The Instagram Mothers - The Offing
A short piece of speculative fiction.
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Can I :has()
This would be such a great addition to CSS—a parent/ancestor selector!
With the combined might of :has(), :not(), nth-child(), and calc(), CSS has become a powerful language for specifying rules to account for all kinds of situations.
Is Me Cavechild Getting Too Much Pictogram-Time? - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
Sometimes me think me should just tear bull pictogram down. Can bull pictogram really be worth it? Sure, pictogram help advance caveculture and foster writing system. But what good that stuff if whole cave society is just bunch of brainwashed bull-pictogram-watchers? You know what Aiden say yesterday? When he grow up, he want be bull-pictogram-painter! That not real job! Real job hunter! Or at least gatherer! How many bull-pictogram-painters world need?
Remove Background from Image – remove.bg
Well, this looks like it could come in handy—no more tedious time in Photoshop trying to select turn a person into a separate layer by hand; this does it for you.
Finding Dead CSS – CSS Wizardry
Here’s a clever idea from Harry if you’re willing to play the long game in tracking down redundant CSS—add a transparent background image to the rule block and then sit back and watch your server logs for any sign of that sleeper agent ever getting activated.
If you do find entries for that particular image, you know that, somehow, the legacy feature is potentially still accessible—the number of entries should give you a clue as to how severe the problem might be.
Kids can’t use computers… and this is why it should worry you - Coding 2 Learn
This is a really well-written and worrying piece that pokes at that oft-cited truism about kids today being “digital natives”:
The parents seem to have some vague concept that spending hours each evening on Facebook and YouTube will impart, by some sort of cybernetic osmosis, a knowledge of PHP, HTML, JavaScript and Haskell.
The causes of this lack of digital literacy can be traced back to school:
We’ve mirrored corporate networks, preventing kids and teachers access to system settings, the command line and requiring admin rights to do almost anything. They’re sitting at a general purpose computer without the ability to do any general purpose computing.
Also, this article has the best “TL;DR” description ever.
crap at my parents house
Giving nostalgia a good slap-down with a big ol' bucket of kitsch.
globeandmail.com: Art of playing nice
Here's a great compromise solution for parents. Yes, your kids can play that violent video game but with one condition: they must abide by the Geneva Conventions.
Do's and don'ts with babies :: Hilarious pics
Airtoons for parents.
dooce: How to Charm the Holy Living Jesus out of Me
Leta is walking, much to my relief and absolute delight.