“Caching media files, especially images, seems like an obvious way to improve performance, but should we? To provide a more performant UX without abusing users’s network connections or hard drives, …”
“Common Weal director Robin McAlpine argues that reversing the Scottish economy’s bias towards corporations in favour of small businesses could be transformative I WANT to rig the economy. I want, explicitly, to use public policy and practice to favour some parts of the economy over others. In this I am no different than anyone else commenting on the the economy. In fact, on this if nothing else I agree entirely with the ‘administer the last rights and stop prolonging the cruelty’ Growth Commission. There are only two real differences.”
“Yesterday, an artist on Twitter named Nana ran an experiment to test a theory.
hey can y’all do me a favor and quote tweet/reply to this with something along the lines of ‘I want this on a shirt’, thank you pic.twitter.com/UhuGRQgU6b— Nana (@Hannahdouken) December 3, 2019
Their suspicion was that …”
“A tool that brings attention and understanding to how color contrast can affect different people with visual impairments.”
“Step one: Ignore insidious competition culture.”
“Influencers and regular users are reckoning with what Instagram has done to them. Now Instagram wants us to love it again. “
“Ciaran Iòsaph MacAonghais – a Primary Teacher from Fort William and co-creator of the Scottish Gaelic Duolingo course – takes us through Scottish Gaelic’s journey to Duolingo. [fo…”
I do wish they’d taught us Scottish Gaelic at school when I was a kid, or at least given us the option as an elective course. I’m hoping to find some time to devote to learning it in the new year; one of those “20 for ’20” kind of things. This Duolingo course seems as good a way as any!
