Dale Trexel

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Drupal developer & site manager from Minnesota. Enjoy outdoor adventures with my 2 huskies whenever not behind a computer.
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@mandclu Perhaps that's the case for you. But not mentioning browser compatibility even once in an article like this is wildly irresponsible for the author. How can anyone call themselves a front-end developer if they just assume everyone uses Chrome?
view() - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN

The view() CSS function can be used with animation-timeline to indicate a subject element that will provide an anonymous view progress timeline to animate. The view progress timeline is progressed through by a change in visibility of the subject element inside the nearest ancestor scroller. The visibility of the subject inside the scroller is tracked — by default, the timeline is at 0% when the subject is first visible at one edge of the scroller, and 100% when it reaches the opposite edge.

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Yet another transfer of wealth to the medical industrial complex! Once you're no longer contributing to the economy, being healthy doesn't enrich the medical-industrial complex, so better to keep people alive, but unhealthy enough to drain their savings.

Passing on your inheritance just means giving $ to people who didn't earn it or deserve it! Better to drain away every last drop to the hard-working insurance executives!

https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/12/americans-are-living-longer-but-most-of-the-extra-time-is-spent-being-sick/

Americans spend more years being unhealthy than people in any other country

The gap between US lifespan and healthspan was 12.4 years, the world’s largest.

Ars Technica
Americans spend more years being unhealthy than people in any other country
The gap between US lifespan and healthspan was 12.4 years, the world's largest.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/12/americans-are-living-longer-but-most-of-the-extra-time-is-spent-being-sick/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
Americans spend more years being unhealthy than people in any other country

The gap between US lifespan and healthspan was 12.4 years, the world’s largest.

Ars Technica

LB: Long thread, but a lot of good insights about the dysfunctional* state of business & investment today.

(* Dysfunctional from the perspective of everyone other than the investors themselves.)

https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/113603661215753448

Paul Cantrell (@[email protected])

I once worked at a company that sold industry-specific core-business software to deep-pocketed corps who couldn’t / wouldn’t / shouldn’t roll their own. I got into a discuss with my manager about whether our products were essentially — my words — a hoax. Me: “Look, our products are riddled with bugs and holes. They’re nearly impossible to deploy, manage, and maintain. They frequently don’t even work •at all• on the putative release date, and we sell the mop-up as expensive ‘consulting.’” 1/

Hachyderm.io

I once worked at a company that sold industry-specific core-business software to deep-pocketed corps who couldn’t / wouldn’t / shouldn’t roll their own. I got into a discuss with my manager about whether our products were essentially — my words — a hoax.

Me: “Look, our products are riddled with bugs and holes. They’re nearly impossible to deploy, manage, and maintain. They frequently don’t even work •at all• on the putative release date, and we sell the mop-up as expensive ‘consulting.’”

1/

instead of “VC Funding” we should call it “Faustian Bargaining”

ie. “Another company is proud to report they took $61 million in faustian series A bargaining. They assure us that they will be the first company to somehow avoid calamity from this cursed arrangement. We are told they plan to enjoy the riches in the short term and then pass the fated collapse along to someone else down the line”

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@ultimike @outlandishjosh I wish I could find a link to that early recommendation from Drupal itself that if you were having troubles migrating off of D7, you should consider alternatives like Wix or Wordpress.

I think it was around the first or second extension of the D7 EoL.