Honestly, I’m still very much in the “classes define what a tag represents, CSS defines how it looks” camp. While the old semantic web was never truly feasible, assigning semantic meaning to a page’s structure very much is. A well-designed layout won’t create too much trouble and allows for fairly easy consistency without constant repetition.

Inline styles are essentially tag soup. They work like a print designer thinks: This element has a margin on the right. Why does it have that margin? Who cares, I just want a margin here. That’s acceptable if all you build are one-off pages but requires manual bookkeeping for sitewide consistency. It also bloats pages and while I’m aware that modern web design assumes unmetered connections with infinite bandwidth and mobile devices with infinitely big batteries, I’m oldschool enough to consider it rude to waste the user’s resources like that. I also consider it hard to maintain so I’d only use it for throwaway pages that never need to be maintained.

CSS frameworks are like inline styles but with the styles moved to classes and with some default styling provided. They’re not comically bad like inline styles but still not great. A class like gap-2 still carries no structural meaning, still doesn’t create a reusable component, and barely saves any bandwidth over inline CSS since it’s usually accompanied by several other classes. At least some frameworks can strip out unused framework code to help with the latter.

I don’t use SCSS much (most of its best functionality being covered by vanilla CSS these days) but it might actually be useful to bridge the gap between semantically useful CSS classes and prefabricated framework styles: Just fill your semantic classes entirely with @include statements. And even SCSS won’t be needed once native mixins are finished and reach mainstream adoption.

Note: All of this assumes static pages. JS-driven animations will usually need inline styles, of course.

Music. Often completely randomly selected – for instance, right now it’s some old dance track called Sweet Like Chocolate by… gotta look this up… Shanks & Bigfoot, apparently. It’ll probably be something else in an hour.

The only time my head does go silent is when I’m really tired. It’s one of the most clear indicators of tiredness for me.

It’s an old term for the sexual organs that’s only used as part of terms these days. I tried to kinda match that. My translation wasn’t great, though.

Let me step in for a moment. I’m this man’s attorney. He can’t possibly say stupid shit on the internet because he doesn’t use computers. He wouldn’t have time to use one in the first place as he’s too busy being a wildly successful Path of Exile streamer.

It’s the basic idea behind ordoliberalism – companies get free reign until their actions start harming the common good, at which point the government imposes fair rules to even the playing field. It’s… reasonably functional as far as political theories go. Still wildly suboptimal, though, and not long-term stable against the influence of hyper-wealthy entities.

Note that these, too, have a German name, which translates to “inner taint-lips”. Just calling them “labia” in English is not just defaulting to Latin but also imprecise.

Yeah, I can’t see how pissing off Raytheon, Lockmart, etc. is a good idea. That’s how your political opponent ends up with billion-dollar election funds.

When I first read that I read it as lobsters hunting teeth.

Please don’t crack open my molars.

“The author wrote it that way to increase suspense. Don’t worry, though. My friends will be resurrected because they’re very marketable.”

And Windows 10 was clearly faster.

Than Windows 11, that is.

“Legally required”, so they’re seeing it in the local laws. Some countries require websites to disclose who operates them.

For example, in Germany, websites are subject to the DDG (Digitale-Dienste-Gesetz, “digital services law”). Under this law they are subject to the same disclosure requirements as print media. At a minimum, this includes the full name, address, and email address. Websites updated operated by companies or for certain purposes can need much more stuff in there.

Your website must have a complete imprint that can easily and obviously be reached from any part of the website and is explicitly called “imprint”.

These rules are meaningless to someone hosting a website in Kenya, Australia, or Canada. But if you run a website in Germany you’d better familiarize yourself with them.

Not really. 32-bit libraries are mostly relevant for people who want to play old games, which mostly means old Windows games. Windows software doesn’t tend to use Unix timestamps a lot.

Wouldn’t the half-name actually be “Cla”? “Santa Claus” is the anglicised version of “Sinterklaas”, a Dutch adaptation of Saint Nicholas.

I work for a publicly traded company.

We couldn’t switch away from Microsoft if we wanted to because integrating everything with Azure and O365 is the cheapest solution in the short term, ergo has the best quarterly ROI.

I don’t think the shareholders give a rat’s ass about data sovereignty if it means a lower profit forecast. It’d take legislative action for us to move away from an all-Azure stack.

And yes, that sucks big time. If Microsoft stops playing nice with the EU we’re going to have to pivot most of our tech stack on a moment’s notice.

It’s not terribly exciting but I find myself using this a lot:

#!/bin/sh

echo "$*" | sed -e "s/x/*/g" | bc -l

Just a little shorthand for bc that allows me to write “x” instead of “*” to avoid shell expansion nonsense. I put it in ~/.local/bin/= so I can e.g. just write = 17+4x5. Combined with a Quake-style terminal this is much faster than launching a calculator app. It’s a script instead of an alias so it works regardless of the shell I’m currently using.

The call to bc -l could be replaced with one to qalc -t if you know qalc to be present on the system .

I’m not sure. The body blocks the nacelles’ line of sight so all you could do would be to give each wing its own warp bubble.

Also, of course, the Galaxy class wasn’t in service by stardate 2259.55 – that’s when Into Darkness is set so the best they could be escorted by is an upgunned Constitution class.

It’s important to learn your definitions.

Aro ace: Aromantic, asexual.

Aero ace: Shot down five other planes in war while flying a plane.

Arrow ace: Acquired every skill known to man by spending five years on an abandoned island, most of which wasn’t actually spent on the island.

Because JavaScript and its complete absence of a standard library is a horrible abomination that should’ve been put out of our misery years ago.

My brother decided that Bitcoin was likely to steadily increase in value (in the long term) and spent about a thousand bucks to buy three of 'em. Then he got hit with some surprise money trouble and had to liquidate, losing about a third of his investment.

He was not amused when BTC became an investment hype.

Full stack developer:

The lightbulb is broken. Deploys a lightweight fix that involves 17 metric tons of chandeliers, stadium floodlights, sconces, and the necessary infrastructure to operate the street lights for a city of 500.000. His solution delivers a solid 100 lm of light using only 175 MW of power.