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I’m sorry I didn’t upload this before, if there are some amongst you who want to discuss the, er, situation. I have been obsessing about this election for months now and I think that now we’re here I find I’m too anxious to watch the returns coming in as a Trump victory would be the biggest disaster for this country since, I dunno, the civil war? I took a peek …

Developer experience, or shortly DX, seems to be the number one thing that people pay attention to in their chosen tools/frameworks.

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I find this very cool that the Gov.uk / GDS have released their platform tooling (in particular forms) to the public sector. I can imagine it's a jump to go from project in the public sector to being able to implement all the nuts and bolts it requires, and this platform looks to cut right through the hard work. Specifically: You can create accessible, low cost online services without needing …

Read this article if you want to become a much better designer (See what I did here? I framed it in a specific way :) )The Framing Effect in UX design — UX Knowledge Piece Sketch #64The Framing EffectThe way you formulate a problem affects your users’ decisions and behavior. The decision frame is affected by how we present the decision and by the norms, habits and personal characteristics of …

I’m writing this post about eighteen hours before the first polls open on Election Day, and it feels tense out there. The New York Times, for example, just posted an article headlined: “How Americans Feel About the Election: Anxious and Scared.” Based on extensive interviews conducted over this past weekend, the Times concludes: “Americans across the political spectrum reported heading to the polls in battleground states with a sense that …

A polacca through it's first stages before basing, priming, and painting.A little houy.I finished assembling and rigging a few more ships including a little houy, a whaling brig, a polacca, as well as a a couple brigs and a frigate from Warlords Black Seas game.Up close, these models are obviously not detailed, but rigged and painted and put on a pretty base, I think they look rather nice on the …

I have a problematic relationship with keys. Well, that's not true. I have a problematic relationship with key rings. For some reason, my pockets are a violently hostile environment for things I put in them. I don't really understand why this is, but it's true. Keyrings bend out of shape; the concentric rings separate, and my actual keys fall off of them. People have expressed scepticism about this in the …

China is aiming to put humans back on the moon within 3-4 years from now, years before the US returns humans to the moon. That will be a huge pychological blow to Americans. With Dreams of a Lunar Outpost, China Takes New Risks in Space Race With U.S.

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I've recently found myself in a rabbit hole of Go major version bumping to v2. What started as a simple task quickly turned into hours of sifting through conflicting information. Should I use a v2 directory? Create a new v2 branch? What about creating a new repository altogether?The more I read, the more confused I became. To save future me from this headache, I've decided to jot down the differences …

A simple recipe for making soft pretzels. (vegan but not gluten-free.)

I've been using Counter for analytics, and it's great. It does exactly what I need, and the pricing is generous, considering you can apply it to multiple sites.What's traffic been like for this little site? It's been good. I don't fixate on this stuff anymore, but I like checking in now and then to see what's popular and might need updating.This year, there have been 2,503 visits.Of these visits:1,799 from …

Holy Toledo, Election Day 2024 is tomorrow.Both yours truly and Madame Blogmeister did our civic duty and voted by mail last month. Then we kicked back and relaxed with the following favorite election-themed tune, courtesy of intrepid Swing Ticket candidate Louis Jordan. It's true - every presidential election, this way too well-informed for his own good political junkie and diehard classic comedy aficionado MUST watch the hilarious Moe, Larry and …

Uncle Vladimir, diadia Volodya, passed away in his sleep in his home in Israel. He was in his 80s. He fell ill with polio when he was a child during WWII. The first doctor he ever saw, a German surgeon in another occupied village, told my grandmother that her son was as good as dead. “Just leave him here.” My grandmother was exhausted after a long journey and her own …