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saila, 24 days ago to scifi

Very happy to learn #ForAllMankind has been renewed for another season — even tho I was hoping it would get the funding for at least one additional season to bring its alt-history inline with our current decade

https://www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2024/04/apple-renews-globally-acclaimed-hit-space-drama-for-all-mankind-for-season-five-and-announces-new-spinoff-series-star-city/

#ApoleTV #scifi #space

saila, 1 month ago to design

I am always learning something new about #typographic #design from @Richr — grateful for his continual passion and generosity

His latest on fluid #typography (and the demo of the Utopia tool) is well with the read is you do any #WebDesign or #CSS work involving words

https://clagnut.com/blog/2428

saila, 3 months ago to Montreal

New Yorkers and Montrealers can surely both agree: “That’s not a bagel”

Blame it all on a promotional stunt from a product named for another city (Philadelphia) — let’s hope it truly does end in a few days

https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/brownstein-thats-not-a-bagel-unholy-dough-raises-controversy-at-st-viateur

#bagel #StViateur #Montreal

saila, 3 months ago to accessibility

New data from Statistics Canada shows 27% of people in Canada self-identify as having at least one disability — that represents nearly 8 million individuals

If you ever get asked why accessible, and inclusive design, should be core to your product, try asking them to if they are okay with limiting the total user base to only 73% of its potential

/ht Nancy McLaughlin

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-627-m/11-627-m2023063-eng.htm

#accessibility #a11y #InclusiveDesign

saila, 4 months ago to tv

If you've watched #TheBear's season 2, this #commercial may seem a bit to familiar to you — and if you haven't watched The Bear and are curious what it's like, this commercial gives you a good taste off it

The reason?

#ChrisStorer, the show's creator , directed it

And yes, there will be a season 3

#TV #CocaCola

https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/chris-storer-majority-coca-cola-new-guy-advertising-030124

saila, 4 months ago to Toronto

Honestly, as someone who has lived as in #Toronto as a home owner for the past decade-and-a-half, a tax hike on property owners is waaaay overdue

Also: As a downtown-resident, knowing the city paid for driveway clearing, but not sidewalks is always stunning (even factoring in suburban vs urban pop politics)

#TOpoli

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-city-budget-launch-1.7078446

saila, 4 months ago to markdown

Here's a handy #markdown extension to the #Mac Dictionary app from the makers of #IAWriter https://ia.net/topics/ia-markdown-dictionary

saila, 4 months ago to space

“Good night, good luck [to] all of you — all of you on the good Earth” 🌍

#Apollo8 #space #ThisDayInSpace

saila, 5 months ago to random

If you work on building, maintaining , or creating #DesignSystems, this database is a great reference tool — and it's searchable by component, concept, and of course, #DesignSystem

https://designsystems.surf/

saila, 5 months ago to Nirvana

Thirty years ago tonight, #Nirvana recorded the performance that would become inseparable from their posthumous legend — and it’s still hard to listen to all the way through https://www.theringer.com/music/2018/11/14/18087878/nirvana-unplugged-oral-history-kurt-cobain

#grunge #music #90s

saila, 6 months ago to UX

Such a great example of how truly innovative design benefits from deep evolutionary transformation not simply radical revolution

By keeping the #typewriter's #UX the same while also improving the usability and delivering more stable and more valuable features for the user, #EliotNoyes designed a product that was better for everyone involved — including #IBM which could now sell a new, custom experience exclusively to its customers

#IBMSelectric #Selectric #innovation

https://www.core77.com/posts/126253/IBMs-Ingenious-Solution-for-a-Typewriter-with-Swappable-Fonts

saila, 6 months ago to webdev

If you asked me 15 or so years ago how many of the top websites would have valid #HTML, my answer would not have been "Zero"

I'm sure there's lots of reasons to blame for the state of invalid affairs (machine-generated code, sloppy use of frameworks, more forgiving rendering engines, the failure of #FrontEnd development to evolve as a respected practice), but it still seems like such a missed opportunity to do better

https://meiert.com/en/blog/html-conformance-2023/

#WebDevelopment #WebStandards

saila, 6 months ago to Canada

Happy 87th birthday to one of the most important institutions in #Canada!

