I used the `light-dark` function quite a lot in recent demos. It makes implementing dark mode so easy!
Drop this in your base styles:
```
:root {
color-scheme: light dark;
}
```
Then, any time you define a color, do it like this…. to assign the first color to light mode, and the second to the dark mode.
```
color: light-dark(#000, #fff);
background-color: light-dark(#fff, #999);
```
This will save you from writing lots of conditional code inside `prefers-color-scheme` media queries.
I've been writing serverside SQLite applications for several years now and I still picked things up from this article, which is extremely good. https://kerkour.com/sqlite-for-servers
I link to this paragraph by Eva Parish at least once a week.
"One of the best writing tips I've ever gotten was to avoid using demonstrative pronouns. Instead of saying “this” or “that,” you should add a noun to spell out exactly what you’re referring to, even if you’ve just mentioned it. "
I finished the book “Wool” by Hugh Howey today. This is the first of 3 books the TV show Silo is based on. It’s also the first fiction book I’ve read since the early 1990’s.
I’m already into the next book, Shift. I maintain my view that Hugh had some really problematic encounters with IT in his past.
I am really liking them. This is an instance where I think the story telling in the TV show is better than the book, IMO
So many ideas for #JukeboxFridayNight #CelebrateWomen!
Silversun Pickups - Alone on a Hill
https://songwhip.com/silversun-pickups/alone-on-a-hill
The first SSPU single with Nikki on sole lead vocals. I adore her.
Health checks and internal networks are now in place. It went smoothly!
This should ensure that if our system crashes **for any reason** it will automatically restore itself. Should give us better uptime in the future.
One of my friends said, "Describe your life in another language, and you will realize how ridiculous it is." I didn't believe it until today. I'm kinda explaining what life looks like in China. It's pretty normal in Chinese words, but when you have to find those words to represent those Chinese only things, it becomes ridiculous.
For example, the house price. There is no land price in China since by law all lands are government properties and they lend the land to you because you buy a house. And the household registration thing, we called hukou (there is an entry on Wikipedia for this term), it basically limits the freedom of moving to a city. You must bond to a city/place before you can live. The bond requires government approval. Not mention the already scary thing, like during the covid19, the police will break into your house and force you to be isolated, not because you're affected but because they think you're suspicious.
That sentence might not always be correct. Sorry for my limited knowledge, but I assume if you live somewhere like Europe, then your life is not ridiculous at all. One's life won't become ridiculous just because they use different languages to describe. It sounds ridiculous because it's ridiculous. They just didn't notice that in their native/local language.
#QOTO is back after a long migration in the first stage of our upgrade. Now that we are on a new home we will give it 24 horus to see if the move was bug free (As it seems to be) and then we will start upgrading versions one at a time day by day.. The upgrades are prepared and ready and should be **much** quicker.
The move took a while as we keep a backlog of every message to the start of the fediverse so our media and DB stores are quite large and it took a long time. But we are back!!!
I am on the hunt for a new role as an Engineering Manager. While my background is is Software Build and Delivery, DevSecOps, and SRE leadership, I am open to other broader EM opportunities if you are open to my broader leadership and project management experience.
If you'd like to learn more about my background, please check out my LinkedIn page over here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brennaflood/
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@mekkaokereke Large touch displays had the 'gorilla arm problem', eye fatigue (at the moment at least) feels like a related problem. Note there was no 'simple fix' for gorilla arm, you couldn't fight physics and biology. In my career as a UX designer, it's always the *perceived* little things that ended up not being little at all. This happens so often I have a phrase for it, "Triumph of the mundane". It works both positively and negatively.
new Patreon posts up! Last month, I explained how the heck to make a custom Unreal navlink to make enemies precisely jump over gaps, or climb ladders, or any of that kind of thing: https://www.patreon.com/posts/making-unreal-95328696
It requires a TINY bit of .cpp, but I promise it's easy and also you can just copy-paste mine. Once you do that nasty part, the rest is Blueprint/in-editor. #UnrealEngine #IndieDev #GameDev
So I snagged Immortals Fenyx Rising, that last gen Ubisoft game where they took the AC engine and made a Zelda BOTW kinda thing?
IT'S GREAT
It hits different, now that every other game also aped BOTW. It feels (is) way less blatant. It adds a ton! There's a bunch of really novel mechanics in here, combat design is good too.
The demo turns out to have been terrible. Hated it. But the narration in the actual game is way more spread out, and thus actually fun? I just. Huh. It's actually great.
I work in software development for TV. I play PC, Nintendo, and board games. Sometimes I go outside and run.