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#science #magic #water

Today 38 years ago a small computer manufacturer in UK launched their new product. The RISC machine became the Acorn Risc Machine and later Advanced Risc Machine -> ARM

It is the most used CPU ever. Intel? Never heard of it...

#acorn #AcornComputers #ARM #CPU #retrocomputing #computerhistory

Okay, this is one I will nag about... because it has been an issue on many apps going back to Big Sur.

IDK why Apple Designers insist on disgustingly huge corner radius values for windows. They were already massive in Big Sur through Sequoia.

And so many apps never adjusted their scrollbar insets to account for this. It looks even worse in Tahoe.

Sigh... this isn't the attention to detail that I remember from mid-2000s Apple. Where did it go?

“Semantic markup doesn’t guarantee better indexing or extraction – but it creates a foundation that systems can use, now and in the future. It’s a signal of quality, structure, and intent.

If everything is a <div> or a <span>, then nothing is meaningful.”

#WebDev #HTML #SEO
https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/why-semantic-html-still-matters/

You know. Covid went down EXACTLY like climate change. Fuckin exactly.

I. The Scientific model is absolutely solid.

II. People at first say OH NO, but things move slower than Hollywood Movies do.

III. The WhatAbouts and Minimizers mob the hell out of every discussion.

Prevalence arguments:
"Yeah but HOW MUCH will it rise and HOW FAST? They DON'T KNOW. Science isn't settled."

"I don't see a rise it was cold this year."

Pre-existing Conditions Arguments:
"What if it's sun flares? I heard sun flares really heat things up."

"I mean, SOME climate fluctuation is probably normal."

"The planet has been warming since the Ice Age"

Immunity-Deficit Hygiene-Hypothesis Arguments:
"Some warming would be good for us, right? It gets so cold here."

"The planet can adapt. Adaptation is part of life."

Others will suffer:
"I mean, Africa is probably fucked, but Canada is practically an arctic climate, so..."

"I live in Ohio, lol, free ocean property incoming!"

All of this motivated thinking - all to deflect the core Reality, in favor of Cell Phones (Covid: brunch) and Antarctic Cruises (Covid: Taylor Swift concerts) and Money Money Money. All in defense of the Inexorably Doomed Status Quo.

“Instead of a fast, stable, SEO-friendly experience, you get a heavy JavaScript machine trying to recreate the native behaviour we threw away”

#WebDev #CSS #SEO #JS
https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/its-time-for-modern-css-to-kill-the-spa/

When your new design forces users to enable accessibility settings that didn’t have to be enabled before, you and your design have already failed.

Things are supposed to be getting easier/better/more robust… Liquid Glass is doing the exact opposite; all just to make one guy happy.
https://hachyderm.io/@command_tab/114922836054787340