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... doesn't support Firefox mobile apparently :D

Sorry should have been clearer, in winter there's no aircon (but also no heating, it's 20-25 deg c) and the pool pump runs approx 50%

Forget 3hrs free. We lived in the tropics in Australia with a ~6kW system and often had negative quarterly invoices (i.e. got paid by our retailer) ... esp. in winter months. Aircon, pool, appliances all electric. At the very least the pool pump ran free all year round.

Edit: should add, that's straight solar no battery

I'm from where these spiders were found. The ants they're predating are an equally fascinating and super aggressive species of green weaver ants (that have other cool predators like "mimic" jumping spiders).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaver_ant

It's funny, I booked a flight with Ryanair only about an hour ago - out of pure desperation - first time in 15 years.

I remember them being crafty, but I have to admit I was surprised by the level of tactics ... that is to say, what they are still allowed to get away with given European / UK consumer law.

Not to mention that a 20kg bag and hand luggage cost me significantly more than the fare itself. They even had upfront "package deals" that would have actually worked out more expensive - bundles of nonsense benefits.

In Australia most of this kind of borderline deceptive selling has been stepped on, to the point that you hardly see it any more.

Since 2011 in northern Australia: https://www.worldmosquitoprogram.org/en/news-stories/stories...

No doubt quite a few folk with the same question. Keen to understand performance tradeoffs.

Obvious comparison note would be that the "new" method currently enjoys somewhat limited browser support (no Firefox without a flag, and only since Safari 26)

Great evolution story. Also love seeing what can be achieved by stepping outside design lines, re. centred, symmetrical UIs. Makes me want an apple watch ;)

As an aside there's a screenshot in the article showing the Hidden Valley at Glen Coe, which happens to be one of my favourite short walks in Scotland.

A less happy aside of that aside is the house at the base of the valley. I used to look at it dreamily as we drove past, always closed up, nestled by itself in a remote nook between the mountains. What an extraordinary place it would be to live. The park for the hike was only a couple of hundred metres up the road. A few years later I recognised the house in a Louis Theroux doco, when he travelled there with its owner - TV personality Jimmy Saville. Wow. And then a few years later again, after I'd returned to Australia, it came out, posthumous, that Saville was one of the UK's most prolific child and sexual predators. Horrific stuff. The name and outline of the cottage structure can actually be seen at the top of the map in the screenshot.

I read this whole post silently mouthing a "CSP" mantra as each new vulnerability was discovered, years apart no less. Elated when I got to the revelation towards the end.

But for all my self righteous bluster the inline version was news to me. Hacker news. Awesome. Thank you.

Great to see the united front holding:

"In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome," Altman said in a post on X."

https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-reaches-deal-deploy-...

As others have pointed out a mix of express (and even "rocket") services, rather than physically removing bus stops, already works wonders outside of the US.

Combine that with improvements to things like waiting areas (i.e. introducing shade), frequency of services, price (in my closest city they introduced essentially free public transport for all - it's been a boon), and you've got something that can be effectively weighed against other forms of transport.

No it doesn't fit all situations and people, but it serves the majority well.

Divers Alert Network, which is probably the most well known dive membership (and insurance) org out there is registered in Malta in Europe.

That's fair. Lack of any official APIs outside of the standard YT data API is frustrating. Would love to see / hear about a rosetta stone for the streaming services to allow easier migration (and integration) between them. Though I guess that's not in anyone's interest.

Also regards the ban, from what I've read Google have included Music by choice. Potentially as a bargaining chip.

YouTube music support? (ᵕ•_•)

I set a (very) old phone into child mode total lockdown with only YouTube music installed to make use of my family account and streaming playlists ... only to find it (the YTM app) wouldn't open due to the social media ban in Australia (legislation which I otherwise - controversially - completely support).

Where I grew up (in northern Australia) a lot of people targeted and ate tilapia out of local estuaries .. there were a lot of them and they were big.

theprojectsomething.com

Not much, but it's something. I use subdomains for projects.

