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The SwiftUI Design System War: Composition vs Progressive Disclosure

Jacob’s Tech Tavern • 1530 implied HN points • 17 Mar 26
🪑 Design Patterns
  1. There are two main ways to build a SwiftUI design system: idiomatic view composition and a progressive-disclosure style that centralizes options into simpler initializers.
  2. Progressive disclosure can be pragmatic for large projects because it reduces API surface and makes components easier to use, even though it departs from SwiftUI conventions.
  3. Pick the approach that fits your team and project scale, weighing the trade-offs between idiomatic composition and pragmatic simplicity.

#138 The power of patterns

Design Lobster • 419 implied HN points • 04 Sep 23
🎨 Art & Illustration Patterns
  1. Toilet paper embossed with patterns is not just for aesthetics; it increases surface area for better grip and functionality.
  2. Patterns in design can convey stories and emotions without using words, adding depth and visual appeal.
  3. The right pattern can add value and uniqueness to a product, like the legal case involving a mathematician's copyrighted pattern on toilet paper.

Dress Me, You Fool!

SBJournal • 157 implied HN points • 17 Jan 24
🪞 Fashion & Beauty Patterns
  1. A dress is a complete outfit in one garment; it's about utility and style.
  2. Classic dress silhouettes like the A-line and sheath are timeless and versatile.
  3. Different dress styles require specific sewing techniques and tools, such as special needles for knits or a serger for speed and neat finishes.

Pattern Recognition

Things I Didn't Learn in School • 137 implied HN points • 22 Sep 23
🌍 World Politics Patterns
  1. Pattern recognition is crucial for accurately understanding and investing well.
  2. Human folly, whether by a CEO or political leader, can lead to negative outcomes like war or monetary problems.
  3. Cultural attitudes towards modernity can be measured through different indicators, like acceptance of homosexuality.
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More Impossible Things Before Breakfast

SCIENCE GODDESS • 58 implied HN points • 01 Apr 23
🔬 Science Patterns
  1. Amateur mathematicians discovered a single shape that can fill a plane irregularly without gaps
  2. This unique shape is called an 'einstein' tile and can only fill the plane in a disorderly manner
  3. The discovery challenges traditional beliefs and shows that even non-professionals can make significant contributions to mathematics

How things come to be as they are

Overthinking Everything • 349 implied HN points • 19 Feb 23
🔬 Science Patterns
  1. The theory of evolution explains the existence, creation, and extinction of things based on modifications and combinations of existing entities.
  2. Evolutionary processes are not confined to biological organisms but also apply to technologies, ideas (memes), and even inanimate objects like rocks.
  3. Understanding evolutionary theory can help in generating plausible explanations for how things came to be and in devising actions to shape the desired outcomes.

Back-end for Front-end Pattern in Ecommerce

Cristian’s Substack • 39 implied HN points • 10 Apr 23
🕹 Technology Patterns
  1. Back-end for Front-end (BFF) pattern helps reduce front-end complexity by acting as an interface between front-end and microservices/APIs.
  2. BFF pattern separates front-end requirements from back-end concerns, making the application easier to maintain and more resilient to API changes.
  3. Implementing BFF pattern can improve error handling, maintainability, and performance in an ecommerce platform by allowing for better control over API consumption and reducing network steps.

MutexProtected: A C++ Pattern for Easier Concurrency

awesomekling • 126 implied HN points • 06 Apr 23
🕹 Technology Patterns
  1. In C++, a RAII class like MutexLocker can automate locking and unlocking mutexes, avoiding manual calls.
  2. With MutexProtected in C++, combining mutexes and data types ensures safe mutex access through a callback method.
  3. Combining multiple fields under a single mutex in C++ simplifies concurrency management.

The Pleasure of Pattern

Software Design: Tidy First? • 45 HN points • 14 Feb 24
🎨 Art & Illustration Patterns
  1. Finding patterns in tasks like programming, music, and poker can be intensely satisfying and enjoyable.
  2. Music is full of patterns that can be discovered and enjoyed, especially through improvisation and communication.
  3. Seeing patterns in different activities like programming, music, and poker can lead to moments of satisfaction, indicating a brain wired to crave order and appreciate pattern recognition.

LLMs and Generative AI don't deal with concepts

Top Carbon Chauvinist • 1 HN point • 13 Apr 24
🕹 Technology Patterns
  1. LLMs and generative AI focus on patterns, not real concepts. They generate outputs based on learned data but don’t actually understand what those outputs mean.
  2. When asked to create an image, like an ouroboros, generative AI often misses the mark. It replicates the look without truly grasping the idea behind it.
  3. To get the desired result, people often have to give very detailed prompts, which means the AI is more about matching shapes than understanding or creating an actual concept.

How "new type" helps avoid production outages

Blog System/5 • 4 HN points • 09 Mar 24
🕹 Technology Patterns
  1. The 'new type' idiom in programming involves wrapping native types in domain-specific types to prevent errors when passing values to external APIs.
  2. Avoid using primitive types like integers or strings directly in your code base by creating new types like `Username` and `Size` for better code structure.
  3. Adopting the 'new type' pattern can help prevent production outages by catching issues like function argument swaps early on and enforcing correct usage through type safety.

Taking a little bit of magic out of AI

Notices to three friends • 1 implied HN point • 14 Dec 23
🔬 Science Patterns
  1. Classifiers in AI can identify objects based on superficial, correlated properties, rather than intrinsic characteristics.
  2. Machine learning methods are effective at finding these properties because they operate in a vast space of properties and can test them statistically.
  3. Humans differ from AI models in our ability to go beyond superficial correlations and strive to discover the truth by discarding existing categories.

Gestalt as pattern matching

radkat and other animals • 0 implied HN points • 15 Jan 24
📖 Philosophy Patterns
  1. Gestalt involves pattern matching in processing incoming reality
  2. Science focuses on discovering patterns, while religion emphasizes a higher power like God as the ultimate match
  3. The difference between scientific and religious perspectives lies in how they approach the unknown in the world