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made me a more productive web developer.

 

I wish would add decent import / export options so I could switch to it with confidence, as their writing experience really is top notch.

 

Trying an Ubuntu 18.04 setup with XFCE, plank, albert, Ubuntu fonts and unsplash.

 

We're in 2019 and browsers and web systems still lose form content due to session timeouts (despite a session extension popup). Seriously wasted an hour.

 

It turns out if you enable the otherwise amazing Gnome Tweaks " Keyboard & Mouse > Pointer Location" setting then all your keyboard shortcuts using CTRL require doubling up, took me a week to figure that one out! on the desktop.

 

If you had to build a website to last 50 years what tech would you use?

 

I've updated my upgrade script with the composer based installation method. https://vandragt.com/2019/updating-known

 

For people who don’t understand UK Brexit, imho It’s all just about benefitting from a once in a lifetime realignment of how a nation is structured. Which explains the blinkers in use by some people in power. It isn’t going to result in a fairer society.

 

I’ve switched all my personal experiments to Chassis this morning. I like the concept of plugins on a local dev setup. https://docs.chassis.io/en/latest/

 

Sometimes I do research for a browser tab and want to go back to the last used tab when I close the research topic. Other times I want to review all open tabs and cycle through them without switching back to the last used one every time. I'm ctrl-tabbing to make all tabs active but a separate keyboard shortcut would be great

 

What's up with keyboard shortcuts on macos? For many system shortcuts, there's an application shortcut that does something different.

 

I hope iPads will become more repairable for everyone in the future. This LCD issue ours developed can be repaired only by a full swap, for 75% of the cost of a brand new faster iPad! If the price is based on value of the product instead of its cost, then so should the repair price be.

 

I’ve wondered for years why and don’t supply an update service for applications to hook into to keep themselves updated. I guess it’s a lot more complex than building an updater.

 

So seems to have removed the Preferences > Sidebar > Additional Options > Show the Quick Switcher setting. Problem is I must have accidentally enabled this before it was removed and now I can't get rid of it?

 

ACF field groups with the same option position can be ordered by setting a key value. Key values starting with underscores are shown first. Field groups without keys are displayed inconsistently depending on the user role.

 

Where is the tin-foil-hat emoji?

 

I think I finally figured out how to use Apple News: subscribe to topics; unsubscribe from all publications. I use an RSS reader to follow sites.

 

The subjective safety of a place is expressed well by its reaction to people loitering.

 

Keyboard lag in SecondLife was caused by Popclip. Zapp!

 

Safari Web Content's high CPU usage was caused the Pocket extension.. Maybe downloading articles in the background? Zapp!