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Maggie Appleton
@Mappletons
Staff Research Engineer at @GitHubNext. But actually a designer. Writes about design, dev, & anthropology. Also on Bluesky 🦋 @maggieappleton.com
London, England
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    Maggie Appleton
    @Mappletons
    Apr 21, 2024
    I would murder someone to have my web development experience feel like this
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    Soleio
    @soleio
    Apr 21, 2024
    Software designers of tomorrow should study games like Tiny Glade as they look and behave more like where software will end up: 3D/spatial, adaptive, contextual, high-level abstractions, pleasing
    Tiny Glade 🏰🌿 out NOW on Steam ✨
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    Tiny Glade 🏰🌿 out NOW on Steam ✨
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    Maggie Appleton
    @Mappletons
    Nov 4, 2024
    New creation in the works. Should be fully baked by March. Most impressive thing I’ve ever done without having any clue what I’m doing.
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    Maggie Appleton
    @Mappletons
    Apr 15, 2020
    Nerding hard on digital gardens, personal wikis, and experimental knowledge systems with @_jonesian today. We have an epic collection going, check these out... 1. @tomcritchlow's Wikifolders: tomcritchlow.com/wiki/
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    Maggie Appleton
    @Mappletons
    Jul 5, 2020
    A spectrum of digital gardening. I like to think of it as the happy middle between chaos streams and full-scale cultivated performance.
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    Maggie Appleton
    @Mappletons
    Jan 1, 2023
    A small but beautiful project by @raunofreiberg: uiplaybook.dev Pattern library of common UI components. With a detailed breakdown of expected functionality, best practices, accessibility concerns, and implementation tips for each. Great example of 💯 design docs
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    Maggie Appleton
    @Mappletons
    Jul 16, 2021
    We launched the first real version of Just JavaScript! 👉 justjavascript.com An interactive course written by @dan_abramov on mental models for JavaScript. I made all the visual explanations & animations. We’ve been working on the beta for ages. Feels good to have it live
    Just JavaScript
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    Maggie Appleton
    @Mappletons
    Apr 8, 2024
    Okay, hear me out: no longterm career goals. Max 6 month goals. Fog of war is too thick beyond that. Future me is totally unknowable to current me. She’s obsessed with things I don’t know exist. Current me predictive goals sound naïve/boring to her. If I do things well on a
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    Maggie Appleton
    @Mappletons
    Dec 16, 2019
    With all the React Suspense buzz going around, some of you might be wondering WTF it is / why it matters I made a handy one-page guide to help explain A good companion to @eggheadio's new courses by @kentcdodds 👉 bit.ly/uisusp and @chantastic 👉bit.ly/appsusp
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    Maggie Appleton
    @Mappletons
    Jun 10, 2023
    Overdue. The threadbois will never stop.
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    Maggie Appleton
    @Mappletons
    Dec 6, 2019
    The hardest thing about JavaScript is not knowing JavaScript. So far I've stumbled along without 100% grokking `this` or prototypical inheritance – filled in quite a few holes sketchnoting @iamtylerwclark's new @eggheadio course 👉Advanced JS Fundamentals: bit.ly/advanjs
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    Maggie Appleton
    @Mappletons
    Jun 12, 2023
    I have a bunch of sketchy interface ideas for using language models as epistemic rubber ducks, aka. reflective thinking partners🐥 They've been sitting in Figma for 8 months gathering dust! They all felt too obvious to me to be worth sharing...
    Language Model Sketchbook, or Why I Hate Chatbots
    Language Model Sketchbook, or Why I Hate Chatbots
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    Maggie Appleton
    @Mappletons
    Jun 2, 2024
    Just finished up an intense but wonderful few days at @localfirstconf. Did a new talk on why language models making software development faster, easier, and cheaper will create a golden age of home-cooked software & barefoot developers. Slides and transcript below👇
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    Maggie Appleton
    @Mappletons
    May 4, 2023
    I've been obsessed with this GIF for a while. Feels like such a concise, apt representation of good design. But I couldn't find the source! Finally found the creator today – @ralphammer OG article: ralphammer.com/make-me-think/ Ralph's site is full of these beautifully animated gems
    GIF
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    Maggie Appleton
    @Mappletons
    Jun 9, 2023
    Big @dan_abramov fans at future of coding
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