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It's The Weekend 😌 @craigweekend.bsky.social · 1d

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

greg (._.) @ggamel.bsky.social · 1d

"One hundred and fourty nine links. And one of them is the one Simon is looking for.

...

Simon quickly gave up. He simply cannot use this site.

There are too many things on this page. And there are too many semantics he doesn’t understand."

exclusive-design.vasilis.nl/design-like-...

A screenshot showing two Safari web browser windows side-by-side. The left browser window displays the 2Doc website. The right browser window displays the same 2Doc website with overlaid text showing all 79 heading elements and 149 links that a screen reader program would read aloud.

greg (._.) @ggamel.bsky.social · 1d

Want to play YouTube videos directly on macOS?

Use IINA, the excellent & open source media player.

1. Get IINA: iina.io
2. Get yt-dlp: github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
3. Set yt-dlp path in IINA (Settings > Plugins > Online Media > Settings > Use custom yt-dlp)
4. Open YT URL in IINA
5. Success!

Enjoy!

A screenshot showing the macOS media player app IINA playing a live video stream while in mini player mode

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Sindre Sorhus @sindresorhus.com · 4d

CSS is getting support for functions, so I made a small utility library for useful things. It's also a copy-pasteable reference. WIP.

github.com/sindresorhus...

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greg (._.) @ggamel.bsky.social · 3d

Widespread GitHub outage/disruptions www.githubstatus.com

a man in a suit and tie is making a funny face .

Alt: a man in a suit and tie is making a funny face while saying "in a word...chaos"

media.tenor.com

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greg (._.) @ggamel.bsky.social · 3d

something something default browsers
something something default browser settings

something something using non-default browsers is cool
something something customizing non-default web browsers is also cool

something something at a minimum, consider customizing default browsers to turn off bloat

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greg (._.) @ggamel.bsky.social · 3d

Apropos of nothing, other than a reminder for myself and my fellow builders of fine handcrafted hypertext pages and sites:

Desktop Browser Market Share Worldwide
gs.statcounter.com/browser-mark...

Browser Market Share Worldwide
gs.statcounter.com/browser-mark...

A four-panel comic depicting a person using a web browser on a laptop: Panel 1: the person sits at a desk with the laptop in front of them, with their right hand on a wireless mouse. Panel 2: a zoomed-in view of the person's web browser with the mouse point hovering over the refresh icon. Panel 3: a zoomed-in view of the person's hand clicking on a wireless mouse. Panel 4: the person sits at a desk with the now-rotated laptop in front of them, with their right hand on a wireless mouse.

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Kevin Powell @kevinpowell.co · 5d

Are you the type of dev who just copies and pastes hex codes?

If so, I've written an article over at @piccalil.li just for you!

I take a look at some of the new CSS colour features that are most useful for those who don't really care about colours.

piccalil.li/blog/a-pragm...

A pragmatic guide to modern CSS colours - part one

Whether you've got a firm grasp on modern CSS colour capabilities, or you're thinking 'I struggle to understand why I should use modern CSS colours at all', then the first part of this article series,...

piccalil.li

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greg (._.) @ggamel.bsky.social · 5d

💀 hiding* not "hidin"

greg (._.) @ggamel.bsky.social · 5d

Annnnnnnd it's open, updated, and I'm customizing. Ha!

Say, Oliver, do you have any absolute must-have Vivaldi tweaks, flags, or prefs? As in, "hidin/showing this and disabling/enabling that makes Vivaldi *it* for me"

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greg (._.) @ggamel.bsky.social · 5d

I have yet to configure Vivaldi, but its breadth and depth of customization are quite impressive/terrifying. And I say this as someone who genuinely likes customization. It's seemingly endless. Have put it off for a year!

I should give it a proper go and try maining it.

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Aunt Mrgladys @mrgan.com · 8d

Today is my 17th anniversary at @panic.com, the nicest little company. It’s a place and a team and a mindset I have always clicked with—thanks for the opportunity and the continued trust.

