Jul 11, 2020
Ross Chapman
Recursion is too easy for writing nested menus in UI
Hannah Höch, Für ein Fest gemacht (Made for a Party), 1936
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When paired with component-based framework tools and HTML’s unordered lists. Since the rendering is done by the framework, we simply need to progressively stack render calls as we traverse the data. Such brutalist Dada.
function List({ items }) {
return items.map((item) => (
{item.name}
{item.children &&
}
));
}
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If you'll allow me to run some syntax vectors among some balloons that will shunt them all off over wildly metaphoric slippages: - Samuel R. Delany, Trouble on Triton
This is a place! We are working it out. I'm permitting texts and other materials to pass through my body and then surf the web and common weal. I'm curious about what you make of these muralistic catalogings, responses to life's stimula, recalictrant ars technica, trickling diaries, remixed quotations, citations, para-academic non-fiction. Let's square up over tea and the taste of coffee.
It was a sumptuously pleasant and totally edgless time--indeed, its only edges were provided by those moments when he could reflect on how edgeless it was. - Samuel R. Delany, Trouble on Triton
(BTW, I'm not comparing myself or this stuff to Bron and his inability to locate solid ground. These fab little phrases top of mind after just finishing the book yesterday (12/12/23)).
As I enter the grid of streets called Labash Centali, as I am reassured by its hectic pace that this is the technology district that I'm touring, that everyone I pass is programming, as I think, as well as long as people are programming...
As I wait, Ravicka continues its decay, but also something else I cannot name. - Renee Gladman, The Ravickians