Welcome to my PinkLetter. A short, weekly, technology-agnostic, and pink newsletter where we cultivate timeless skills in web development.
My Ramblings This Week
When’s the last time you sent a thank you to a stranger on the internet?
You’d be surprised how so few people do that. And you’d be double surprised by what happens when you do so.
Here’s Swyx giving me a shoutout on his podcast—I almost choked on my coffee when I heard it half asleep this morning.
Elsewhere on the Web
Opaque Types by Alexey Berezin
TypeScript, (un)like Elm and Haskell, has a structural type system.
Riccardo: I miss nominal types in TypeScript!
Data Flow in Remix by Jim Nielsen
With Remix, your UI becomes a function of state across the network, not just locally.
Riccardo: The time is ripe to give Remix a try.
The Right Space Around Headings in Web Typography by Oliver Schöndorfer
We dive into the spacing around his headings, to structure his website better, talk about font sizes for headings, how to style captions, and I adore his marginalia and favicon.
Riccardo: Freelancing is teaching me more and more that design is fundamental. So I’m pimping my types.