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Of course I had to recreate this with CSS/JS. codepen.io/defaced/pen/...

Operation Mediocrity #webcomics #comicsky

when tech collapses we can go back to having fun on computer

Fun fact: To keep production costs low, many Star Trek scenes were actually filmed on Earth rather than on location in outer space.

Listen, if you are a designer or developer and this is what you come up with as the cancellation UI, please leave the industry.

AI is a scam.

I don't like how tech news that used to get me excited doesn't anymore. I miss when computers were fun.

Shipping fast only matters if you're shipping the right thing to the right audience.

Imhex is really neat for inspecting binary files, but it's a pain working in an app with a non-native interface so not even text fields work like expected. It's like you have to relearn all shortcuts from scratch 🤦‍♀️

Increasingly feels like the fluid nature of software is more a hellish trap than a feature Like having people break into your house every night to rearrange your furniture, reprogram the tv, and swap out family pictures for stock photos and ads

This might be a dumb question, but what's the benefit of woff/woff2 compressing tables when web servers usually compress HTTP responses already?

Every UX designer knows how much users LOVE when all their shit moves around for no reason

How it started / how it’s going

It's extremely frustrating how Notion has change the shortcut to copy a link to the page to copy a link to the currently selected block (which there was a shortcut for already). Unless you select the title you will always get a link to the block the caret is in 🤦‍♀️

New on the blog: bell.bz/youll-miss-t...

"You're a commercial user of libcurl who use it for free and you ask a volunteer to fix your problem on his spare time?" Sometimes I need to say it.

I think you deserve malware if ur still using twitter tbh

Rsbuild now supports Import Text ✨ Import file contents as source text with `{ type: 'text' }`, no extra configuration needed

Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.

Oh apparently Uint8Array has the static fromHex and fromBase64 methods now. Neat 👍

I want to speak directly to the people working in the tech industry. Know that I hear your pain and I am not your enemy. Your industry has abandoned you. You have been lied to by companies that exist to drain you and fantasize about replacing you. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-losing/

Opening @figma.com was a mistake.

I just realized it's called Silicon Valley because they do silly cons.

PlayStation: Shoots themselves in the foot Xbox: Shoots themselves in the face Nintendo:

wait is @layer like z-index but for CSS itself

Masayoshi Son is the greatest CEO of all time www.ft.com/content/d01f...

spacex stocks seems to behave a lot like spacex's rockets

Graphic design is my passion.

In 1971, Japan’s National Police Agency standardized pedestrian crossing signs. The original reference art was non-alien, but various manufacturers in prefectures around the country had to copy the original stencils to create their own. Over time, physical degradation in the stencils led to:

Suraj has a point.

(not mine)

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can't argue with this.

There's a far better case for banning social media for people 65+ than for people 16-18

The one thing more infuriating than bad design is intentionally bad design.

that feeling when you meticulously stage individual files for a git commit, only to run `git add -A` out of muscle memory

I haven't really looked into CSS functions before, but they actually look a lot more straightforward than I thought.

We have begrudgingly decided we must shut down Bluesky because it is too powerful and dangerous to release to the world

I find it so hard to get excited about tech anymore.

what is the theoretical maximum for degrees of seperation between two humans alive at the same time? because that is what i would like between me and elon.

Instead of FOMO try GIMO: glad I missed out.

Maybe this summer I can finally take some time to look into some cool new(ish) CSS features.

Automatic captions make it difficult to watch videos because the viewer is forced to decipher misspelled or mistranslated words that appear in a string of text without any punctuation. These can be distracting and disorienting. Always edit your captions before publishing.

Is there any way to handle iterator.return() calls in an (async) generator? It seems like you have to manually create an iterator to do cleanup when return() is called 🤔 #js

Nothing ever changes

soooo let us get this straight: there was a big tech conference and the new technologies they unveiled is…more AI shoved down everyone’s throats! 😃 honestly getting Groundhog Day vibes at this point

Gotta admit after more than two years of being called a crank and a doomer for saying that businesses will flinch when they’re made to pay the real costs of AI it’s nice to see this in the newspaper