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Google Fonts is no longer best practice due to worse performance and privacy (and the questionable ethics of giving stuff to Google for free) compared to self-hosted fonts. So, OP should take this suggestion with a grain of salt.

It’s similar for the productivity/launcher app Raycast. They’re trying to find new USPs compared to the many copycats.

It would certainly be nice if someone continued the work. But I wouldn’t hold my breath for it. Seems like an unthankful job (although I’m sure many projects using Demo now would be happy if it’s still supported, at least).

These are great links, thanks a lot.

+1, a great read.

I guess you cannot see the almost-invisible borders of the images. They group the image and text together a bit better. But yeah, the design fails to be accessible in less ideal viewing conditions for sure.

Possible, but highly unlikely in GitHub’s case.

Not really. Rich entitled tech bros don’t dictate how the world works. There is lots of progress possible without needing the vast majority of people to pay a huge price for it.

I guess the point (at least for me) is a bit to get rid of weird intransparent algorithms that seemingly got worse over the past couple of years. Using a platform like last.fm where it’s clearer that recommendations are based on genres and similar listeners is still ok and encouraged, and probably as close to getting recommendations from real humans as possible.

I also find arguments like this quite weak. YouTube, Facebook et al work like absolute horseshit compared to other websites and web apps. If anything, they proof that these big companies manage to make simple web applications as bloated and slow as possible.

… and makers don’t have an incentive to even deliver such features, because people are already buying them?

At least I wouldn’t know what’s stopping them from building actually-useful features, tech-wise. Or was it just always a bad idea because fridge placement is random and items are often hard to find/detect?

I think it’s at least equally important to be sceptical of bad ideas, in order to let good ideas win. From a consumer perspective, smart fridges are usually bad.

Potentially! Would be interesting to hear if anyone manages to block internal Apple shenanigans with Little Snitch successfully and feasibly (without constant toggling of rules or alike).

That mindset shift surely started quite some years ago? At least in my book they’re actively hindering standards/compatibility with other ecosystems, greenwashing their products, squeezing out third-party developers, and design/UX is also going downhill at least since Liquid Glass (or rather since Jobs left).

Why do you think it’s (more) interesting?