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Real world appliances dont use checkboxes to power toggle

UI has become the domain of marketing and branding.

Checkboxes also have a fundamental dependency on the label to assist them with their affordance: a label for a checkbox should almost always be in the form of a yes/no question: “a…

Im not sure I agree with this, and its quite a common argument for animations in UIs. The fundamental weakness in this argument is that animations are not interactive. They have a …

I do find it fascinating that we are entering a time now where there are engineers who have _only_ ever used cloud services - and that they can't conceive of a era where _we used t…

"Notes on the Synthesis of Form" is my favorite book of all time. I try to re-read it at least once a year. Thoroughly recommend it.

Its not an admission fee. The website is hosted on a publicly accessible web server. There is no admission fee. The browser I am using serves my purposes; if I wish to strip certai…

Have to agree with this - context is everything and there are an awful lot of naive comments here who don’t understand that XML-RPC was a breath of fresh air compared to SOAP, espe…

In HTTP, URLs are opaque identifiers. If you want to isolate semantics from a URL, then use query parameters.

Because the browser market is not a free market; both Apple and Google leverage their existing positions in other markets to promote their browsers.

This does raise a point - do we now have to assume that all those services that provide free hosting/access/service to open source projects will be strip-mining the work of the ope…

Very early in my software development career, i was frustrated and sad that i wasnt able to progress due to a lack of comprehension of how software is structured from smaller sub s…

"you’re creating an incentive for many workers to increase the distance between where they work and where they live" Having commuted for many many years, I literally cannot fathom …

I recall having an orange iMac on my desk specifically for testing because IE5.5 on the Mac was the most standards compliant browser on the market. Cant remember the exact year, bu…

I'd be interested in an OpenBSD desktop

I blame NAT

- shared nothing architecture - single threaded code execution context - copy files deploy I was a PHP developer for over 15 years and those three concepts do more to lower the bar…

I thought it was Slashdot that had the X-Bender header?

Is this closed or open source? I couldn’t find a public repo anywhere in the links

"The problem with the web isn't the amount of control it affords developers, it's that getting people to create interesting content for your medium requires business models that on…

Maybe because historically the developer industry has shown that some bad actors can ruin it for everyone? That maybe the App store review process is to benefit ME, as an Apple cus…

As an Apple customer the review system is working very well for me. No malicious apps have got through the process and onto my phone yet. In that sense, its worth it to me.

What nonsense. As an Apple customer, the App store is the number one reason I use them - I dont want malware or scummy developers on my phone and I am happy with Apple charging a f…

X-Bender came from slashdot.org didn't it? I recall it being present in the early 2000s.

Is there an on-prem/AWS AMI version?