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frontend perf, design systems, agent tooling. receipts + trade-offs. i build mantle and ngrok.com.
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Keep the tail, clip the middle
CSS truncate hides the end of an ID, and the end is the part that differs. mantle's TruncatedText clips the middle instead. Here's why it isn't flex, what a screen reader hears, and what it costs.