They should do something like this for hurricane names as well. It seems like calling them people’s names is strange and connects random names to destruction.

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/hurricane-katrina-annivers...

I don't normally get on THIS soapbox, but there is a difference between "Indians" and "Native Americans".

Indians are from the country of India. Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the America's. And the subject of this article.

You are getting downvoted because it's muckraking. There is nothing shady about NIAID giving a (verrrry small for this type of research) grant to a foreign research lab, which is doing research about a topic of interest. That's how you ensure the U.S. government gets a copy of the results.

Funny story: I went to An Event Apart in NYC years ago (I think they’ve only had 1 in NYC) and I’m enamored by the people around me and Eric Meyer grabs the seat next to me while Zeldman is on stage and he’s quietly kind of heckling him (like a friend would not in a bad or mean way…and he couldn’t hear it). I’m sitting there, next to a person I very much admired, like Troy meeting LeVar Burton in Community trying to no freak out. It’s hard not to understate the impact Meyer, Zeldman, and A List Apart had on general front end development.

I can't second this. Everytime I'm in the US I'm scared of all the friendly, smiling people, asking "How are you?" in such a friendly tone, it's delightful. Of course it's faked, anyone knows, and dare if you'd reply with "not good, my aunt just died". Awkward situation ensues, everybody tries to get out of the situation ("and what would you like to have for breakfast tomorrow?").

Now replay the same situation in another ("non-friendly") culture. Most of the "not-friendly" cultures would invite you to a free beer, asking what happened etc.

I don't know if it's CSS or me but I never "got" CSS. I feel like it's more about remembering lots of unrelated things with no real clear logic behind it. An IDE helps a bit. Maybe if it was presented as a series of functions instead of properties, that takes certains types of variables? At least you could group some knowledge this way. Like height would take an union type like Pixels | Rem | Em | Percents | etc

I think JS (ES5+) is mostly fine, a bit of legacy cruft but it's often overstated. I'd like it if we didn't need something as complex as Typescript to fully type it, but that may just be my biais for ML-style languages. Also, Reason/Rescript/Bucklescript/whatever spent its complexity budget on branding, which is a weird choice.

HTML I'm mostly fine with it, but I'd like to see what people could do by starting from the beginning with it.

I don't know anything about GUI programming outside of the web (and Win/Webdev) so my vision is really limited here.

'No hymen, no diamond' is, on so many levels, such a disgusting thing to say

It's somewhat interesting that some numbers are based on the bay area (drop in bay area tech workers inflow/outflow, what percentage of bay area workforce will remain remote), while other numbers based on San Francisco alone (drop in SF residents, SF GDP, business tax revenue, etc.).

I know that outside of California, the world views "SF" and "the bay area" mostly as one and the same. Based on anecdotes I feel like this doesn't tell the full story, though maybe it does give you a high level overview (like this site does).

Among both personal friends and coworkers, ex-coworkers (from a decade+ of working in the bay area) -- surely there are people who move out of state (to Denver, Austin, Miami, etc.); but the more common trend is -- people who used to live in SF are moving out to the east bay / surrounding areas; and people who were already in the east bay before move even further away (Sacramento area, etc.). Another interesting bit -- Sacramento doesn't get talked about in tech circles and sites like this and related articles, because it's not supposed to be the "next sexy tech town", but in reality is a lot of people have moved here since the pandemic, both tech and not. I moved here before the pandemic, and witnessed the housing market rise more than the east bay (where there's already an influx of SF people moving to) this past year.

All I'm saying is there's a lot of nuances in this general exodus!