Lumping together emojis with these other nightmare technologies is wild.

Name 1 bad thing that came from the invention of emojis that is comparable to the others

Nope - you've got me on that one. I can't.

I’m convinced AI is a conspiracy by Big Emoji to get using more emoji. That’s why there are so many in its responses.

Just adding another alternative that I've been using for years for people to consider - 1Blocker.

https://1blocker.com/

1Blocker is worth the one time lifetime purchase, works with your family iCloud+ account.

This and Little Snitch Mini.

I (well, my company) pays for https://onlinetools.com/ (USD 6 per month if you pay for a year upfront), which a found super-handy for (de-)prettifying and (de-)stringifying JSON. (It does a lot of other things too.)

I was going to mention onlinetools.com as soon as I saw this thread, but then decided to browse the comments first.

that tools site is by Peter(is) Krumins of the blog catonmat.net.

he also founded Browserling.

How does it compare to the free, self hostable https://it-tools.tech/ ?

Hadn't seen this before - thanks! I'll take a look before it comes round to resubscribing next year. :-)

Is it possible to reset progress somehow?

try to reset the phone. that sounded like it might do it. i didn't try it for fear it actually would.

Indeed, factory reset in the phone settings will reset your progress.

Thanks!

And on top of all that is the terrible (IMHO) UX design pattern of getting rid of Apply/Cancel buttons, particularly in settings panes.

This might also be of interest to anybody who enjoyed these articles: https://www.scratchapixel.com/.

Despite seeing code early in the series, didn't see any code that would actually put pixels on a screen, or even to write a static image into a file, at least not within the first 6 or 7 units. Somewhere around that point there is some reference to OpenGL, so presumably you could start to brighten patches of screen at that point?

Offering this as constructive criticism - the tutorials could be more engaging if the student could follow along and cause things to happen directly on the screen. It'd be awesome to organize the 1st unit as more than just confirming one has a compiler, to take it all the way to a kind of "hello, pixels".

I use an app called 'Alarmed' on my iPhone for this. It's got everything I need, in particular you can repeat items on a fixed period or 'x days from the time you actually manage to tick it off', which is great. It's free with a one-off IAP to unlock extra features (can't remember what they are - I paid it years ago).

http://yoctoville.com/

54 year old finding this useful here! :-)

Several years ago the company I work for offered a 'compressed working fortnight' option, where for nine days out of ten you work an extra 45 minutes a day and then get every other Friday off.

For me, this was an absolute game-changer in terms of quality of life. The majority of the company took it up and there's really been no issue in terms of overall productivity that I can see. If I ever change jobs, whether or not my new employer offers this will be a huge consideration for me.