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ricenews··on The <select> element can now be customized with CSS
It may not be present in Apple’s official documentation but it has been supported since Safari 12.2.

See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/da... compatibility. The demo on that page works for me in current Safari on both iOS and Mac.

ricenews··on Goodbye Auth0
Not OP, but I’ll take a crack at responding.

The feeling of being “blessed” is the recognition that a substantial component of your current fortune is due to circumstances outside your control, whether due to a higher power, support from family/friends, raw luck, or the kindness of strangers. The proper and typical response to this feeling is one of gratitude, not self-importance, and the desired response is to contribute in various ways to the blessing of others (i.e. pay it forward).

It’s only when we lose the salience of that “blessed” feeling, and we start to take our circumstances for granted, that leads to our feeling of greater importance than others. It’s a slippery position no doubt, but the alternative feelings are: guilt (that I’ve received unfairly), anxiety (that what I’ve received may not be enough), jealousy (that what I’ve received is not enough), or pride/self-satisfaction (that I’m primarily responsible for what I’ve received). And honestly, it’s pride that is the true gateway to that feeling of self-importance you describe.

ricenews··on I Am Happy Not to Be a Web Developer Anymore
I’ve been maintaining Ember apps since 2015 and there’ve been 4 new major versions I’ve worked through, but the project’s deprecation policy and migration tooling have enabled incremental migration over time so there’s never been a need to hard fork / rewrite the app in a way that has occurred with several other (once-)popular web frameworks.
ricenews··on I Am Happy Not to Be a Web Developer Anymore
Meanwhile Ember has quietly improved and reinvented itself steadily over the last decade-plus, while maintaining compatibility responsibly the entire time. Sure it’s not always been on the cutting-edge (which I guess is why it lost its cachet) but its relative stability through fundamental reworking of its core have enabled me to happily maintain multiple SPAs that I started with as far back as 2015 when everyone was adopting AngularJS.

All this is to say that there are projects and communities that value stability with stagnating so you can still have “nice things” without feeling stuck on a hamster wheel.