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If you haven’t seen this archive of presidential campaign branding yet, I highly recommend a peruse. https://www.politicsanddesign.com
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i feel like marching bands got the short end of the stick. why can’t we call the other type “stationary bands” and marching bands can simply be “bands”? @samhenrigold In my town we have an annual festival of “street bands” which use marching band equipment but definitely don’t march. I propose we follow this and name them based on the material they perform on top of. Street bands, chair bands, football field bands. what has this world come to. it’s like you can't even lie about elections on your television program to an audience of millions of unstable people with guns without someone making a stink.
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Figured you'd all enjoy this fun lil bit of trivia. In 2007, when Steve Jobs introduced the iPod touch, there was a dramatic reveal in the keynote half way through that it had wi-fi and Safari. He went back to the demo and made a previously-hidden Safari icon pop onto the home screen (https://youtu.be/t_cNLpUXPdQ?t=2464). I thought this was just for the keynote, but it's a real mode you can force enable. I managed to do it on this emulated iPod touch:
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   oh it's the dystopian holographic bracelet phone thing I want to imagine that you have to punch the air in anger to reject the call https://daringfireball.net/2023/04/if_you_come_at_the_king via @gruber “Finally, you can replace this thing that you despise” is a powerful marketing message. “Finally, you can replace this thing that you love” is not. @samhenrigold @gruber Attempts to disrupt existing technology with solutions that are bulkier and more intrusive are inherently misguided. Nobody was asking to project incoming text messages from their chest.  i could think of a number of fun things to do with a centrifuge if they weren’t so expensive. if i could buy a lab-grade one on amazon for a hundred bucks, you better believe i’m gonna try to use it as a crazy salad spinner. SAM'S FAM: What are you doing, Sam? SAM: [pipetting something from the bottom of a test tube] Making a salad. SAM'S FAM: ... SAM: It's called "microgreens", they're really big right now. i’ve come to terms with not being an airbnb person. i’m a hotel guy through and through. love the towels, love the banality of the decor, love not getting a list of chores to complete lest my rating take a nosedive. question for the #a11y/#accessibility crowd: what’s the best practice for alt text on code snippet images? I can’t imagine pasting the raw code into the alt text is great for screen readers but I don’t know if an english explanation is better (“an object containing key X with value Y gets passed into a function that does Z.”)
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 @samhenrigold if the answer isn’t pasting the raw code, I am going to be massively cringing 😬 @samhenrigold I think the code is probably fine, and actually better as it gives people reading the alt the same chance to read the actual code as people who can see the image  @samhenrigold All images with text should include the entirety of the text in the image if the text can't be included in the post itself. #accessibility
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If you poke around Windows 11 enough, you will be able to find UIs that last changed before I was born  here to tell you not to buy cork coasters. they just stick to the bottom of your drinking vessel, they’re not weighted correctly. they look nice but it’s not worth it.  @samhenrigold the best coasters are felt https://graflantz.com/collections/staff-picks-coasters
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  im generally pretty Type A but I think my limit is fitted sheets. there my attitude sours to "fuck all of this so much, this'll do"  @samhenrigold Oooo! I can fold fitted sheets. I spend hours watching a YouTube video while yelling “THIS IS WITCHCRAFT!” but, now I can. 😃  @samhenrigold when vine was still a thing (RIP) i posted one at the end of a school year where i said "to all of you graduating and moving out, here's how you fold a fitted sheet" the balled it up, dropped it, and said "there ya go" |
