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How does "brick" mean "content flows in the column direction"? Don't you lay bricks row by row?

The "brick" layout creates rows, yes. When a regular person looks at it, they will see rows. But Grid Lanes flows content up and down, not across the row.

If you just want content to flow down one row, then the next, then the next, Flexbox is a better solution.

The whole point of masonry layout is that content flows perpendicular to the lane.


Nice idea, nice dotcom.

I like that the homepage shows the extended hours breakouts (as opposed to Trading View Charts, which just shows $AAPL). I could imagine checking this every day like HN just to see what those are.

To me the signup field is a bit aggressive, with the blinking arrow and the slideshow, but I might just be neurotic about these things, and as I keep my money in index funds I'm unlikely to pay for this anyway.


> Germany has been on high alert for sabotage activities directed at its infrastructure, including from foreign actors such as Russia.

This sentence kind of implies that foreign actors committed the attack, but a leftist group took credit for it[1].

[1]: https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2026/01/berlin-suedwes...


This is exactly how Russia operates inside Europe.

A leftist group cannot be sponsored by Russia?

How much sponsorship does it take to commit arson?

Who cares? The amount is irrelevant.

Why would they be? Russia doesn't tend to fund leftist groups. If they're actually a leftist group, it's far more likely to be about Palestine and of their own accord, or because of direct government oppression against them.

Last time I knew of an attack like this in Berlin, it was a direct retaliation after the government attacked their house with military tanks.


I would be especially concerned if the government attacked with non-military tanks.

The government dropping a water tank on your house certainly would be concerning.


Did they generate the example prompts with AI too?


I use the eurokey layout with a US international keyboard.

I've bound caps lock to alt gr while using it as a modifier key in niri at the same time. So `caps_lock => return` opens a terminal and `caps_lock => a` inserts "ä". Since the caps lock key is right over the shift key, it's also easy to type uppercase umlauts.

This is as easy as you can make typing special characters by configuring the keyboard, but it's still annoying. What I really want is to type things like "schoen" and have that automatically converted to "schön" when I press space.

There was a chrome extension to do this called Umlauter[1], but it didn't recognize language, so it wrongly converted umlauts in english text, like "guess" to "güss", which isn't even a german word, but to save space the extension uses heuristics rather then a dictionary.

(Would it to be too much to ask of a browser to include dictionaries for every language the user speaks in a way that can be accessed by extensions and web apps?)

Today, chrome has an API to recognize language, but the extension doesn't work anymore because it doesn't support manifest v3.

I work on a scratchpad[2]. I plan to add something like Umlauter with language recognition, and maybe using other Web AI APIs.

[1]: https://github.com/jaflo/umlauter

[2]: https://thinktype.app


If a web browser doesn't support an API, they're essentially saying: If you want to do this, you have to make people install a native app. And the websites reponse is: Fine, I'll make people install a native app: Chrome.


> It was enough time. <input> was fine. But then devices without physical keyboards came along, and ruined it.

Maybe the default text input method on touchscreens should be dictation.


> The unglamorous answer is that this might be just a documentation problem. MDN is pretty good, even though Mozilla increasingly concerns me as a steward of the open web. What if it were just a little better?

What if it had a comment section where people could discuss these issues, like the PHP docs? What if it had a wiki, where people could collaborate on fixing them, like ArchWiki?


The example that comes to my mind is apidock for Ruby!

https://apidock.com/ruby/String/split

Though, considering how much information tends to get centralized in these comments, I think the wiki-like direction is the way to go. (I know anyone can edit MDN, but it's via github PRs rather than being able to make quick edits on the site.)


I don’t see a problem with the github PR workflow for updating documentation. Yes, it’s one step more, but it’s nothing special when you use github’s online editor.

PS: MDN and MSDN are my favorite documentation sites.


MDN is on GitHub, every page ends with "View this page on GitHub • Report a problem with this content" links.

I've pointed out errors a couple of times and they were corrected pretty quickly.


I've found them responsive to errors too.

When I pointed out some bugs on Microsoft's docs they just basically replied "hurry up and fix them then!" which annoyed me at first, but they actually poked me until I stopped being lazy and submitted a PR, wherein I actually learned some new things.


Cursor has a browser? That by itself makes me want to try it again.

EDIT: No support for the web midi API though. I guess this is the problem with the browser-in-IDE idea: You only want to use it if it's perfect, otherwise keep wondering whether something is a problem of the browser or your app. Maybe IDE-in-browser is easier, and chrome is approaching that with workspaces.


Its a fork of vscode, which has a browser.


VS code has Live Preview extension, which doesn't work for me. Cursor's browser works, and I can't find anything like it in VS code.


Interesting ideas, great website, but tedious config file format.


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