Evan @darth_mall@vis.social

I recommend underlining links in body content.
https://adrianroselli.com/2016/06/on-link-underlines.html

Link underlines are the punk rock of design. They care little for your expensive fancy typeface. They just want to get shit done.
https://adrianroselli.com/2019/01/underlines-are-beautiful.html

Add them on broken sites.
https://adrianroselli.com/2015/01/css-bookmarklets-for-testing-and-fixing.html#underlines

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If you are making a lot of pasta with tomato sauce, add cinnamon to the sauce! It'll give it a mysterious sweet/smoky flavor that many Iranian tomato dishes have. (Also similar to a Moroccan tagine.)

Arguing that Apple or Google did something a particular way will not sway me on its own.

They get it wrong just as often as the rest of us. Their size and ubiquity do not make them any better.

Try harder.

Getting hammered lately with “Google does this” or “Apple does this” justifications for terrible UIs.

Google Material Design told us form fields were better without boxes, until they tested it.

Apple told us removing button outlines in iOS was better, until users complained.

There's a whole class of weird US court cases against inanimate objects:

United States v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins
United States v One Solid Gold Object In The Form Of A Rooster

I decided to see what a neural net would make of them.

https://aiweirdness.com/post/612669075940900864/court-cases-that-sound-like-the-weirdest-fights

This is a bit extra but is anyone working on open source home automation HARDWARE? Like from components one could identify? I'm starting to plan out my home setup (I figure it'd be worth it since I spend a lot of time at home) and I'm noticing that I have to rely on a lot of things to emit information in order to talk to it.

I'm building a new countertop / workspace for my garage. The vertical supports are 2x4s and 4x4s, and I'd like rubber or silicone caps that could fit over the ends to protect them from liquids that would potentially pool on the concrete. Is this a thing that exists, or am I hacking it?

Writing a web scraper to make a comprehensive database of bodegas in New York solely for the purpose of cross-referencing it to my list of every store in New York City that sells Soylent so I can verify which bodegas sell Soylent, help

I've decided to run an experiment: I've been putting in an Excel sheet all the unsolicited noise I get: emails, DMs on different plateformes and stuff like that, I categorize it. The idea is to gather and analyse the kind of noise to build a visualization maybe in one year