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If your app can support matching a dark/light mode to the operating system, that should be the default. I don't understand having this as an option but forcing light or dark This isn't just a setting for taste, it's an accessibility feature

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Very fast switch up from being disappointed that Pocket is closing to glad that it's pushed me to move to raindrop.io. It's MUCH better

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Clapping when your flight lands should get you on the no-fly list

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Someone should do a study on the rate at which I drop out of YouTube videos the moment someone says ‘let me explain’ before a montage with that same stock music you can probably hear in your head right now

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Maybe we can start by caring about the welfare of humans

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I’m too attuned to London cab driver knowledge. Jumped in a New York taxi, asked for bowling green, and he had no idea what I meant Conversely, last time I used a black cab I mentioned a random south east London street and we were rolling before I even finished the sentence

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I don’t love it when people use the word ‘juxtaposition’, but I just walked through times square while listening to Godspeed You! Black Emperor and I think this may be a legitimate use case

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Esbjörn Svensson is the right mood for trying to design something that’s not entirely derivative youtu.be/5rFEZiPgyTE?...

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It’s been years since I actively learned new CSS. Despite being a web engineer, I work in a realm where anything beyond the basics simply doesn’t need to happen I’m much more likely to be wrangling types and designing forms I do miss the more creative side of things quite a lot

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

What an awful week. Someone hit my car, washing machine shit itself and flooded the kitchen, travel I was looking forward to cancelled, a friend is missing, AND it’s review week at work

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I have somehow still never made it to New Orleans, but even still, this is never pancake day for me; it’s Mardi Gras music.apple.com/gb/playlist/...

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Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

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The growing use of AI in writing code made me think of this podcast about automation in aviation causing a drop in pilot skill and awareness 99percentinvisible.org/episode/chil... @99pi.org

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This live recording of Sad Mafioso absolutely blows me away. And is possibly a small insight into my general mood and frame of mind recently archive.org/details/gybe...

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The way Jello Biafra introduced “Nazi Punks Fuck Off” each time was always as awesome as the song itself. Oh by the way, this is from 1985. #DeadKennedys #NaziPunksFuckOff #Punk

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Nothing quite as good-to-my-ears as 80s King Crimson recently youtu.be/IHjxgHDWtwY?...

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I may never recover from the wind chill, but so pleased with this one

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Did we peak with gulp and browserify? Truly, I loved these tools before webpack came along and made us too quick to accept absurd complexity

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‘There is no parent selector’ is so beaten into my CSS understanding that I always forget that :has() exists and is pretty close

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I don’t think it’s normal to have a preferred version of a specific symphony, but Bernstein really nailed the pace of Tchaikovsky’s 6th youtu.be/o147jpVKFCI?...

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Ahmad Jamal said that Jazz is American classical music youtu.be/2Ho9rTm9lZw?...

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