Microsoft will begin rolling out Windows 11 on October 5. However, the company has finalised the new version and released it to its Release Preview channel. You can switch to the Release Preview in Windows 10 and get the free …
Month: September 2021

Systems for z-index
Say you have a z-index bug. Something is being covered up by something else. In my experience, a typical solution is to put position: relative on the thing so z-index works in the first place, and maybe rejigger the z-index …

The Self Provisioning Runtime
If the Platonic ideal of Developer Experience is a world where you “Just Write Business Logic”, the logical endgame is a language+infrastructure combination that figures out everything else. Two paraphrases as assertions: People who are really serious about developer experience …

Comparing Methods for Appending and Inserting With JavaScript
Let’s say we want to add something to a webpage after the initial load. JavaScript gives us a variety of tools. Perhaps you’ve used some of them, like append, appendChild, insertAdjacentHTML, or innerHTML. The difficult thing about appending and inserting …

Elder-friendly technology is a growing market
In the grim pits of 2020, ElliQ recited a poem to 81-year-old Deanna Dezern. Dezern doesn’t remember what the poem was called or who wrote it, but she says that thematically, it was about persistence and determination — qualities that …

Improve Your Team’s Efficiency At Work: A How-To Guide
As a manager or supervisor, you want to do the job that you were hired to do: manage and supervise your team. To be able to accomplish this task you need an efficient team – not just an individual who …

The real stakes of Apple’s battle over remote work
For the past several months, a fight has been brewing inside Apple, the world’s most profitable company, about a fundamental aspect of its business: whether its corporate employees must return to the office. Apple expects employees to return to their …

Is putting an emoji as WhatsApp group icon possible now?
WhatsApp is reportedly testing a new feature that will make it possible for people to create new, custom icons to help label group chats. WABetaInfo, a platform that keeps an eye on all WhatsApp updates, says the new feature should allow …

What is Your Page Title on a Google Search Engine Results Page?
Whatever Google wants it to be. I always thought it was exactly what your <title> element was. Perhaps in lieu of that, what the first <h1> on the page is. But recently I noticed some pages on this site that …

What happens when billionaires jump on the biodiversity bandwagon
Welcome to the age of billionaire biodiversity conservation. As climate change scorches the planet and a global extinction crisis escalates, the ultrarich have started funneling bits of their wealth into protecting nature. This week, Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon …