RheingoldRiver

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by RheingoldRiver 5y ago
> In contrast, the lookbehind+lookahead way is the "proper" and intuitive way to write it, and works as part of any larger expression. I would say, the "proper" way is to have a separate line of code validating what&#
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by RheingoldRiver 5y ago
If you're looking for good/useful/worthwhile books to read, I would suggest considering UI/UX as well as technical writing topics - a couple personal recommendations: * Don't Make Me Think! (UI/UX) * Forms That
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by RheingoldRiver 5y ago
The difference in terminology depends which edition of the book you read. In the second edition he includes a long passage explaining that a lot of readers of the first book misunderstood the word "affordances" and so he was now i
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by RheingoldRiver 5y ago
I swear by vertical taskbar usage. My right-most monitor has plenty of horizontal space, so my taskbar is about 250px wide, and I can read close to the full names of everything, plus I have plenty of room to see every single open window, WI
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by RheingoldRiver 5y ago
If you append an extra period after .com, so `.com./`, it'll work. This trick works on a number of sites, though not all.
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by RheingoldRiver 5y ago
Huh, I was told growing up (in the USA) that it was called this because it was the duration of a soldier's tenure at a fort, so literally a fort-night. Searching online now, I can find literally nothing to back up this (clearly incorre
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by RheingoldRiver 5y ago
There's a limitation to `position:sticky;` though, which is that it will not work inside of ANY parent that's `overflow:auto` or `overflow:hidden`. I hope this gets addressed in a future version of the spec one day. Gtihub issue:
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by RheingoldRiver 5y ago
You can use your userchrome.css to apply a background-color selectively to individual context-menu options. I do it for "view background image" and "copy link location," both of which I turn a deep purple. I've foun
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by RheingoldRiver 5y ago
I like to have two books I'm actively reading at most times, typically one technical-ish book and one nontechnical-ish book. If I need more than two then probably I'm not actually interested enough in one of them and will just sto
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by RheingoldRiver 5y ago
Yeah, I have little interest in any of the listed services. But, I'd be happy to contribute a couple dollars a month to a "pay what you like to support us" tier. Either way I'll probably sign up if it's priced reaso
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by RheingoldRiver 5y ago
Woah that's pretty cool. I expected it to be a vimium-style modal if I just typed `%` at any point in time - so for anyone else who was confused like me, it's a prefix in your address bar so ctrl+L then % and then type your query
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by RheingoldRiver 5y ago
> Windows in particular is as simple as it gets - there's a Windows Store App that you can install and that's pretty much it. Ok I haven't installed Python myself this way, but, does it set up PATH for you properly? How ab
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by RheingoldRiver 5y ago
If student A spends 1 hour installing Python (with questionable success rate) & setting up an environment (with even more questionable success rate), and student B spends 1 hour actually typing things into replit and getting results, wh
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by RheingoldRiver 6y ago
Oh yeah, that sounds good
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by RheingoldRiver 6y ago
Maybe use a "happier" example than COVID cases on your landing page? Something that people aren't depressed to see go up? Seeing a graph of COVID trending upwards is going to put potential users into a negative mindset immedi