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I left my AirPods Pro at a school sports field an hour away, and I didn't realize until the next morning after it been raining heavily. I gave them up for lost and needed headphones for work – so ordered some from Apple with same day delivery.

A week later, I got a Find My notification that they had been spotted – at the same sports field. I figured what the hell, put on a podcast and drove the hour to see if I could find them. Worst case scenario, a couple of hours of driving.

Using Find My and the directional feature points you in the right direction to within feet, I found them in the tall grass.

The case had been perfectly watertight, and they'd barely lost a percent of power in a week. Remarkable really all round.

It's hit and miss, but I still largely like it when I have to interact with it.

I just re-registered to postal vote from overseas, and the information and links were a labaryinth, often sending me in circles.

Out of exasperation – since I thought my use case didn't match what I was looking for – I clicked the big green "Start" button on the wizard and it worked swimmingly.

When re=applying for a passport in the recent past it was great too, even allowing me to upload a photo from my phone.

Perhaps they have focused on some key interactions that would typically be seen as complex.

> Some institutions do say their attendance has fully come back, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts. Eric Gewirtz, a spokesman for the Detroit museum, said membership has increased by nearly 2,000 subscriptions. But overall, arts organizations have struggled.

Worth noting that The DIA has free entry for residents of three neighboring counties, which I could imagine is a contributor to attendance to pre-pandemic attendance.

Sometimes we don't even look at the art. Go in for free and hang out in the wonderful Kresge Court for food + drinks. Amble around to a particular section if we feel like it.

Likewise. Camping used to be spontaneous up until Covid. We might book a popular site a few weeks in advance but only for popular ones on holiday weekends.

Now they can be booked months in advance when you've no sense of how available you'll be or what the weather will be like.

For Michigan's booking system, people also game it by booking long stays that finish on the dates want (thus getting around the "within 6 months" booking window) and then cancelling down to the dates they want for a paltry cancellation fee, given how in demand they are.

SO is car button designer for Tier 1 supplier. It's not only a debate on the internet.

It always warms my heart that The Strid is internet famous. My memory is walking by it and my grandad, not one for hyperbole, telling us how dangerous it was. Miss you gramps!

Immediate first thought.

Good luck, and seems like a nicely executed product. There's certainly demand in the prosumer home office market – lots of money being spent there.

Personally, I'm surprised that showing more information is frequently correlated with an _increase_ in productivity. I see many 'inspiration' setups with multiple screens, often taken up by a single app like Twitter or Spotify, and they feel like distractions, not productivity boosts.

It seems like this would be used as a more embedded version of a second screen, which I gave up on because its main purpose was to take my attention away from what was on my main screen (I recognize there are times when side-by-side screens are helpful, just not that often for me).

Sorry, by scale in this context I meant "used by a large number of users". Obviously there's no risk in CSS itself scaling - more that there's risk in using CSS Grid to the degree they have in a way I haven't seen in many web apps.

Disappointed in the tone of the comments so far. Here's what I took from the article.

The author wasn't saying this was _good_, they were saying it was _interesting_. Professional curiosity and learning how a complex app uses CSS Grid (and Flexbox) at scale.

Indeed, their own conclusion was:

> That’s it for this exploration. I enjoyed looking at such unique and fun usage for both Flexbox and Grid. It’s inspiring to see that in a tool we’ll use, and for me, it inspired me to explore even more use cases for the CSS tools we’ve.

"Exploration", "fun usage", "inspiring". By all means come in with your preconceptions of Figma but nonetheless we should encourage this sort of analysis.

I have no particular love for Figma as a product but I'd guess there aren't many other examples of CSS Grid being used at such scale, as a critical path application for people whose job relies on it, with a relatively low adoption of CSS Grid, particularly to the extent they seem to have used it.

There's virtue Boring Tech, but let's encourage the inverse too.

I know there are privacy concerns with this kind of thing but I think it's a nice use of technology.

I recently came back into the US as a Global Entry member and didn't even have to get my passport out of my pocket. I'm not even a US national. Face scan as the e-gate and straight through. The scanner didn't even have a lag, it probably already predicted I was walking up before I did. No awkwardly scanning to get the right angle, or putting my passport in multiple times to scan. No human in the loop. Are there terrifying ways that could be bad? Absolutely. Technically impressive and convenient? Yep.

I pay for Pinboard with archiving, in fact my 5 year archiving was about to expire to paid for 10 years.

The entropy of links is staggering. I'm glad to have archives of some of the oldest links.

All frontend developers: keep the Flexbox article alive please.

Your suggested solutions don't work so well for sitting outside.

When Covid made outdoor socializing necessary, we used out hot water bottles at restaurants and at fire pits.

Blankets and gloves aren't as good at keeping nether regions warm on cold surfaces, and anything that needs to be plugged in is a no go. A minor point too but I wouldn't want batteries/electrics around fire.

Our hot water bottles kept us toasty for hours and you could also tell easily when it was running out of power, so to speak.

We've also taken them to winter cabins when you don't know how convenient electrical outlets will be. You can have several of them for when you're on the sofa, to pre-warm the bed, make the dog cozy.