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joelanman

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About joelanman

Designer at UK Government Digital Service, work includes Register to vote, Petition Parliament and GOV.UK Prototype Kit

https://joelanman.com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48672130

    doesnt VC money subsidise stuff all the time? Isnt that how Uber and AirBNB undercut competition?

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    Comment #48477838

    UK government services guidance is to use progressive enhancement https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/using-progressi...

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    Comment #48219098

    Using omlx on the M1 max I get about 15tps from 27b

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    Comment #48182559

    If select counts as a list, then I'd include radio buttons too because for single selection they're often a better choice

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    Comment #47823991

    You could play back multiplayer Halo 3 matches in 3D, with a free camera. Was really interesting to see how matches played out, how you got killed and so on, and for taking cool sc…

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    Comment #47808453

    as used on gov.uk https://brand.design-system.service.gov.uk/typography/

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    Comment #46922824

    https://railway.com is another good one

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    Comment #45996458

    The regulation is only concerned with cookies that are not required to provide the service. It makes no differentiation between first party and third party - if you use cookies for…

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    Comment #45899937

    (I worked on this pattern) Our guidance is to accept both names and numbers in the back end so people can enter either. In our testing, text inputs (with a numeric keyboard on mobi…

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    Comment #45897718

    For dates people know (say date of birth) just use text inputs https://design-system.service.gov.uk/components/date-input/

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    Comment #44875825

    might work out the opposite - 'ah I can do better than that, one more try'

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    Comment #44837822

    ai tab Generate button is disabled for me, regardless of input

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    Comment #44445329

    it's true, but these are more fragile than simply having clear link text, especially over time as a site is maintained

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    Comment #42561248

    > if you run the code and get an error you know there's a problem. well, sometimes - other times it'll be wrong with no error, or insecure, or inaccessible, and so on

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    Comment #42075574

    Note the downloadable csv of sites that presumably didn't consent to this

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    Comment #41983214

    exactly. Silently refusing input is an anti-pattern

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    Comment #41915960

    'transparent' in what sense?

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    Comment #41847542

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.carrotpop....

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    Comment #41835308

    This is a long running pattern for Matt: "To Matt Mullenweg I want to say: please take better care of your community, because WordPress is nothing without it. Cherish the people wh…