antibland

> …but I wasn’t able to scroll any further on the page

  * { 
    overflow: auto !important;
  }

Were you looking for work when FB approached you either time? If so, why would you take yourself out of the running given you’re (I’m assuming) an experienced developer?

On my iPhone SE (mobile Safari), elements are being truncated on the right side of the screen, meaning I can’t view all the data. I’m not near a laptop right now, but I wonder if you’re forgetting:

  * { box-sizing: border-box: }

Great work! I would add that you should turn off auto-capitalization for tablet/mobile devices, to preserve the shell aesthetic.

  <input type="text" autocapitalize="off />

I’m curious about the pool of Facebook users who seldom use the product, retaining it solely for groups and to keep in touch with family. Will this event loosen that final brick and drive these users to delete their accounts?

For custom CSS in Safari: Preferences => Advanced => Stylesheet dropdown

Large-scale seawater desalination.

> ...we’ve built programs that just dont talk to each other at all.

This really struck me, the idea that perhaps software mirrors the human experience. In the US, we've traded tribalism for individualism, open discussion for echo chambers, and the exchange of beliefs for the walled garden of one's personal vision.

"I don't care about online privacy because I have nothing to hide."

This persona's ethos is finally starting to show visible cracks.

It's sad how these valuable optimizations are unknown to the average person. When I hear "the browser" discussed in almost any parlance, the implication is Chrome. It's rare to even hear someone say "Chrome," as it's the defacto choice for the non-mobile web. Convenience breeds ignorance.

Why is this submission[0] flagged, yet this is not? Because of the word "black"?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23950661

Carousels are the type of UI pattern that is only okay if you ask for it. Amazon is a good example of a carousel done right. If I want to see the full-sized images which are part of a customer's product review, I click on the thumbnail representing these images, with the expectation that some larger, more obvious version of the images will be made available. Once a carousel appears in an overlay, it's not disturbing or annoying at all. It's there because I asked for it.

> AJAX is a new technique for creating better, faster, and more interactive web applications with the help of XML, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

AJAX first appeared in 1999 [0], when people still ate Olestra and used pagers.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming)

Tech shops keep asking for more and more, beneath the ever-widening "full stack" moniker, and we developers do our best to oblige them. But, clearly, critical decisions are being made (or not) by people who are inexperienced yet afraid to ask for help. Maybe it's time to hire more "I-shaped" developers, rather than an org full of shaky generalists.