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I wonder what the quality would be if football was not the hoover of European childhood athletic talent it currently is. Plenty of sportsmen in other fields played football as chil…

| "Only the act of design can make the content less readable" I disagree with this, HTML in it's raw rendered state is not pleasant to read. You have to apply some rules (or specif…

I find that the in-built systems are all horrendous and designers create lots of inefficient designs so they look good in the marketing video but are a pain to use. I have a Toyota…

How often are you changing the clock?

My browser did not enjoy that 40MB web page.

https://utopia.fyi/blog/designing-with-fluid-type-scales This is a good write up of using clamp and fluid type

In Edge you can highlight text and click read in Immersive Reader or prefix the url with read:// Some sites have it in the address bar, but I've never found any documentation from …

Playing Devil's advocate, if the themes are inaccessible, the user can always pick another one. Monochrome might provide the contrast ratio you want.

A family friend bought this for our family on the C64 and then my dad got super addicted to it, he was up until 2am most nights trying to crack the game. He would leave work early …

Looking forward to the "Google AI is being sun-setted as soon as it unlocks the doors to the server room" email.

Google Optimize and Optimize 360 will no longer be available after September 30, 2023.

I think it was on the Off Menu podcast that the hosts summed it up perfectly, that plant-based meat is a great substitute for the dodgy low quality meat you would get at a kebab sh…

I don't believe that is true anymore, I've seen studies that show that there is little difference between the two.

"One really would have to have a miserly spirit not to love both." Call me Scrooge.

If companies had respected the Do Not Track and browser vendors had made it easier to adopt we wouldn't have ended up with the situation we are in now.

Thomas Kinkade certainly made a living off the visual equivalent of muzak.

There are tangible problems with a low birth rate though, which western economies are experiencing now.

This is my use case for Sublime Text, if I get stuck with a massive file I go straight to Sublime.

He was a minor and seemed to have more business sense than any of them.

This is three separate arguments: Is it ok to scan copyrighted works. I think Google Books' win at the Supreme Court shows that yes it is. Is it ok to process them down to the rawe…

Isn't dispersing a core business, that the global economy relies on, to other countries a bad move for Taiwan? If advanced micro chips are made in another country doesn't that mean…

I think this is more a problem of standarisation and if car companies got together and pitched in a bit of research to find out what worked well with users they could all get an in…

Nobody talking about the "Sister Mary Himmler says, Zere Will Be A Quiz on Zis" with a nun wearing a swastika armband image in the sidebar?

George is a late thirties corporate worker, so we still have 30 something years to reach the future The Jetsons envisaged.