Thank you everyone for the kind comments. It means a lot. It’s easy to forget how many people were watching these shenanigans. I’ll join Shopify in early February and I plan to continue doing the podcast with Jake. You should subscribe to it :3 Jake: Gonna miss ya, mate. 203 was one of my consistently favorite things to do.
I hope the series continues to be as good as it was, but I don't think it will be easy to find a replacement. Thanks for everything and best of luck with your new adventure
All the best in the future Surma! I really hope that this series continues in some kind! I learned so much from timing, memory leaks to colors! I often remember "that was in 203” and look it up again. Thank you very much!
I'll miss you mate! We have a loose plan to carry on the podcast together (let's face it, the podcast was always loosely planned). As for the video series… I guess I'll have to make a new friend
Hope this keeps going, 203's conversational format is great for deep dives on web tech that would otherwise live in everyones backlog of oneday-i'll-learn-why-x. And sometimes for other industries too like explanations in here are useful starting to demystify WHY pre-multiplication behaves like it does for SFX compositing software.
You guys have been an inspiration and I will miss the energy between you two. Thanks for all the episodes - I've learned a lot! And Surma: all the best to you.
Thank you both for THE BEST dev talk series that was bringing a lot of humor, knowledge and amusement. I was always happy when I saw that new video was released because I knew that I will have a great time. I will miss your duo together altho it is great to hear that you will contiunue your podcasts. It will be hard to find a new person to not make this series stiff but I hope that Jake will find one. I wish you all best Surma! Good luck in a new place, have fun and be health. Thank you both for the great work!
This hit the feels, esp after seeing the tweet, I HAD to check if there was a farewell episode… aaand it’s there!😭 We hope you keep doing your best and bringing awesomeness to the web in your new role, Surma! (P.S. here’s me hoping Surma will make surprise appearances in the future and looking forward to podcasts!) (P.S.P.S. I’ll be selfish and ask Jake to pls never leave)
I've used "isolation: isolate" in my react design system to create isolated complex component with multiple elements with different z-index. It's really helpful! Surma, thanks for all that videos! Jake, I'm hoping to see more of this show!
Holy cow, that layering trick with CSS grid just blew my mind! I've been dealing A LOT with the issues that come up when using absolute positioning for this. Thank you! Really hope you keep this series going somehow ;)
All the best Surma! I also hope this series would keep on, as there's nothing else like that, and it'll be a great loss to have that discontinued. If not at Google, please go independent with Jake :)
All the best! Will miss this video format of just Jake and Surma having a go at each other's patience. Hope you guys can atleast keep the podcast up. And not to sidetrack too far from Surma's farewell, do we, by any sheer stroke of luck, get Paul Lewis on this format?
Good luck Surma! For me, you were always kind of a representative of all web developers here in Germany 😁 Nevertheless I hope the 203 series will be continued!
I’ve done a ton of crossfading and I have these to say: 1. Grid overlaying is the ticket, intrinsic size is key and absolute positioning I have used with far too many hacks 2. I would’ve absolutely “shipped it” when Surma said so 😅 3. I feel like such an ant now, because I had a very foggy idea of what any of this meant, and as I said, I’ve done a ton of cross-fading 😬
I have tried to solve this problem in Flutter but it is a challenge there how to isolate blending two widgets together. I enjoyed listening to you diving into this problem. :)
Really, Surma?! That's very sad as I love those videos with you both! I still remember when we met at View Source in Amsterdam. If it's really true, I hope you'll do fine wherever you'll go!
I'm sad about Surma leaving but also because there was no mention of occlusion and emission, which is what opacity/alpha should be split into. Furthermore, 1 minus alpha isn't possible with HDR/WCG content because 1.0 / 255 isn't the maximum possible code value and inverting light intensity in a linear working space is ill-defined as far as I understand.
huh, as far as I know, alpha is independent of the space of the colour channels. Eg, if your colours are sRGB or rec2020, your alpha channel is still linear 0-1. What colour space does things differently? All implemented compositing operations definitely treat alpha as 0-1.
And after this morphing between dom elements, such as skeleton loaders reshaping to the text they are placeholding or when hydrating some area like turning a select into buttons.
There was a cross-fade function defined in CSS Images 4 at some point. It's still there in www.w3.org/TR/css-images-4/#cross-fade-function, though refers to Level 3, which doesn't define it. :-D Anyway, I think _that_ function should rather be used for cross-fading two elements instead of using opacity and mix-blend-mode. None-the-less, mix-blend-mode: lighter; might still be useful in some cases, though.
I mention that function in the episode. But it's only for images, so it could only work with element with an intermediate "to image" step, and that gets very complicated when it comes to clipping. The blend mode solution doesn't have these issues
