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by lelandfe 2y ago
I unfortunately learn best by book. I hunted for a React book, against the advice of the community, and found one that was current circa v18. It opens by saying the absolute standard for making React sites is create-react-app… which just go
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by lelandfe 2y ago
Recently came across this 13 year old bit of genius: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yRx-dd7Jcs (Desktop/keyboard only)
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Love this!
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by lelandfe 2y ago
> Google's common Java, C++ and JavaScript library for parsing, formatting, and validating international phone numbers It does seem this repo is “from Google.”
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by lelandfe 2y ago
Grover Norquist, 2001: > I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.
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by lelandfe 2y ago
The way it's implemented is clever. Players gradually wear down challenging terrain, incentivizing you to take those easy paths. But the mechanic subtly solves a problem with open world settings, bringing order to infinite choice: you
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by lelandfe 2y ago
The patented game mechanic I am most bummed won’t be appearing in other games is Death Stranding’s desire pathing. Having other players in an open word “wear” paths into the map was extremely cool.
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by lelandfe 2y ago
Go try to use reddit.com on mobile to figure out little they care about improving Reddit for the users.
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by lelandfe 2y ago
`mainFunctionWotDoesFunctionality`
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by lelandfe 2y ago
> How in 2025 music players refuse to (not can't, refuse to) get "Album Artist" right blows my mind Apple Music on macOS broke album artist (click the artist column a few times) a few releases ago and you now have to resor
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by lelandfe 2y ago
Same creator as the first two, Thomas Park. Looks like he's started a series of these, but they're all paywalled except those three: https://codepip.com/games/
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by lelandfe 2y ago
Super neat. Worth noting that some of these, e.g. Reverse-Scrolling Columns and Horizontal Scroll Section, kill the ability to use the macOS trackpad to swipe through history on Chrome.
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by lelandfe 2y ago
If I tap and hold the scrollbar on my iPhone and scroll around, I’m looking at a blank page the whole time because the virtual list is waiting for me to finish.
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by lelandfe 2y ago
Looks like there's a Chrome command line flag to override it: `--force-prefers-no-reduced-motion`
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by lelandfe 2y ago
It would be unpatriotic for us to not be building autonomous murderbots for the government
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See also https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb
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by lelandfe 2y ago
Recommend checking out Taliesin West, if you're ever near Scottsdale. You'll get to see where he and his students did a lot of the draft work for his architecture and see some of the drafts too. Fun story, Wright despised the elec
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by lelandfe 2y ago
A friend at a previous company revealed after years of working together that he was the primary developer on a popular console emulator. He uses an alias and keeps it all quite secret because the level of harassment that alias endures is
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by lelandfe 2y ago
A pithy reworking of Conway's Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
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On the other hand, “the corporation did it” has been pretty successful so far
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by lelandfe 2y ago
Looks like Uber's ditched their expensive designers for AI on their corporate blog's lead images.
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Me, looking in mirror : "...It's the phone, right? It's the phone."
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by lelandfe 2y ago
Choosing colors is like making music. This color scheme feels discordant, like a jumble of loud notes. Maybe try looking at color palette creators online?
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by lelandfe 2y ago
Satoshi Nakamoto is actually a Trisolaran alien who came to Earth to hasten climate change and have humanity kill off itself.
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by lelandfe 2y ago
My dentist keeps yacht sale and swap magazines in his waiting room, which are all ads, but they're completely irrelevant to me and fascinating. That's how I feel about this ad.
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by lelandfe 2y ago
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/LinkNYC In practice, I think I've seen only a handful of people use them directly. It is soo conspicuous using one of these in broad daylight. Lots of people use the ports for charging,
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by lelandfe 2y ago
Closing up all facilities in the only city with a unionized workforce isn't something I would call spite . Example-setting is what springs to mind. A company that loves money sure wouldn't love a trend of spending more of it.
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by lelandfe 2y ago
Used to work for a competitor. It’s not just the speed, it’s an amazing site all around; they know their customers and cut out all the fluff.
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by lelandfe 2y ago
500ms is the 75th percentile speed, so 75% of users are having load times faster than that. For context, Google's synthetic p75 loads emulate a crappy old Android phone on a bad network. A linked post[0] says their p75 was 1400ms befor
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by lelandfe 2y ago
Would also make for a great inclusion on a translation of "trypophobia"

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