It looks to me like the big benefit is being able to use just one hand for this. I'd be more likely to use the watch, too, but this would be great for people with one arm, for example.
For anyone looking to use this, I recommend using this CSS before the closing body tag. It disables the fade effect for visitors who prefer reduced motion, and the old page fades out while the new one fades in. (I've got an optional rule that keeps my header in place while the rest of the content fades out/in)
I had a Pebble Time Round, too, and it was great. For me the Pebble hit a sweet spot for a smart-enough watch that allowed me to keep my phone in my pocket. I could get notifications and reply to them right from the watch. I have a Withings SteelHR now, and it's great as a watch + activity tracker, but not being able to dictate replies to the notifications I get means I reach for my phone more now than I did with my Pebble
This post might have some hot takes and I'm no expert, but over the past decade I've found these rules of thumb to be helpful when reviewing and writing user stories.
If you have some other tips, I'd be happy to hear them!
It is something that distinguishes them, certainly. As someone who switched from using Vue to React at my day job, dev tooling & editor support have been the things that stand out the most to me. React works well with Vite, which has helped make it easier to use, and I've been migrating projects away from Webpack + Jest to Vite + Vitest, which saves a lot of dependency maintenance. I definitely miss Vue 3's VS Code extension when I work in React, though.
Generally I'll write a post when I try to do something that's difficult to find an example of online. I don't get a _ton_ of traffic, but writing prose is a nice change from writing code.
For people not familiar with Canadian politics, this summary missed some important nuance. Bank accounts were frozen for some people who donated money to support an illegal occupation of part of Canada's capital city, Ottawa. The occupation was a mix of people protesting COVID measures and others demanding that Justin Trudeau resign.
Yes, the people with power to declare stuff illegal can always say that whatever you’re doing is illegal before freezing your bank account. Was your comment meant to reassure me?
It wasn't, no. It was meant to clarify for other readers that people didn't have their bank accounts frozen for protesting COVID; they had their bank accounts frozen for financially supporting or participating in an illegal occupation of a city centre.
Your point stands that governments/courts decide what is illegal and that they have the power to freeze bank accounts when those accounts are used to fund illegal activities.
This is one of those 'it's ok when we do it' scenarios. Where its okay when occupy wallstreet, Antifa or another leftist cause occupy somewhere 'illegally', but not those damn truckers.
> Bank accounts were frozen for some people who donated money to support an illegal occupation of part of Canada's capital city, Ottawa. The occupation was a mix of people protesting COVID measures and others demanding that Justin Trudeau resign.
There's certainly ... nuance you're taking for granted in declaring a mix of political protest and political protest illegal.
We're getting pretty off topic, but it wasn't what they were protesting that was illegal, it was how they did it. For a US comparison, First Amendment rights don't include a right to occupy city streets for weeks, even if you're doing it to protest the government.
What they did was illegal, therefore it’s totally justified for the state to bypass the existing justice system and just ask the banks to them shut down, right?
> For a US comparison, First Amendment rights don't include a right to occupy city streets for weeks, even if you're doing it to protest the government.
That’s interesting to hear, because a group of political activist have occupied a couple of city blocks in my city for a couple of weeks, declared independence, intimidated and harassed residents and businesses, and murdered a bunch of people there, but nobody has ever been arrested or prosecuted for any of that (including murders). Maybe the Canadians have heard the story of CHAZ and thought they their government will also be as lenient. Turns out that they were very wrong.
>Bank accounts were frozen for some people who donated money to support an illegal occupation of part of Canada's capital city, Ottawa.
Were they a designated criminal group at the time of donation? It seems strange to go after the donors rather than freezing the bank accounts of the recipients. The way I see it, there are only two possibilities:
1. the groups in question were declared criminal organizations, and therefore their bank accounts should be frozen and future donations should be blocked/banned
2. the groups in question weren't declared criminal organizations, and therefore it should be okay to donate to them.
>1. the groups in question were declared criminal organizations, and therefore their bank accounts should be frozen and future donations should be blocked/banned
Should criminals be denied all access to the financial system?
Even if the criminal is not receiving money for criminal cause?
they do, but that right also comes with responsibility, which by virtue of them committing a crime, they have to answer for. If they escape the authorities, freezing their financial accounts is not completely out of the ordinary, and forces them to confront the authorities.
So yes, they have the right to buy food, but also the obligation to answer for their crimes in an open court. Can't have one without the other.
Please read the article and avoid the spread of more misinformation. Donor names were NOT provided by the RCMP. The frozen accounts were holding funds that were donated:
> In a statement released Monday, the RCMP said it only provided banks with the names of convoy organizers and the owners of trucks who had refused to leave the protest area. The RCMP said it did not release an exhaustive list of every donation made.
> "At no time did we provide a list of donors to financial institutions," the statement said.
The only reports of accounts being indiscriminately frozen came from hearsay:
> Some Conservative MPs have said constituents have reported that their bank accounts were frozen after they made donations to the convoy protest through one of its crowdfunding campaigns.
Most of the reports were fictitious constituents that "lost bank account access to buy groceries". Nobody was able to independently confirm any of these claims.
I'm over a decade into web development, and I still reference it every week. Last week I thought I should start a blog post about how, for me, it's the single best resource on the web. I sure hope it stays that way!
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