efortis

there is a video of sketchpad here:

https://youtu.be/fC4nW2o-Rwk

  Location: Puerto Rico

  Remote: Yes

  Willing to relocate: Yes

  Technologies: React, Three, JS, TS, CSS, HTML

  Résumé/CV: https://ericfortis.com

  Email: efortis@gmail.com

My workaround was a editing a font with a much longer space char and with a 1/3 of a space of left padding on uppercase letters.

https://github.com/ericfortis/verdanacamel

The problem is that it looses tabular alignment, so I wrote an IDE plugin for tabularizing some blocks.

https://github.com/ericfortis/tabular-eye

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Similar to my font, emacs has a plugin that adds a little underscore.

https://codelearn.me/2025/02/24/emacs-glasses-mode.html

it is hard and a lot to learn, but you can learn it a little bit at a time.

I’ve gotten a few emails complimenting the format of this post below. It’s got fragment-links that scroll and highlight the corresponding part in the code snippet.

https://ericfortis.com/blog/freebsd-jails-network-setup

this release fixes a vulnerability reported 10 years ago

https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/319816

This is going to be one my next projects for experimenting with the Web Serial API. I got an old Ioline plotter that refuses to die. Any advise or tips for where to start with the SVG to Gcode conversion?

Tabular Eye. Aligns code without modifying it.

https://github.com/ericfortis/tabular-eye

The `security` man page on FreeBSD is a good example. Technical, but with guidance.

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=security

yes, I stopped reading it because of that, and because it felt AI generated.

Flash

A hiring manager asked me a question like those. I said: "sorry I'm not prepared, I don't remember from the top of my head." Right before that interview I was a solo founder. He said something like: "ok, so you just focus on the work?" "Yes." I got the job.

+1 I disabled all that and assigned a shortcut to: Call Inline Completion

I cannot instantly create a new file

Agreed, but if you use IdeaVim you can:

  :e src/my_new_file.txt

For quick edits I just use Vim, but disabling unused plugins speeds up startup quite a bit.

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Switching projects has abysmal performance

I reported that bug: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JUNIE-2563/Minor-UX-Slo...

True, I didn't mean to omit other solutions, I thought styled-components were deprecated after React 18.

CSS Modules are a simpler solution to cascading problems. They create unique class names, so your classes don't clash [1]. And they don't have the two main downsides of TW, which are readability [2] and tooling. Tooling for debugging and experimenting interactively with Chrome and FireFox DevTools.

[1] https://x.com/efortis/status/1888304658080256099

[2] https://github.com/ericfortis/tailwind-eye

Benchmarks?

v22.18 promoted type stripping from experimental

With immediate disclosure the provider can decide to shut down while it is fixed. Or to notify users and make it their decision. Or to be prepared with a diversified infra and switch over to a non-vulnerable path. e.g, BSDs are not affected by CopyFail

cool demo

they do get warm. some programs such as Apple Compressor seem to cap GPU usage to 50% even when cold. but e.g. ffmpeg spikes up temp

same here, but linking to the screenshots used for pixel diffing, which get committed to the repo.

https://github.com/ericfortis/mockaton/tree/main/pixaton-tes...

Not sure I follow the scenario this would solve.

For instance, currently you can conditionally change a parent based on its children. For example, this `pre` could either have 16px or 0px of padding. Zero when its direct child is a `code` element.

  pre {
    padding: 16px;

    &:has(> code) {
      padding: 0;
    }
  }

The simple solution is :enabled:hover. For example:

  .btn {
    &:enabled:hover {
      background: dodgerblue;
    }
    &:disabled {
      background: gray;
    }
  }

Thank you anyway, that gave me an idea for implementing it.

Here's the prototype https://x.com/efortis/status/2039539455128686677

HTTP mock servers

I’m working on mockaton, which is mainly a filename convention based router.

https://github.com/ericfortis/mockaton

Are you Nick?

I edited a proportional for coding, I’ve been using it for 10 years and it’s great except for tabular alignment.

So it would be nice if IDEs rich-rendered regions column aligned.

eg, object literals in JS, in which space separator are as a wide as needed to align the values.

JetBrains MPS has a decision table rendering for DSLs, which is similar to what I described.

yep, sometimes I switch to mono before sharing my screen

If you prefer proportional fonts, here's one that pads a 1/3 of a space before uppercase letters, so it makes camelCase more legible.

https://github.com/ericfortis/verdanacamel