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This was a good read.

I have Crohn's disease and in 2015 had 5 ft of small intestine and half of the adjoining colon removed.

Unfortunately my insides were so fucked up that they had to properly open me up (i.e. not keyhole, more doorframe). Then I got sepsis after the operation and was in the high-dependency unit (US equivalent is ICU I think?) for a bit. That was fun. I was there for a few days, but remember about 2 hours of it. My family visited apparently, I had no idea, but I was talking to them, so I'm told.

I couldn't walk for weeks, other than staggering around (which they encourage you to do otherwise the scar tissue will heal too tight). The wound took about 3 months to properly close up, I had a nice deep hole in my abdomen for much of that, you get used to the gory stuff.

I'm generally better now though. Crohn's still dictates much of my daily life though, but you learn to live with it.

The "Strangler" pattern _is_ the facade pattern?

My favourite: https://pimbook.org/ by Jeremy Kun. It's a great read!

Having worked with engineers and software managers in the UK Government, it doesn't surprise me that this was such a fuckup.

The solution would have been not to completely close schools in the first place - there was no evidence that children were particularly susceptible to COVID or at risk then, and there's lots of evidence now that they aren't. Exams could well have taken place as normal - exam halls are, by definition, socially distanced.

> London Transport invariably used the ‘- ize’ form in posters and other public communications

There's no such thing as London Transport, it's Transport for London, and they invariably do not use -ize, they use -ise, as per by their editorial style guide.

I think if TfL started using -ize on their posters there would be a riot in the UK.

This sounds great in a utopia where everybody is quiet and considerate, delivery drivers don't throw boxes and crates around, people don't get drunk and smash bottles in the street or have arguments.

Having lived next to and above commercial properties I can say it doesn't improve quality of life, it drastically impacts mental health, stress, and sleep. There's a reason that we have commercial districts and residential districts.

Journalists used to speak to sources and collate a point of view. Now even the TV channels literally screenshot the tweet and display it. So lazy and a bugbear of mine. If I wanted to see a Twitter feed, I'd just to read Twitter.

I love/hate the fact it's had a cookie banner added

What on earth am I looking at?

I saw "Imbox" and thought, I will never use this product.

Crazy. This isn't a "framework". It's a stylesheet.

If your business is that good, you'll be able to find $150k in seed funding elsewhere.

Kind of funny that this is written by Google, responsible for some of the strangest UX decisions. Just look at Gmail. In the single email view there are 5 different toolbars, at different levels of hierarchy. Why is forward at one level, but archive at another? Why are there two sets of drop down menus? Maps is another disaster. Watching my relatively non-technical partner attempt to navigate Maps is quite eye-opening - different panes sliding in and out, Navigation, Places and Maps often conceptually colliding with each other leading to all sorts of confusion (unless you're very familiar with the Google suite of products).

TrustPilot is just completely ridiculous. For a company who's entire USP revolves around 'real' reviews, the vast, vast majority are so obviously fake.

Really great job and I'm digging the UI. I see that Plaid has just launched in the UK so hopefully you can add support for us Brits soon (if we haven't self-combusted in a Brexit meltdown by then).

I find it bizarre how people aren't giving Monzo more of a hard time over this. This is a security blunder of the highest order. Saying sorry in a cutesy email after the fact doesn't in any way make up for it.

Recently, there seems to be this ever-growing, romantic vision of turning the clock back to a time when the browser was simpler.

Certainly, in terms of accessibility, the JavaScript (and Browser) landscape has never been better than it is now. General awareness and tooling for building online experiences that consider disabled users has led to an infinitely better time for these people when using the internet, overall.

Sure, some people build shitty products that make your fan spin and ignore disabled users. But that's because they've built a shitty product, not because of the 'modern browser' itself.

> The web can be a resource hog, sometimes devouring CPU and memory. But it doesn’t need to be that way.

It also doesn't mean returning back to horse and cart!

> yet users who want or need to disable JS are often left out in the cold.

Isn't that just a preference of the user, that has repercussions? In fact the WCAG 2.0 specifically says that a JS fallback is _not_ a requirement for accessibility - a common misconception is that disabled users disable JavaScript - this isn't actually true.

Fair enough if you want to turn off JS for tracking reasons or whatever, but you have to accept that some things might not work without it.

Using JS ternaries for conditional rendering doesn't feel natural to me at all