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Jeff Bezos’s net worth is nearly 1.2 million times the median US household’s. See how his expenses compare to yours. washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/…
Just cooked up a little gist to make Liquid strftime month abbreviations play nice with AP style. gist.github.com/robweychert/7d…
sports twitter < awards twitter < no twitter
Apparently <meta name="viewport"> is still necessary. v7.robweychert.com/blog/2020/01/v…
just chillin while my magic mouse charges because why should design solve old problems when it can introduce new ones
“[R]estraining links through artificial scarcity is an absurdly coercive behavior.” anildash.com/2019/12/10/lin…
Sorry, folks, I messed up the math so I deleted this tweet. It’s actually .7%. Still a lousy showing, but not as bad as I made it out to be.
There is now no good way to filter your library by composer (among other useful data categories), which is a real bummer.
I get why Apple took the Artist/Album/etc filters out of the Songs view in the desktop version of Music (née iTunes) but I wish they hadn’t.
Lazyweb: I’m useless with regex and I want to set up a @tweetbot mute filter for any sentence beginning with “imagine.” Help?
I don’t know how CSS quantity queries escaped my notice for this long, but I am pleased to make their acquaintance. alistapart.com/article/quanti…
Trying inline SVG in CSS. Works in property/value pairs but Sass chokes when I try it in custom properties á la adactio.com/journal/15075. 😕
Signing up via FB makes your Spotify username become a random number when you leave FB. Guessing who my friends are is actually kind of fun.
When you jump right into code and it takes days for patterns to emerge which would have emerged in minutes on paper.
git branch clean-slate
This story is bananas. Stellar reporting by @Renee_Dudley and @jeffykao, and killer illustrations by @adammmmaida. twitter.com/propublica/sta…
Links: April 2019
rumz.org v3
If Rumsey Taylor is not on your radar, this is an excellent opportunity to rectify that error.
Hindsight 2070: We asked 15 experts, "What do we do now that will be considered unthinkable in 50 years?" Here’s what they told us.
Most of these are more aspirations than likely outcomes, and one is included in a rather transparent attempt at ideological diversity (see if you can guess which one!), but an interesting collection… See more →
I sadly had to remove the texture on iOS due to a background-blend-mode bug. Please let me know if you spot issues in other browsers. twitter.com/robweychert/st…
Any CSS aficionados know why CSS filters applied to <body> don’t apply to its background?
A lot of people were happy when Twitter went to 280 and they started doing all 280 tweets all the time but I didn’t like it and I kept doing 140 even though I now had the option to do 280 but now I’m thinking maybe I’ll try 280 and see if maybe I like it because I figure (1/367)
This CSS trick for fading siblings on hover is rad: trysmudford.com/blog/fade-out-…
I wish the example used the photo from Back to the Future. 🙃
Hi, I’m trying to install nvm and it’s not going well and I don’t like what’s become of my profession
FYI my preferred pronunciation of GitHub is gi'tho͞ob
These features currently only have IE/Edge support, which effectively vanishes when Edge moves to Blink. Hope more support comes soon. 🤞🏻 twitter.com/robweychert/st…
“[CSS] has introduced the same kind of hyphenation controls provided in layout software (eg. InDesign)” 😍 clagnut.com/blog/2395
Hi, I’m gonna go ahead and call bullshit on StubHub’s five-star rating in the App Store.
How is the data-hungry advertising that pervades the internet still so dumb? “I see you bought a thing! Would you like to… buy it again?”
alexa how can i tell if theres a bustle in my hedgerow
Links: March 2019
You Are Not a Tool
To me, that combination of many things — of not being tied to one particular tool — is where the power often lies.
The Tragedy of Baltimore
In 2017, it recorded 342 murders — its highest per-capita rate ever, more than double Chicago’s, far higher than any other city of 500,000 or more residents and, astonishingly, a larger absolute number of killings than in New York, a city 14 times… See more →
Reading @zeldman’s Designing with Web Standards. twitter.com/ParissAthena/s…
Just did my monthly Instagram check and it took me 20 minutes to figure out the five-tap rain dance now required to see posts I’ve liked. 👍🏻
“To me, that combination of many things — of not being tied to one particular tool — is where the power often lies.” brendandawes.com/blog/youarenot…
What percentage of iOS Live Photos are taken intentionally?
Thank you for reading! Pedantic but important distinction: the table markup is semantic and incidental to the layout. twitter.com/simoncoudevill…
Links: February 2019
Hello, dear reader!
February is gone, but its links remain.
I owe you a belated “Happy new year!” since I failed to get this newsletter out the door the past two months. If you’re desperate to see the links that never made it to your inbox during those months, you can find December and January (along with every other edition) on my site.
In February, I finally launched Tinnitus Tracker, a live music diary I’ve… See more →
This game puts you in the unenviable shoes of an Amazon warehouse worker. abc.net.au/news/2019-02-2…
I think my least favorite Twitter genre is tweets with screenshots of other tweets.
As infuriating as Apple’s can’t-charge-while-in-use mouse is, at least it reminds us which apps care about intuitive keyboard navigation.
This also marks my first use of @media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce), which results in a static image of the animation’s final frame. twitter.com/robweychert/st…
Behind the scenes of recreating the first ever web browser (CERN’s WorldWideWeb from 1990). So cool! adactio.com/journal/14821
Made the mistake of signing into @Medium to comment on a post, and now they’re emailing to let me know how many people read my comment. 🙄
Links: January 2019
The Leaked Louis C.K. Set Is Tragedy Masked as Comedy
Over the years, C.K.’s comedy evolved, as any comic’s will, but at their best and most well known, his jokes were about interrogating himself as a means of interrogating American culture. As C.K. shuffled uncomfortably on stages and sets, clad in rumpled T-shirts and slouchy dad jeans, he served as his own act’s useful idiot: C.K., author and character at once, played the privileged guy… See more →
Also worth keeping an eye on @SaraSoueidan’s series on SVG filters: tympanus.net/codrops/2019/0…
Clever techniques for manipulating color with CSS filters and SVG filters: css-tricks.com/the-many-ways-…
This doesn’t seem to address privacy concerns, which are a big use case for ad blockers, but I think it’s the beginning of a great idea. twitter.com/meyerweb/statu…
“Companies that use AWS are feeding critical market data directly to the company that […] will one day be their largest competitor.” twitter.com/kashhill/statu…
Trying to decide the fate of my Flickr account: pony up for another year of life support or just finally pull the plug? 😕
The attitude that the web is a software platform and nothing else can go piss up a rope. twitter.com/frontendben/st…
why is @kennyloggins not the spokesman for @1Password