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You're existing in hyper-capitalism. So yes big surprise, people need to make money.

It's a very subtle difference but noticeable in the anti-aliasing. I don't have Windows right now, so I haven't tested if the change's closer to Firefox - but Firefox always had so…

Just leaving this here since people will wonder the relevance of jQuery today. > jQuery is used by 94.5% of all the websites whose JavaScript library we know. This is 77.4% of all …

For those wondering about the "why", this post details the motivation: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/23/client-side-webas... Basically for learning/interactive tutorials,…

I'd say that most of the websites still use HTML/CSS/JS and are server-side rendered - well, at least 40%+ of the web does (WordPress). The distinction mainly is in the apps. Yes, …

Anyone who tries to follow-up more than twice comes off as desperate or an automated spambot. I don't appreciate that hustle. 2 follow-ups should be the absolute limit (preferably,…

I agree. I rarely ever use new tools, but I switched to Notion a few years ago and even recommended it to many friends and colleagues. Big mistake. Lessons learned. It's been slow …

I have used PHP as a replacement for even shell scripts, like perl and python, a lot in the past. The best thing is the very strong standard lib. Everything's built-in. I like node…

I understand what you're saying but it doesn't exactly address my curiosity of this specific case of HTTP GET requests for font files (no JS, no iframe, and no cookies either in th…

Curious how useful is an IP address with a simple HTTP get request? As long as a sane Referer-Policy is set, the Referer won't be sent. Sure there's a lot more to browser fingerpri…

One distinction: Reactive Hypoglycemia. Even with low GI carbs, it may still happen. Small meals or keto is the fix. When it comes to health, things are rarely that simple. Even me…

That seems like a rather premature conclusion. WHO mentioned: > Data which looked at hospitalizations across South Africa between 14 November and 4 December found that ICU occupanc…

The difference isn't as much as it used to be in terms of file-size optimization as woff2 is pretty much supported by all browsers and you don't have to serve anything else now. Ex…

There can also be physical issues that can be masked psychologically. You can train your brain to ignore and mask many pains and aches and dull them down. IMHO, managing pain can d…

MacOS dropped subpixel AA in Mojave by default but brought back a stronger default of grayscale AA in Big Sur AFAIK, which can be optimized. [1] And I agree, a lot has changed sinc…

Technically correct. But practically the perceived PPI/DPI would matter more, with distance. Relevant: https://tonsky.me/blog/monitors/#the-myth-of-apple-patented-...

Same issue. Except multiple short-term projects with hundreds of reference tabs, in multiple windows, ranging from groups that would classify as "mood boards" to research. I settle…

There are a lot of apps that would benefit from being offline first. Apps like Notion feels quite sluggish to me on a higher latency 15mbps. And Figma is pretty bad on a decent 3g …

I don't understand the judging. It's everyones's own choice. I got an antibody test post COVID vaccination, and it took a lot of scientific paper reading to find a convertible refe…

And that's why I either use the awesome opensource fonts (they've really very good lately), or use Adobe Fonts (formerly TypeKit). As much as I hate Adobe, the rented fixed monthly…

Wouldn't it be better, then, at this point, to focus on hospitalization numbers rather than infections or deaths alone. As vaccines have been, reportedly, very good at preventing h…

On MacBook (built-in retina display), it has very similar antialiasing to the default UI font SF. However, the x-height is smaller and that bothers me a bit. If I increase the font…