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1-Line CSS Layouts 5 years ago

These are great.

I've been using CSS since it first [barely] appeared in IE3, but I've been behind on fully getting to know flex and grid. Didn't know about aspect-ratio at all.

Maybe that says more about the amount of attention I've been paying, but I learned a lot from these examples.

That's a shame. Sounds like it was great work, just the same!

Lots of my early stuff (late 90s and early 00s) has basically vanished from the 'net as well; I know the feeling.

virtually every other person is radioactive to you.

While you're not wrong, this behaviour is already present - just randomly distributed. Some/many people withdraw, interact with fear, maybe eventually get fed up and take risks, based on guessing-games.

If this research proves fruitful, it will reduce the guesswork a lot, and people can try to find more practical and constructive approaches.

I'm not aware of HN doing any predicting at large. If you mean 'will the average person later act like a given segment of HN people do now?' - then it depends on how good you are at selecting your segment, which makes it no better or worse than using any other sample of people for prediction.

Less abstractly, productisation is what takes things from obscurity (e.g. HN) to mainstream audiences, so future trends might grow out of stuff that you see here, but the people who can figure out whether certain tech can become a product (would-be predictors) -hopefully- also have the means to turn it into a product themselves.

DigitalOcean Down? 5 years ago

My London-hosted site stayed up just fine.

DO's uptime has been extremely impressive to me.

A CSS-Only Clock 5 years ago

"It’s simply not possible to access the local time with HTML and CSS to automatically set our clock."

Headline is false. I was excited about it, too.

"Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter" are not moral highgrounds for free speech - they're engagement-driven platforms that thrive on drama and conflict.

Posting on these platforms is not real human communication.

If you can't calm down and remove yourself from an online argument before posting something that is almost guaranteed to be misunderstood, you're not evading self-censorship, you're feeding an addiction.

I'm probably doing it right now.

..the only way for Gemini to keep that way, is by not becoming popular. Because that's exactly what happened to the web.

I felt like the web's "change" was when it became skewed towards high-bandwidth content like images and videos, more so than popularity alone.

I can't imagine Gemini becoming as popular, but if it does, another new protocol can grow. :)

it will probably fade away or keep very niche

Sounds nice, actually.