joelanman

joelanman, 22 days ago to random

Go use this thing I designed

https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote

ZachWeinersmith, 5 days ago to random

Suppose you cut Wolverine in half, top to bottom. What happens:

A) Half dies, other half lives
B) Both regenerate into new Wolverine
C) Half dies, other half lives, but the regenerated Wolverine has problems related to having two right or two left hemphispheres
D) Both regenerate, but with the problem described in C.

joelanman, 30 days ago to random

A lot of people are finding LLMs more useful than Google search.

I think a huge part of that is that Google and web in general has massively deteriorated in terms of finding clear, concise answers. Even if you can find it, it's covered in ads, cookie popups and so on.

But LLMs will inevitably follow the same path - investors want their returns. And the complete non transparency of LLMs will make it even worse this time around. Is that really the best answer or is it sponsored?

#ai

joelanman, 21 days ago to random

Also, apply for a postal vote. More flexible and you can take it to a polling station on the day if you forget to post it

https://www.gov.uk/apply-postal-vote

joelanman, 6 days ago to random

Communities of practice are so valuable in a big org, and hugely undervalued. It means designers, researchers and so on can come together with others in their role, learn from and support each other, set a cohesive strategy and approach. And it says 'your role is valued in this org'

joelanman, 18 days ago (edited 17 days ago) to UX

a #UX question. If a site has both a signed out home page, and a signed in one (for example a feed or dashboard), what should you see if you're signed in and try to view the home page?

joelanman, 25 days ago to random

Brexit would be a lot more fun if it was more literal, like James and the Giant Peach but a whole country

joelanman, 7 days ago to random

UUIDs are such a cool useful weird idea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier

joelanman, 7 days ago to random

Sounds good!
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/05/bowel-disease-hope-researchers-find-biological-pathway

joelanman, 8 days ago to random

hard to see how Microsoft Recall can meet GDPR legislation in any way

joelanman, 5 days ago to random

always surprised that Figma's component implementation is nowhere near as good as Fireworks

joelanman, 9 days ago to random

first the British Library now this
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/04/cyber-attack-london-hospitals

joelanman, 5 days ago to random

This is a big deal

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/07/london-hospitals-cancel-cancer-surgeries-after-cyber-attack

joelanman, 6 days ago to random

I know naming is hard, but h for 'response toolkit' is pretty poor

> Unlike Express, which has a handler with parameters of req and res, hapi has a handler with parameters of request and h. The second parameter, h is the response toolkit, which is an object with several methods used to respond to the request.

joelanman, 7 days ago to UX

Just noticed that both WhatsApp and Signal signify who wrote a message just by aligning left for the other person and right for you, and different colours. In groups they also add names but not in 1:1s. Does everyone find that easy to understand?
#ux #ui

joelanman, 9 days ago to random

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/04/met-chief-says-millions-of-men-are-danger-to-women-and-girls-in-england-and-wales

joelanman, 5 days ago to random

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/08/south-west-water-seizes-stake-in-devon-sewage-protester-home-withheld-payments

joelanman, 5 days ago to webdev

I'm making a web app where people can message each other about a transaction, think ebay or vinted.

Using Node and Postgres, whats the best way to encrypt them? And encrypting is worth doing right? So if all you have is the db you can't read everything

#webdev

joelanman, 6 days ago to random

Sigh, I tried Firefox on Android and no links in apps work (eg Gmail, LinkedIn). Vivaldi and Chrome work fine. I would love to switch but that's so broken

joelanman, 9 days ago to random

This is nice
https://agnesobel.bandcamp.com/track/familiar

joelanman, 9 days ago to webdev

when working on a web app, does a normal cache bust work on manifest.json, or once the app is installed, is that it?

so, with a long max-age, something like

manifest.json?version=1  
manifest.json?version=2  

#webdev