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The artist Alphonse Mucha associated blue with the past: "Black is the colour of bondage, blue is the past, yellow the joyous present, orange the glorious future."
Blue of course is a cold color. Perhaps one of the less eccentric colors, and ubiquitous as the author mentions. So in line with the disappearance of color from modern design, it is one of the few remaining colors in our vision of the future.
I feel like at this point Dart suffers from being a Google project: Google decides its fate, and Google has built a rather poor reputation when it comes to stability. I don't have concrete evidence, but I think the Google culture adheres more to the rolling release and move fast and break things ideology. I personally witnessed several of my own Dart projects needing serious refactoring after just a few years.
Also, I feel like Dart is a maximalist project. "Batteries included" also means a whole myriad of tools and libraries also at the grace of the Google Dart team.
Love it! One idea is to vary the intensity (volume, duration) with the collision momentum.
LOL the new factory factory factory is ChatGPT
From the link you mentioned:
Bots often mimic the User-Agent of a common browser, but the version numbers used in the bots rarely change. Over time they drift farther and farther behind until a point (maybe two-year-old versions) where you can safely block them without inconveniencing legitimate users.
This supports the idea that browsers are subject to constant change and everyone should be forced to come along (rather than respecting and supporting standards). I have a Chromebook that stopped receiving updates some years ago (thank you for your very safe and sustainable product Google!), his heuristic would litteraly block me.
My feeling is that Google is not capable of fixing fundamental problems of Android. Every year they change some colors and rounded edges (it's starting to get hilarious seeing the design of their apps being revamped over and over again), and add features invented by their designers nobody asked for. But the keyboard lag, the storage footprint (why must an ever so slightly older phone with 16GiB internal memory be discarded because His Majesty Android demands almost all of its space for itself?), those will only get worse every release. I think they simply don't care. It's all about futuristic colorful stuff that sells. Android will never be a humble, efficient, reliable platform.
As for this issue. All I can think of is the tragedies it may cause. It's a cliché: software developers are not responsible, except when their PR forces them to take action.
Usually posts with this many upvotes stay on the HN front page much longer.
I like that GitHub is one of the few websites that kept roughly the same design for years. Design is something that gets familiar, and I believe it helps your brain when it is not changing all the time. I would like to see an explanation from GitHub's side as to why this change was needed.