There's no sense in making sweeping absolute statements about aesthetics.
That said, no electric guitar should have gold hardware.
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That said, no electric guitar should have gold hardware.
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The Guitar Golden Rule
It doesn’t make any sense to make sweeping absolute statements about aesthetics. That said, no electric guitar should have gold hardware.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
There's no sense in making sweeping absolute statements about aesthetics.
That said, no electric guitar should have gold hardware.
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That said, no electric guitar should have gold hardware.
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My MacBook Pro froze the other day.
What surprised me most about this computer freeze was that I was surprised at all.
Sometimes it seems like everything is getting worse. In one small corner, stability on a typical computer, has gotten better.
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What surprised me most about this computer freeze was that I was surprised at all.
Sometimes it seems like everything is getting worse. In one small corner, stability on a typical computer, has gotten better.
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Computers are solid now
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...
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November 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
My MacBook Pro froze the other day.
What surprised me most about this computer freeze was that I was surprised at all.
Sometimes it seems like everything is getting worse. In one small corner, stability on a typical computer, has gotten better.
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What surprised me most about this computer freeze was that I was surprised at all.
Sometimes it seems like everything is getting worse. In one small corner, stability on a typical computer, has gotten better.
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Resumability
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...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Our generous net-metering system for surplus residential solar power has the unintended consequence of undercutting residential storage. actsofvolition.com/2025/11/unin...
Unintended consequences of net metering
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...
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November 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Our generous net-metering system for surplus residential solar power has the unintended consequence of undercutting residential storage. actsofvolition.com/2025/11/unin...
It turns out that if you start a stopwatch in the Clock app on macOS, it will keep counting through reboots and upgrades. As of today, my stopwatch has been running for over 1,000 days.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
It turns out that if you start a stopwatch in the Clock app on macOS, it will keep counting through reboots and upgrades. As of today, my stopwatch has been running for over 1,000 days.
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One of my co-workers is a contestant on MasterChef Canada this season, and one of our clients is a medical expert helping the writers of The Pitt keep it real. So, I'm fame-adjacent.
We've published a bit of a general news update from silverorange:
🎨 We’ve redesigned our own website
🏗️ Recent client work with Kindsight and EM:RAP
📺 Our brush with TV fame on The Pitt and MasterChef Canada
📚 A round up of articles we’ve published
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🎨 We’ve redesigned our own website
🏗️ Recent client work with Kindsight and EM:RAP
📺 Our brush with TV fame on The Pitt and MasterChef Canada
📚 A round up of articles we’ve published
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silverorange digest Fall 2025 Edition
In this edition of the silverorange digest: We’ve redesigned our own website Recent client work with Kindsight and EM:RAP Our brush with TV fame on The Pitt and MasterChef Canada A round up of article...
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October 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
One of my co-workers is a contestant on MasterChef Canada this season, and one of our clients is a medical expert helping the writers of The Pitt keep it real. So, I'm fame-adjacent.
Don’t value judge the weather! It’s is a path to sadness!
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Don’t prescribe values to the weather
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...
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October 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Don’t value judge the weather! It’s is a path to sadness!
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This would be very helpful. 👍
October 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
This would be very helpful. 👍
Meetings need margins. Otherwise, they're going to end up with padding. actsofvolition.com/2025/10/meet...
Meetings need margins
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...
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October 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Meetings need margins. Otherwise, they're going to end up with padding. actsofvolition.com/2025/10/meet...
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Responsive web design is about more than screen width. Our lead front-end developer Maureen wrote about how internationally-aware fonts, support for dark mode, and accommodations for color and motion preferences are all part of being responsive to people's needs: www.silverorange.com/blog/what-do...
What does it mean to be responsive?
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...
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September 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Responsive web design is about more than screen width. Our lead front-end developer Maureen wrote about how internationally-aware fonts, support for dark mode, and accommodations for color and motion preferences are all part of being responsive to people's needs: www.silverorange.com/blog/what-do...
We all know that if you have a truck, you have a social responsibility to help friends and family move stuff. It’s in the Bible.
Now, if you have a working printer, you have a social responsibility to help friends and family print stuff. I humbly accept.
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Now, if you have a working printer, you have a social responsibility to help friends and family print stuff. I humbly accept.
