bdn_ · HackerTrans

3 miesiące temudiscuss

Porkbun. Their prices are very reasonable and their support team is consistently responsive and helpful. Honestly, even if their pricing was higher I would still choose to use them because it's clear their goal is to maintain a useful product, not infinite growth andendshittification

bdn_

8 miesięcy temudiscuss

Just from the name, I thought this was going to be Google's official take on the classic "Google Gravity" site from ages ago: https://mrdoob.com/projects/chromeexperiments/google-gravity...

I used to love leaving that site open on public PCs and watching the reactions that resulted :)

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10 miesięcy temudiscuss

ZIP codes are such interesting identifiers. Their intended use was for facilitating more efficient mail sorting, they were not for providing any sort of human-friendly location data. Yet we still end up using them in so many parts of our lives for identity verification, navigation, population statistics, ...

They remind me of Social Security numbers in a way, where an identifier created for one narrow use (internal Social Security use only) ended up becoming a de facto standard (national identification number) due to the absense of a suitable alternative.

If you'd like to go further down the ZIP code rabbit hole, a few interesting codes to research are `00501`, `48222`, and `12345`. :)

bdn_

10 miesięcy temudiscuss

Of course you can, nobody is claiming otherwise. Freedom of speech does not come with freedom from the consequences of what you say.

I have the freedom to scream "FIRE" in a crowded building when there really isn't a fire, does this mean I should be excused from the consequences? DHH has the freedom to post racist and intentionally divisive BS on his own site, and we have the freedom to let people who care about being anti-racist know to stay away from him and his work.

bdn_

10 miesięcy temudiscuss

New.css developer here, thanks for sharing :)

I’ve been thinking about creating a CSS tool somewhere about halfway between new.css and Pico CSS for very basic page layout tools (containers, callouts, menu bars, etc) that still focuses on being extremely small and performant.

I feel that a tool like that would be helpful for laying out a simple but functional site (sourcehut’s site [1] comes to mind) where you need a few basic layout tools but don’t need all of Bootstrap.

[1]: https://sourcehut.org/

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