Good reminder that today’s Microsoft is a far cry from the Microsoft 10 years ago - which was all about closed source for decades

There is certain irony of closed source developer tools becoming incredibly popular they are built on top of an open source tool created by… Microsoft

I am of course talking about Cursor / Windsurf and others on top of VS Code!

How things have changed with open source!

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✨ In my upcoming animations course, we build an intuition for Bézier curves with a mini-game: your job is to get your green ball to have the same easing as the pink ball, by dragging and adjusting the curve:

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Did you know you can center both vertically and horizontally in CSS now, without Flexbox or Grid?

Throw this on your block level element, and it works:

align-content: center;
justify-items: center;

And my trick to remembering it's those properties? It's the ones I never use normally 😆

Extremism researchers:

Do you think Facebook's disinformation features have ever approached anything *close* to 90% effectiveness in limiting the spread of disinfo on the platform, at any point in Meta's history?

This is Biden’s legacy and on the conscience of every Democrat who didn’t speak out. If Trump does get a ceasefire by applying the slightest bit of pressure on Israel it will be a deserved final humiliation for Biden and his team.

In 55 days, this building will become the epicenter of corruption on our planet.