David Calam

Word geek, gadget nerd. He/him. 💉💉💉💉💉💉

[David Calam @calam]

@merylkevans This is fantastic. Thank you.

When you say to avoid all caps, do you mean for dialogue or in all cases? I often see non-dialogue elements in caps:

DOOR SLAMS
(SPEAKING FRENCH)

Is this poor practice? Is it better to set them off with brackets for readability?

[Dog barks]

[David Calam @calam]

@Tantacrul I use continuous vertical in MuseScore.

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@IwanThomas20 @qikipedia The implication is that most projects take 80% longer than initially planned.

90% of the way through it looks like everything is on track. Then you realize you are only halfway there.

[David Calam @calam]

@thisisrobbo I was still in high school when that came out. Where did the last 3 decades go?

[David Calam @calam]

As someone who remembers when the homepage was a scrolling feed of realtime posts, user profiles were numbered and you could post with an SMS gateway, I'm not sure I'm ready for Twitter to disappear.

But if it does, you can find me over at @[email protected].

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

Population per capita

By @JakubMarian

[David Calam @calam]

@SKGovHwyHotline @SaskHealth Please reconsider your color scheme with an eye toward accessibility. Roads are black on a charcoal background. Alerts are dark gray on rust. And to close the pop-up, you have to hit the tiny X rather than anywhere outside the box or even the button that opened it.

[David Calam @calam]

@arstropica @timtweedale @Komaniecki_R Same. I use Smartscore to scan and a quick clean up and then straight into MuseScore for editing.

[David Calam @calam]

@SaraSoueidan I'm really looking forward to this! Is there an estimated launch date? I'm trying to plan my training budget for this year and next.

[David Calam @calam]

@qikipedia The ski jump in the opening of The Spy Who Loved Me was off another cliff in the same range: Mount Asgard. It is the second longest drop in the world.

[David Calam @calam]

@gizmoBikes @TonyNelson7 @SimonCuckoo @jonathansc @FryRsquared That's a metric cup. A US cup is 237 ml, a US legal cup is 240 ml and an imperial cup is 284 ml.

Somebody make it make sense!

[David Calam @calam]

@css Ignore legacy browsers

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@html5test Yes, but you will lose some camera features.

https://t.co/Xhbh0S9f79

[David Calam @calam]

@child_nick @TimHarford On average, people have less than 2 arms.

[David Calam @calam]

@sherryanna And we've averaged over a quarter million a day since vaccines became available.

[David Calam @calam]

@sherryanna Here it is. And at 89,000 participants, it's far bigger than any other protests happening today. https://t.co/jzpjyn2gRe

[Marieke Walsh @MariekeWalsh]

The police haven’t yet released crowd estimates for the protests but COVID-19 Tracker Canada says more than 89,000 people got their shots yesterday and the rolling daily average of people sticking their arms out to get their shots is more than 260,000 https://t.co/myJk0pElwg

[David Calam @calam]

@jana_pruden So satisfying! Hours to build and moments to undo.

[David Calam @calam]

It's how I learned HTML. Almost two decades later, I regularly dive into View Source and am often disappointed by code like this.

[Lea Verou, PhD @LeaVerou]

I’m old enough to remember when viewing source would actually teach us something about how the website was built… 😞
I suppose the Web is still more transparent than the completely opaque UIs of native apps, but seeing this kind of gibberish when I open devtools makes me sad. 😢

[almond taylor-joy @grnpointer]

The House of Faberge made 52 "Imperial" eggs as Easter gifts for Tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II to give to their wives and moms. 46 of these survive. I will rank all 46 Imperial Faberge eggs.

[David Calam @calam]

@lpkayesk @gqinsk Hopefully by December the policy will change and they'll make boosters available for 60+.

[David Calam @calam]

@lpkayesk @gqinsk 65 vs 60 is moot. Second dose eligibility for 65-year-olds started on June 2, so that group won't be at 6 months until December.