This or That?

[Neobii]

Data for Creatives

Right now, I'm deciding whether to put the style deck in the base sh-proper or to put it in the comm. I have my opinions, and sometimes it even depends on how I'm going about my programming, if I'm feeling more data-centric I might put the style deck inside the comm. Here's where your typical communication design people get a little frustrated with the social networks...

• What a typical creative might not catch is when I open up a part of my code that can be more available to A & B testing for user experience.
• Everyone has opinions and as a programmer, if there is not a clear choice then I'll take the reins, after all... I'm the one who knows about all the gotchas.
• The creatives want emphasis on style.
• Linus Torvalds does not want github to become a database, very afraid of that.

[Neobii]

Also, denormalization is a thing, I can store the same data in two different places, it just requires a lot of infrastructures to maintain two sets of copies... but in some cases can drastically improve loading speeds. I don't have much data... I think when creatives see my data layout they think of message rather than categorization, the style deck should be a part of the ⚙️organization initiation on u... I think they might be wrong.

[Neobii]

The experience I'm going for is a "phonebook" and "directory", where phonebook view will show very minimal data in a standardized way, and the directory can implement the styles loaded from their style deck.

I have some requests to make the u-data not so programming related, ie just Shielkwamm instead of {"organization":Shielkwamm}... this is me defaulting to the github API that I plan to consume which is one of the markets I would like to heavily target.

[Neobii]

Aha, well you can just fork and have your own data there, it's pretty easy to add items to an array or extend an object with new data stuff... I checked all my marking and branding stuff, but I haven't checked out my two-letter namespacing convention against major contributors... hope I'm lucky... st, le, or sh shouldn't be taken right?

[Neobii]

Oh but that way might trigger a rebuild for new data! What an interesting punishment for people who try to use github as a database.

[Neobii]

I bet github has rate limiters and says hey, you need to switch to enterprise or pay us some money. When someone forks u... which is the thing they are not forking first, they are making a pull request to a simple repo that has two cleanish files... After they did all the hard stuff? Cloning repos, running server, attaching mongodb... my show doesn't use the mongodb... or at least that's what I'm working on separating that out, so that will be available out of the box and consume their style guide and proper stuff as well as other stuff.

[Neobii]

I think maybe I should aim for 4 hours over two days of cloning/ running / simple mod and finish it with a pull request to be included.

A two-step process? Once when they can make a pull request to your organization and another once they have got all their style and what-not in there?

I think this is getting into a heavy focus group area... besides that part can be moderated at the github level through pull request comments and review. This little wiggle space has a lot of art potential, you just gotta know how to use the tools.

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Remember the scroll bars on the responsive table.