Eitan

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A simple Jew. he/him

I designed a replacement wristband for my childhood Casio watch. I think you should know. https://www.printables.com/model/1630544-casio-strap

#3dprinting #casio

Once in a while I use a mobile browser without an ad blocker and Christ Almighty is this how 99% of users experience the web?
Products are so desperate to integrate #ai they have forsaken any kind of user research to gauge the demand of these features. #vscode has gone a step further and would never assume their chatbot sidebar would need a "close" button.

Of course, this is a picture of Ross Glick. He lobbied the administration to detain and deport a student protester.

#FreeMahmoudKhalil

So the first step is to stop giving users false expectations with a settings name like "Colors". You can't change the default colors on the modern web, things just break. Instead we should have settings with an appropriate name. Introducing "Contrast Control"
...except sometimes a ye olde web master will forget to define a color for their site's background and just assume that the browser's default color is white. Things then go sideways, if you messed with the default colors and tried to "skin" the web.
Anyway, since two days ago, #firefox had the same dialog that has persisted in the browser for almost 30 years! What does it do? Nothing much. That is because the web today uses a technology called cascading style sheets. Websites are thoroughly themed through and through (or "skinned" if you prefer). Using a default foreground or background is almost unheard of...

If you messed with it, you can skin* the web!

(*) "skin" is a forgotten verb from the 90s. I want to believe the etymology has something to do with Silence of the Lambs.

It had a colors settings pane that looked like this

Yesterday I had the satisfaction of tearing out a 30 year old Netscape-era feature from #firefox and introducing something that should be more useful in the modern #web. Hang tight and I will give you a visual history...

Behold Netscape 4 from 1997 looking right back at you: