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I left my AirPods Pro at a school sports field an hour away, and I didn't realize until the next morning after it been raining heavily. I gave them up for lost and needed headphones for work – so ordered some from Apple with same day delivery.

A week later, I got a Find My notification that they had been spotted – at the same sports field. I figured what the hell, put on a podcast and drove the hour to see if I could find them. Worst case scenario, a couple of hours of driving.

Using Find My and the directional feature points you in the right direction to within feet, I found them in the tall grass.

The case had been perfectly watertight, and they'd barely lost a percent of power in a week. Remarkable really all round.

It's hit and miss, but I still largely like it when I have to interact with it.

I just re-registered to postal vote from overseas, and the information and links were a labaryinth, often sending me in circles.

Out of exasperation – since I thought my use case didn't match what I was looking for – I clicked the big green "Start" button on the wizard and it worked swimmingly.

When re=applying for a passport in the recent past it was great too, even allowing me to upload a photo from my phone.

Perhaps they have focused on some key interactions that would typically be seen as complex.

Some institutions do say their attendance has fully come back, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts. Eric Gewirtz, a spokesman for the Detroit museum, said membership has increased by nearly 2,000 subscriptions. But overall, arts organizations have struggled.

Worth noting that The DIA has free entry for residents of three neighboring counties, which I could imagine is a contributor to attendance to pre-pandemic attendance.

Sometimes we don't even look at the art. Go in for free and hang out in the wonderful Kresge Court for food + drinks. Amble around to a particular section if we feel like it.

Likewise. Camping used to be spontaneous up until Covid. We might book a popular site a few weeks in advance but only for popular ones on holiday weekends.

Now they can be booked months in advance when you've no sense of how available you'll be or what the weather will be like.

For Michigan's booking system, people also game it by booking long stays that finish on the dates want (thus getting around the "within 6 months" booking window) and then cancelling down to the dates they want for a paltry cancellation fee, given how in demand they are.

SO is car button designer for Tier 1 supplier. It's not only a debate on the internet.

It always warms my heart that The Strid is internet famous. My memory is walking by it and my grandad, not one for hyperbole, telling us how dangerous it was. Miss you gramps!

Immediate first thought.

Good luck, and seems like a nicely executed product. There's certainly demand in the prosumer home office market – lots of money being spent there.

Personally, I'm surprised that showing more information is frequently correlated with an _increase_ in productivity. I see many 'inspiration' setups with multiple screens, often taken up by a single app like Twitter or Spotify, and they feel like distractions, not productivity boosts.

It seems like this would be used as a more embedded version of a second screen, which I gave up on because its main purpose was to take my attention away from what was on my main screen (I recognize there are times when side-by-side screens are helpful, just not that often for me).

Sorry, by scale in this context I meant "used by a large number of users". Obviously there's no risk in CSS itself scaling - more that there's risk in using CSS Grid to the degree they have in a way I haven't seen in many web apps.

Disappointed in the tone of the comments so far. Here's what I took from the article.

The author wasn't saying this was _good_, they were saying it was _interesting_. Professional curiosity and learning how a complex app uses CSS Grid (and Flexbox) at scale.

Indeed, their own conclusion was:

That’s it for this exploration. I enjoyed looking at such unique and fun usage for both Flexbox and Grid. It’s inspiring to see that in a tool we’ll use, and for me, it inspired me to explore even more use cases for the CSS tools we’ve.

"Exploration", "fun usage", "inspiring". By all means come in with your preconceptions of Figma but nonetheless we should encourage this sort of analysis.

I have no particular love for Figma as a product but I'd guess there aren't many other examples of CSS Grid being used at such scale, as a critical path application for people whose job relies on it, with a relatively low adoption of CSS Grid, particularly to the extent they seem to have used it.

There's virtue Boring Tech, but let's encourage the inverse too.

I know there are privacy concerns with this kind of thing but I think it's a nice use of technology.

I recently came back into the US as a Global Entry member and didn't even have to get my passport out of my pocket. I'm not even a US national. Face scan as the e-gate and straight through. The scanner didn't even have a lag, it probably already predicted I was walking up before I did. No awkwardly scanning to get the right angle, or putting my passport in multiple times to scan. No human in the loop. Are there terrifying ways that could be bad? Absolutely. Technically impressive and convenient? Yep.

I pay for Pinboard with archiving, in fact my 5 year archiving was about to expire to paid for 10 years.

The entropy of links is staggering. I'm glad to have archives of some of the oldest links.

Wasn't is made by Dustin Curtis? Looks like at least one of his personal sites is down too: https://dcurt.is/

All frontend developers: keep the Flexbox article alive please.

Your suggested solutions don't work so well for sitting outside.

When Covid made outdoor socializing necessary, we used out hot water bottles at restaurants and at fire pits.

Blankets and gloves aren't as good at keeping nether regions warm on cold surfaces, and anything that needs to be plugged in is a no go. A minor point too but I wouldn't want batteries/electrics around fire.

Our hot water bottles kept us toasty for hours and you could also tell easily when it was running out of power, so to speak.

We've also taken them to winter cabins when you don't know how convenient electrical outlets will be. You can have several of them for when you're on the sofa, to pre-warm the bed, make the dog cozy.

Fun idea. I have a memory a website from years ago that was photos of writing on a whiteboard or fridge. I'm certain it wasn't accessible nor SEO-friendly though it was inadvertently mobile friendly.

To be fair I don't think the cited paper being profitable before necessarily means they are not now they've been bought out, though I take your point that in aggregate their parent company is paying off debt.

Once the papers are reduced to sources that come in via weekly feeds, you no longer need boots on the ground journalists to report the stories. You can write the stories from anywhere, predictably, with automated or offsite writers.