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Printers are the new trucks
Everyone knows that if you have a truck, you have a social responsibility to help your friends and family move stuff. It’s in the Bible. Now, if you have a working printer, you have a social responsib...
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September 23, 2025 at 11:55 PM
We all know that if you have a truck, you have a social responsibility to help friends and family move stuff. It’s in the Bible.
Now, if you have a working printer, you have a social responsibility to help friends and family print stuff. I humbly accept.
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Now, if you have a working printer, you have a social responsibility to help friends and family print stuff. I humbly accept.
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The Heavyweight podcast (née Wiretap) is back after being lost in the shuffle of Spotify acquiring Gimlet Media. www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/hea...
I loved the show back when it was Wiretap on CBC Radio. In the latest episode, Gregor is back. I love Gregor.
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I loved the show back when it was Wiretap on CBC Radio. In the latest episode, Gregor is back. I love Gregor.
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Heavyweight - Jonathan Goldstein Podcast - Pushkin
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September 22, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The Heavyweight podcast (née Wiretap) is back after being lost in the shuffle of Spotify acquiring Gimlet Media. www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/hea...
I loved the show back when it was Wiretap on CBC Radio. In the latest episode, Gregor is back. I love Gregor.
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I loved the show back when it was Wiretap on CBC Radio. In the latest episode, Gregor is back. I love Gregor.
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I work hard at my job, but nothing can compare to how hard I will work on redirecting a stream at the beach. I will dig in the hot sun until my hands are blistered. actsofvolition.com/2025/09/digg...
September 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I work hard at my job, but nothing can compare to how hard I will work on redirecting a stream at the beach. I will dig in the hot sun until my hands are blistered. actsofvolition.com/2025/09/digg...
The second day of school is harder than the first.
The first day of school each fall is challenging. There’s some excitement, but also some dread and anxiety.
The second day, you no longer have the novelty or excitement, and you’re exhausted from the day before.
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The first day of school each fall is challenging. There’s some excitement, but also some dread and anxiety.
The second day, you no longer have the novelty or excitement, and you’re exhausted from the day before.
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The second day of school is harder than the first
The first day of school each fall is challenging. There’s some excitement, but also some dread and anxiety. The second day, you no longer have the novelty or excitement, and you’re exhausted from gett...
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September 5, 2025 at 11:49 AM
The second day of school is harder than the first.
The first day of school each fall is challenging. There’s some excitement, but also some dread and anxiety.
The second day, you no longer have the novelty or excitement, and you’re exhausted from the day before.
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The first day of school each fall is challenging. There’s some excitement, but also some dread and anxiety.
The second day, you no longer have the novelty or excitement, and you’re exhausted from the day before.
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YouTube is showing me an ad with an obviously (to me) fake video of Canadian PM Mark Carney asking people to sign up for some AI program.
As soon as they accept a penny from advertiser, they take on the complete burden of filtering out (at least obvious) scams.
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As soon as they accept a penny from advertiser, they take on the complete burden of filtering out (at least obvious) scams.
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YouTube is making money on scams
This week YouTube started showing me an ad with an obviously (to me) fake video of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney asking people to sign up for some AI program. The link points to a form hosted on...
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September 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
YouTube is showing me an ad with an obviously (to me) fake video of Canadian PM Mark Carney asking people to sign up for some AI program.
As soon as they accept a penny from advertiser, they take on the complete burden of filtering out (at least obvious) scams.
actsofvolition.com/2025/09/yout...
As soon as they accept a penny from advertiser, they take on the complete burden of filtering out (at least obvious) scams.
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Ryan Kay, a developer on our app team focused on Android and backend development, shares his Law of Suitability, and how it can help you identify the best water bottle, programming language, or development framework.
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How to Choose the Best Programming Languages, Libraries, and Patterns
In my first few years learning software development and building applications, I was quite interested in finding the best programming language, platform, libraries, frameworks, patterns, and architect...
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August 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Ryan Kay, a developer on our app team focused on Android and backend development, shares his Law of Suitability, and how it can help you identify the best water bottle, programming language, or development framework.
www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-...
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Did you know there was a super-group from 2009 with:
🎤 Taylor from Hanson (the MMMbop dudes!)
🎸 James Iha of the Smashing Pumpkins
🔊 Adam Schlesinger (RIP) of Fountains of Wayne
🥁 Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick
Tinted Windows: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjTS...
