feathericons.com, using them for pqina.nl/filepond, very clean and minimal SVGs

I moved away from Dropbox because it couldn't deal with node_modules, it would just be syncing for hours. You could exclude the folder, but that's just tedious to do for all your projects. They don't support exlusion patterns, something like .dbignore would be amazing but are unresponsive to requests. See this topic from 2014.

I've canceled my Dropbox Pro and moved to STACK which does support ignore patterns ( it's is a Dutch service, files are stored in The Netherlands ( which to me is a plus as well ) ). I'm not sure if it's available for customers outside of The Netherlands.

Someone posted a link to Resilio Sync in Dropbox topic, they apparently also support ignore patterns.

Twitter / FronteersNL Slack ( Dutch Front-end Community ) / WIP / Indie Hackers ( a little bit )

Make sure the contrast is acceptable ( test foreground and background color values here: contrastchecker.com ). If you have control over both the text and hero image it's a matter of composition.

• If you don't know what hero image or text is going to be shown ( for instance when they're user defined ), you can improve contrast by adding a dark or bright overlay.

• You can add the overlay on top of the entire image, or add a background color to the text element.

• For FilePond I've opted for a gradient overlay, to make this look better than the default gradient overlay it's best to use an easing method. I'm using <canvas> so have to do the blending with JavaScript.
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• If you're using CSS you can use finely tuned linear gradients ( do note that these might impact performance ).
  larsenwork.com/easing-gradien…

For more info, read this article on CSS-tricks: css-tricks.com/design-conside…

Telegram is a horribly confusing communication medium. Fight me.
- Difficult to find when, where, why and how someone @'s you
- Difficult to track multiple conversations, or jump back to an earlier conversation
- No groups? I think? I'm not sure.
- Took me ages to find out there's a Telegram MacOS desktop client and I should use that to login. Yes I know, I'm a dummy.
- It just seems very opaque.

Another communication platform could work better. Certainly, as WIP grows the problems above will only get bigger.

I've decided to go with Gumroad.com to circumvent this problem, they handle VAT.

Self-replicating organisms gone haywire.

I couldn't be bothered so went with Gumroad, they handle it for me so I can focus on my products.

I work on own projects and two client projects. When I'm not working, it's the own projects that linger, the client projects I stop thinking about when I close my text editor.

To be completely honest, I think this will only motivate me to game the system. I have occasionally "shipped" on a Sunday because I've answered a support request. It's not really shipping in my mind, but I just wanted to hold on to that number so much.

The number doesn't really represent a healthy work/life balance. I think shipping 365 days a year without taking a break isn't considered healthy. When I started out I checked of todo's daily to keep that number going, but now I just like the todo history page it creates. The streak has a really prominent place on the homepage but does it really represent what wip.chat is all about ( is it about shipping or about having a community that helps each other ship )? How about the number resets at the start of each month? Or is lowered when you miss a day? These are some questions that popped into my mind while contemplating the streak.

I think I'll let go of my streak today. Not because I'm for or against paying to retain it, but because I just realized that it's not the reason why I'm using wip.chat