@rboyce

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@[email protected] my youngest sister first learned to code to make a Minecraft mod; now she's a professional software engineer!
But it might work for us!

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One of the big Qs from pundits before the DMA was ‘what are all these 'great' apps we're missing out on because of Apple's App Store restrictions, and do they even exist?’.

Mere days after a major App Store rules change, @delta (which has been denied for years), is the top app on the App Store.

For every Delta, there are a thousand great apps that were simply never started because they would never fly. Dreams that never left the whiteboard, market segments that were never given chance to exist

@cabel "apple engineers writing software for a Panic OS" was not on my bingo card for 2024!

I’ve never been more excited to do a blog post.

My goal was to preserve some never-before-heard recordings of the Firehouse Five Plus Two, a famous Disney-employee dixieland jazz band.

But along the way, I accidentally uncovered something incredible… a lost song that was cut from Walt Disney’s Cinderella, a song that hasn’t been heard in almost 75 years.

And you’re about to hear it too.

Read now: 🌟 https://cabel.com/2024/02/13/firehouse-five-and-the-cinderella-surprise/

Firehouse Five and the Cinderella Surprise

My goal was to preserve some never-before-heard recordings of Disney’s incredible employee-heavy Dixieland jazz band, the Firehouse Five Plus Two. But along the way, I accidentally discovered…

cabel.com
@tvler i run https://changedetection.io in a docker on my home server, but they offer a paid version if you don't want to self-host
Website change detection, monitoring, alerts, notifications, restock alerts | changedetection.io

Best and simplest way to monitor websites for changes, change detection, website checker, webpage change monitoring and webpage change detection tool - with alerts and notifications!

@christianselig ah, i misunderstood. maybe the example here is over-simplified - if you don't want the content visible behind the header, why can’t you just set a solid background on the header?

you can do this with a scrollable wrapper around the main text: https://codepen.io/rboyce/pen/VwRrNEw

VwRrNEw

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@christianselig if the header is a known size, you can do this with `body { margin-top: 100px; }`

New: I obtained hundreds of internal documents that show how universities have bent over backwards to accommodate Starship food delivery robots which sometimes have trouble crossing the street:

https://www.404media.co/student-should-have-a-healthy-looking-bmi-how-universities-bend-over-backwards-to-accommodate-starship-food-delivery-robots/

The robots necessitated:
- Publicity photos with students who "should have a healthy-looking BMI"
- Police supposed to let Starship "lead" incident investigations
- Trying to form "habits" with a "captured" base of student populations
- Redesigning intersections

'Student Should Have a Healthy-Looking BMI': How Universities Bend Over Backwards to Accommodate Food Delivery Robots

Internal emails show how universities make nonsentient, profit-seeking Starship robots feel comfortable on campus.

404 Media
Occasional reminder that Google and Amazon allow police to access your home cameras and doorbells without a warrant: https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/26/23279562/arlo-apple-wyze-eufy-google-ring-security-camera-foortage-warrant
Google, like Amazon, may let police see your video without a warrant

Several companies confirmed to CNET that they won’t turn over users’ home security video without a warrant or court order, in contrast to Amazon’s Ring and Google’s Nest.

The Verge