The end goal seems to be: look at this huge organization with a fraction of the overhead, with vast reach, that has predictable if small margins, but that's profitable across thousands of publications. That's the sort of thing that keeps shareholders happy, it just happens to be at the expense of a public good.

Interesting tidbit that countered my assumptions:

None of this was inevitable: At the time of the sale to GateHouse, The Hawk Eye wasn’t struggling financially. Far from it. In the years leading up to the sale, the paper was seeing profit margins ranging from the mid-teens to the high 20s. Gannett has dedicated much of its revenue to servicing and paying off loans associated with the merger, rather than reinvesting in local journalism.

Like many of us I'm sure, my local (Gannett-owned) news website is awful. On the news page, you might get a handful of stories a week related to the actual town.

It's high school sports results, PR for new businesses (or remodeling of existing ones), some crime reports, health code violations. Granted there may not be much happening in a small town, but it's very surface level. I get the impression the journalists are told to live off a diet of aggregated reports sent to them rather than getting out to speak to anyone.

Like the linked piece suggests, it bears no relationship to what locals are talking about in Facebook and NextDoor groups. The community chats about constant flooding in certain areas, discussions related to Covid including staffing, the changing weather, personal allegations which if were true would be scandalous but go unchecked, the availability of public services.

I saw my first Rivian in the wild last Sunday. I live near their head office in Plymouth, MI so I presume it was an employee.

Looked sort of toy-like, not like a typical truck.

13" Surface Laptop 3.

2256x1504 (recommended) at 150% scale (recommended)

On Windows 11 too, if that has any consequence.

Since most of the comments are negative, I will say I noticed the new font yesterday and loved it on my Windows computer in Chrome.

I switch between Mac for work and Windows for pleasure and Windows font rendering can be hit and miss.

I notice fonts on websites a lot and get frustrated when they're bad but this was one of the most pleasant ones I've experienced, to the point I went and looked it up. I didn't realize it was a modified Grilli Type, I've always enjoyed their fonts so not much surprise I liked it.

This is my biggest irrational fear. That one day I'll get locked up and everything I say and do will only convince them more that they're right. Jon Ronson meets Kafka.

IIRC Akira is a different shade of yellow compared to most of the characters.

If anything the jokes of the vintage years have got better with age.

Not only because I understood the cultural references or occasional 'adult' jokes more, but also because of the layers to a joke.

Like many Pixar movies, the same gag can make you laugh in different ways as a kid, as a know-it-all young adult, and as a middle aged person.

The streaming landscape is frustrating as an end user. I have a Roku TV and have used YouTube TV, Hulu and Sling for live TV.

YouTube TV and Hulu seem to keep increasing their prices to the point where there's not much difference from traditional cable, other than it's easier to cancel.

But then there are so many caveats. Bally Sports doesn't appear to be available in my local market to stream our MLB team. I also need a separate Peacock subscription to watch some, but not all Premier League games. Also the channels available on Roku seem to change, presumably due to contract disputes like this.

Whatever promise TV over Internet once had over cable has long since gone away for me.

As a counter point, I love my Surface Laptop 3 as my personal device.

I had a pre-M1 MacBook Air for when I'm not working and I hated its fans constantly whirring and the industrial design that hadn't been updated in years.

I dived deep into different Windows laptops having spent 10+ years away and been really pleased with the purchase. The design is very simple, aspect ratio great, and the keyboard better than the Mac I was transitioning from.

I didn't like the Dell XPS's keyboard or display, and I tried the Razer Blade Stealth 13 but it was overkill.

Having not really used Windows for years and given that lots of Windows laptops still had shockingly cheap industrial design or weird quirks (webcam at the bottom?!), the Surface Laptop 3 was unfussy and a delight to use.

Yeah not only was the value proposition a one-time fee, but also paying at all. A lot of alternatives were free, and the pitch IIRC was if you pay then the archive is more sustainable.

I'd be interested to see what a re-up of a one-time (two-time?) fee looks like. When I'm being frugal I tend to cut subscriptions, but today I can afford a lump sum.

I'd sooner pay today for the 2011 Pinboard Civic and run it until it needs replacing, than lease a 2021 Pinboard Model Y.

I went back to Winwdows after a long hiatus for my 'personal' laptop. The OS definitely doesn't have as much polish but I've been quietly impressed.

I'm not a developer, but I am developer-adjacent, and I really struggled to get set up with WSL. Even using some guides like this: https://char.gd/blog/2017/how-to-set-up-the-perfect-modern-d...

I'll probably have to start it again from afresh, I just found setting up WSL unintuitive and the relationship between WSL and Windows confusing. I believe the situation was previously much worse so forward progress I suppose.

Things I like about Windows:

- Windows take up more space on the screen. When maximized, there's no title bar and sizing icons taking up space like on MacOS. For example, Chrome tabs are right up to the top of the screen without going full screen.

- There's a program for everything. I've been able to play games I used to from 20 years ago and where they don't work out of the box (some do), someone has made a utility to make it all work. I'd forgotten the advantage of Windows having so many more users.

I've seen this kind of thing from other museums too.

Can anyone recommend a way of a layperson getting them printed in decent quality, say on canvas, for hanging in the home? Is there a good online service that does this where I can upload one of these hi-res images?

The ones I've seen are mostly glossy photo paper for family portraits, rather than the use case of replicating oil paintings.

The article mentions labor being a huge problem.

On a TV episode of Grand Designs (UK) a few years ago, the German company Huf Haus (www.huf-haus.com) sold a prefab home to a family. Their approach to labor? Ship that too.

The whole crew arrived with the house components. They knew exactly how to assemble it on the concrete base the local crews had put in place. It went up ridiculously quickly, and once done, they got in the trucks and drove back to Germany.

So I think the key takeaway of this article is that it's hard to drive from Germany to California.