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bung··on The “small web” is bigger than you might think
gotta be using pixel fonts for those, they been around for 25 years, actually readable at 8px lol
bung··on Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update
You're personally unable to look at twitch on it?
bung··on Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update
Might as well edit and add some suggestions
bung··on JavaScript await was rogue rogue along
I'm really sorry this is my contribution/comment atm, I'm very interested in this stuff, but I am having a hell of a time reading this. Even if you keep the font I can't figure if some increased letter-spacing would help, really though I need some line-spacing and paragraph margin bottom for the love of god it's a contrasty text wall blur and I can't focus :( I'm getting old I guess, coding since the late 90s, and here we are finally the point my optometrist warned me about that I'll need glasses soon lol
bung··on Minding the gaps: A new way to draw separators in CSS
Was just wondering that myself.. why they went with "rule" in `column-rule` and now `row-rule`
bung··on 417-megapixel Andromeda galaxy panorama took over a decade to make
Would love a version with the largest rectangle possible without the black/missing bits
bung··on Design Token-Based UI Architecture
> Our tokens are integrated into the designer’s tooling and we have a build pipeline that allows them to update the frontend with minimal developer supervision, which has been a huge time saver and QoL improvement for both developers and designers.

Like did you integrate into figma, or write a gui for them, or something else?

bung··on Launch HN: Codebuff (YC F24) – CLI tool that writes code for you
> ... setting a bunch of css styles through a long winded AI conversation

Any links on this topic you rate/could share?

bung··on Work begins on a $12B high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and Los Angeles
"... with fares that will be comparable to airline ticket costs"

I can only guess either you know homeless people that can afford such tickets, or you simply didn't RTFA.

Nice positive attitude btw.

bung··on [dead]
(I really don't mean to "take the piss" as the British say... but I have worked before with a CMS architected to be a static site publishing tool called OpenText Web Site Management, formerly Red Dot I think, it's like 20 years old or something. It just gets me when being "ahead of the curve" has caught up to something some Germans made that long ago.)
bung··on California rains resurrect a long-dead lake in dry Death Valley
Nice thanks, good link - that reflection picture is nice. So they had it last a week before, and this time it's coming up on a year.
bung··on Creating color palettes with the CSS color-mix() function
It's a bit late on a Sunday night for me, but that said..

It strikes me as a bit odd that it automatically assumes you want alpha transparency if the percentages do not sum 100%. I can't say I'd feel like I have some argument for why not. Maybe it's just my gut feeling that is like, transparency is so much more declarative elsewhere like "rgbA". I would have probably guessed it would be white or black by default.

It also strikes me as odd that you have to add a "p2" color/parameter called "transparent" if you just want to make a color a bit transparent. Like if you're going to automatically just force transparency as the default thing to choose for two colors which don't sum as 100%, then why not do something similar here, default the third parameter so I can just do `color-mix(in srgb, blue 20%)`

bung··on California rains resurrect a long-dead lake in dry Death Valley
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bung··on When did cold, carbonated beer become the standard, and was there pushback?
I was watching Inspector Morse recently for the first time and modern beer was something the character was against. I'd never heard of the history really, so ended up reading this entire Wikipedia article on Beer in England, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_in_England, enjoyed the read.
bung··on Shoelace: A library of web components
You at Microsoft don't use Microsoft's fast.design?
bung··on Amazon Prime Video content to start including ads next year
We did this recently due to some changes in our situation for about the last 10 months, after about 3-4 years of prime. Bought a lot less stuff in general I think, and they still had free shipping options when we did. Just had to plan ahead and adjust our mindset, saved 80$ (CAD).
bung··on WinRAR flaw lets hackers run programs when you open RAR archives
Thanks for the heads-up.
bung··on Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System
Tangential, but since so many of you are here... is there anything today like a Boxee Box? Nice little device with remote that my mom could use.
bung··on Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
Interesting comment regarding voting with your wallet and choosing Apple for the software. The hardware guys seems really unhappy with Apple's "walled garden".
bung··on Egyptian Gods – The Complete List (2016)
Egyptian Goa'ulds - The Complete List
bung··on Parcel 2 Beta 3 – improved build performance
half an hour... wow, well if you find something that easy let me know.

If you want to specify your supported browsers and utilize transpiling (babel), maybe do some image minification (svgo), compile using the latest sass module features (dart sass), create separate script bundles for required/deferred JS with revision hashes (rev), dynamically generate test/demo HTML files and test them (backstopjs) ... I can't imagine there is a system out there that can handle even half of those things so easily. I always assumed I would need to tell the system what to do.

If you do decide to go looking around at Gulp again, for myself after reading a few articles on Gulp setups I googled for "github gulpfile.js" to see what others had done as well and that helped.

bung··on Parcel 2 Beta 3 – improved build performance
I'm not sure if I'm a dinosaur or not, but for "old fashioned" HTML+CSS+JS static builds I've rolled my own Gulp setup that does what I tell it to. It's an investment of a couple days I'm sure, but have yet to just try Webpack to see how well it works for that purpose too, can anyone else comment?

Being stuck in Visual Studio 2019 right now for other reasons, I've been using some of it's "Lib Man" client-side library installers to help reduce the amount of gulp required too. Basically all your vendor/polyfill "lib" can just be brought and managed with a couple of clicks.

bung··on A man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and a ship
Great... now I have to re-watch Northern Exposure!
bung··on 82% of Wealth Created in 2017 Went to the top 1%, says Oxfam
FWIW, how does ranking on this site work; 20 points and 2 comments and at the top?
bung··on Reading privileged memory with a side-channel
Will patches for this eventually trickle down to things like LineageOS?
bung··on New Bridges Rise in New York
Very cool. I suppose in hindsight I think the guy was talking about those elevated highway overpasses and/or on/off ramps, not exactly nice new suspension bridges :) Anyway thanks for the details.
bung··on New Bridges Rise in New York
Someone mentioned in a comment recently on the Venezuela protests, how some of the highways we saw in pictures packed with people were not necessarily designed to support the standing weight of people shoulder to shoulder.

And yet, in so many movies, bridges in NYC are filled with people and/or military vehicles going one way or another. I wonder if they were tasked with actually making sure the bridges could support a city evacuation or massive protest.

bung··on Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate
On purpose... but any guess as to why?
bung··on Mastercard sued for $19B in Britain's biggest damages claim
I wonder if he meant "passed on _by_ the merchant", as in, it's not like any business will give non-rewards-card-payers a discount.
bung··on Ask HN: How much do you make at a remote job?
Did you go through a staffing company for this one?
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