How To Improve Your Microcopy: UX Writing Tips For Non-UX Writers — Smashing Magazine
Ensure Your Interface Copy Is Role-Playable (My Account)
Be Especially Transparent And Clear When It Comes To Sensitive Topics
- The button label should reflect the specific action that occurs when the user clicks or taps it.
- Titles stick better in their memory, so they must be understandable as a standalone text.
Express Action With Verbs, Not Nouns
Self Hosting 101 - A Beginner's Guide
A beginner's guide to self hosting
Zone 3 Skill Build ‘Intro to Darning’ with Vivant Vintage
We invite you to watch this introductory video with Justin Pomerleau, owner of Vivant Vintage, to get you prepared for the live how-to class as part of the Zone 3 Skill Build summer series!
What is darning? Darning is a sewing technique for repairing holes or worn areas in fabric or knitting using needle and thread alone. Hand darning employs the darning stitch, a simple running stitch in which the thread is “woven” in rows along the grain of the fabric, with the stitcher reversing direction at the end of each row, and then filling in the framework thus created, as if weaving.
These workshops are part of the Zone 3 Skill Build summer program. Check out zone3westernave.com/skillbuild/ for the full video workshop series!
Zines - Austin Kleon
Handmade zines, templates, tutorials, and how-to videos.
Installing a New Window in an Old Opening - Fine Homebuilding
Bill Robinson says that you can avoid water infiltration by keeping in mind the four Ds: deflection, drainage, drying, and durability.
Poppler - PDF Rendering Library
Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base.
GitHub - enlightened-perl-organisation/Conference_Video: Tracking the Conference Video Initiative
Tracking the Conference Video Initiative. Contribute to enlightened-perl-organisation/Conference_Video development by creating an account on GitHub.
Grokking Hash Array Mapped Tries (HAMTs) - by Nick M
A simple and intuitive explanation of what Hash Array Mapped Tries are and where they're used.
HAMTs are frequently used in functional programming languages, such as Clojure and Scala in order to implement persistent data structures like maps and sets. HAMTs provide efficient lookup, insertion, and deletion operations while ensuring immutability. They’re also well-suited for concurrent environments where multiple threads or processes access and modify shared data structures simultaneously. Their structural sharing property allows for efficient copying and sharing of data, reducing the need for expensive locking mechanisms.
jrm-omg/drop_it: A tiny — but robust — private PHP drop box - Codeberg.org
drop_it - A tiny — but robust — private PHP drop box
Pot Limit Omaha Is INCREDIBLY Easy | Upswing Poker Level-Up
The great game of Pot Limit Omaha is arguably the most profitable poker game to play in the modern era. The average PLO player tends to be much less studied than the average No Limit Hold'em player, so you can gain a big edge by learning the fundamentals. That's what this episode of Upswing Poker Level-Up is here to teach you as high stakes PLO specialist Dylan Weisman joins Mike Brady.
Written version of this episode (audio version available wherever you get your podcasts): https://upswingpoker.com/podcast/ep19-pot-limit-omaha
Why "page.goto()" is slowing down your tests - Playwright
In this video, we dive into Playwright's "page.goto()" and understand why it could be slowing down your end-to-end tests. We start with an example script and then walk you through the Playwright UI mode to understand how resource loading can delay the "page.goto()" call.
We also look into the different "waitUntil" configurations and check how they affect the speed of your tests. Enjoy, and drop any questions or comments below!
Blog post: https://www.checklyhq.com/blog/
"page.goto()" docs: https://playwright.dev/docs/api/class-page#page-goto
"addLocatorHandler" explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8JLQoCDUcU
Auto-margin works with absolute positioned elements | Stefan Judis Web Development
If you're defining absolute width or height for an absolute positioned element, you can use auto margin to lay out these elements.
https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/center-a-div/
.box {
position: absolute;
inset: 0.5rem;
width: 7rem;
height: 7rem;
margin: auto;
}Grout or caulk between acrylic bathtub and tile? - Home Improvement Stack Exchange
Contractor who remodeled our bathroom used non-sanded grout between bathtub (acrylic) and first layer of tile. He said that he recommends that instead of caulk as caulk will be trapping moisture and
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FILL THE TUB TO WEIGH IT DOWN!
