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For me, and the places I've worked, "Front-of-the-Front-End" is usually described as "UI Engineer". However, I am fully aware that can and does mean something different to other people.

> You should only use one <h1> per page.

This just isn't true in 2020. I know that MDN still recommends that, but it's seemingly invalid and outdated.

Here's what MDN says about a single H1:

> Having a single top-level title is also arguably better for screenreader users, and SEO

Here's why it isn't always bad for SEO and why it isn't always bad for screenreaders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsgrSxCmMbM

Here's a much longer article about it all: https://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/the-truth-about-mult...

> 4) Requirements are conveyed verbally, not through written documents.

I can't even begin to imagine the sheer amount of meetings and "chats" that would need to take place on a regular basis just to keep things moving along.

I admit to knowing very little about XP but this sounds like my own personal hell.

I would say ease of use and cost. A friend of mine has been using Google Sheets for years to power some small bits of data on his website. Maintaining and running his site costs nothing but the domain since he uses Netlify for CI w/Github and hosting with Google Sheets for dynamic data.

His "credits" section and song list uses Google Sheets: https://www.pontusrufelt.com

> I may be in the minority, but the older I get the more I want to be alone. I love my wife and kids, but there is almost too much pressure anymore to do this, do that. There are too many hands on my time.

Do you think that could at all be attributed that you are actually more alone now?

What I mean is, most families aren't interacting much with people outside their immediate family, whereas in the past the extended family was around and built a support system for those immediate families. If you had your parents, siblings, cousins, etc... around, you might actually have more time to recharge because child rearing wouldn't exclusively be put on the shoulders of the parents.

The way that our kids are raised now is incredibly different than the way I was raised. Although predominately raised by my parents, my grandparents, aunts, great aunts, etc... all had an influence and played a part in that upbringing due to the geographics of where everyone lived.

Very well put.

Often when I hear about the older generation of my family, who immigrated and lived in Brooklyn for years before moving to the "burbs", I think they had good intentions but didn't do any favors for the subsequent generations.

My parents grew up and stones throw away from grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins - a lot even lived in multi family, multi generational homes. When my mom had kids she had a support system that included people from 3 different generations, all willing to lend a hand. Their social lives revolved around interacting with all different family members, and get together were happening almost daily just because of the inherent (lack of) distance between them all.

Now, we all live in the burbs, with long distances between each other. The grandparents see the kids a few times a year and we all have to make concrete plans to have get togethers. Interacting with most extended family is reserved for weddings or funerals and the lack of true support systems takes it toll on all of us.

I could possibly be romanticizing the past, but when compared to the current lifestyle, I truly believe it wasn't for the best.

I think a lot of people here are under the assumption that voice commands, on any device, have the potential to be human reviewed. I am not sure whether or not the general public has that same assumption.

That being said, my biggest concern is the fact that many of these device don't have a hardware microphone kill switch. I feel better when I know I can control when a device is listening in. I've read reports that some Alexa devices have them, but I don't own any so I am unable to verify that.

I want all of my devices with microphones to hardware based kill switch for the mic; that's my phone, laptop, tablet, everything.

It seems like there are two camps of people:

Those who are very pleased to hear they will be backpedaling on their updated keyboard designs.

Those who "don't understand" because they actually like the new keyboards (and the TouchBar even).

No matter where you stand, the new keyboards are highly controversial and divisive, and that's not good. The old keyboards didn't put people into opposing sides, they just were there. Sure people compared them to other manufacturer keyboards, sometimes for the worse and other times for the better, but it wasn't a hate or love relationship by the user base. There was no "getting used to it," it was just a keyboard.

I look forward to a return to a non controversial, highly usable and widely accepted as "fine", keyboard. I hope that's what we get.

Favorite quotes from the answers:

> You're alienating the product that makes you big. But that's okay, all companies do that eventually, giving rise to the competition that appeals to the alienated user base.

Tschallacka is right, it seems the be part of the normal lifecycle of most online sites/apps. Perhaps SO's expiration date is near, for those users who made it popular enough to be "ruined" by the devs.

Dude looks pretty damn thin for a T2D. Yes, thin people can get T2D but it's not common. Hope he had his antibodies checked.

> In a sense they are worse than Facebook and others who hoard such profiles.

In every sense this is worse than Facebook and others, especially considering your second paragraph.

There are many different types of professionals. The fact that the current lineup fills your needs puts you in a good position.

Unfortunately, the current lineup falls short for a good deal of many other professionals in ways that you likely can't understand as you've stated in your comment.

I was referring to the composition and post production (sound design, engineering) world. Mostly because that is the industry I worked in for many years and still continue to work in (much more sporadically these days).

That's a world that was dominated by Mac Pros around 2010. Around 2013 I started seeing a shift, myself included, to custom built PC workstations and that trend is just increasing now. The initial switch, I believe, started with the lackluster cylinder Mac Pro, but continued due to the obvious failings in the Mac desktop market.

You speak of home based studios using MacBook pros, but anyone doing that is obviously not a professional. I will give you the fact that many DJs are using MacBooks for the mobile rigs, but at home, anyone actually doing professional audio work is likely using a massive powerful workstation or a number of PCs (master/slaves).

This notion that MacBooks (or even laptops in general) are super popular in the professional audio world is fiction made for advertising.

>>> "Meanwhile, the audio/video-engineer types still seem to like the MBP"

I can't speak to the professional video world, but that's absolutely false in the professional audio world.

My experience is in the world of composition and sound design; the attitude towards using Mac for that shifted a while back, due to the lackluster and non-existent upgrades to the Mac Pro.

No one in the professional audio world that I know, or anything that I have read, has suggested they are liking the new laptop (which wouldn't get much use from them anyway).