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2024-09-01 20:45:39

If I ever create a programming language, it will accept "elseif", "else if", "elif", and "elsif".
(he said, having just confidently and without checking committed the wrong version in a language he uses every day)

2024-08-22 08:50:40

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Yeah uh thank you for that contribution, very helpful, amaze

2024-08-22 08:39:10

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Imagine if web.dev, the web development blog by the Chrome team, had the latest coolest tech like … RSS feeds for their blog. Then you could just subscribe to https://web.dev/series/baseline-newly-available and get notified about newly availble CSS features …
(To add insult to injury, they load their list of blog posts via JS, so you can't even point a good feed reader at the /blog/ page and have it scrape for new posts. Eww.)

2024-08-22 08:29:20

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Related: Is there something like a caniuse.com newsfeed that tells me when a feature has become supported by all major browsers (or, ideally, supported by major browsers for a month, half a year, a year …)?

2024-08-22 08:21:15

TIL: relative colours in #CSS. You define an origin colour, and then modify (with the magic r/g/b/alpha variables for rgb) or override the values. Supported in all major browsers now (except Firefox for Android): https://caniuse.com/css-relative-colors
Example: Use the primary colour, but make it transparent and reduce how green it is:
rgb(from var(--primary-colour) r calc(g/2) b / calc(alpha * 0.5))

2024-08-07 06:46:26

Geschlechtsneutrale Sprache schon krass, ich hätte ganz unreflektiert "Spaziergänger" gesagt statt "Gehwegende" 🤭
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/112/919/386/101/646/295/original/760e534ffb8564fb.jpg

2024-08-02 20:02:24

The officially best news of the $interval:
World of Goo 2 is now out (and you can buy it directly from the publisher, DRM free):
https://worldofgoo2.com/
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/112/894/207/713/443/750/original/1556f4c8b3a5596e.webp

2024-05-07 08:26:33

I always feel so rude when I close an email to a Swiss person with "Viele Grüße", like it's impolite to brag about having an extra letter 😆

2024-04-23 07:07:50

Ooooh waking up to happy news is great: Voyager 1 is sending usable data again!
Super cool – the whole chip responsible for data encoding was a goner, so they separated the code sections out into other free memory. (22.5h is hell of an input lag.)
https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04/22/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth/