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I've had some form of personal site for more than 15 years now, usually with a hand-coded theme. It's unremarkable technically, but as a UX designer, it certainly gives me more confidence that I know how the web works.

Made with Saber (Vue.js) using Vercel.

It's rather hypnotizing like that. I wouldn't mind having a fireball like that as my desktop background. Never mind the resource usage and all that, because this has character!

I don't recall when I last used the start menu to turn off the computer. I have a button on my laptop and pressing it hibernates the computer. Very handy.

For a lot of the world population, english, as common as it may be in programming, is still a foreign language. People less fluent in English are that much less likely to try scripting something. Not only would the language keywords make little to no sense, but the supporting materials and comments as well.

I'm sorry, but I fail to understand your grief about Opera. They've been nothing if not standard compliant since before most people had internet access. Not to mention the huge amount of not-PC-hardware they have provided a browser for (Opera Mini for feature phones, Opera for TV's with internet, Opera for Nintendo DS, DSi, 3DS)

I may be biased as long-time users often are, but they're definitely not comparable to the plague that is IE.

But doesn't SVG support CSS Media Queries? That would make it more than possible to support showing/ hiding appropriate elements/ layers according to the current dpi, width/ height, orientation or whatever?

Please, can someone give a good reason why the bundled camera apps are not supporting QR codes? For an average user, it would be the easiest option to just use the camera on the phone. Less friction and so on.

In daily use, it seems pretty much the other way around. Opera supports standards, but everyone else goes beyond them.

Also, it's about time feature detection became mainstream because whitelisting certain browsers almost always means forgetting about Opera.

Yes, these programs have existed for a number of years, slowly improving and getting better. But every time I try to use them.. they feel clunky. There is just too much friction when I try to do the simple things. Maybe it's because I'm used to PS and AI, but I think Gimp and Inkscape would both be much better received if they invested more into being easy to use/ good-looking. Much like Sketchup did for 3D, where building basic models is easy and complex models possible.

Is there a better list available that you'd recommend? Because the idea of a curated list of books to read appeals to the lazy side in me. I like reading but not researching what to read..

Note that a large number of these are apps stores. I can imagine the licencing fees or whatnot being the showstoppers for audio/video, but what on earth is so difficult about selling applications?