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Analog clock faces on screen-based watches are skeuomorphic. Analog clock faces take more mental effort and time to read. We will look back and laugh about this clinging to nostalgia.

Apple has every competitive advantage in the world. Why is it being abusively anticompetitive by manipulating its app store search results? nytimes.com/interactive/2019/0

“I thought wasn’t it a good thing that Eve did, isn’t curiosity a valuable quality? Shouldn’t she be praised for risking this? It wasn’t, after all, that she was after money or gold or anything, she was after knowledge. What could possibly be wrong with that?” —Philip Pullman

I can’t wait to visit America in a few weeks to try this ✌️White Claw✌️ the Internet memes have informed me about all summer.

Equifax appears to be trying to get out of its cash settlement offer by requiring additional information long after claims were filed. Check your email.

A friend uses Facebook Messenger. I proposed a restaurant for dinner. Facebook would not let me share the restaurant’s website because it said it violated its community standards. I wonder if it showed something offensive like a woman’s nipple or a terrorist training video at some point. /s

Yo , can you please add the ISO 8601 week number to the Date object? I am kinda surprised it’s not already there.

It’s 2019 and Google Chrome and its bloodline (Edge, Brave, Opera) still do not support SVG favicons. bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/i

OH: "I'm surprised more dads aren't upset about climate change, since I've seen how angry they get when anyone changes the thermostat."

Do you know of an open source alternative to SketchUp? (Blender is not it.) Bonus points for being Web based. All of the iPad apps are monthly subscriptions.

“Hyperbole isn’t the worst crime. Men suffer more from imagining too little than too much.” —The Greatest Showman

Just encountered my first public API I want to use that is GraphQL only. 👎 If you care about your third-party ecosystem, please do not do this.

Finished “Orange is the New Black” just now. Such a well acted, thought provoking series.

Yay! I have been able to lend to 58 of the 77 countries Kiva operates in—and there are no loans available in the remaining countries at the moment.

Answer: in tsconfig.json, add compilerOptions.lib = ["es2018"]

The lack of `"dom"` will remove `window` globals.

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I want to use `node-fetch` because Node.js annoyingly does not have `fetch`, but TypeScript keeps complaining `fetch` was also declared in lib.dom.d.ts. This is a Node.js-only app, which does not have DOM. How do I fix this other than renaming the import?

Using an Apple Card backed by Goldman Sachs—who admitted “serious misconduct” and was fined $5B for its role in the 2008 financial crisis—is the tech equivalent of rolling coal.

Does anyone else have to turn their Wi-Fi off and on after reconnecting to a network from sleep in order to actually connect? Both my personal and work MacBook Pro laptops have this problem on most Wi-Fi networks.

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