“Why Is Sunscreen ‘Better’ in Europe?”
After ~30 months here in Canada my impression is that your average North American product is of a noticeably lower quality than its European equivalent, but they ‘make up’ for it by having a much broader range of high end products
“Nobody talks about the real reason to use Tabs over Spaces”
This is a pretty compelling reason. Esp. if you are writing open source code.
“Civic honesty around the globe - Science”
“In contrast to what rationalist theories of economics predict, citizens were more likely to return wallets that contained more money. The findings also reveal a high level of civic honesty across nations.”
A lot of really good Mac software on sale here.
“Restricting a (pseudo) element to its parent’s border-box - CSS-Tricks”
I love this. Very clever.
“Haunted: Hooks for Web Components - CSS-Tricks”
I’ve been using haunted and it works really really well.
“Some (More) Personal News: Independence Day — @glecharles — As in guillotine…”
This guy clearly aspires to become a member of the prestigious ‘top ten most disastrous tech CEO hires of all time’ list https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/02/npm_abandons_settlement_talks/
“The amount of sexism experienced by women compared to men goes as the square of the gender ratio in Tech”
“Superhuman is Spying on You » Mike Industries”
Yet more evidence that the tech/software industry is fundamentally unethical.
“Manifesto for Public Philosophy (guest post by C. Thi Nguyen) - Daily Nous”
“rsync, GUIs, power, control, design, and decisions · BLOG Progress Process”
Fiiiinally got around to watching Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse and:
- It’s easily as good as everybody says it is.
- Waiting this long to see it was a huge mistake.
- Don’t make my mistake.
“Jony Ive’s Fragmented Legacy: Unreliable, Unrepairable, Beautiful Gadgets - iFixit”
Idle weekend thought wouldn’t <dialog> have been more successful as a CSS feature instead of a native element that doesn’t function without JS? That is, display: modal, or display: alert?