Ah, the era when the Web felt new and full of possibility.
Maybe the Web hasn't changed—it's we who have changed. The ideals quite likely remain the same.
@matigo Drone footage seems to be a must-have when it comes to travel videos. I didn't know that a license was required and that you had to register drones with the government before use. I kind of assumed it wasn't just "buy a drone and fly it the same day", though, as there are schools where people can learn to operate the things, hopefully safely. Having drone footage certainly adds the "z-axis" dimension to your videos ⛰ Was it hard to get the certification?
@matigo Just checking out your "Following the Road of Wind: Journey on Route 512" video. Some sweeping panoramic photos—wow, did you get a drone?
Looks like the Cloudflare disruption yesterday was relatively minimal, although the monetary impact was said to be in the billions of dollars.
What surprises me is how much of the WWW is now tied to these services. Isn't the architecture of the WWW supposed to tolerate these kinds of disruptions, in principle? Why does one service going down affect so many other sites? I don't understand how Cloudflare going down would impact so many services and sites so severely, but apparently there is a lot of reliance on Cloudflare for some reason.
@phoneboy Wouldn't the lack of the Touch Bar mean that you had no access to the F1–F12 keys? I suppose you would have used an external keyboard, though.
The thing that bothered me most about the Touch Bar (aside from its unfortunate lack of utility) was that you couldn't control the brightness, as I recall. Well, Apple has decided it wasn't a good idea anyway… an unfortunate failed experiment, like their butterfly keyboards. Nice idea on paper.
@phoneboy I'm kind of surprised to hear you say that the keyboard has improved on the MacBook Air M4 vs. the MacBook Pro M1. The MacBook Air M2 through M4 models seem to have kind of a mushier feel, although admittedly I haven't typed much on the MBP M1 13-inch model.
@matigo Ah, I understand that all modern browsers now support the 140 available color names. The color names should reference the same RGB values, so when you use "darkslategray" on one browser, you should get the same corresponding RGB value everywhere else.
Hex or RGB values obviously provide a far greater range of color choices, though—you're not limited to 140 colors.
As for CSS variables, I can definitely how they would offer consistency and make it easier to change things like key colors in a color scheme after the fact. They weren't available when I first learned how to code websites, and I'm only now just getting back into updating my knowledge of Web front end tech, so it's all new to me.
Been using this site (https://www.colordic.org) as a companion for studying HTML/CSS colors. For some reason, choosing a color name just seems more intuitive than figuring out the hex or RGB color number… even though there are only 140 color names available 🤪🎨
@matigo That's odd… maybe the codebase was so faulty, they reckoned that they couldn't go on until they manually fixed something…
About COVID vaccines, that's interesting information about the mRNA vaccines.
// @gtwilson
@matigo So, what is the typical outcome that these YouTube vibe coders achieve? Do they get a working product, and how much time and frustration do they have to put into doing so?
I think there was a science fiction story or perhaps even a Star Trek episode at some point in time that portrayed a society that did not know how to maintain the machines and tools that were left behind for them… they knew enough to operate them, but they could not figure out why they were breaking down, hence their eventual downfall…
// @gtwilson