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It looks to me like the big benefit is being able to use just one hand for this. I'd be more likely to use the watch, too, but this would be great for people with one arm, for exam…

For anyone looking to use this, I recommend using this CSS before the closing body tag. It disables the fade effect for visitors who prefer reduced motion, and the old page fades o…

I had a Pebble Time Round, too, and it was great. For me the Pebble hit a sweet spot for a smart-enough watch that allowed me to keep my phone in my pocket. I could get notificatio…

This post might have some hot takes and I'm no expert, but over the past decade I've found these rules of thumb to be helpful when reviewing and writing user stories. If you have s…

It is something that distinguishes them, certainly. As someone who switched from using Vue to React at my day job, dev tooling & editor support have been the things that stand out …

https://johnfraney.ca/blog/ Generally I'll write a post when I try to do something that's difficult to find an example of online. I don't get a _ton_ of traffic, but writing prose …

We're getting pretty off topic, but it wasn't what they were protesting that was illegal, it was how they did it. For a US comparison, First Amendment rights don't include a right …

It wasn't, no. It was meant to clarify for other readers that people didn't have their bank accounts frozen for protesting COVID; they had their bank accounts frozen for financiall…

For people not familiar with Canadian politics, this summary missed some important nuance. Bank accounts were frozen for some people who donated money to support an illegal occupat…

You bet. I've played around with AVIFS and it can autoplay and loop. I made gif2avif.com for fun, but I can't promise that it will work well.

That was a great MVP plan for that feature! Figuring out what not to build is a great way to save development time.

I'm over a decade into web development, and I still reference it every week. Last week I thought I should start a blog post about how, for me, it's the single best resource on the …

This is a good point about complexity. I started with pip + virtualenv, and I'd recommend pip + venv to anyone learning Python. venv is in the standard library, so there's official…

I think this is a good basic overview of the dependency management landscape. I have a few things to add. One is that because Python has been around for so long, it's easy to find …

Poetry does a good job of managing/publishing a package without having to custom-code a setup.py. I have a blog post about it but I don't want to spam. Poetry works well for a pack…

Pipenv has had a couple releases recently, but I've had an easier time with Poetry. Poetry is almost always[0] faster than Pipenv, and I find its commands more intuitive. I've been…

https://johnfraney.ca I'm not sure how awesome it is, but I like to write about a particular problem that I came across and solved recently or an experiment that I tried, like writ…

I think of Poetry as the Yarn of Python packaging for two main reasons (apart from package locking, which is the biggest similarity): the commands are more intuitive and the lockfi…

I second this. Poetry is a great all-in-one tool for dependency and package management. I've written a few blog posts about it, and I remain happy with it. The Poetry team has done…

I've used both and recommend Poetry. It's got a larger feature set (it can be used to manage packages _and_ publish packages), it's faster, and it's more actively developed (measur…

That could be getting at what confused me about the article. The author mentions the crosstown LRT favourably, and that will link up to the UP commuter/airport line I mentioned, ad…

I got that impression, too. There wasn't much mention of bus/streetcar-plus-train transit strategy, which certainly happens in Toronto.

One thing I'm surprised this article didn't mention is commute times. To get from Weston Station (northwest of downtown) to Union Station takes: - 22-minute drive (or 1h in rushour…