I’ve had Stolen Focus by Johan Hari sitting in my ‘to read’ list for ages and I finally got around to starting it. I’m about a quarter way through and it’s brilliant, but I can’t decide whether I’m sad or angry or both. Reply via email or Mastodon. | Continue reading
Warning: massive time sink. I just lost a significant chunk of my morning coffee time scrolling through Design Spells. I’m a sucker for cool little design details, and this is basically nothing but cool little design details. Reply via email or Mastodon. | Continue reading
Jeez, WIRED… I had such high hopes when I read the headline The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Initial Prototypes Were ‘Chaos’, but rather than a cool story about how the crew at Nintendo came up with some ingenious, world-changing (Hyrule-changiong?) problem-solving appro … | Continue reading
Completely unsurprised by this story about a womens-only exhibition at Mona: The museum agrees the exhibit does indeed discriminate. But it argued that Mr Lau hasn’t missed out on anything - he experienced the artwork exactly as intended. The women involved go out of their way to … | Continue reading
I was legitimately surprised to find out that Glassdoor was still even a thing this morning, but not at all surprised by the incredibly stupid decision to associate real names with accounts without consent. I mean, there’s no way that could possibly end badly, is there? Reply via … | Continue reading
Following up from Friday, OMF-ingG how many different ways are there to format a freaking date and why is dealing with timezones so hard and who needs six decimal places of precision in microseconds and just WTF is going on here? Reply via email or Mastodon. | Continue reading
I’ve had a browser tab with Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s open letter marking the web’s 35th birthday open for several days now and have read and re-read it a few times. It’s a worthwhile take on the key problems facing the open web: There are two clear, connected issues to address. The … | Continue reading
Dealing with dates and times programmatically continues to baffle and exasperate me. Reply via email or Mastodon. | Continue reading
TIL that “cursor chat” is a thing in Figma and from this day forward I’m going to annoy the hell out of my colleagues with it. 😉 Reply via email or Mastodon. | Continue reading
As part of the near-complete rebuild I did a couple of weeks back, I decided to move my database from SQLite to Postgres… my heart rate was a few BPM higher this evening while I did the migration, but I think it worked. 🤞🏻 Reply via email or Mastodon. | Continue reading