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The same author has written three other articles specifically on colorblindness and data visualization:

https://blog.datawrapper.de/colorblindness-part1/ https://blog.datawrapper.de/colorblindness-part2/ https://blog.datawrapper.de/colorblindness-part3/


They miss out on the face that accessibility should be a default consideration as a designer. It's not a specific realm that needs designed separately. Assume that someone will always be colourblind.


The return key is functionally the same as F2 in Windows.


Thanks, in Windows that starts the program, but I guess there's another key for that...I'll have to experiment more. I love my M1 Macbook Pro so much that I want to get used to the OS.


It's CMD+Down arrow.

One thing that's killer for me in MacOS vs Windows, regarding consistency, is text fields. They always behave the same (except, of course, for weird apps, say ms office). CMD+Backspace will delete a whole word even in password fields or system settings, etc. This is always hit or miss in Windows. I know it doesn't work for passwords. In Windows explorer it works... sometimes. It works in the address bar, but not in the preferences or when renaming a file.


You can use Cmd+o to open a program (and the "return" key to rename it).


It sounds like these combinations wouldn't work in a file selector for example, but I will try them.


That sounds like something you could build in Apple’s Shortcuts app (assuming you’re on iOS).


I'm on Android but I see where you're getting at here, thanks for the idea.


For me, it was so that when I'm somewhere I don't know, I can type 'home' into the maps search box and get directions.

I turned off Google's activity tracking on iOS a couple of months ago, and only realised that Google Maps wasn't storing my home location when I used it for directions while stuck in traffic and it sent me to a nearby nursing home instead of my house.

I ended up turning activity tracking back on, because Apple maps still isn't fit for purpose where I live (Ireland). I often need directions down small rural roads, and four times out of five Apple Maps won't recognise the destination address, or will send me to a nearby but incorrect location.


Have you tried HERE?


That's also my experience. I'm in Ireland, ordering (mostly books) through amazon.co.uk (since 2000) so Prime never made sense for me either, but delivery times from the UK have definitely slipped over the past two years. In-stock items 'sold & fulfilled by Amazon' used to ship within 24 hours, but now regularly take 5 days or more to ship. The result is that I shop elsewhere.


It does. I still find it useful because I can check online if they have something or not, reserve it if they do (they text a reservation number), then pay and pick-up in-store within ten minutes. I'm not obliged to buy, they just reserve the item until close of business that day.


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The main focus was/is Brian Crabtree’s Monome modules (https://monome.org) but it’s a fascinating community generally.

I can’t really afford any of this stuff (I use VCV Rack and Reaktor), but the design quality of Monome’s hardware is simply staggering.


Agreed - besides obviously checking out books, my kids (8 & 10) do a range of activities (all free to attend) at our local library - they’ve done a creative writing workshop, a science workshop, an arts & crafts session, attended a biodiversity talk and will shortly do a couple of sessions to make a stop motion animation - and that’s just in the past two months. They also often see class mates there, which adds to the social aspect of development outside of a school context.


I haven't used an official Twitter client for a while, but you certainly used to be able to block the account making a sponsored tweet, which will remove it from your timeline.


I read a lengthy interview a few years ago with Fincher, and he essentially said that he knew Alien 3 was a disaster before they started shooting.

Although there was a large budget, he was viewed as an inexperienced director and the studio wouldn't give him enough money in one chunk to construct the sets he wanted.

This meant he had to make substantial compromises, particularly with respect to shooting the alien, and the lengthy takes he had planned simply weren't possible because he didn't have enough of a built set to shoot.


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