Can anyone comment how this compares / contrasts with these projects?
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> desktop sites are now the default in Safari
Surely it's not some kind of meddling with the device width to make responsive web design even more confusing. That would be very odd.
My hope is that it's some kind of user agent manipulation that thwarts device sniffing so you don't see a mobile phone stylesheet or get redirected to a mobile site while using your iPad.
Isn't this a pretty basic "appeal to worse problems" fallacy?
It never ceases to amaze me how many of these massive data leaks are simply "mongodb in default configuration".
I just don't understand how it was thought, at any point in time, to be a good idea that mongodb in its default configuration, would be open to the world with no authentication.
I felt like Inbox was the product that I was supposed to get on board with. It really is true that you just can't love google products. They make it freaking impossible.
If I was running a cloud platform of such a massive scale I'd probably scan my own ports to identify glaring problems like this one. Kind of surprising that isn't happening considering how bad it is to have the brand associated with a report like this.
Ok but even from their perspective, and I'm trying to not give too much credit here, but there is a difference between giving specific, authorized government agencies a blank check to spy on whoever they want to in order to achieve their mission of national security, and giving a blank check to any company that wants to collect unlimited information and surveillance on its users in order to accomplish whatever goal it desires. They're very different questions even though they both involve personal privacy.
I'd be careful with this one and be sure you understand what you are doing on a case-by-case basis. I have noticed a thing which I'm not sure there's a name for, but I call it Emphasis Blindness.
Similar to Banner Blindness, I think users today are often trained by habit to ignore things that stand out as some kind of obvious promotional item.
For example, you have 5 items in your navigation: Process Company News Blog Shop, and Shop is the most important, right? So you put it in some kind of special placement, and give it a button-like appearance with a special color and an outline. That doesn't necessarily make it easier to see! In some cases your users might just be looking through the "normal" navigation and not see "Shop". They will skip right over your large colorful button because it looks like a promotion, which they are trained to ignore.
Something to consider anyway.
To finish the layout I generally am making a few utility classes to control things like color and spacing (not a fan of the default bootstrap spacing classes). And then of course custom CSS for navigation, typography and other misc widgets.
But the bulk of the main layout is handled entirely with bootstrap classes. And because nearly everything can be specified with the responsive breakpoint prefixes, I don't have to write repetitive media queries.
I shouldn't be complaining, this fast pace of adopting useful tools is a paradise compared to the stagnation we had 5-15 years ago.
Instead we have streaming companies getting into media and media companies getting into streaming. Multiple platforms each with their exclusive media content, each with their exclusive software and streaming protocols. Not exactly what I had in mind...
However, something about it really bothers me. There was an episode of 99% Invisible where the guest was talking about their McMansions blog and how it makes fun of these Horrid dwellings. The whole thing stank of classist elitism. The Wrong Type of people were getting the chance to design and build large houses, and of course they're applying their Bad Taste that's neither Genuine nor Authentic. They don't know about the traditions of Fine Architecture so of course they were doing it all wrong...how embarrassing for them!
Edit: It sounds like a lot of the way I interpreted this could come from my background as someone who's transitioned from lower working class to solidly middle class, and so I'm applying that defensively even though (thank God!) I don't live in an Embarassing McMansion. In fact I'm now considering the blog as more of an educational campaign where an expert in the field is railing against problematic and widespread trends in that field. It has less to do with transitions between class and more to do with the decline of an important field of engineering and design as something that people value. I think the word McMansions itself is a bit of a disservice to the purpose of the blog, with its "slobs vs snobs" / Beverly Hillbillies connotations.
And it's the actual final goal of the most evil forms of propaganda. Overwhelm the audience with false information > make it harder to determine true vs false > maybe no source can really be trusted > all sources of information have some kind of agenda > all sources of information are roughly equal in quality. Now in the mind of the individual in question, the playing field has been leveled between propaganda and the work of trained journalists. And at that point it's not a real contest.
For our sites running Bolt - a PHP CMS which makes heavy use of autoloaded classes - we saw a performance improvement between 45 and 55 percent. For Wordpress, it was around 30-40%.
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Another thing to consider, is take a look at the all-around grappling skills of a top wrestler, judoka, bjj practitioner, etc. Do we really believe that their all-around skills wouldn't enable them to effectively use forbidden techniques such as ball punches or eye gouges or whatever? A skilled grappler is going to win a grappling contest, and a skilled striker will win a striking contest, regardless of the finishing techniques they employ.