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Daniel W. Robert
@danielwrobert.bsky.social
Front-End Engineer and Engineering Manager.
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Reaching out to all Americans through the media to explain how decreasing funding of the NIH will have irreversible harm for developing therapies for all diseases. Please spread the word to your families and friends and contact your congressional representatives.
www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
Science under siege: Trump cuts threaten to undermine decades of research
Sweeping layoffs, funding freezes and executive orders have provoked outcry among federal researchers and their university partners, who fear that science itself is under siege.
www.nbcnews.com
February 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Reposted by Daniel W. Robert
This is what NIH-funded research leads to. Cures for disease.
nature.com Nature @nature.com · Feb 20
A two-and-a-half-year-old girl shows no signs of a rare genetic disorder, after becoming the first person to be treated for the motor-neuron condition while in the womb.

https://go.nature.com/41a7Zzj
Rare genetic disorder treated in womb for the first time
The child, who is now almost three years old, shows no signs of the often fatal motor neuron disease.
go.nature.com
February 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM
The nullish coalescing operator (??) is a relatively new addition to the JavaScript language that returns the right operand when the left operand is null or undefined, and otherwise returns the left operand.
JavaScript’s Nullish Coalescing Operator
The nullish coalescing operator (??) is a relatively new addition to the JavaScript language (introduced in ES2020). It is a logical operator that returns the right side operand when the left side operand is null or undefined, and otherwise returns the left side operand. It is similar to the logical OR operator (||), however it checks for "nullish" values, as opposed to the broader truthy/falsy values.
dwr.io
January 31, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I posted about my explorations on catching up on GitHub Discussions, Issues, and Pull Requests using AI.

I've covered some gotchas around exporting data and integrating it with AI tools for quick summaries and insights to boost productivity.
Using AI to Summarize GitHub Communications
Recently, a team mate of mine mentioned that they have been using AI to quickly get caught up on long communication threads in Github Discussions, Issues, and Pull Requests. This sparked my curiosity as and seemed like something that could offer a big productivity boost for me, especially as an Engineering Manager. So I decided to explore a good workflow for doing this myself.
dwr.io
January 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
The display: contents; rule in CSS is a helpful display value that effectively makes an element disappear visually while keeping its children in the document flow.

Read more in my post below!
CSS Display Contents
The display: contents; rule in CSS is a unique display value that tells CSS not to treat the targeted item as an actual element in the DOM and, instead, treat the children of the target element as direct children of the parent element. It is then essentially treated by CSS as if you set the target element to display: none;
dwr.io
December 28, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Reposted by Daniel W. Robert
Scroll gallery effect using CSS grid and scroll-driven animations ✨

- split images into layers
- lay out images in stacked layers with same grid structure
- animate the size of the center image
- animate the layers to reveal with different timings
November 22, 2024 at 2:57 AM
Reposted by Daniel W. Robert
tragic day. external, blue hour, bustling 1930s new york city. the sunlight peered, suspicious & steep, through the streets of manhattan, casting the avenues in deep, dusty shadow. late protection payment meant i was held at gunpoint by two of Flanagan's boys & made to write my first index.html file
How did you get into web development?

MySpace? Comp sci? Made the jump from print? Bootcamp?
November 4, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Reposted by Daniel W. Robert
did you know that you can conditionally exit an effect?

this is useful if you want a subscription to only stay active while some condition is true, and to stay removed while that condition is false.

a bit mindbending, but so it is with react!
November 1, 2024 at 10:03 PM