We changed DNS for all devices to use OpenDNS familyshield [0] for starters. It's a passive way to throttle some of the worst of the worst out there.
Of course setting some limits on how much / how often helps a bit, and frank discussions about what too much of an addictive thing does to you.
Our youngest is developmentally delayed and will absolutely ignore any guidelines and follow the path of least resistance / most enticement, so their bedroom connection runs through a proxy running Squid [1] where I've whitelisted school and certain entertainment (that took a bit of time running Telerik Fiddler[2] to gather the many domains necessary for the whitelist)
Spotify was a bit of a problem, again with our youngest who went straight for the podcasts with the most adult content, which Spotify gleefully recommended the first moment we turned the service on. Could never find a way to turn podcasts off - never wanted them.
We run our own Emby[3] server that everyone has access to with curated music tv and movies (and also have the usual streaming video services, but those are reserved for common areas).
Looked at other options like walled garden family services (e.g. Amazon Kindle Fires with subscription), but there seems to only be content ranging up to ~12 year old tastes.
What a great post to start off a weekend - thanks. For anyone excited about this, you may want to check out the amazing collections at Rijksmuseum [0] as well.
My enduring impression of Flexport is of a job ad posted here years ago which made it clear they were credentialist elitists with no interest in hiring people who hadn’t graduated from the right schools.
When I worked there me and at least 2 other engineers I knew didn't have college degrees and joined at entry level. If a job listing says it requires certain credentials, I've mostly gotten by by just ignoring that and applying anyway.
Suggestion: A hotkey (in or out of the virtual computer) that allows you to reset to the default orientation without having to reload the page. On a laptop with only a touchpad, I'm fighting with the controls a bit.
Do you have a specific hotkey in mind? Curious if there's a hotkey we could choose which is intuitive, so we don't need to add more text in the 3D space.
Call me crazy, but I think it's only a matter of time before windows in our living spaces will be monitors with overlaid ads. The in-app purchase will be "allowing us" to remove the ads so we can look at the view in peace.
In the meantime, all my TVs never see the light of WiFi and have ROKU sticks.
1. Bright monitor that looks like a windows, to brighten up spaces that can't have windows. As it gets more popular, production ramps up, its price decreases.
2. Buildings are now built with these instead of actual windows, because now it makes sense economically. Maybe as more affordable housing.
3. Windows monitors get internet connected in the meantime, and now that there's a guaranteed number of eyeballs on them, become attractive for marketers.
4. Windows now sometimes show ads - Landlords get the option to get a cut if they install them, or it could be factored in the base price like how it's done with smart TVs now.
I'd love to see a "Can-I-use" browser extension when looking at articles like this.
I agree, though what I would find really helpful is not just can-i-use but should-i-use, taking into account not only feature availability but also quality of implementation. Even if a feature is theoretically supported in all major browsers, it’s not much use for a production site or app if what you actually see on screen in at least one of those browsers looks terrible, for example because of bad anti-aliasing or colour handling or animation calculations. I’ve been building new UI/design systems from scratch for a couple of projects recently, and it’s amazing how often that still happens, even with popular CSS features used to implement relatively simple effects.
caniuse.com reports whether something is too buggy to the point of being unusable in a different color, and has footnotes for whether something has some quirks/caveats but is otherwise usable
That’s true up to a point, but caniuse and I sometimes have different interpretations of what is too buggy to be usable. Rasterising vector formats and working with colour seem to be two common triggers for poor rendering, with extra chances for visible glitches if they are used in combination and a bonus if animation is involved as well.
What's everyone's opinion on simply forcing users of IE11 to upgrade / use a different browser?
I understand that one should aim for a certain level of backward compatibility, but when does the time come to drop IE11 support for good?
Especially as a smaller webdev-shop, how would one even come up with the resources to maintain that level of compatibility? Eventually there is a trade-off where one may end up losing a (hopefully reasonably small) percentage of customers in exchange for focusing on the experience of those customers who are more up to date, but it's a tricky decision to make.
IMHO totally depends on what you are doing and who your users are. Generally going for graceful degradation should keep a lot of stuff usable for outdated browsers, even if not full fidelity/pretty, and that often should be enough. If you have lots of IE11 users for whatever reason (i.e. I believe in some countries rates are a lot higher) it might be worth the effort to make it better for them. If you ship an internal app for a company that rolls out a newer standard browser everywhere, target that.
Basically none of this supports IE 10/11 (flexbox one works, calc works, and that's probably about it). Chances are if you see a cool new trick, it doesn't support IE 11.
Clubhouse seems to be having some issues today. That's rare, and I suspect you were unusually unlucky. I've used it for 3-4 years at two different companies, and never experienced any downtime before.
16% lift in overall test scores: https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/sprojec...
11% lift in math test scores: https://bearworks.missouristate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...
And Khan Academy's impact page: https://www.khanacademy.org/about/impact has links to additional studies.