Discount Bin David Farrier (@richardwestenra) 's Twitter Profile
Discount Bin David Farrier

@richardwestenra

Creative front-end dataviz dev @GroundplanAus ex @McKinsey & @codebar. he/him. Views expressed represent those of my employer and not my own

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linkhttps://www.richardwestenra.com calendar_today18-04-2009 00:06:36

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Alex Kaplan (@alexkaplan0) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Today might have seen the biggest physics discovery of my lifetime. I don't think people fully grasp the implications of an ambient temperature / pressure superconductor. Here's how it could totally change our lives.

U.S. Graphics Company (@usgraphics) 's Twitter Profile Photo

- Undiscoverable - No affordance (No action signifier) - Interface latency - No indication for successful activation - No indicator of the current state - Accidental actuation - Double activation (False negative) - IoT (chip, sensors), complexity - Possible accessibility issues -

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I downgraded some websites that I don't often update from JS tooling to Jekyll or vanilla static HTML/CSS, and it's honestly so satisfying not to have to debug broken dependencies every time I make a minor update.

Chris Coyier (@chriscoyier) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Oooo. Chrome 117 just dropped. The big one for CSS today then is... Subgrid! It's cross-browser Subgrid day! (You can see the plan for Chrome releases here: chromiumdash.appspot.com/schedule)

Nicole Sullivan @nicolesullivan.bsky.social (@stubbornella) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Of course they do. Unconditional transfers also reduce medical costs. A hospital gave homes to folks who were being admitted frequently without insurance. The hospital saved money.

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If anyone else was shivering in antici.......pation, the big announcement is that Chrome Developers added "for" to their name. Totally worth the wait.

🦋 E L I A N N E 🦋 (@elibelly) 's Twitter Profile Photo

people ask me if it's scary being the sole web engineer of a greenfield project and lemme tell you it's not even *half* as scary as it's gonna be for the second person

Josh Sawyer (@jesawyer) 's Twitter Profile Photo

very smart person: this never happens. fool: what about these times when it did? very smart person: ah, well, perhaps I don’t know anything about the subject, but nevertheless,

very smart person: this never happens.

fool: what about these times when it did?

very smart person: ah, well, perhaps I don’t know anything about the subject, but nevertheless,
emmy rākete 🇵🇸 (@cannibality) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Of course this isn't good. War is hell. But if you treat people like Israel has treated the Palestinian nation, this is how they respond. Every time, for all of human history, oppression is met with resistance. If there's no justice, there can be no peace. It's simple.

bella (@earlygirl__) 's Twitter Profile Photo

when someone goes “oh so-and-so had nice things to say about you” it’s like omg great can you describe their precise phrasing & tone in excruciating detail, and can you tell me what was said before and after, characterize the general mood of the conversation, and also-

John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) 's Twitter Profile Photo

NEW: an ideological divide is emerging between young men and women in many countries around the world. I think this one of the most important social trends unfolding today, and provides the answer to several puzzles.

NEW: an ideological divide is emerging between young men and women in many countries around the world.

I think this one of the most important social trends unfolding today, and provides the answer to several puzzles.