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re: downvotes: i'm sorry, but is the legibility of the OP's article not relevant to the discussion of said article?

Designers need to understand that screen != print. When your design emits light (rather than reflects it) it can make brains feel bad.

For people studying the brain, I would have hoped not to read the article in the highest contrast my screen can produce with pure white text on a pure black background. After the f…

For those that are interested, I posted an article[1] a little while ago on how to automate the renewal process for Letsencrypt using Daniel's acme-tiny[2] script. It's a lot nicer…

You're right that I would present the same way. I just get frustrated being told what I want, being upsold, and being made to feel as if I don't know what I'm talking about when in…

Or at the Apple store! omg, the number of times I've walked in, gone directly to a sales person to request that they kindly go to the back room and retrieve a specific item for me …

I agree with others that the author seems to be missing the point of React. Whether or not it is "reactive" or doing things the way you're supposed to do them is irrelevant. It's a…

These new rules seem reasonable and no different from what businesses are/should already be doing. Does "consent" apply to websites which add an "opt in" checkbox but check it off …

Exactly. If you don't want to burden your little head with OPAs and APIs and application architectures, just stick the jQuery and happily manipulate the DOM here and there as you s…

Close down those porn tabs you have open? idk. lol

Don't be a used-car web dev then. Be the luxury sedan - sport car web dev. I explain to my clients (not necessarily through this analogy) that I'm definitely not the cheapest dev/d…

Great quote. I think we all understand that spaghetti code simply adds time to the next feature we want to introduce, probably creates unseen bugs, and might explode. But it's alwa…

I agree this is a bit of overkill for a "my first hand-coded website" project. I've been hand-writing websites for over 15 years (back when all I had was Notepad on a Windoze box).…

The thing about computers is that yeah, they're awesome at communication, but they do a lot of other stuff too that has nothing to do with person to person transmission of informat…

Then I guess my question is this: why is a mostly visual interface/representation mainly controlled by non-visual means? To me, a mind-map is not a "power user" tool and is used fo…

The article was about how great Apple names things and how bad everyone else does. My point is that Apple's names aren't some brilliant miracle of nomenclature like the article mak…

Lol. I agree the argument is a bit misleading. Apple products can be considered to be just as confusing. Apple Product Names: - iPad - iPad 2 - iPad - iPad /w Retina - iPad Air Whi…

For sure. Bootstrap is good for... bootstrapping. After you've got your MVP working and you're ready to make a real, custom, unique, differentiated, improved user experience, you'r…

The interface was a complete mystery to me. I clicked and dragged and hit enter and gave up. I read the manual and discovered the insert key (although I don't have one on my mac la…

Funny. I had a similar experience myself in art class in high school. The assignment was to take a photo from a magazine and reproduce its likeness with pencil and paper. I must ha…

Very well put. I believe this sort of expression (of remixing and building upon and expanding or contracting) is good and healthy and artistic and should be considered an acceptabl…

I think the "leaving the windows open" argument is wrong. As far as what's right and wrong is concerned, I should be able to leave the door wide open if I so choose. It's my car. I…

Haha, yeah I've dipped my toe into continental-heidegger-psilocybin-phenomenology and it's wonderful Being. I'm still trying to answer WTF (in general). I haven't read Deleuze. May…