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Comment · 2 months ago
From Works in Progress, a media company promoting economic growth.

I'm sure a credible argument could be made in the opposite direction with a different case study - i.e. celebrating their own identity even if it bemuses international markets / imperialists (Japan and manga/anime for example).

Of course, it's an interesting study, but do all remember to resist the temptation to take too much from it!

Comment · 2 months ago
can also vouch for Auxio - happy user of 5 years
Comment · 2 months ago
love this
Comment · 2 months ago
I'm not convinced that your assumption that they are a very small portion of the population holds up, but I only have the same anecdotal evidence you likely have.
Comment · 2 months ago
Gruber is not much of a details man - he helped invent Markdown (to be lauded) but ghosted its standardisation. I would be fascinated to hear Prod John MacFarlane of UC Berkeley's opinion on it all given he was heavily involved in the push to get Markdown standardised.
Comment · 2 months ago
This point would be far more credible if browsers weren't in business to do what you claimed extensions are there to do.

I'd also argue that creating a full browser without a profit motive is more unrealistic than creating an extension and uploading it - for free - to a web store.

Comment · 2 months ago
I mean they have a healthy dollop of US VC private investment, so good guys is off the cards - but in relative terms, they seem to follow the law, which in Silicon Valley is certainly not a given.
Comment · 2 months ago
In general, we only really notice the animations that go wrong, like the ones that are too slow or get in the way, but when executed by the book (like the numbers material design published, or perhaps even slightly faster), they are a valuable way of communicating intuition for how to use the UI to a user.

But yes, I can understand the desire to remove them, or at minimum drastically reduce their visual impact for e-ink

Comment · 2 months ago
Agree - small steps always positive here
Comment · 3 months ago
Tailwind didn't happen by chance - it was the culmination of many other failed philosophies for addressing a problem with CSS when it gets large.

Centrally the problem is this: large CSS requires a lot of active effort to prevent it becoming spaghetti code.

Writing your own CSS can work in solo projects or small projects but Tailwind was designed for large projects, teams and developers with an irrational fear of CSS.

Comment · 3 months ago
Because they were designed to be decentralised federations, atop the footballing body in each country. More generally, the US is the most capitalist country, whereas the rest of the world does automatically see capitalism as justified, superior or inevitable.

Lastly, football is a grassroots participation sport that is seen by its fans as more of a religion than a conventional act of entertainment. Of course, religion in the US is also often for-profit, but hopefully you get the point.

Comment · 3 months ago
Put it this way - Europeans don't generally call themselves from "the West" in 2026 - it's an American geopolitical fantasy.
Comment · 3 months ago
Imagine being more money hungry than EA - a company which makes billions from gaslighting children into gambling money on getting their favourite players.
Comment · 3 months ago
Windows only for dev SDK simulator - not too sure many devs rockin Windows in 2026!
Comment · 3 months ago
Like it! However Denmark and Sweden apparently aren't "connected"!

Which is fine of course, but would be nice if the rules made that clear!

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