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My first thought when seeing that flag was "Bermuda?", but then after the life jacket clue was found, a memory from Oceanliner Designs came to me of the red ensign maritime versions of flags for the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand.

10.03.2026 03:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

For Apple OSs you just need to toggle off "Smart Punctuation" in the keyboard settings.

05.03.2026 19:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Every shot except for the EPA's "Who Am I???" is mirrored. Probably just a result of front-facing camera mirroring, but could be representative of the topsy-turvy world. NOAA's badge looked especially odd as AAON.

04.03.2026 21:44 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

…the ignorant, the obstinate, and the malicious.

01.03.2026 01:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think most web devs that do this sort of runtime metaprogramming tend to use Ruby or Python, so that's likely why it seems niche in the JS realm. I think Ruby on Rails' ORM even uses this sort of thing inside its internals.

27.02.2026 15:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Why can you define Javascript classes with dynamic names? Examining a short Javascript snippet.

This is a helpful blog post by @highlysuspect.agency on why a weird JS syntax, that uses an object literal computed property, lets you dynamically name runtime-created classes.

…and to give one answer to the question posed by the post's title: it can be useful for dynamic schema architectures.

27.02.2026 11:29 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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How reCAPTCHA turned internet users into unpaid AI trainers The story of how solving “those annoying squiggly words” helped digitize The New York Times, train autonomous vehicles, and build the…

This goes along with your point, but in case you didn't know…

25.02.2026 03:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That’s literally satellite radio.

23.02.2026 23:55 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I let some of the source of my puzzlement show there by calling it “container-shape” instead of “border-shaped”. 😅

22.02.2026 20:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

For clarity: if the element that has a container-shape is a child of a container element, can you use container query units in the shape declaration for the container-shape?

22.02.2026 20:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I’m curious how border-shape interacts with container query units. Both in how using the units in the shape declaration reacts, and how the border shaped element being a container has its children using container query units react.

22.02.2026 19:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Added to the list of CSS features I wish were baseline years ago.

20.02.2026 06:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

YouTube should have a viewer thumbnail preference setting with a scale from sensible to OMG-Clickbait-Grotesque-Reaction-Faces-Pointing-Red-Arrows so that I can slam that setting all the way toward sensible.

19.02.2026 17:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You’d think an economic reporter would better understand the intersection of ethical consumerism with collective efficacy.

18.02.2026 22:53 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Maybe do a video all about formatting numbers. Things like font-variant-numeric, counters, @counter-style (maybe in combo with :lang), and Intl.NumberFormat.

12.02.2026 17:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What did the information “i” say for a first name field?

09.02.2026 00:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

If you’re going to be punctilious, you might as well throw in the service tolerance. 120V±5%

03.02.2026 15:55 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Do any of those places allow PNG uploads? If so do they convert them to JPGs, or otherwise strip out the animation chunks of APNG files? On the client side, all major browsers have supported APNGs since 2019.

30.01.2026 03:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Crisps, fries, or both?

29.01.2026 21:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
39C3 - A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet
39C3 - A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet YouTube video by media.ccc.de
27.01.2026 23:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Watch out for spurious “equations” though. Equality signs often get used as shorthand in other situations, like in definitions.

For instance 𝑓(𝑥)=3𝑥+2
should technically be 𝑓(𝑥)≔3𝑥+2

24.01.2026 14:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

You will usually only run into a messy situation if you are trying to combine data from multiple accounts or sources into a single client.

19.01.2026 00:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just so you know, both .mbox (for emails), and .vcard (for contacts) files are human readable if you open them with a plain text editor.

Also pretty much any email client should be able to import .mbox files, and pretty much any app that deals with contacts should be able to import .vcard files.

19.01.2026 00:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The original quest giver then just throws the bananas away without even eating them and gives you a new single-step unrelated quest.

18.01.2026 01:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Middle story: I need 2 bananas

Proceed through 12 layers of subquests exchanging cheese for thimbles, for a shiny rock, for a stolen love letter, for a written order that they want to take back before it reaches its recipient, for a bronze statue … for finally getting 2 blessed bananas.

18.01.2026 01:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Package of Oreos that reads, “lavender flavor creme”, with an image of lavender flowers and an Oreo with a golden-yellow wafer and light-purple cream.

Package of Oreos that reads, “lavender flavor creme”, with an image of lavender flowers and an Oreo with a golden-yellow wafer and light-purple cream.

Made me wonder if lavender Oreos is a thing. It is not, but they did make this image as part of a real-or-fake game on the official website.

18.01.2026 01:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is why audio people insist on using dedicated audio software for the audio in video productions. The audio tools in video production software are… less than ideal.

09.01.2026 18:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Understanding the U.S. Strike on Venezuela | Explainer
Understanding the U.S. Strike on Venezuela | Explainer YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
03.01.2026 21:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NUTMEG: The Horrible History Behind The Popular Spice
NUTMEG: The Horrible History Behind The Popular Spice YouTube video by Weird Explorer
02.01.2026 21:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hmm, a duct with a fan that blows basement air through the upper floors to just move the humidity from where it is in excess to where it is scarce?

30.12.2025 00:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0