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colourgarden

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About colourgarden

Senior UX developer based in London.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #37983625

    Not mentioned in the article: - Semantic version is not responsive (sure it looks ok but isn't optimised) - Tailwind version has 13 inlined SVG icons (on the homepage) which increa…

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    Comment #36290886

    Better than zero chance. He addressed it in the AMA thread last week. > P.S. old.reddit.com isn’t going anywhere

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    Comment #36166157

    Tangential but RealLifeLore did a video a while back[1] outlining how Las Vegas manages water intake from Lake Mead and the Colorado River by minimising waste and having extremely …

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    Comment #36068746

    Wait till he finds out where they culturally misappropriated the name Thunderbird from!

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    Comment #35913716

    The title relates to Into Thin Air which Jon Krakauer also wrote about the 1996 Everest disaster (of which he was part).

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    Comment #35639339

    Maybe not in the US. > We argued they had no reason to expect to find what they were looking for and any seizures would therefore be illegal under Swedish law. If this line is to b…

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    Comment #34411987

    If on macOS then Laravel Valet is great - https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/valet

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    Comment #33594420

    I've been using VIU for a couple of years and can highly recommend. Good quality acetate frames, decent pricing and good in-store service. https://shopviu.com/en_int/viu-stores/ My…

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    Comment #33341594

    > He realized that Vasa had the wrong proportions even before she was launched Not only did he realise it, he proved it. Days before launching the ship, he had 30 men run across th…

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    Comment #32409173

    OP didn't directly say such dark patterns are fraudulent. They said AppLovin was committing fraudulent activity and then that Unity uses dark patterns.

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    Comment #32177662

    You may have a misunderstanding of what the ECHR is. A party can make an application to the ECHR against a member state of the Council of Europe (not the same as the EU) that that …

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    Comment #31493159

    Surprised to see no mention of Geoguessr yet - awesome game and community built on top of Street View - https://www.geoguessr.com

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    Comment #31273371

    > The instructions assume you have a whole PHP dev environment setup How else would you expect to run a PHP-based application? WordPress also requires a PHP environment and databas…

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    Comment #31193230

    Second paragraph.

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    Comment #30918453

    See Evgeny Lebedev. I imagine the odds on him being the successful bidder for Channel 4 are extremely slim. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny_Lebedev

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    Comment #30916747

    It is owned by the government but generates all it's own funding via advertising, selling programming slots and selling content overseas (Film4, for example).

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    Comment #30683017

    You don't mention if you speak any languages other than English? Whilst you'll get by OK in any large city with just English, some places are better than others. For example, in my…

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    Comment #30426656

    > something changed in this regard about 15 years ago Here in Europe, I think Michael Schumacher's ski accident in 2013 changed peoples' attitudes. When I started skiing in the mid…

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    Comment #30260829

    > every commit I make is a good one that I would like to keep in the history This is certainly not typical. When working in a team, you may need to push something half-finished so …

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    Comment #30112989

    The word 'law' isn't used once in the entire article. Can the mods alter the title?

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    Comment #29792888

    Chelsea Manning?

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    Comment #29508104

    > ITCSS (Inverted triangle CSS) works with the cascade and results in clean, minimalistic CSS files. The real Tailwind lightbulb for me was understanding that the cascade and actua…

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    Comment #29508045

    > You can still use CSS Modules while using Tailwind Recommended even. I use Tailwind with CSS Modules as a fallback when there's simply no way to achieve the result using Tailwind…

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    Comment #29160321

    Where is the adulation in OP's question? A person doesn't have to be likeable to be worth reading or learning about.

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    Comment #29011752

    Lello is more a tourist attraction than a bookshop nowadays though. As evidenced by the fact you have to pay to get in the door!