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Maxi Ferreira

@maxiferreira.com

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Frontend Architect @ Help Scout. Rambling about software design for frontend developers at frontendatscale.com

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Maxi Ferreira @maxiferreira.com · 24/02/2025

Looking for something to listen to while vibe coding? Well, I've got just the thing. First episode dropping this week Stay tuned 📻

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Maxi Ferreira @maxiferreira.com · 27/12/2024

This was _really_ good! If you like the movie even a little bit, I highly recommend go watch it 🎭

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Maxi Ferreira @maxiferreira.com · 18/12/2024

This whole week

A firefighter is looking at a person in a building on fire, saying, "Flagging this for sure! Let's circle back after the holidays." which is also my response to pretty much every Slack message I receive the rest of the year.

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Maxi Ferreira @maxiferreira.com · 15/12/2024

Just found this in the book I’m reading and it reminded me a lot of what you were talking about in this thread :) “You can put a painting, a radio broadcast, or a movie into a game, but you cannot put a game into these other things.”

Mere Games
Great themes and deep meanings are often associated with literature or with great works of art. Is it pretentious for a "mere game" to aspire to the same levels of greatness!
As game designers, we must confront the painful truth that many people view games, in all their forms, as meaningless diversions. Usually, when I press people who hold this view, I can get them to admit some game that is very important to them. Sometimes it is a sport, either one they have played or one they watch reli-giously. Sometimes it is a card or board game that formed the cornerstone of their relationship with someone important to them. Sometimes it is a videogame with a storyline and characters that they identify with. When I point out the hypocrisy of games as meaningless, but a game as meaningful, they explain, "Well, it really wasn't the game I cared about—it was the experience that went with the game." But as we've discussed, experiences aren't just associated with games at random; they are what emerge when players interact with a game. The parts of the experience that are important to people, such as the drama of a sporting event, the camaraderie between bridge players, or the rivalry of chess enthusiasts, all are determined by the design of the game.
Some people make the argument that games, especially videogames, cannot be deep and meaningful because they are simply too primitive in nature. The same argument was made about film at the beginning of the twentieth century when it was silent and black and white. As technology increased, this argument faded away.
And the same is happening for games. In the 1970s, videogames were so simplified as to be almost completely abstract. Today, they can include text, pictures, video, sound, and music. (Continues…)

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Maxi Ferreira @maxiferreira.com · 13/12/2024

My latest talk on Understanding Complexity is up on the Youtubes now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNOj... (The actual talk starts at the 8-minute mark)

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Maxi Ferreira @maxiferreira.com · 12/12/2024

Putting the final touches on my slides for my talk tomorrow. As you can see this will be a very serious and professional talk.

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Maxi Ferreira @maxiferreira.com · 11/12/2024

I'll be hanging out with the folks of FEDSA tomorrow at 8:30am Pacific, chatting all about complexity in frontend development. Can I give a talk about complexity without immediately putting everyone to sleep? There's only one way to find out. Hope to see you there! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNOj...

Understanding Complexity by Maxi Ferreira

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Maxi Ferreira @maxiferreira.com · 03/12/2024

I've been playing with the Popover + Anchor Position APIs to create these follow-the-cursor tooltips you often see in video games. There's very little JS involved, and you get all of the nice auto-positioning goodness for free! Blog post coming soon, here's a Codepen 👇 codepen.io/Charca/pen/m...

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Maxi Ferreira @maxiferreira.com · 23/11/2024