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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • In UI jargon, “chrome” means the non-content UI that frames what you actually care about, by analogy to the decorative chrome trim on old cars: shiny, attention-grabbing “window dressing” around the “real” thing. Mozilla documentation from 1999 talks about “window chrome” as the browser’s UI framing.

    Google named their browser “Chrome” as an ironic nod to minimizing UI chrome. So the name literally comes from the use of the metal chromium on cars.










  • It’s not about being proud of your own skill. It’s about the arrogance of others to publish a text for a wide audience without putting in the effort to make it easy to parse. Apparently they think their own time is worth more than the tens of thousands who will attempt to read it, combined. There are tools to help with this so you have no excuse.





  • Here we often don’t get receipts at all. The kiosk also shows the number on the screen, but for some reason they designed the UX so that when it can’t print a receipt the number is only shown for a fraction of a second before it’s hidden by a message saying “unfortunately we can’t print a receipt right now”.

    As a developer myself it makes me feel like I want to stab whoever thought this was good enough.


  • Addiction is always an escape from something. What you escape to is happenstance, and people who have a tendency to get addicted often just find another addiction after leaving one, unless they can face the thing that they’re escaping from.

    But habit is also a strong force. Whatever you do repeatedly will train your brain to return to those thought patterns automatically. Find other associations for your daily events.

    I escape from obligations and social pressure by closing myself off and coding. But I don’t really think it has been enough of a hindrance in my life to do anything about it. Often it has been to my benefit (e.g. career) and it’s a way to recharge my batteries.

    Maybe you just need to find a replacement addiction that makes you happy. Try tea.