Why do you want to remove the scrollbar on a website - you never know how long the ‘page’ is…
- I really hate those UX decisions
Readit Newstveyben commented on Windows GUI – Good, Bad and Pretty Ugly (2023) creolened.com/windows-gui... · Posted by u/phendrenad2
tveyben commented on AI scrapers request commented scripts cryptography.dog/blog/AI-... · Posted by u/ColinWright
Crawlers ignoring robots.txt is abusive. That they then start scanning all docs for commented urls just adds to the pile of scummy behaviour.
Human behavior is interesting - me, me, me…
tveyben commented on US expands facial recognition at borders to track non-citizens reuters.com/world/us/us-e... · Posted by u/c420
tveyben commented on What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail? blog.johnozbay.com/what-h... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
I just noticed a meaningless feature of iOS:
The cursor moves (since iOS 15?) in steps of one pixel.
Probably just to make it slick looking (fluent)…
- BUT that’s completely non-effective as it allows for the cursor to be positioned on top of a single letter in >10 different positions.
So when you’re editing you are having a much more difficult time placing the cursor just between the two letters you want.
I noticed it when using some app the had disabled this stupid feature and it was just so much more effective to do mybediting as the cursor jumped to the position BETWEEN the letters in stead of FLOATING ALL OVER.
It’s nice on slides when presenting a new fancy feature, but completely useless for s ‘professional’ (focused) user.
PS yes I recall those old Apple adds - saw them when they were brand new and Apple was a better details oriented company (I miss those days….)
tveyben commented on What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail? blog.johnozbay.com/what-h... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
And this article is full of another failure of the internet - adds…
tveyben commented on How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle... · Posted by u/pixelmelt
Flying with babies (and other young children) presents challenges which "everyone else" doesn't have to deal with. Babies and children need much more attention. Babies are much more likely to throw tantrums, to feel pain from pressure changes, to be sick, etc. They often need a LOT of soothing. Many also need to be breast fed (some babies don't take bottles), which depending on the baby's length and the side they're nursing on may involve their legs sticking into the aisle or their neighbor's space. They also like to fling solid foods, spit up or vomit with no warning, and are generally fantastic at making messes.
My spouse and I just finished our first two flights with our 11 month old this weekend which were about 3.5 and 4 hours apiece. Even with an extra seat reserved for them and an overall extremely well tempered baby, I cannot imagine how much harder the flight would have been if the gate agent hadn't been able to rearrange our seats so all three of us were sitting together. If that hadn't been guaranteed, we would have had to ask one of the neighbors to swap seats with us. They'd have been highly motivated to do so, but it wouldn't have been a sure thing. They may have their own needs. Impromptu swaps during boarding seems not great for making the process go smoothly.
Having to get an extra seat to fit a car seat for an infant isn't required, but flying with the infant in a car seat is strongly recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Having somewhere to put the baby or their various toys/bottles temporarily helps a whole lot over a four hour flight. This already added $500 onto the price of our trip.
The cost of raising children is already very high in the US, so it will really suck if flying becomes yet more expensive and stressful. In my opinion, this (and many others) are a cost which we should spread out if we actually want people to have kids.
Do kids have to fly…???
tveyben commented on Revamping an Old TV as a Gift (2019) blog.davidv.dev/posts/rev... · Posted by u/deivid
It's been a while, but building this was an interesting experience.
At the time, it was pretty far outside my comfort zone and I had a looming deadline (dad's birthday). Writing the software to work "as I intended" turned out to be much harder than I'd expected, so I ended up hacking things and making single 8-hour long video for each channel (with some persistence, so on next boot it'd continue from where it was)
On the positive side, Dad loved it, and keeping the tuner (the channel dial) with some high resistance made the TV feel as if it was truly an original TV.
Unexpectedly, everybody loved the ads that I added! I think my family mostly felt nostalgic about them
Excellent work - really nice to see the creativity you put in to that gift! Love it!!
Please don’t pollute responses with made-up machine generated time-wasting bits here…!!!