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the general public has a pathetic track record for means of verification. credit card signatures aside, i was asked to send a PDF letter of employment on company letterhead. what is even letterhead at that point, just a logo?   @samhenrigold I’ve had to do this twice in the last month because the apartment buying process is embarrassingly dated. There’s a lickable letterhead template floating around now. (I’ve also had to date scanned forms that have the “19” of the year conveniently filled in.) just saw a peek at what’s coming tomorrow at #Config23 and I am still weeping tears of joy. berkley mono font best monospaced font. i need you all to look at those liggys (ligatures) https://berkeleygraphics.com/typefaces/berkeley-mono/
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idk, immediately de-federating the meta thing before we even have a *name* for the thing (let alone any official information) seems pretty reactionary and immature.  @samhenrigold it’s like a healthy dose of cynical skepticism - surely they don’t have our best interests at heart - but maybe too much melodrama  I don't get all the fuss. It's not like a catastrophe is going to happen unless precautions are taken in advance. Just wait and see what this thing ends up being. You will always be able to block it. Stop treating anything coming out of Facebook like it's radioactive. After all, Mastodon itself built its web app with React, a Facebook product. @samhenrigold I mean, if Meta did not have the history that they do in fact have then yes, your point would make sense. But it does have the history that it has. So it makes sense to take that into account. Now, if Meta does break with its longstanding habits and do some actually verifiably good thing with ActivityPub, at that point it would make sense to talk about federating, but unless that happens we only have history as our guide. having a floating accessibility menu on your website seems kinda like a cop out. just build an accessible website to begin with and you won't need to load a 2kb turd
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 On the contrary, I have an ikea cup that has recesses cut out in that "ring" in its base so that the water could drain. It's such a simple solution. I need you all to witness how excruciatingly long it takes for the AT&T app to go from cold start to the final state. 20 seconds.
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 @samhenrigold logging in on their websites used to throw you through 7 redirections. They seem to have improved and just do a couple @samhenrigold it is seriously one of the least-performant apps I use regularly. No idea why anyone doesn’t care. Every page load is excruciating. @samhenrigold Their whole backend system is deeply cursed. It took me spendinf hours on their website and on the phone with them over most of a week to separate my parents lines into totally separate accounts all of this baseline stuff from google seems complicated. instead, i propose a more straight forward solution: dadline. i will create a website that lists the browser version my dad uses. he calls his iPad his "big machine" and he has been using Office 2007 since it came out with no plans to upgrade. I think this is a fair web baseline standard. I'm pleased to announce that, as of this past weekend, CSS nesting is now dadline compatible. NOOO DON'T KILL GOOGLE DOMAINS! TAKE GOOGLE GROUPS INSTEAD! WHO EVEN *KNEW* THAT WAS STILL AROUND! @samhenrigold and the asset transfer to Squarespace of all things 😭 like, pick ANY other domain hosting service but not Squarespace  @samhenrigold NOOO! That’s still my #1 service for setting up a free group accessible email inbox nice try office furniture company, I already look like this. https://www.furniture-work.co.uk/blog/post/from-claw-hands-to-hunchbacks-how-working-from-home-could-affect-our-bodies  @samhenrigold lol I rest more, exercise more, drink more water, AND eat better when WFH. This is nonsense! 😄 Not to mention how much better it is for the environment. oh and I'm more focused! Me cats love it too.  @samhenrigold lol Anna over there is the product of a poor working setup. Like those that can be found in most offices. I've worked in more than one place where the chairs were always broken and the setup had you hunched over a too low desk. Don't even start me on the headache inducing lighting, all these things I don't have from home (and I'm allowed to open a fucking window too) Having an iPad is fun because, when you look at your table with a laptop and an iPad on it, you have to ask yourself “which computer do I have to use for what I want to do next, the comfy one or the Real one?” I just brought my iPad upstairs, plugged it in, and brought down my laptop. Time for some Serious Computing™ @samhenrigold I have similar feelings - iPad is so pleasant to use but can't get much serious stuff done since windowing and cross-app compatibility is such a hassle  @samhenrigold Unless you have the 12.9” Pro in which case the MacBook is also the more comfortable one 😂 Pretty interesting dive into how @figma builds their UI with CSS. Really clever tricks you can learn from, I especially love how they built the auto layout indicator. https://ishadeed.com/article/figma-css/ a vision os app that does nothing except content aware fills your hands out of existence. I always forget I added the TikTok “popular video” widget to that left-most widget panel. And since there’s no branding, it always manifests as a freeze frame from some random video with zero context. Today’s frame is this guy: Take a look at the difference in Framer's website between 2015 and today. It's very interesting. The current one is much trendier but feels less…tangible? And more speculative. Idk. I'm gonna eat an apricot and think about this a little more. @samhenrigold I think the audience changed significantly in well they used to target designers and teams with a very specific, technical solution. Now they’re aiming much broader, more general so they’re using the “sell the promise, not the product” type of marketing.  this has become a problem for me since my primary method of finding things online is just appending “reddit” to any google search https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/13/23759942/google-reddit-subreddit-blackout-protests @samhenrigold along those lines, I think a lot of the ChatGPT excitement is really just based in the fact search engines are filled with trash, and here's something that can surface an actual real answer Also, oddly enough, Yandex, which I mostly neglected as a search engine for the last 10 years, sometimes returns much better results than Google. Google maps though... They're worse than useless. @samhenrigold @joshbuchea It isn’t just that. I did a search last night without that qualifier and seven of the first links were to private Reddit pages |
