrast ratios end up being rather uniform.

You can do simple “shade number math” to find high-contrast combinations.

Examples: - Pick a color, move 2 shades apart, contrast ratio guaranteed to be at least 3:1 - Pick a color, move 3 shades apart, contrast ratio guaranteed to be at least 4.5:1 - Pick a color, move 4 shades apart, contrast ratio guaranteed to be at least 7:1

Check it out, feedback welcome!

We’ll be firmly upper middle class, but I am aware that the housing market is pretty brutal at the moment.

If we moved, it wouldn’t be for financial benefit, looking for a quality of life improvement. Our bet would be that the social safety net (healthcare, public school quality, etc) would help blunt the higher cost of living.

Thanks, but this isn’t helpful.