nikitonsky: The in-place popup might not be such a good idea if it gets in a way of using other controls

An active lava tube, Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii (© Tom Schwabel/Tandem Stills + Motion)

I’m just now realizing that there might be a schism within the Nix/NixOS ecosystem/community on old versus new interfaces. If that’s remotely true, then somewhere, a great holy war is at play. Here’s an article summary of the old versus the new interface that I stumbled upon recently.

nikitonsky: Why the fuck is someone’s retweet in my notifications? I’ve seen it already in Home feed. What a mess, I have a feeling Twitter have no idea what they are doing, just showing random stuff in random places and hoping it’ll stick

Noctilucent clouds in Lithuania (© ljphoto7/Getty Images)

Don’t believe everything people say — users secretly love ads, clickbait and top 10 lists. Data tells no fables. So if you need something to be noticed, any of the above will do. If you need to keep a low profile, do the opposite — simple really :-)

dmitriid: LinkedIn, “the world’s largest professional network”, cannot even imagine that people may actually know when they start at a new company. And that this date may in fact be in the future.

If reader mode fully takes off, then there’s no need to worry about styles in specific situations (articles). Offer some bare minimum semantic HTML and you’re good. Firefox’s reader mode wins hands down right now. Content before context.

Flexbox as a base layout is convenient but tricky due to CLS or “jank”. If the dimensions of the base flex container(s) are ambiguous, then the browser constantly recomputes the dimensions as HTML streams in.

My favorite trick is to give the browser dimension hints and avoid computational properties like flex. Set as many dimensions (width/height) as possible unambiguously. My Internet speed is sufficiently slow enough that I can see layout shifts in many sites, including my own (this micro blog).

Rainforest hike near Milford Sound/Piopiotahi in New Zealand (© Jim Patterson/Tandem Stills + Motion)