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One of my biggest bugbears is losing the OK/Apply/Cancel concept with dialog boxes or settings windows. If I have a window with lots of settings that I want to experiment with then…

Beads?

Got through to The Times newspaper!

Nope - you've got me on that one. I can't.

How do I switch to the timeline where emojis, crypto, NFTs and generative AI weren't invented?

Just adding another alternative that I've been using for years for people to consider - 1Blocker. https://1blocker.com/

Hadn't seen this before - thanks! I'll take a look before it comes round to resubscribing next year. :-)

I (well, my company) pays for https://onlinetools.com/ (USD 6 per month if you pay for a year upfront), which a found super-handy for (de-)prettifying and (de-)stringifying JSON. (…

Thanks!

Is it possible to reset progress somehow?

And on top of all that is the terrible (IMHO) UX design pattern of getting rid of Apply/Cancel buttons, particularly in settings panes.

This might also be of interest to anybody who enjoyed these articles: https://www.scratchapixel.com/ .

I use an app called 'Alarmed' on my iPhone for this. It's got everything I need, in particular you can repeat items on a fixed period or 'x days from the time you actually manage t…

54 year old finding this useful here! :-)

Several years ago the company I work for offered a 'compressed working fortnight' option, where for nine days out of ten you work an extra 45 minutes a day and then get every other…

I love some of the ideas here! Particularly the neat string 'class' and hand-defining Windows API functions instead of dragging in Windows.h. There's clearly life in the old dog ye…

I thought I'd look up something I knew and spotted 'Thérèse Raquin', which gets butchered into 'Rackwin'... some way to go yet, I think! https://ia804709.us.archive.org/35/items/sy…

Many thanks!

I guess the unwritten part of that press release is the fact that Red Hat are taking RHEL in some sort of proprietary direction? Is anybody able to TL;DR me an explanation of what'…

TIL that curl is installed in Windows 10 and 11 - useful article for that alone!

Thanks, seri4l!

I've never come across the term 'heavy VF' before - can somebody clue me in?

The comment came across very positively - thanks!

It's something that I know I need to do, but - and I know this is pathetic - always gets put off ('I'll start next week; after Christmas; after my birthday...').

I know! I clearly wasn't thinking straight...