var sadness = “sadness”

I hate code like this, it smells like a failure of imagination or implementation or both:

export const INCREMENT_COUNTER = 'INCREMENT_COUNTER';
export const DECREMENT_COUNTER = 'DECREMENT_COUNTER';

Found in the otherwise wonderfully helpful and well considered simple-redux-boilerplate. I’m sure there’s a decent reason in there somewhere.

Myopic version-control islands

Constructive rant on the state of GUI git clients. (All version control systems, but really, it’s mostly all git). “your UI shouldn’t look as if your database had just thrown up all over it”. This is what I’m reminded of when I look at SourceTree. It feels like someone took a window and just threw […]

The effect of adding “font_options” : [“gray_antialias”] to Preferences.sublime-settings on a retina-screen Mac. Not sure I like it, colors get really muted. (via Josh at Sublime Text Tips) Color theme is Oceanic Next, font is Source Code Pro. update: Reverted to subpixel_antialias, at smallish font sizes, the letterforms degrade, ascender widths becomes irregular, vertical rhythm […]