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Take your time. Don't rush it or you'll be doing it again within a year or two. It might take two nights to get the old caulk all out. So what. You want a job that will last.
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Clean out all the old caulk. Use a 1" paint scraper, razor blade scraper, knife, maybe high grit sandpaper so long as the part sanded will be caulked over.
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Buy the most expensive Tub and Tile caulk you can find. I prefer GE. You don't want to have to do the job again and $10 - $15 isn't much when you consider the aggravation of redoing it.
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Right before caulking saturate a portion of a clean cloth with rubbing alcohol and force it into the joint. Wipe it once from each direction to make sure its clean. Then let it dry.
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Cut the caulk tube diameter to the width of the average gap.
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Caulk the gap, not the tub or tile outside surface. The caulk needs to contact both inner surfaces, but for aesthetics, don't overlap the two outside surfaces more than about 1/8".
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After caulking the gap along one wall, dip the smallest finger that will bridge the gap in rubbing alcohol and quickly and firmly wipe straight down the gap. If not suitable, wipe the finger with a piece of toilet paper, fold, discard, re-Hopdip finger in alcohol, and repeat.
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PULL TAPE IMMEDIATELY! DON'T LET THE CAULK SET
For Want of a Blackwing 602 | Blackwing Pages
The following pencils have some qualities, to me at least, that are similar to the Blackwing. They are in no particular order, and please take into account something like this is always subjective.…
How to make mineral water at home | The Times of India
Naturally rich in essential minerals, this water has potent health benefits and can naturally fix electrolyte imbalance in the body. Here's a simple way of making it at home by following some simple steps.
- fill the glass or container with 1 liter filtered water. The quality of the water is can make or break the taste of your homemade mineral water.
- add 1/8 tsp of baking soda to the filtered water.
- add 1/8 tsp of epsom salt (USP food grade)
- 1/8 tsp of potassium bicarbonate to the purified water.
Lastly, use a soda siphon to blend the minerals and mix well. The water is ready to be consumed!
1/8tsp == 0.6g
34 Clever Woodworking Handy Hints | The Family Handyman
These incredible tips from The Family Handyman readers and editors will help you complete your woodworking projects faster and better than ever before!
- Get Dents Out of Wood
- The Brown Paper Bag Trick for Finishing
- Hot Glue Whenever You Need It
- Sanding Station For Small Parts
- Pencil Hack for Perfectly Flat Boards
- Quick Woodworking File from Paint Stick
- Combo Square Ad-Hoc Micrometer
GraphRAG: The Most Incredible RAG Strategy Revealed
Today, we dive into the revolutionary Graph RAG from Microsoft, an advanced retrieval-augmented generation system that enhances AI responses by providing relevant context. GraphRAG: The Most Incredible RAG Strategy Revealed
📌 In this video, you will learn:
What is RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)?
Differences between Basic RAG and Graph RAG
How to implement Graph RAG in your application
Step-by-step guide on setting up Graph RAG
Advantages of using Graph RAG over traditional methods
Build a Better README - Jason A. Crome - TPRC 2024
Your project's README stinks. Let's make it better, together!Your project's README on Github is your project's landing page, your one chance to land a solid first impression with a new user. So why are so many READMEs so boring? With minimal effort, you can make a lasting impression that win over users who might otherwise move on to another project instead.
Jason Crome will show you some techniques for making an eye-popping README for your project, using Request Tracker, Dancer, and other popular projects as models for what can be done. By the end of this short talk, you'll be able to take your project's README to the next level and set yourself apart from other open source projects.