#CBC / #RadioCanada formerly came into existence today after taking over, and building out, the country's first #radio network, which was created by another Canadian institution, #CNRail

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/founding-of-the-cbc-feature

#ThisDayInHistory #cdnmedia

saila, 6 months ago to scifi

Reminded about #Gattaca and how quaint a 26-year-old movie now seems

At the time of its release, decoding the #HumanGenome was on the edge of science fiction

Now the whole plot falls apart simply because it’s trivial to use facial recognition to recognize almost anyone

Wonder what will seem naive in 2049?

https://youtu.be/W_KruQhfvW4

#scifi #movies #1990s

saila, 7 months ago to random

On the day the US ousts it’s legislative leader for no obvious reason, Canada quickly appoints a new one after an embarrassing & harmful mistake by its former speaker

#uspol

saila, 8 months ago to opensource

The Anti-Subscription Catalogue great #resource for any designer looking for a wide-range of digital tools that don't require a subscription to use – many are free and some are even #opensource

https://www.a-s-c.org/

#design #software

saila, 8 months ago to cycling

“I do not need another bike. I do not need another bicycle. I don’t need an Eames-inspired bicycle made out of bent plywood. I do not…wait, maybe it’s not that expensive…”

https://www.core77.com/posts/125317/A-Bicycle-with-a-Carbon-Fiber-Infused-Plywood-Frame

#bicycle #deign #bikeTO

saila, 9 months ago to space

54 years and 17 minutes ago, humans first set foot on the #Moon

I can’t wait until we return again

https://kottke.org/apollo-11/

#Apollo11 #NASA #ThisDayInSpace #NeilArmstrong

saila, 10 months ago to mastodon

Super happy #StreetPass is finally available for #Safari

The browser extension's great way to discover new people to follow on #Mastodon and in in the #fediverse

After you install it, the extension will check the sites you visit for a verified account & add them to a list for you to follow later

(It's made by @tvler and is also available for #Chrome & #Friefox)

https://streetpass.social

saila, 10 months ago to Toronto

If you’re able to vote in #Toronto’s #mayoral election today
— polls are now open — please go vote! 🗳️

If you need more details (where to vote, etc) here you go:

https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/elections/by-election/by-election-voter-information/myvote-by-elections/

#TorontoMayor #TOPoli #VoteTO

saila, 10 months ago to GenX

Wrote down some neo-#ColdWar theories of what this whole pseudo-#RussianCoup potentially signalled and realized they were too dark for me to bother sharing further

Also realized there’s still a lot of lingering #GenX emotions about when “two tribes go to war” and it really is better to relax

#Russia #UkraineWar

saila, 11 months ago to UXDesign

Everyone knows user stories have dirfted far from being the user's actual story

Still, @PavelASamsonov smartly suggests they still have value — if you look at them a differrent way: Frame features as the "costs" to accomplish what the user actually wants, and you'll be inspired to imagine how to reduce the expense needed to complete the goal

Such a clever & useful mindhack!

https://uxdesign.cc/as-a-user-i-dont-want-to-973990a30158

#Agile #UserStory #Scrum #UXDesign

saila, 1 year ago to space

A decade ago today, #ChrisHadfield covered #DavidBowie’s #SpaceOddity

Until tonight, I’d never seen his version of it

It’s so very good

https://youtu.be/pDyl6I6ESSw

#space #music #ISS #CSA

saila, 1 year ago to internet

So has everyone gone to #Bluesky and/or just given-up on #Mastodon?

Because the frequency of new & relevant posts here (which once were constant) has dropped to a trickle…

saila, 1 year ago to space

On this day, 62 years ago, the trajectory #KatherineJohnson manually calculated carried #NASA’s first astronaut, #AlanShepard, to #space in the #Freedom7 spacecraft

She was also the one who determined that this was date the #rocket could launch 🚀

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/katherine-johnson-the-girl-who-loved-to-count

#ThisDayInSpace #BlackHistory