Orthodox: the API was set down in the specification generations ago. Even if it’s wildly out of date and doesn’t make sense anymore, we’re still going to support it. …

If you’re using Figma for UI/UX design, Pagedraw can now turn those mockups into React code for your developers — We are super happy to announce that Pagedraw now supports Figma designs! Our mission is to help companies build delightful products. The key to that is speed of iteration and efficient collaboration between the Design, Development and Product teams. With the new Pagedraw<>Figma integration, you can help the Design team…

Originally posted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16467387. This is Pagedraw’s Launch HN post, preserved here for posterity. Click the link to see the original comments. Hi HN! We’re Jared and Gabe (YC W18), the founders of Pagedraw (https://pagedraw.io). Pagedraw is a UI builder that turns mockups into React code. Pagedraw lets you annotate…

Like developer tools? Web development? Compilers? Join us at Pagedraw, a startup that gives designers the superpowers of developers. Founded by Harvard undergrads, Pagedraw solves the problem of time wasted writing HTML and CSS code. At the core, we are a compiler that takes as input drawings like this: Pagedraw…

Netflix has a program called “chaos monkey” to make servers, processes, and requests fail at random, even in production, to force themselves to reliably handle the failures inherent in distributed systems. In distributed systems, things will sometimes fail at random, so robust error handling is required. Chaos Monkey itself does…

In C, and thus Objective-C, a switch statement only works with integers, and the case labels all need to be constant. Strings seem like a natural thing to switch on, especially for command line interfaces. Unfortunately, they cannot be reduced to integer constants, so we cannot use them. …

In Objective-C, you can only call an overridden implementation of a method from an immediate subclass of that method’s class. This works well to provide encapsulation, and based on the way super is handled, a super method implementation cannot be called from any but the immediate superclass (inheritance notwithstanding). This…

Note: This is not an original idea of mine. For a good explanation of what Higher Order Messaging is, see this paper. The Idea There are some great implementations of higher order messaging, but this is not one of them. Instead, this is an implementation of a HigherOrderMessage object, which is designed…