justinph

My boomer father, who drives Fords pretty much exclusively, loves to tell me how bad it is that the Tesla I drive doesn't have AM radio. Meanwhile, I didn't even notice and couldn't care less.

Ran into this on nytimes.com. Ended up using the polyfill. The benefits of dialog are just too great to not use it. So much easier than using other modal libraries or rolling your own.

My parents took me on a trip via the California Zephyr, Coastal Starlight, and Empire builder when I was 5 years old. I'm now in my 40s and that was one of the most memorable trips I've ever taken. I re-took the California Zephyr with my wife some years ago, and hope to take it again with my child some day.

Memorable travel, not just memorable destinations.

Wasn't it an internal letter that was leaked? I mean sure, being leaked is a predictable consequence, but it may be a distinction with a difference if the criticizers didn't themselves leak it.

Regardless, will be interesting to see how this plays out. If I were one of those employees, I'd be talking to a lawyer. If I was one of the employees still working at SpaceX, I'd be talking about a union. We recently unionized at my employer, it is great to know we have each other's back.

Every time this guy tweets, I regret my purchase more and more. Can't he just keep it focused on the cars and the share price? Instead it always has to be some ego trip about how he is smarter and harder worker than everyone else.

I hope this pushes folks at Tesla to unionize. The NLRB has ruled health and safety are subjects of mandatory bargaining. If your employer is making you return to an unsafe office during a global pandemic, this is in violation of that.

Apparently sheep are the right thing to graze. Cows and horses are too big. Goats tend to bite at the cables. Sheep are small enough to fit in and around the solar panels and won't bite the wires.

https://www.startribune.com/pollinator-friendly-landscape-ta...

Zillow's attempt at flipping was certainly not helping. Even if it doesn't improve things, at least it is not hurting anymore.

The trend of big companies buying single family homes and attempting to flip them is demonstrably bad for individuals trying to purchase a home.

Starkey is not exactly a quality company and I would be more than happy to see them put out of business. They tried to shaft their employees out of retirement money, they inflated their donation numbers, and a former executive was sent to prison for all kids of fraud.

I've been a happy user of the same version of 1Password 6 for many years, the last non-subscription version. It still works on MacOS Big Sur, and the classic extensions work in Firefox and Chrome (though not safari on the mac). When it stops working, I guess I'll have to look elsewhere.

Yes. Years of experience with AMP and measuring website performance on a very high traffic website.

Fun think about core web vitals and amp: AMP pages will _always_ win core web vitals, because they're measured from google's CDN, where they can be pre-rendered. Unless the page is motherfuckingwebsite.com, the AMP version is going to score better in every metric than a non-AMP version. Core Web Vitals just cements AMP as a shortcut to performance.

Oh, thanks! I didn't know about the temporary containers extension. Very useful!

Multi-account containers are awesome: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers

Also good to keep non-chrome browsers alive.

Not true. Automatic emergency braking (AEB) has been shown to reduce frontal crashes by about 43% and injuries in those crashes by 64%. That's a pretty big sizable jump. I can personally attest AEB has kept me out of at least one crash.

Source: https://www.consumerreports.org/automotive-technology/automa...

Did you read what I wrote? I drove it down the street at a cardboard box and it slammed on the brakes and stopped.

The fact that there isn't a word about accessibility in this blog post is beyond disheartening. I would really like to know how they're doing it. Is it the Accessibility Object Model (which AFAIK, isn't fully baked)? Some shadow DOM thing? Accessibility is a foundational feature of the web. Without it, it is 100% broken.

Its also a bit disheartening to read that someone would consider accessibility an optional thing that could be shipped later.

Uhh, no, it's totally correct that it will slam on the brakes.

Source: own a Subaru, have driven it at a cardboard box in the middle of the street, and have had it slam on the brakes. Have also had it slam on the brakes when swerved into my lane, saving me from an accident. So... worth it.

Can happen with non-TOR, too. Cloudflare is a cancer on the web for this kind of awfulness.

This is what should be done with Police departments in some places.

The problem I have with this is that it makes people create and manage an account. My 90 year old grandmother is not gonna manage that.

I made a little hack for wordpress that lets you run a wordpress blog and have a shared security question that lets people access content. A simple question like "What is the name of the family dog?" or "What is grandpa's nickname?", something like that. Not industrial strength security, but enough to keep it sorta private and out of search.

The nifty part is that with wordpress and Jetpack, people can sign up for posts by email, so every time you post, your friends/family can get an email with the updates. No need to even visit the blog. Perfect for grandma.

Here's the two files that make it work, in case anyone is interested: https://gist.github.com/justinph/f0fb937d1ee418a45bfb85e91e4...

This is neat. I’ve often thought of building my own since no smart thermostats support the millivolt system my 50 year old boiler uses.

Can anyone quantify the harm to the public?

Drive down ad rates for non-google content, which severely hurt other digital publishers, like news sites. This made it basically unsustainable for them to survive on advertising. Thus, hurt local reporting and investigation, which in turn allows corruption and ineffective government, eventually hurting democracy.

With the upcoming Core Web Vitals, you'll get penalized for this. It measures the aggregate speed of chrome users.

This is a genius bit of marketing.

I don't think this holds true anymore. It takes Apple some time to get their cloud offerings right, but eventually they do. iCloud works pretty good these days. iCloud photos is pretty slick and just works.

Does it go down once in a while? Yeah, but so does GCP every now and then.

The accessibility of this leaves a lot to be desired:

- There are no landmarks.

- The keyboard navigation works poorly.

- There are no live regions to show changing content.

- The markup is a sea of divs and spans, so there is no structure to the content.

- There is no visible focus indicator.

Some of the advanced layouts do not work at all in Safari, accessible or otherwise.

Then this is a perfect case for regulation, to make it cost more to make new glass than re-use existing containers. It worked in the past just fine. But the first world incentivized energy production so much that we drove down the need to be efficient.

This would be a good problem to have. Developers are generally not interested in the 4-6 unit buildings. In my city, Minneapolis MN, development is large single family homes or multi-unit (40+) apartment buildings. From my understanding, the problem is generally capital: A 4-6 unit building is too costly for a homeowner or small-time real estate developer to take on, but too small for large well capitalized developer to bother with.

Hopefully, this will change in time. But I think that it'll be large developers building in neighborhoods with homeowners. The equity will end up in the hands of large real estate trusts, and not small time operators.

how do you turn the damn AMP off?

Use DuckDuckGo.

Because that's a lot more work than making a vaccine that allows the body to target SARS-CoV2 directly.