Here’s our homepage when I was hired, and now. Things have changed, and they also haven’t!

panic.com

Panic homeoage with icons for the apps Transmit, Coda, Unison. Plus Desktastic, CandyBar, Statoo.

Today’s page with the apps Nova, Transmit, Prompt; a dozen games; Playdate console

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greg (._.) @ggamel.bsky.social · 6d

Making a new, separate app for a product—namely, Podcasts as a product—and removing Podcasts from YouTube Music makes sense.

1. Sufficient time has passed since sunsetting Google Podcasts
2. YouTube Podcasts as a site + app can serve as an exciting press release. Success!

greg (._.) @ggamel.bsky.social · 6d

YouTube Music Premium (part of YouTube Premium) is a frustrating, could-be great product.

Access to YT and YTM's enormous library? Yep.
Ability to add YT videos to music playlists? Yep.

Podcasts in YTM? Nope. Podcasts in YTM muddy everything. The product is called YouTube Music. Emphasis music.

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greg (._.) @ggamel.bsky.social · 6d

Free growth strategy for the YouTube Music team:

- Phase 1: Let users hide/disable "Podcasts" from Home, and "Podcasts" and "Popular Episodes" from Explore

- Phase 2: Roll everything "Podcasts" into a new "YouTube Podcasts" app. Crowd goes wild.

- Phase 3: Triple-down on YTM (e.g., official API)

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greg (._.) @ggamel.bsky.social · 8d

pizzeria ⏰

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Nicolas Mattia @nmattia.bsky.social · 12d

I've recently added more code samples to my shader animation library. Reach out if you are interested in specific examples!

#CreativeCoding #Shaders #GenerativeArt

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greg (._.) @ggamel.bsky.social · 8d

always-good advice for days ending in day:

close the tabs (or suspend them w/e)
close the apps (swipe up! force quit!)
close the computer(s) (or sleep w/e)

and now?

drink some water
yes, water

release some tension
stretch the hands, neck, back, hips, legs, etc.
relax the jaw

get some air & sun

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Jeezy @lgug2z.com · 9d

komorebi has successfully been ported to macOS and I am now using it full time on my Mac 🎉

If you're interested in a different kind of tiling window manager for macOS, take a look at the latest demo video 🤞🏾

youtu.be/u3eJcsa_MJk

The Newest Tiling Window Manager for macOS

YouTube video by Jeezy Codes

youtu.be

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Jimmy Lee @jim.bsky.social · 9d

I love making websites.

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greg (._.) @ggamel.bsky.social · 9d

Checking out housefresh.com while considering sensors and additional purifiers, I realized a purifier with PC fans might be in my future.

Had never thought of using a large filter with PC fans for a purifier. Makes sense!

Now, it's time to determine which kits are the least visually displeasing.

HouseFresh - Air purifier reviews backed by real tests

Our tests reveal what manufacturers won't tell you. We buy devices with our own money so we can write unbiased reviews. We are a fiercely independent site.

housefresh.com

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greg (._.) @ggamel.bsky.social · 9d

"Your subscription has been cancelled, Greg.

You’re still a part of the Adobe community."

Ehhhhhhh.

Image with a black background showing a CGI model on the left side. The CGI model depicts a person wearing a business suit with a hat, displaying a facial expression of doubt. In the center of the image, next to the CGI model, a large blue circle with the letter 'X' is displayed. The word 'Doubt' appears to the right of the blue circle with the letter 'X'.

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Ellie Huxtable @ellie.wtf · 11d

Finally sharing what I’ve been building for almost a year now! 🐢✨

Atuin Desktop: runbooks that run

It’s open source and in open beta now 🥰

Built for engineers who need repeatable, reliable workflows. No more copy-pasting from slack or outdated docs

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greg (._.) @ggamel.bsky.social · 11d

Gotcha! Good to know about the current level of browser support. Thanks for the heads up.

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greg (._.) @ggamel.bsky.social · 11d

I'll dig into this more on my own, but do you happen to have any preferred go-to resources (e.g., article(s), tool(s), demo(s)) that help to clearly show and explain current web color, spaces, and mixing?

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