govuk-form-builder
Picnic CSS
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MIT License | MIT License |
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govuk-form-builder
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Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
I build and maintain some libraries that are used by teams working on GOV.UK projects in Rails. Have been inundated with offers since their release, and they've gone on to be used in some fairly high profile things.
https://github.com/x-govuk/govuk-form-builder
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USWDS: The United States Web Design System
This is my side project, I'm a dev currently contracting at DfE. This library and the form builder[0] make working with the design system easier for Rails devs.
[0] https://govuk-form-builder.netlify.app/
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Meme, 2 images
If you dig around on GitHub you'll see most government departments have an organisation where they publish stuff. For example, here's the MoJ, DfE, Cabinet Office.
- Can I make a website entirely with Ruby?
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Why is uncoupled documentation bad?
This is definitely the best approach in my opinion, providing the people writing the docs are capable of contributing directly.
One of my projects[0] builds and deploys a static documentation site[1] on every push to master. The static site generator (Nanoc, in this case) then pulls in the library and uses it to publish its own documentation. All the examples are snippets of code[2] that are both displayed as-is and eval'd into the final output.
The guide can never be out of sync with the library.
[0] https://github.com/dfe-digital/govuk_design_system_formbuild...
[1] https://govuk-form-builder.netlify.app/
[2] https://github.com/DFE-Digital/govuk_design_system_formbuild...
Picnic CSS
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Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
This was about 10 years ago, where there was Bootstrap, Pure CSS and little more, so I published:
https://picnicss.com/
It went to the front page of Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8315616). At the time I was a student in Spain doing coding just for fun, so any job-related opportunity would be slim and with really bad pay (I had actually already worked a bit as a dev for a pittance).
Someone contacted me and offered some really fun freelancing projects for what at the time seemed like an absurdly ridiculous large amount of money, so much that I got a great designer friend involved and split the money so the project would be even better.
I learned many things from that and as my curiosity pumped me to keep learning. I read about cases of people making 500k+/year as "normal" devs (meaning, not managers, and also not famous). Most of my Spanish peers didn't even believe that existed at the time, and thought I was crazy believing those "obviously fake" blog posts. But I've been working for USA companies basically since then, and couldn't be happier/wouldn't look back.
- Picnic CSS β A beautiful CSS library to kickstart your projects
- CSS Only Navigation tutorial
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Show HN: Neat, the Minimalist CSS Framework
Picnic CSS:
https://picnicss.com/
My own and one of the older ones, almost 10 years ago, see the original Show HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8315616
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v8.0.2 is live!
Added support for Picnic CSS
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π20 Best CSS3 Library For Developers.
2. Picnic.css
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CSS Deep
franciscop/picnic - π A beautiful CSS library to kickstart your projects
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Open-source, not open-contribution
I've disabled Issues in some of my more popular but end-user libraries and I couldn't be happier. Specially notorious was a CSS library[1] where many of the issues were on the level of "hey can you give me the code for X" or "how do you do X" where X was a general CSS question and not related to the library at all. I've received a bit of hate when I closed some of my repos issues as a PR [2][3]:
> If you spot a bug or any other issue you may go to hell because this software is officially Bug Free(TM).
> part of offering these to the public through open software is maintaining them and allowing feedback from users.
> It seems umbrella.js project suffers the same desease.
I've noticed there was a strong push around 2016-2018 to recommend newbie programmers NOT to go to Stackoverflow, but instead to ask the questions straight in the Github issues. Turns out, the problem was low quality questions and not the medium at all, and that just converted an issue that StackOverflow had solved long ago into burnout for open source developers on Github.
There's so many entitled developers out there that will come and demand changes. Github needs to step up their game and give authors more powerful tools. It might make new devs feel less welcome, but the balance is tipped way too much to allow anyone to create massive spam for projects right now.
[1] https://picnicss.com/
[2] https://github.com/franciscop/picnic/pull/203/files
[3] https://github.com/franciscop/picnic/pull/202
What are some alternatives?
Rails Bootstrap Forms - Official repository of the bootstrap_form gem, a Rails form builder that makes it super easy to create beautiful-looking forms using Bootstrap 5.
Milligram - A minimalist CSS framework.
scripts-to-rule-them-all - Set of boilerplate scripts describing the normalized script pattern that GitHub uses in its projects.
UI kit - A lightweight and modular front-end framework for developing fast and powerful web interfaces
django-sql-dashboard - Django app for building dashboards using raw SQL queries
Primer - The CSS design system that powers GitHub
govuk_design_system_formbuild
Bootstrap - The most popular HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.
whitehall - Publishes government content on GOV.UK
humane-js - A simple, modern, browser notification system
Docusaurus - Easy to maintain open source documentation websites.
Cirrus - :cloud: The SCSS framework for the modern web.