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I love Safari as much as the next person, which is to say not much. šŸ˜

I’m being facetious, but I have two complaints:

1) It’s the oddball when it comes to developing extensions for it because it requires a corresponding app. Pretty annoying.

2) It deletes a site’s data storage after 7 days without visiting. I get why I think (anti-ad/privacy) but there’s a privacy hit—otherwise private local web apps will lose data unless they provide a mechanism for storing it remotely.

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Actually, there is a point. Don’t forget that there was a time you were a beginner. When people earnestly ask for your help, remember the people who helped you and pay it forward.

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When I was working at Mad Genius, a local ad agency, I was a decent ā€œinteractive designerā€ but something I struggled with was asynchronous JavaScript. I just didn't understand it at all.

One of the senior devs helped me one day, stood at my desk for like 15 minutes and explained jQuery’s deferred objects to me in a way that finally made it click (of course that translated to Promises easily enough).

There’s not a point to this story. I just feel appreciative.

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BREAKING: Executive orders have momentarily ceased as White House "ran out of that fancy paper"

A spokesperson said an intern failed to fill up on supplies after being tasked to retrieve ā€œnice-but-cheapā€ card stock from Office Depot.

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BREAKING: Executive order renames Mexico "the basement." With Canada fearing they’re next, a government spokesperson revealed back-channel meetings have taken place to "get out in front of this thing." "We're more than a dusty attic and we’re looking for a naming compromise that isn’t harmful to Canadians."

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BREAKING: Executive order creates new agency to prevent Andromeda’s stars from migrating to Milky Way

ā€œThey’re literally hurtling straight for us,ā€ a White House spokesperson said.

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Things like Apple’s Voice Control and hands-free input tools like Talon are cool…

But I’m increasingly frustrated that I have to act like a computer to get my wishes across. I don’t enjoy speaking in cryptic, pre-defined utterances. I want to talk like a person. The computer needs to accommodate me not the other way around.

I don’t know if this is something AI/LLMs can help with or not, but idk. It’s like one day I just woke up and thought, I’m tried of *being* a computer to use one.

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I had a little bit of a bumpy start rolling out A Fine Start v3 to Firefox peeps (my first submission still had development URLs 😬). But after frantically squashing bugs and submitting several versions back-to-back, I think it’s in good shape.

Firefox was my testing group. So now I’ve submitted Chrome and Edge. Should be rolling out sometime soon!

And there’s also a hosted version here: afinestart.me/bookmarks

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