📈 Instructional Designer at Insulet
💻 Video courses: LinkedIn Learning, Frontend Masters
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We got our keys for our rooms and got back in the car. As we got ready to pull out, a car pulled in right next to us, with an old man scowling at us from behind the wheel. My boss said, "That's James Watson!" And that's when we noticed that we parked in the Cold Spring Harbor Lab Director's parking space... his parking space.
Scientist James Watson, who shared a Nobel prize for helping discover the double-helix shape of the DNA molecule, has died. He was 97. His death was announced by his former research lab. Watson also helped guide efforts to map the human genome. But he was widely condemned for racist remarks later on and left his job as chancellor of the prestigious Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. Watson shared a 1962 Nobel Prize with collaborator Francis Crick and scientist Maurice Wilkins for discovering in 1953 that DNA was shaped like a long, gently twisting ladder. Knowing the structure of DNA was key to figuring out how the genetic material works.
I see that James Watson, one of the scientists who discovered DNA's double helix, has passed away. I ran into him once when I was 23.
I was working as a lab tech in a cell biology lab at Univ of North Carolina. My boss and I were traveling to Cold Spring Harbor labs to present a workshop. It was late. My boss pulled into a parking space in an empty lot opposite the dorm registration.
In my new **Frontend Masters** course "Getting Started with CSS v2," create a single-page portfolio website with light and dark themes controlled through CSS via light-dark(), some extremely cool :has() selectors, and two radio buttons styled as a switch.
Preview video: https://youtu.be/DeMq18rZIoc?feature=shared&t=607
Course: https://frontendmasters.com/courses/getting-started-css-v2/
Build a single-page portfolio with CSS! Learn responsive layout techniques and UI design fundamentals as you style navigation, project cards, images, and more. Give the portfolio extra polish with light and dark themes and deploy your portfolio to GitHub Pages.
@mlanger https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/jun/18/washington-cherry-growers-struggle-to-find-pickers/
You picked a good time to sell!
The threat of federal agents raiding orchards is forcing a labor shortage that has caused some Washington producers to leave cherries unpicked or delay their harvests until fruit gets over ripe, which means they are getting paid less for the fruit at processors.
Will someone explain what the advantage is with CSS shape() vs. SVG? I have coded a pen where I have both (CSS shapes in the About section, SVG in the footer) and I don't particularly see an advantage in this use case.
What use case gives an advantage? Animation only? https://codepen.io/jen4web/pen/qEELmOY?editors=1100
Manuel Matuzović
