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There should be a 'share your score' button revealed when you finish just like those games (I copied them) :)

I'm going to add this to my backlog, definitely a great suggestion. Even when testing I would just mash answers

I credit wordle and framed.wtf in the about section. This formatting of games has exploded in the last couple years, it really is a great way to get people returning each day

oh my! well spotted haha. Thank you

ah good callout, ill add it to the list

I did not know IMDB offered this, thank you!

That's a fair take. I can't overstate Stack Overflow has been in the past, I think I often had that experience that it usually caters to common but specific scenarios, or I'm just impatient and lurk instead of asking a question and waiting for a response. Interesting I could paste Stack overflow discussions into ChatGPT to ask if this insight is related to my issue and it was usually open to relating the new info and helping me

I found this to be the case as well. My out productivity declined as the project became more unwieldy. I wasn't using ES6 so would very much like to modularize things and use imports/exports next time. "Working code is working code" but I'd dread the idea of someone collaborating on top of my spaghetti. Lot of lessons learned in that respect. Having to reset ChatGPT's understanding of the latest code was tiresome.

ChatGPT actually suggested firebase for some very basic JSON event logging output I wanted to produce but I'm just realising AWS has something called amplify?

JavaScript has a reputation for being quirky but I'm assuming it has come a long way in the last 10 years (or maybe not) but very quickly I became comfortable with it in an obviously limited way. Next project I'd be more interested in a framework but I'm glad I cut my teeth trying to understand the basics first

Thanks for this! I'm gonna check this out

I hadn't considered that at all. Will address!

Ok that's shooting right up the list! Back and forward arrows to allow you to hammer through the back catalogue

I considered this, but given the way the clues are revealed i think I had to commit to a single answer per needledrop. I mentioned in the 'how to play' disclaimer the subjective nature of the curated list: We’ve selected what we believe to be the first or most iconic instance of each Needle Drop.

Doesn't make it any less frustrating when it doesn't accept a technically correct answer though.

I originally had the default 'pause' functionality up until yesterday but a lot of friends had given the feedback that it can exploited and that a running clock adds to the gametime pressure.

I don't really know. I posted this link in the r/webdev subreddit and there was some pushback that this isn't code that is fit to charge clients for and that it shouldn't be trusted for serious engineering. The point was completely missed- I think an AI agent can supplement your understanding if the documentation is usually targeted at professionals. It's also perhaps a more engaging medium for some learners.

Ha just googled this and realized this is exactly it. Makes a lot of sense as a forcing function to better understand your messy thoughts

Thank you! Not yet, it's definitely worth a talk or blog post IMO. I don't think it's well known how approachable learning how to code is with this kind of a tool. The way you're able to interrogate a response or ask it to clarify more simply what it is doing- I had so many 'a ha' moments with certain topics that felt overwhelming at first.

I quickly learned to set up AWS billing alerts, is there anything else I should keep an eye on?

Thanks for checking it out. I make users select from the dropdown before allowing to submit. But you have to guess the movie that features this song not the artist :)

I'm very much an interactive learner. Following aa article or youtube tutorial can be frustrating when something goes wrong locally but it's not covered in the material. Then your flow is broken by googling how you can best describe what you think your issue is.

I didn't use VScode or copilot integrations- I was literally just copying and pasting code snippets or errors into the browser ChatGPT. It would suggest code changes back, if ChatGPT only gave me a snippet but I wanted the full file I could just ask.

I understand at some level that it's still just an extremely sophisticated interface but it genuinely feels like magic/sentience. You're not contorted to what you think the limitations of 'how the thing likes to be instructed' like voice commands or Siri. You just talk freely about what you're trying to achieve, show it code and explain in plain language what you think has gone wrong or even that you have no idea why something doesn't work- it just teaches you how to debug.

You should dive in!

Just throwing it out there: are paint times effected by the implementation of svg's? I don't remember exactly but I do recall a situation where svg was causing jankiness. Probably not wholly responsible, but I want to know if anyone else ran into this.

I would say it has stood the test of time for a few years now. Every attempt thus far (directly or otherwise) has strengthened it economically. The price is now around $250usd, doubled in the last month since silk road was closed down.

Piratebay isn't down?

Could you elaborate as to how? Examples aren't synonymous with rasterized images. They use font-face in the example column where they display Open Sans.

It's not a big deal but I just didn't understand your response

I'm really curious as to why they would use images over font-face in the style guide examples http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/styleguide/products/firefox-os/.... As a designer you want to see how the typeface performs in the wild, not snaps of it with some arbitrary aliasing.

It's not a bad typeface, although the kerning on the light weight needs a lot of work. If you're wondering what I mean, look at the word 'quick'.

I find it rather scary that they write policies on things they don't understand, or want to.

This is precisely our way of thinking at adioso.com

Hello, I'm the designer behind the homepage and search box. Thanks for the great feedback! As you could have guessed, there's been a lot of thought and iterating over the homepage and the orange search box, both on a functional level and a branding experience.

It's been a really interesting exercise. Searching (at least from a Web interface POV) is a really robust paradigm and a space that is challenging to innovate in. While I agree that we haven't quite 'nailed it', I feel like we're constantly moving towards the promised land while adhering to the plethora of backend and frontend contraints.

I like your idea from a story telling perspective, but it feels a little step heavy. We're trying to be patient in educating users on the breadth of queries we can handle. Understanding what you could put into the Google search box was a very gradual discovery experience.

I too am hoping we can turn a proper noun into a verb :)

That would be awesome

I've worked with Tom, Fenn and the team for the past 4 months. While it's been an exciting period with lots of growth and interest, I like reading about the early struggles and the mud they crawled through to get this opportunity. A recent investor emailed the team explaining his decision to get on board. I was struck by one particular sentence, 'You guys just wont give up'.

I enjoy the honest writing style and acute observation on relationships. It's a breath of fresh air in contrast to the abundant startup stories about young gun-slinging silicon valley 'game changers' that built their MVP on a napkin. I understand the miracle flash stories sell, but it's good to hear about the unbeaten track.

Thanks for the feedback. I wrestled with the iconography for a while. I know the instance your talking about (old google maps mobile used it for 'I am here') and was wondering if anyone was still conditioned to that. I'm not sure who else uses a crosshair icon to good effect.

Daniel - Adioso Interface Designer