Kevin Yank

A quick writeup of my Apple Vision Pro demo experience. TL;DR: It’s fun! You should try it!

https://kevinyank.com/posts/apple-vision-pro-demo-review/

I’d buy an Apple Vision Pro if #Apple freed it from the constraints of the App Store. If they want to usher in an age of “spatial computing”, they need to let it be a computer, like a Mac, not an iPad. Only for an open platform could I justify that cost to myself.

Gotta take my iPad Pro M4 to the Apple Store because a vertical stripe about 1cm wide has become unresponsive to touch and Apple Pencil input. 🍋

Feeling lucky to be attending the TechDiversity Awards tonight, helping to represent Tech Career Paths 4 Girls, who are nominated for an award. I’ve been spending my Social Impact leave days at Culture Amp to help them polish up the videos that make up their choose-your-own-career experience for school-age girls.

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Build the Web

Make pixels change colour with code, to create beautiful, accessible experiences.

As Director of Front End Engineering at Culture Amp, I lead a practice of about 50 engineers to build interfaces that help users create a better world of work. After more than 20 years in the field, I continue to learn and explore what is possible on the Web.

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Use Tailwind CSS prefixes for shared design system components

Surprisingly little has been written about how to use Tailwind with design systems or shared components, when both those components and the app consuming them are styled with Tailwind. Tailwind’s prefix option is specifically designed to allow for this, but it’s a somewhat ugly solution that we did our best to avoid at Culture Amp until recently. Here’s everything we learned, and why we’re ultimately embracing prefix.

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Know your tools

Technology is a superpower. Make it work for you.

One of the gifts of a career in software development is the ability to automate away your own problems with custom software. I love to explore the little-known features and extension points in the technology I use, particularly in the Apple ecosystem.

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Assume ChatGPT is Lying

In an industry where expertise is currency, a tool that lets us all pretend to be experts to each other is very dangerous indeed.

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Personal stuff. Highs and lows.

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