I’m an adult and have been for several decades. Every time someone say “it’s the former”, or “it’s the latter”, or “more the former than the latter”, I have to stop, and think: “Which one is first, fo...

Former Canadian prime minister Jean Chrétien drew thunderous applause on Friday during a fiery and patriotic speech in Gander, N.L, where many had gathered at a sports arena to commemorate the 25th an...

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If you enjoy some piece of media (a story, a song, an image), and then find out it was created with AI, is it reasonable to have your enjoyment impacted in retrospect? It sure is. John Gruber wrote on...

There’s a tribute album of Smashing Pumpkins covers that has some gems. Smashing Pumpkins were a formative band for me, and Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness will always be amon...

I have invented a new rule for swimming at the beach: When swimming at the beach, you can never be the furthest from the shore. Frequently asked questions (probably): Q: What if I’m swimming with a fr...

I must have made some good choices in my life, because I have a duck reserved for the harbour run rubber duck race more than a week ahead of Naufrage Harbour Day.

An expedition almost 400 metres below the surface of the Labrador Sea is revealing the first images of Quest, the sunken wreck of the ship that carried famed Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton o...

The most difficult position in soccer must be the goalkeeper’s parent.

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In this edition of the silverorange digest: Nathan from Manitoba A new CEO at EM:RAP The Pitt, season 2 Mozilla’s mail migration Carplay & Android Auto Recommended reading Nathan from Manitoba Af...

For a long time, front-end developers had a limited number of layout styling options. This resulted in some creative hacks around the existing browser features. The float property, in particular, was ...

Saying “I always review what the AI gives me and I don’t let it write for me” is the new “yes, dentist, I do floss every day.”

I was talking about sound design for user-interfaces with some colleagues today and remembered this gem. Back in 2004, I asked Brad Sucks to help with some sound design for the open-source instant mes...

My son is 10 years old and loves soccer. He received a novel for Christmas called The Academy by T.Z. Layton. When we started reading it together, I felt like someone had plugged directly into my son’...

The following is a retrospective account of working with team leads, project managers, and a client, on the most challenging technical refactor I have ever worked on. Though I write this as a develope...

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We have a saying in our house that’s about our approach to cooking bacon, but it applies in many different aspects of life: Cook the bacon until the fat turns to meat.

I don’t like writing, or thinking, about Donald Trump and everything is presidency represents. First of all, it’s gross. He’s awful. Second, the situation seems so obviously terrible that my comments ...

When we create simulations, we seem to simulate passive consumption rather than active participation. Two examples come to mind: Sports video games that simulate the TV viewer experience rather than t...

In our home we some times enjoy some prepared frozen breaded fish. A box usually comes with four pieces of fish. Occasionally, when the stars align, there are five pieces. When this happens, we celebr...

When you see video of a rocket launch, you hear them talk about “max q.” This is the point where the rocket is under the maximum amount of dynamic pressure from the atmosphere. As the rocket accelerat...

If you’re anything like me, when you can’t sleep and your phone is too nearby, you might find yourself going down a YouTube rabbit hole. Maybe it’s heart-warming surprise virtuoso performances at TV-s...

The further I get through life, the more I realize that most things in live can be seen as trade-offs. Some things are obviously trade-offs. Should you take that new job? On one hand, you’ll get bette...

A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

It doesn’t make any sense to make sweeping absolute statements about aesthetics. That said, no electric guitar should have gold hardware.

My MacBook Pro froze the other day. Like, really froze. The cursor didn’t move, the keyboard didn’t do anything, and even the haptic feedback that makes the touchpad feel like it “clicks” didn’t trigg...

Resumability is not a word, but it’s an important concept to me. When I say Resumability, I’m talking about the ability to quickly interrupt and later resume a task. The task doesn’t have to be produc...

Where I’m so fortunate to live, on Prince Edward Island, we have a Net-Metering system for electricity (see the legal act). My oversimplified explanation of PEI’s net-metering policy is: For any energ...

I have a pet peeve about people talking about the weather, particularly on the radio, which is where I hear most of my weather-talkin’. You’ll often here the weather-person express a kind of value jud...

In the world of CSS, there are two different types of spacing between elements: Margin is the space outside of an element Padding is the spacing inside of an element I’ve come to believe that schedule...

A typical approach to responsive web design is “mobile-first”. Get the essentials right for the smallest canvas and then work up to the desktop design. But how responsive is your design to user font s...