Colm Tuite
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Building @base_ui + 🤫. Co-creator @radix_ui. Founder @modulz @plexiapp.
Joined December 2010
Just one of dozens of Radix issues solved by @base_ui ✅
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Today I had lunch with twelve young Irish people -- a wonderful bunch in their early 20s working on rockets, biotech, software/AI, etc. I enquired about whether any were planning on leaving Ireland over the next 3 years. All hands but one went up. I asked the holdout why he was
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I got a sneak peek at Opacity this week. I cannot wait to try publishing a few @base_ui components from a design tool.
Soon @OpacityHQ you can import your existing BaseUI codebase into Opacity. Design freely, then when you publish from Opacity, the generated components will use ACTUAL BaseUI 🫣 Designers get to work in a canvas, engineers get normal BaseUI. Folks have no idea the wizardry here.
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components should feel like lego blocks you have many primitives you can assemble into anything you want they should NOT feel like finished products if I see ONE more <SignIn />
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Announcing the all new Fluted Glass shader in @paper You can make powerful images like these in seconds (click to zoom in!). The team worked hard for perfect quality. Available today in Paper for free. I'll post a tutorial video in this thread
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If I pay for Premium+, will AI bots stop replying to my tweets?
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I've never liked the term "accessibility". It sounds like an optional layer for a niche subset of users. I prefer "usability". Things like typeahead, focus management, keyboard nav, touch support etc. make your app easier to use for the majority of users.
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Coming soon to @base_ui: anchor Toast to a specific element to provide contextual feedback.
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shadcn 🤝 ai 🤝 coss-ui
Yes this works. You can ask the shadcn mcp to mix and match code from registries. Here I asked for the confirmation component from ai-elements (radix), but told it to use primitives from coss-ui (base). It did exactly that. Flawlessly. (See below for the full conversation).
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Ireland has the second fewest homes per capita in Europe, the highest electricity prices, and the least electrified railways. What’s gone wrong? Like Britain, it has outsourced government to paperclip-maximiser independent agencies & NGOs. The answer is to restore its democracy.
John Collison of Stripe: Ireland is going backwards. Here’s how to get it moving
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I wrote a piece for the @IrishTimes on why Ireland can’t build anything these days, and how to fix that.
John Collison of Stripe: Ireland is going backwards. Here’s how to get it moving
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interesting pod from two legends about the upcoming design —> code tool @OpacityHQ. reminds me a lot of modulz 🥲 sounds like a cool take on the problem
Is it time for design's "Github Moment?" That's what today's episode with @drewwilson is all about 👀 We go deep into team workflows, component strategies, and how to succeed when everyone is a builder 👇 https://t.co/AFnOod2mE4
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If your company is using @base_ui and you're happy to add your logo to the website for the upcoming v1 release, DM me.
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it's not every day you see design tools talking about video export
come see the new upgrades in Paper: • export frames as WebP or AVIF images • remixed high-quality Liquid Metal shader • new slider controls with helpful snaps • video export upgrades and more, check out the link in thread what do you want to see us build next?
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shadcn/ui is an excellent product design case study. solving a problem (instant but customizable ui) for a large community in a novel and elegant way is very rare and very difficult.
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