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On the capitalization, it seems the BBC will always use title case for acronyms (Nasa, Nato) and all caps for initialisms (ATM, SNP). I did try to search for SQL to see if the Beeb…

Ugh I would recommend anyone reading this to just skipping over it, it's mostly just a glorified loading bar. The visualization is obvious Claude slop, there are better and clearer…

We went out and used our editor against our and customer's documents. The Open part of OOXML makes as much sense as the Open in OpenAI. Microsoft made OOXML available to fend off a…

Ah these poor fools. Having built this exact product (OOXML compatible editor in React) before, it took all of two minutes to find a bug. The issue is that the OOXML spec is not in…

Also while searching for SimCity screenshots I found someone recreating NYC in SimCity 4 https://www.reddit.com/r/simcity4/comments/12dkxey/check_out...

Another fun fact - lodash/fp doesn't deduplicate with lodash when bundled. For a couple of months I was wondering why our app had bundled two copies of lodash. I dismissed it as a …

Links can have that as their href and it will also work as you'd expect. It's the telephone equivalent of the more well-known mailto: scheme

It's not random, setting the query string to a new value on every fetch is a cache busting technique - it's trying to prevent the browser from caching the page, presumably to incre…

Pretty sure that blog is hosted on Wordpress.com infrastructure so it's not like the blog owner would even notice unless it generates so much traffic that WP itself notices. That s…

Note that this is 51kb, it's not exactly lightweight https://bundlephobia.com/package/@js-temporal/polyfill@0.5.1 . Still good for forward compatibility or on the server, but for s…

Yeah, supporting iOS 12 in 2025 is odd. I was investigating browser support levels just recently for a library and also settled on iOS 16 as a reasonable level. For reference, iOS …

For anyone confused by why the text says the performance is improving between each graph but the lines don't seem to show that - the color for each key and the scale changes betwee…

Since it didn't gain traction the first time round, I'll just leave this here: > Clad Labs launches Chad IDE, the first ever "brainrot IDE" https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OgV…

It's because the website is using cufon, a very early attempt at supporting custom fonts on the web using HTML canvas - basically every word you see is rendered as an image rather …

It's the scanline effect, here's three lines of JS to disable it from the developer console s=document.createElement('style'); s.textContent='body::after{display: none !important}'…

I think you mean congresswoman, Adelita Grijalva https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelita_Grijalva > On September 23, 2025, Grijalva was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives i…

Since the article doesn't mention this, the intended use for this property is to act as a hint to the browser about what characters are supported by the font, and if the page doesn…

The news cycle is moving fast enough that shockingly enough this news is already pushed off the frontpage of these news sites, but the article is there if you dig a little. - BBC: …

There’s some discussion in the specs here https://w3c.github.io/webappsec-secure-contexts/#is-origin-t... > In particular, the user agent SHOULD treat file URLs as potentially trus…

> The main concern about the numbers is that they are probably a massive undercount. Every hospital in Gaza has been bombed by the IDF, and the healthcare system is barely function…

Please for goodness sake just read React's docs. https://react.dev/learn The new docs are very good, they address common questions most devs have, up to fairly complex cases. The "…

The other part that's disconcerting is the person who did all this has decided to put his name on the public record in an interview with journalists. After reading through the arti…