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  • DuckDuckGo should rebrand as Duck

    DuckDuckGo it doesn’t roll off the tongue like Google it. Duck it? My mum might do that.

    Google actually gave DuckDuckGo the domain duck.com in 2018. Assuming that there wasn’t a clause in that agreement and there aren’t other trademark issues, DuckDuckGo should use the domain and rebrand as Duck.

    It would be easy for existing users to adapt and better for new users. Especially for those that don’t speak English. Duck is more trustworthy and easier to remember. Another benefit would be more traffic from Google and other search engines for general “duck” related searches.

    Duck enthusiasts deserve privacy.

  • How to link to a specific part of a YouTube video

    On desktop you can use the share button but on mobile you don’t get the option. Fortunately you can add a code to the link to let YouTube know where to start from. Just add ?t=00h00m00s to the end of the link where h = hours, m = minutes and s = seconds.

    Here is some sage investment advice from Ray Dalio at the 27 second mark

    https://youtu.be/tZyWVxGXPHo?t=27s

    And Warren Buffet’s rebuttal at 4 minutes 17 seconds

    https://youtu.be/JvEas_zZ4fM?t=4m17s

    Facebook Messenger and some other apps give a thumbnail preview. The recipient needs to click the actual link. If they click the image it starts from the beginning.

  • Bloggin’ aint easy

    Penn Jillette claims to have missed less than five days of journaling in 34 years. Likewise many bloggers have machine like output and ridiculous streaks. Part of me respects their consistency but another part can’t help but think, NERD!

    I’m happy with sporadic posts as long as the overall body of work is good.

  • The right way to disable CSS animations

    Sometimes I want a way to disable all CSS animations on a page. This is useful for end-to-end testing, automatic screenshots, or reducing motion sickness risk. This recent CSS Tricks post suggests disabling animations & transitions while resizing, to reduce needless browser work. This is an excellent idea! Here is the usual way of disabling animations:

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  • CSS snippet for better mobile screenshots

    A useful tip when adding screenshots to posts or talks is to put them “inside” a device. This gives the screenshot some context.

    Even though this screenshot already contains Android top & bottom bars, with the added outline it’s immediately obvious it’s from a phone.

    The Economist on mobile is mostly sticky bullshit

    The Economist on mobile is mostly sticky bullshit

    To add the outline to images I use a simple CSS border:

    .phone-border {
  border: #111 solid;
  border-radius: 1rem;
  border-width: 2rem 1rem 3rem 1rem;
}

    To take this further you can also make them responsive! So we see phone screenshots on phones, and a fake laptop screen outline on big/wide screens. This assumes you are using responsive images so you get desktop aspect ratio on bigger screens.

    @media (min-width: 800px and min-aspect-ratio: 16/9) {
  .phone-border {
    border-color: #ccc;
    border-width: 1rem;
  }
}

     

  • TIL 3

    Sporadic posts are easier to achieve than daily posts ????

    Also, in France the government allows just two sale periods a year.

  • TIL 2

    Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe to influence white Christian women. It helped to advance the abolitionist cause but has also received criticism for perpetuating stereotypes.

  • TIL 1

    Bight is a term used in geography meaning a curve or bend in a coastline, river or other geographic feature.

  • Migrating WordPress ain’t easy

    Migrating WordPress / WooCommerce is not proving easy. I have tried the premium versions of Backup Guard and Duplicator and neither plugin has allowed me to migrate the site successfully. I have contacted their support teams but the fact that neither worked out of the box is annoying. Particularly as Duplicator Pro cost $79. To be fair, the backup file is quite large (860mb) and currently on a Google Compute Engine server running PHP 5 and I’m trying to move to a Digital Ocean droplet running PHP 7 but still.. $79!

    Update: I managed to do this with Duplicator Pro’s beta drag and drop/admin panel feature.

  • The Myki recharge button should be more clear on Google Pay

    Maybe make it blue or something?