Scripting News: Saturday, April 20, 2024
After living with the blogroll on the home page of Scripting News for about a month, and having heard from early testers, I felt that it was demanding too much attention when I was reading stuff on the blog. So I made some time last week to experiment with a subtler sidebar.#
In Quiet Mode, the blogroll doesn't call attention to itself until you click on it. Then its background changes from neutral to white. That's the equivalent of shining a spotlight on it. Also the borders become blue to indicate that the browser's focus is on the blogroll.#
I wanted to do more to tone it down. So, in Quiet Mode the title moves up and to the left, and is in a much smaller font, boldface, nicely visible and stands off from the list, but doesn't call your attention to it. It's there when you want to know more. #
You may want to call it something other than a blogroll, btw. If you're using blogs to coordinate projects with others, something I think a lot more people would do if it worked better, instead of "blogroll" you'd might call it your "workgroup."#
Anyway, I have switched Scripting News over to the new quiet mode, it's already the default, but I put a checkbox just below the blogroll that lets you toggle between the two modes to see the difference and possibly spot problems. The checkbox will go away before long. I just want it there to quickly do an A-B comparison. #
Linkblog items for the day.
How the push to unseat Johnson could unfold. politico.com
Trump Doesn't Talk About the Pandemic. politicalwire.com
All 16 teams in NBA Playoffs, ranked by chances to win 2024 championship. sbnation.com
Flickr Foundation. flickr.org
ChatGPT is dumber than it looks. seths.blog
Real software crashes, loses data, is hard to learn and hard to use. But it's a process. We'll make it less shitty. Just watch! scripting.com
A Fallout fan's spoiler-laden review of the new TV series. arstechnica.com
A New York-style pizza recipe with extraneous information. richardeaglespoon.com
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