Bored of peace

April Fools

Sometimes, the most difficult part of writing a test is knowing what the expected result should be.

The top left one

You could use an offscreen canvas just to figure out if a point belongs to the text or not. Check the actual pointer position on the visible text, but use that coordinate information to look up the pixel color in the offscreen canvas.

I prefer option A. Although the examples only deal with color, if there is also support for thickness, leaving the outermost as the last item would allow for something like giving the outermost border all remaining available thickness.

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I recently had a bug in the test instead of the main code. That one was hard to debug.

I want to see which features being used by many developers that I don't use.

It is absolutely a bubble of garbage.

An estimated 0.2% of traffic comes from Internet Explorer. That may seem insignificant enough to dismiss, but 0.2% of several hundred million dollars a year is not insignificant. If you alienate that portion of your customers, the amount lost is not trivial.

I believe in supporting Internet Explorer.

I use HSL because it is easy to figure out relative colors.

The benefit of being able to type 1 less character does not outweight the cost of losing compatibility with older browsers. I am not against using newer syntax, but the tradeoffs have to be considered when making such decisions, and I don't think it's worth it for this one.

My last time joining a web ring was more than 20 years ago.

Circular Color Picker ...

I made a circular color picker for the @codepen.io challenge. It uses range inputs that have been modified to be circular.
codepen.io/chooking/pen...

I took my time to write a lengthy explanation and a bot replied accusing me of copying and pasting from Stack Overflow. That is seriously annoying and disincentivizes taking my time to give free help.

Is this even searchable on caniuse.com?

Something like this, but it has to be refined to make the blur noticeable when the icon is small.

I am as old as Scheme. My first language was BASIC and the first "real" language was Pascal.

I use all the punctuations and didn't realize until you asked that it's now considered "legacy". I thought using less punctuation was permitted but not officially correct.

They artificially inflated time on Instagram by showing stories previously seen. That didn't happen in the past and only started this year.

Do you have a safeguard against marking as resolved when it is not actually resolved? Without that, there would be incentive to abuse this feature to get a higher rating.

I haven't tried recently, but the last time I tested SVG filters, Safari was the only major browser that did not support it properly.

The @darklang.com website doesn't have a dark mode. This is a serious missed opportunity.

It is surprising how many programming students trying to build a calculator don't seem to know how real calculators behave.

Dark mode was the original way. Early applications were all console based and the console had a black background.

If you maintain documentation for a project and you regularly read questions on SO, Reddit, Discord, etc. about this project, consider repeat questions on a topic as a sign that docs on that topic are inadequate.

I showed someone how to fix their code and they still got it wrong when doing a copy/paste because they copied my comment which showed where the error was located instead of copying my corrections that came after.

The most difficult bugs to fix are the ones that don't exist.