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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 01:22:31 JST Aral Balkan

   Well, y’know what they say about the 90/90 rule… something tells me with web projects the second 90% is spent working around CSS issues.

   So, anyway… I added the code panel to my Kitten port of React Kawaii and spent a chunk of time getting the responsiveness and animation right and, well, here you go – have a play:

   https://kitten-kawaii.small-web.org

   :kitten: 💕

   Writing a blog post about it as we speak and will likely publish it tomorrow or over the weekend :)

   #Kitten #Kawaii #SmallWeb #React #web #dev

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   Lauren Weinstein (lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org)'s status on Sunday, 05-May-2024 03:08:20 JST Lauren Weinstein

   Steel produced prior to World War II is highly sought after, and usually sells for a premium. The reason why may surprise you. It's not due to any perceived higher quality than steel produced later -- not in the ordinary sense, anyway.

   The issue is that steel smelted after WWII pretty much all contains tiny amounts of radioactive contamination from above ground nuclear tests, which were common until the signing of the nuclear test ban treaty in 1963.

   While the amount of radiation in that steel is extremely low, it's high enough to interfere with some very high precision instrumentation. So manufacturers of some affected equipment want that "old steel" to use instead.

   Since the global atmospheric contamination levels associated with those tests has been dropping over the decades, it's a decreasing problem for newly produced steel.

   Still, a large find of old steel, like a sunken pre-WWII battleship for example, is still much valued due to these issues.

   So now you know.

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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Apr-2023 06:31:52 JST Charlie Stross

   @thomasfuchs General point: real publishers generally run a production cycle that takes up to a year to turn a manuscript into a published book. That's a year *after* it's written and frozen. Self-pub is typically much faster but also messier/more prone to errors and quality issues.

   So if you're looking for a book, any properly produced one will be out of date and any up-to-date one will likely be badly edited/full of errors.

   A book is the wrong medium.