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So bland. Call me nostalgic but I really miss the diversity (but consistency) of the Windows XP-era of icon design. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/ms997636...

Can you explain this as Richard would have?

Lighting was the killer app for electricity.

1970s https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/01/harvard-led-a...

AI in search I could go for: "Find that meme I downloaded last year with the girl standing by the burning house" Creating AI slop though? No thanks.

To drive "engagement". Hardly a surprise. Still a disappointment.

For context, Optus is one of the Australian telcos, and triple-zero is what you call instead of 911. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-19/optus-network-failure...

Totally agree.

Performance is a feature [0] 0: https://blog.codinghorror.com/performance-is-a-feature/

Very sorry for the loss of your friend.

I worked as a cashier at a large UK supermarket when I was a student. In our training we were told that if there was an outage with the cash registers we should ask shoppers to est…

The main reason I use a phone case is to stop the phone slipping from my hand in the first place. My current and previous phones (Pixel 8 & 5) are alarmingly smooth on all sides.

Nonsense. Saying that as a European who lived in the US for a few years, now residing in Australia.

Related: "The case for boycotting the United States" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/18/us-tru...

> Schmidt earlier told The Wall Street Journal that he “misspoke about Google and their work hours” and requested the video be taken down. https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/14/242206…

In my office, when we swipe our entry cards at the security gates, a screen at the gate tells us which lift to take based on the floor we work on, and sets the lift to go to that f…

Our Feature Flag values are being retrieved correctly, as far as we can tell, but we're getting 504 Gateway Time-outs from https://app.launchdarkly.com

But there's an art to writing great code, no?

And hear them amplified through the sides of your "mini tower" case.

Skimming past the capital "P", I read this as "why is prettier rock, solid" . . . and was left perplexed, as most rocks are solid.

Wasn't this how AltaVista got its name, but as a whiteboard remnant rather than post-it notes?

What if someone does a hit and run against your unattended car?