TheFragenTaken

I've long thought about why the tools we have operate on screenshots, and not the accessibility tree. To me the latter would have seemed like the obvious choice from the beginning (structured data), but yet, here we are with pixels. Happy to see progress being made here.

>Like most sensible people with a reasonable sense of priorities, I do not carry a ruler with me wherever I go.

Let me introduce to you: the IKEA paper tape measure, folded neatly in your wallet.

There's also hard data suggesting the perceived usability is higher when the user interface is aesthetic. So it goes both ways.

There should be a term for this. I semi-unironically trust content written in Computer Modern, even if I know it's insane.

What kind of project did you "remove all React"? Also, curious whether you ended up with vanilla Web Components, or fast-element/LitElement/others?

With the advent of OSS LLMs, it's "just" a matter of renting compute.

They can't be arsed to make consumer friendly software. Edge was amazing for about five minutes before it got enshittified. It took a world wide pandemic and thousands of businesses flocking to Zoom before Teams got okay at calls (never mind the Sharepoint/Teams side, which is still a mess). They lost enough developers they had to embed an entire Linux VM in their OS. I'll concede they nail Office and cloud compliance/regulations though.

It's just fun/sad reading about the concept of "swimmable cities" when you've taken it for granted all your life. Most cities with fjords or channels here, have "harbour baths" - essentially outdoor swimming facilities with springboards and tanning beds. Would have thought these existed elsewhere.

There's nothing regarding Google in the article, but it is specifically mentioned that Apple's back taxes are already in escrow.

Indeed would be interesting. Another one of the downsides of everything running on v8. It just feel it gives people the "wrong" impression, even if it helps (massively) with DX to run TS natively.

I just wish runtimes could take advantage of Typescript, and use type hints in performance improvements. Deno, and bun, currently do not, despite running Typescript "natively".

The phonebook capabilities of pretty much all Google alternatives suck. Google is currently the only search engine that actually works for local queries (i.e. phone repair in <local town>).

Alternatives while probably fine in America, suck in the Nordics. I think people forget just how much search traffic happens in this category.

The first rule in any software backed by a server, but especially multiplayer games is, you never trust the client. You could have a perfectly deterministic game where every action is validated on the server, be defeated by running the game at half speed.

Every day, we get closer to what Ember.js did/does.