"If I am using icons that have more weight than the text, I typically make the icons slightly lighter than the text for inactive states ?? pic.twitter."
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About Nika
"At Mozilla I often end up building my changes in a patch stack, and used git rebase -i1 to make changes to commits in response to review comments etc. Unfortunately, with a repository as large as mozilla-central2, git rebase -i has some downsides:"
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What Every Developer Should Learn Early On
"As a developer, you’ll hear a lot of crazy, unbelievable theories about what “lines of code” signify. Believe none of them. Lines of code is a ridiculous metric to base decisions on. In very rare cases it tells you something, in all the other cases, it tells you nothing."
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Friday Beer Thoughts: Local Demand
"Many of the business discussions surrounding beer tend to focus on the number of breweries opening or closing. We use that as a barometer for the health of the sector, including our previous look at industry dynamism. Counting breweries is pretty easy, however it also provides an incomplete picture."
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50 Strategies to gain the upper hand over your opponent — MyChessBlog.Com – #1 Chess Blog On The Internet
"Here we are discussing some basic strategies that can give you advantage, however microscopic it may be."
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Fun Friday: Marginal Propensity to Consume
"One question our office gets quite frequently about the kicker is what sort of economic impact does it have. After all we are returning hundreds of millions, if not a billion, dollars to taxpayers who likely did not budget the kicker into their household finances."
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What People Actually Say Before They Die
"Insights into the little-studied realm of last words. Mort Felix liked to say that his name, when read as two Latin words, meant “happy death.” When he was sick with the flu, he used to jokingly remind his wife, Susan, that he wanted Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” played at his deathbed."
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What Replaces Timber?
"Between the mill closure in Coos Bay, downsizing in Forest Grove, and the lively cap and trade discussions, there has been a renewed interest and focus on the timber industry in Oregon."
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Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us
"Have you heard about algebraic effects? My first attempts to figure out what they are or why I should care about them were unsuccessful. I found a few pdfs but they only confused me more. (There’s something about academic pdfs that makes me sleepy.)"
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More on Migration to Oregon
"Last week we updated the basics of migration to Oregon. The post generated quite a few comments and questions. As such I wanted to post an update with a little more information."
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Generalise, don't specialise: why focusing too narrowly is bad for us
"The 10,000-hour rule says intense, dedicated practice makes perfect – at that one thing. But what if breadth actually serves us better than depth? By Let’s start with a couple of stories from the world of sports."
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Details of the Cloudflare outage on July 2, 2019
"Almost nine years ago, Cloudflare was a tiny company and I was a customer not an employee. Cloudflare had launched a month earlier and one day alerting told me that my little site, jgc.org, didn’t seem to have working DNS any more."
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How to add Git's branch name to the commit message?
"Use the prepare-commit-msg or commit-msg githook. There are examples already in your PROJECT/.git/hooks/ directory."
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Strangling a Monolith application with Micro Frontends using Server Side Includes
"An agile mindset promotes iteration over processes, products, and business. Nowadays evolutionary architecture is enabling incremental change in architecture over time. Nowadays is easy to choose frameworks such as Nuxt.js and Next.js to universal render pages using React and Vue."
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Scientists 'speechless' at Arctic fox's epic trek
"Researchers at Norway's Polar Institute fitted the young female with a GPS tracking device and freed her into the wild in late March last year on the east coast of Spitsbergen, the Svalbard archipelago's main island."
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Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years
"A former high-ranking Mozilla executive has accused Google of intentionally and systematically sabotaging Firefox over the past decade in order to boost Chrome's adoption."
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"For example, they may start integrating technologies for which they have exclus... : Hacker News
"This is already happening. I very recently worked on the Edge team, and one of the reasons we decided to end EdgeHTML was because Google kept making changes to its sites that broke other browsers, and we couldn't keep up."
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CSS flex box last space removed
"By setting the display of an item to flex I am finding the last space is removed from a text string so. Any text that is directly contained inside a block container element (not inside an inline element) must be treated as an anonymous inline element."
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