Yep no doubt FF users cut from a slightly different cloth than those who choose GAMS browsers.

But as an old-school Firefox user, with a slieu of mobile extensions installed and a healthy cynicism about our swan dive into the dark sea of AI ... I have no problem at all with the statements from Mozilla. Outsiders can argue all day about intent, it's the actions that count.

Really appreciate the focus on education and a11y with sonic pi - a genuine differentiator

I use CloudFlare a lot for "self hosting" .. but I also run an old pi from home with Bun in place of workers. Suprisingly compatible and low lift.

Not exactly "without CloudFlare", but for true compat you can probably also self host workerd itself which is open source: github.com/cloudflare/workerd

A circular man proto I put together a little while back https://codepen.io/theprojectsomething/pen/JjmgXrg?editors=0...

Makes a lot of sense. Mystery solved, thank you :)

I actually had a similar question / comment but about plants! We have (at least) one in every room in our house and they do wonders for the space.

Not suggesting you go out and buy plants for the gaming rooms (maybe you already have) but wondering if it was a conscious decision not to have any?

Agreed. Was wondering where the inspiration came for each chart choice?

I was hosting around this time too (and surfing a bit, but less so), it was a great experience. Never got up to 12 but we always had someone with us, someone crossing over ... and probably someone we were doing a favour for. At one point had two Italian climbers in a tent in our living room for multiple weeks, who ended up moving to our city and becoming good friends.

I tended to go out my way to try and accept people to stay who were either very new the the platform (which usually made it hard to find a place as karma was low) or were very different to my normal group of friends. Which definitely made for some interesting experiences and conversations. Price of entry was usually a list of their favourite albums. I discovered so much great music out of it.

Finally gave it all up when I moved back to Australia and wasn't in a position to host anymore. So many fond memories tho. I miss it.

Great approach.

Worth noting that there is a 6 decimal precision on the coordinates of the 90kb (gz) `coord2state.min.js` ... which suggests an accuracy that may not be present in the simplified data (i.e. <1m).

Before you increase tolerance to decrease filesize, you could consider lowering this decimal precision to 5, 4 or even 3 decimals given the "country, state, or city" requirement.

I also like the idea of using a heavily cached, heavily compressed image that is perfect for the >95% of the country that isn't within a pixel of a border. With a subsequent request for another heavily cached vector tile that encompasses any lat/lng within your 1px tolerance.

Hey thanks for the detailed response. I'm actually all for progressive enhancement, and appreciate the philosophy you're getting at here. I still think, generally speaking, you're either designing for animation or not. With CSS, if something works with a transition it also works without. Once you start meddling with animation states in JS you've taken point on all that otherwise abstracted away state-based logic. What happens when an animation get interrupted, memory use, timing functions, etc. Sure, if you weren't animating a pill-box you might use flex. But if a transform works, why not use that for both animated and inanimate versions? It's certainly not any less correct or legible.

Nice article and examples, but this seems like an exceptionally complicated and prone-to-bugs solution for what is ultimately a nice to have. I'm all for subtle UI sugar, I pay it a lot of attention in my own work, but subtlety (and usability) really is key IMO.

I was clicking through on Firefox android and noticed a small number of minor things, incl. bounding box issues, animations that went off screen, and glitches when an example was toggled while in motion. Not sure if these are intentional (or expected). No doubt easily fixed. But they paint a picture for edge cases. I'm sure there's some amazing use cases for these techniques, but there's also a good case for simple CSS (and restraint!)

To add to this, I absolutely believe it is the developer's role to interrogate a design (and its implementation) and feedback where appropriate.

I'm not so sure. Most of the web devs I have worked with over the years haven't been overly thoughtful regards UX. I'd even go as far to say that it's the least considered aspect of their process. "Not my job" mentality. Tho probably says more about the nature of my experience than anything else.