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🎤 Taylor from Hanson (the MMMbop dudes!)
🎸 James Iha of the Smashing Pumpkins
🔊 Adam Schlesinger (RIP) of Fountains of Wayne
🥁 Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick
Tinted Windows: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjTS...
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Tinted Windows - Kind Of A Girl
YouTube video by TintedWindowsVEVO
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August 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Did you know there was a super-group from 2009 with:
🎤 Taylor from Hanson (the MMMbop dudes!)
🎸 James Iha of the Smashing Pumpkins
🔊 Adam Schlesinger (RIP) of Fountains of Wayne
🥁 Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick
Tinted Windows: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjTS...
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🎤 Taylor from Hanson (the MMMbop dudes!)
🎸 James Iha of the Smashing Pumpkins
🔊 Adam Schlesinger (RIP) of Fountains of Wayne
🥁 Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick
Tinted Windows: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjTS...
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Did you know that Annotations in Figma are not accessible to people with free accounts? Instead, you need to have a paid account with Dev Mode access.
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July 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Did you know that Annotations in Figma are not accessible to people with free accounts? Instead, you need to have a paid account with Dev Mode access.
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I feel that this six second clip of Jason Schwartzman reacting to someone taking too long a drink of orange juice in the movie Mountainhead will come in handy.
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July 19, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I feel that this six second clip of Jason Schwartzman reacting to someone taking too long a drink of orange juice in the movie Mountainhead will come in handy.
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Google Slides has joined the right side of a divisive topic. Google Slides now how has the de facto standard move keyboard behaviour (small increments by default, SHIFT for larger increments) after being an outlier for years.
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Our long Google Slides keyboard nudging nightmare is over!
You know how in many design apps you can select an object and move it with the keyboard arrow keys? Often, if you hold SHIFT while using the arrow keys, the object will move at larger increments. Unti...
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July 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Google Slides has joined the right side of a divisive topic. Google Slides now how has the de facto standard move keyboard behaviour (small increments by default, SHIFT for larger increments) after being an outlier for years.
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The greatest risk to your company is falls.
Your company is made up of people. People are made up of sticks and meat. When we fall down, we break. Be careful out there.
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Your company is made up of people. People are made up of sticks and meat. When we fall down, we break. Be careful out there.
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On Falls
As a self-declared upper-middle manager at a technology & design company, I have a mantra that I repeat slightly more often than is appropriate: The greatest risk to our company is falls. It’s not mar...
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June 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The greatest risk to your company is falls.
Your company is made up of people. People are made up of sticks and meat. When we fall down, we break. Be careful out there.
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Your company is made up of people. People are made up of sticks and meat. When we fall down, we break. Be careful out there.
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My shower-thought today: ChatGPT can write a book for you, but it can’t make you a person who wrote a book.
Caveat: I have neither had ChatGPT write a book for me, nor have I written a book.
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Caveat: I have neither had ChatGPT write a book for me, nor have I written a book.
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ChatGPT in the shower
My shower-thought today: ChatGPT can write a book for you, but it can’t make you a person who wrote a book. Caveat: I have neither had ChatGPT write a book for me, nor have I written a book.
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June 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
My shower-thought today: ChatGPT can write a book for you, but it can’t make you a person who wrote a book.
Caveat: I have neither had ChatGPT write a book for me, nor have I written a book.
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Caveat: I have neither had ChatGPT write a book for me, nor have I written a book.
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It also drove by my house. I know this isn't house it works, but I really wanted to go outside and look for it...
Hey, @neal.fun's delightful crowd-driven neal.fun/internet-roadtrip drove by the silverorange offices on Prince Edward Island! 👋
June 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
It also drove by my house. I know this isn't house it works, but I really wanted to go outside and look for it...
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Maximum Raisin Bran
If you’re still eating Kellogg’s Raisin Bran, you are a fool. Using Kellogg’s own metric for the value of a raisin-and-bran cereal (the amount of raisins) there is a vastly superior option. The Compli...
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June 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Thanks @wilwheaton.net for helping get a double-word-score in the "TV Stars" category in Scattergories last night.
May 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Thanks @wilwheaton.net for helping get a double-word-score in the "TV Stars" category in Scattergories last night.