One of our many problems with thinking is “cognitive load”: the number of things we can pay attention to at once. The cliche is 7±2, but for many things it is even less. We make progress by making those few things be more powerful.
Clearly, I got very carried away when I discovered that one could indeed format console output with CSS.
Sketch was* my tool of choice for wireframing and prototyping, so I never gave Adobe XD a chance. (This coming from someone whose career was built on an Adobe product is quite something.) Since it came out of beta, I thought I’d give XD a long-overdue test drive.
Adobe XD is lightweight and fast as hell, uses familiar Photoshop shortcuts, and has some nifty features like Repeat Grid. But I couldn’t resize symbols & had to create new symbols for every screen size. More importantly, it doesn’t have a plug-in ecosystem (yet).
I don’t know if I would use XD for commercial work just yet–the thought of prototyping a responsive site without an Auto Layout equivalent makes me shudder. If you’re already on an Adobe subscription, Adobe XD totally makes sense.
* Educational licensing is a ponderous thing in academia.
We have to realize that outputs like completion rates tell us very little about genuine outcomes. You optimize for completion and eventually you end up creating cat videos. And as much as I love cat videos, they won’t enable people to live better lives; they won’t equip changemakers to have greater impact in their communities. We can do better than completion.
This music video is like a condensed pilot episode of a potential new TV series called Ex Black Mirror Machina.
I can’t wait for the new look to drop it my account. It looks fantastic and the new feature to manage multiple calendars will now prevent me from using my eye power across multiple tabs.
To answer that question on Stackoverflow, the easiest (and laziest?) answer would have been to recommend using moment.js (which is really my preferred non-wheel-inventing way).
Six years after the question was asked, a user came up with an epic answer that became a library by itself.
Having only eaten the dry-roasted Semolina version my whole life, it is now my mission to try out as many variations of Upma/Uppumavu/Uppittu as I can.
Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.
→ Reading about the Pixel Buds triggered me to start reading The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy again last night.
Finally, the scientists who detected Einstein’s gravitation waves won their Nobel Prize in physics. (One of the joint winners is Kip Thorne, who was the scientific consultant for the movie Interstellar.)
We have stigmatised sleep with the label of laziness. We want to seem busy, and one way we express that is by proclaiming how little sleep we’re getting. It’s a badge of honour… We chastise people for sleeping what are, after all, only sufficient amounts. We think of them as slothful.
A fascinating read into the link between egg shape and bird flight. (Egg shapes will now be on the mental list of things that I will unconsciously find myself inspecting for the rest of my life.)