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Everyone keeps telling you that you need to practice your fundamentals. What the hell does that mean, and how do you do it? This subreddit's all about concrete exercises that you can do to improve your fundamentals. We'll give you homework and we'll tell you where you're going right and wrong.

Googles system prompt of the CLI is heavily flawed IMO. That's where most problems arise. I am using a custom one. At least it is highly configurable. The vanilla Gemini Cli is not usable for me. For instance, they have a section they introduce with Proactiveness where they give advice about what is Persistence (in the agent loop). This wrong wording alone causes the agent to be "proactive" in many ways that is not wanted. After I asked the model itself once, why it started to scan my entire codebase when I just asked to create a new branch, it directly said to me there is "Proactiveness" in its system prompt. I was baffled, why would anybody want that? So i digged deeper and did also a thorough analysis with Opus 4.7 of just this system prompt file - that cost me an entire Pro-session btw. - and documented the results in this pr: https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/pull/26129 - I am using the optimized prompt and had no issues so far I had with the original one.

Another big issue is "model panic" - the Gemini model often overwrites entire files "from memory" with write_file, when the edit tool fails 2 times. That occasionally causes code degradation, and when there are multiple turns and there is no backup, the model starts to get nuts, trying to fix its errors, and destroys even more in the effort to just make it compile / build. I gave it a rotating pre-write backup and a restore_file tool. The model panic vanished. https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/pull/25947

With these two fixes, Gemini CLI is pretty good - without them I wouldn't use it.

Why oklch

HSL looks perceptually uniform but isn’t. An hsl(60, 100%, 50%) yellow and an hsl(240, 100%, 50%) blue share the same L value (50%), but the yellow looks dramatically lighter. If you try to build a lightness scale with HSL, you end up hand-tuning every hue to compensate.

oklch isn’t harder to read than hsl once you internalise three numbers: L (how bright, 0–1), C (how vivid, 0–0.4), H (which colour, 0–360). And it gives you something hsl can’t: the guarantee that your lightness scale actually looks even.

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Design with the screen reader layer in mind

Closing the gap between what you’ve designed and what’s announced by screen readers doesn’t require accessibility or production code expertise. It’s about being more intentional with the decisions you’re already making.

Though screen reader output depends on how the design was developed, designers have more influence over the screen reader experience than they think.

Think “role, name, state” while designing

You don’t need to memorize ARIA specs to improve accessibility. Just ask yourself three questions as you design elements like interactive or informative elements:

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22 on K86dd with the 2d (backdoor flush draw) because your 2 outs are both clean (they can't make a flush!) The backdoor flush draw isn't always hoping to make a flush! (c/r 30% of time)

86 on 853: Tend to check-raise lower top pairs with bad kickers, not kickers that are overcards to the board (except A8 and K8). These are mixes: c/r 50% of the time

6s4s on Ah 6h 5s - Middle pair on ace-high board with straight blocker. Everyone c-bets ace-high boards!!

6s4s on Qd 5s 4d - Bottom pair with backdoors - Even when the backdoor whiffs turn, you can still bet as a bluff that you don't care about getting raised!

KQ on J 6 5 - Two overcards, backdoor flush and straight draws (c/r 50%)

These hints are for c-bets of 33% pot. You don't have to be as aggressive when the bets are larger.

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