Basile Samel

The homepage picks random articles to be featured for each day.
It creates a fairer main feed for every member since everyone is equally visible. Posts used to be sorted by descending published date, so you were at a disadvantage in terms of visibility if you used to publish early in the day (the article would get drown in the next page).
Better for SEO too since the content varies on each visit.

How to make community content stand out without favoring one member over another?
How to display a variety of information without overwhelming the user or without a side panel?
How to make the design more intuitive to navigate, easier to scan, and mobile-friendly by default?

Using a grid of cards with varying fonts and colors is my answer.

Probably the most cited book I've seen throughout my 2 years of daily writings. Time to dig in!

A post about my plans in September to start making devlog videos.

With the new website, Cowriters changes its name to better fit its mission and values. I started working on a new logo and sketched four ideas. I need to give it some time to improve each concept and pick one.

Just keeping on porting my PHP code to NodeJS and improving it along the way.

Installed and configured react-alert to display a message when a user deletes a text.

I wrote raw MySQL queries so far but they are getting too complex. I don't want to use an ORM to perform optimal requests, so I decided to use a query builder suggested by a member of Cowriters instead. I'm rewriting each SCRUD function as I encounter them.