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What a hero. Rats are so smart. I previously asked what I think was an official account on Instagram and was relieved that the rats are apparently too light to set off the mines.

You can get all the nutrients you need, easily, from a vegan diet, with the exception of B12 (a cheap supplement will cover that).

Also, human ‘canines’ are pretty pathetic. They’ll do the job in getting meat off bones, sure, but are nothing compared with my dog’s teeth – he has proper canines. (He also doesn’t have to prepare and cook meat before tucking in. Humans are actually pretty lame meat eaters even in comparison to other omnivores like dogs, let alone carnivores like lions.)

Pigs are amazing animals: intelligent, sociable and empathetic. The way we treat them – confining pregnant sows and nursing mothers to weeks or months in gestation/farrowing crates, and gassing them underground in slaughterhouses – is truly appalling.

A few of my favourites: brr.fyi, sheep.horse, timeflies.buzz, pudding.cool and bad.coffee.

This is great. I’ve already been using `text-wrap: balance` on headlines. Before, I was concatenating certain words with ` ` to try to avoid bad wrapping at certain viewport widths. (Doing so is still a useful trick in edge cases.) `text-wrap: pretty` should fix similar ugliness in body text.

I wonder whether AI being the new and shiny thing will lead to a reduction in ‘innovation’ in front-end frameworks. Front-end dev seems to me to have been a solved problem for years now, yet there are still new ways of doing things for marginal gains. I personally just use vanilla JS (having never built anything Facebook-scale which would necessitate using a tool like React) and would be happy if instead of working on yet more front-end stuff, folk will otherwise build something AI-related, both because that is where the hype is but also because it’s genuinely exciting.

One of my favourite tips is to hold down Command while dragging important apps, files and folders to the Finder toolbar in order to ‘pin’ them. You can then drag files to ‘Open in…’ (eg, images to ImageOptim) or just launch apps.

If I’m on headphones (usually wired) I’ll choose the Dolby Atmos mix pretty much every time. As the article notes, it’s great for classical and jazz recordings. But I prefer the Atmos mixes for other genres and styles of music, too. The various instruments/parts seem to have more room to breathe in the mix, and I hear new things in familiar tracks.

The background does give a slight dizzying effect on scroll. His logos are good, though, and I like his no-nonsense attitude.