Yes. - Parked cars on the street. - Drive somewhat fast. - Avoid killing people. Pick two.
I can’t be the only one who has ever read https://practicaltypography.com/hyphens-and-dashes.html
At least it is not as bad as on Windows 11. There the resize area is inside or outside the visible frame depending on which side and which corner of the window.
Oh for the time when chairs were still for sitting and PDFs were still for printing. Restaurant websites mentioned — the majority of restaurant web sites I’ve encountered were much more annoying and difficult to read…
That planned obsolescence thing on light bulbs isn't the entire story. Light bulbs will last longer if driven less hard, due to the lower temperature. But that lower temperature also means much lower efficiency because…
Auckland has an almost finished through running project in its city centre, which will greatly improve its railway network. It currently has only one terminus in the city, but trains from one side (the west) have to do…
PHP was blamed for a good reason: for a long time it did not by default support prepared SQL statements. You could install the mysqli extension to gain such support but that was almost never available on shared web…
Today in “typesetting before we had typewriters”: … At least we have dedicated O/0, and l/1 keys now. But we still see a lot of "straight" quotes instead of “those smart quotes Microsoft Word likes to generate”. And…
Yeah one wart about Windows is that you always have to lookup these weird registry hacks after getting a fresh install. Disabling this automatic reboot was one of them. Otherwise that would make your computer completely…
That looks rad. One bit of feedback: don't move the camera if someone clicks one of the circles, that is super disorienting. There is also a bug that if a drag to move the camera happens to end on a circle, the popup…
One of those project is the OG — GIMP.
It is quite confusing because there are strong points in favour of either POV. Point: you can ride a bicycle without hands. That would be completely impossible without gyroscopic effect. Or you can push a bicycle…
Oh yes it may very well over half your kid’s weight. These things are ABSURDLY heavy. This makes starting hard (an already hard problem when learning), it makes falling off worse because there is so much weight pulling…
That is a common fallacy, I suspect it comes from having enough budget to not having to think about being able to afford something decent. It is like photographers with $5,000 worth of equipment in their camera bags…
It is a legitimate thing now, if you can type more than a word per minute you'll notice that many apps are not able to keep up. The most common offenders seem to be Electron apps. IDEs sometimes struggle as well.
For bonus points, some menu web sites also do that on their desktop web sites. I have seen many of them that show like 10 items on a 27″ 1440p desktop monitor.
Haha yes I remember that. Pros and cons of using DIVs and CSS: + hipster cred - DIV soup - CSS back then was wildly, W I L D L Y unsuitable for what people where trying to do (I think it boils down to it being designed…
There are obvious downsides to many of these CSS hacks. Pay close attention to the usage notes. An example not on the page are menus powered by the CSS :hover pseudo-class. It seems smart, until you realise the diagonal…
Steamboat Willie is from 1928, almost a hundred years ago. And it is still under copyright. So you can make that “the lifetime of their grandparents” too.
Ah I remember the experience of just dropping files on a server from a long time ago. I had one web host where magic_quotes_gpc was enabled. Good luck figuring out what the hell is going on with all these extra quotes…
I started reading it, saw the first photo and went oh my gaaaaaaaaad wear gloves. And not just for the goop inside the thing, people had this thing in their mouth. The next paragraph confirms the author came to this…
Yes there was this one day where you open Facebook and literally every other post is Sponsored. And this Reels thing with some random videos from whatever. But yeah anyway, do you still know people who actually post on…
Windows 95 didn’t use the HLT instruction because it didn’t work reliably on many PCs back in the day. It would sometimes freeze instead of just halt. There was a post on the oldnewthing blog about this but I can’t…
A big issue is how “parenting” has changed in recent decades. Even a couple of generations ago it was much more of a group effort. Now it is just the parents versus everyone else either not caring or kicking down on…
Yes. - Parked cars on the street. - Drive somewhat fast. - Avoid killing people. Pick two.
I can’t be the only one who has ever read https://practicaltypography.com/hyphens-and-dashes.html
At least it is not as bad as on Windows 11. There the resize area is inside or outside the visible frame depending on which side and which corner of the window.
Oh for the time when chairs were still for sitting and PDFs were still for printing. Restaurant websites mentioned — the majority of restaurant web sites I’ve encountered were much more annoying and difficult to read…
That planned obsolescence thing on light bulbs isn't the entire story. Light bulbs will last longer if driven less hard, due to the lower temperature. But that lower temperature also means much lower efficiency because…
Auckland has an almost finished through running project in its city centre, which will greatly improve its railway network. It currently has only one terminus in the city, but trains from one side (the west) have to do…
PHP was blamed for a good reason: for a long time it did not by default support prepared SQL statements. You could install the mysqli extension to gain such support but that was almost never available on shared web…
Today in “typesetting before we had typewriters”: … At least we have dedicated O/0, and l/1 keys now. But we still see a lot of "straight" quotes instead of “those smart quotes Microsoft Word likes to generate”. And…
Yeah one wart about Windows is that you always have to lookup these weird registry hacks after getting a fresh install. Disabling this automatic reboot was one of them. Otherwise that would make your computer completely…
That looks rad. One bit of feedback: don't move the camera if someone clicks one of the circles, that is super disorienting. There is also a bug that if a drag to move the camera happens to end on a circle, the popup…
One of those project is the OG — GIMP.
It is quite confusing because there are strong points in favour of either POV. Point: you can ride a bicycle without hands. That would be completely impossible without gyroscopic effect. Or you can push a bicycle…
Oh yes it may very well over half your kid’s weight. These things are ABSURDLY heavy. This makes starting hard (an already hard problem when learning), it makes falling off worse because there is so much weight pulling…
That is a common fallacy, I suspect it comes from having enough budget to not having to think about being able to afford something decent. It is like photographers with $5,000 worth of equipment in their camera bags…
It is a legitimate thing now, if you can type more than a word per minute you'll notice that many apps are not able to keep up. The most common offenders seem to be Electron apps. IDEs sometimes struggle as well.
For bonus points, some menu web sites also do that on their desktop web sites. I have seen many of them that show like 10 items on a 27″ 1440p desktop monitor.
Haha yes I remember that. Pros and cons of using DIVs and CSS: + hipster cred - DIV soup - CSS back then was wildly, W I L D L Y unsuitable for what people where trying to do (I think it boils down to it being designed…
There are obvious downsides to many of these CSS hacks. Pay close attention to the usage notes. An example not on the page are menus powered by the CSS :hover pseudo-class. It seems smart, until you realise the diagonal…
Steamboat Willie is from 1928, almost a hundred years ago. And it is still under copyright. So you can make that “the lifetime of their grandparents” too.
Ah I remember the experience of just dropping files on a server from a long time ago. I had one web host where magic_quotes_gpc was enabled. Good luck figuring out what the hell is going on with all these extra quotes…
I started reading it, saw the first photo and went oh my gaaaaaaaaad wear gloves. And not just for the goop inside the thing, people had this thing in their mouth. The next paragraph confirms the author came to this…
Yes there was this one day where you open Facebook and literally every other post is Sponsored. And this Reels thing with some random videos from whatever. But yeah anyway, do you still know people who actually post on…
Windows 95 didn’t use the HLT instruction because it didn’t work reliably on many PCs back in the day. It would sometimes freeze instead of just halt. There was a post on the oldnewthing blog about this but I can’t…
A big issue is how “parenting” has changed in recent decades. Even a couple of generations ago it was much more of a group effort. Now it is just the parents versus everyone else either not caring or kicking down on…