Most likely, the insurance company handles the actually insurance policies, claims, payouts, etc themselves, but uses a contractor to build their website, user portals, etc.

GitHub did an incredibly good job of capturing mindspace around git, to the extent that many users don’t realize that there is any distinction between the tool and the hosting platform.

I’m not sure if this is a large scale thing, but I know it’s definitely true for myself and some others.

My first exposure to Git and GitHub was through GitHub Pages. I was told to use the GitHub web editor, ignore all the ‘git’ stuff, and just write the HTML files there. Then I grew into using GitHub desktop and later VSCode’s git integration. At no point did I have to use ‘git’ on the command line so I didn’t really understand what the tool did or why. I think many people simply don’t see git without GitHub. Some even see GitHub without touching git eg. see the infamous ‘I am new to GitHub and I have lots to say’ post https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/1at9br4/i_am_new_to...

Please reduce the aggregation of map markers. It's not helpful to group every mine in southwest US in a single point in California that makes it look like they are none in any other state. I see this all the time on maps and it's really frustrating. Aggregate markers are helpful when the individual points are actually overlapping on the map, otherwise they obscure location data.

Agreed. Huge annoyance when looking for routes on MountainProject as one example.

True. Clustering on a map is usually a sign that a map was setup by someone that doesn't use it or has no interest in the data.

Strong disagree — aggregate markers were super useful when browsing the map on mobile! Maybe need to add a flag for mobile vs. desktop, but the experience would be a lot worse on mobile without them.

I tried it on mobile. The clustering reduces it to 6 points for all of North America. My phone has over 3 million pixels, surely there’s room for more detail than that.

Strong disagree. Zoom in and the clusters break up. Without the clustering, the map is a total mess when zoomed out.

There’s a place for clustering but it doesn’t need to be so aggressive

The Preview app in macOS includes a nice signature tool. You can create a signature using the touchpad or digitize a written signature using a webcam

https://support.apple.com/guide/preview/fill-out-and-sign-pd...

I wish Preview had a better way to import signatures. I was messing around one day and made one I really liked with Apple Notes on the iPad. It looks like I eventually got it in Preview, but it doesn't look as clean as it did in Notes.

I think I ended up printing it out and holding it up to my webcam, but it wasn't easy. I remember fighting with it a fair bit and I'm still not happy with the results. You'd think Apple Notes and Preview would be able to talk to each other enough to import directly.

Presumedly they meant when Spain was an absolute monarchy, instead of a constitutional monarch

This looks interesting but I’m struggling to find any examples of what this actually entails/produces/looks like. Most of the guides are about setting up your environment, checking out code, etc.

So I've actually built patterns using their system. Basically you define a layout using JS and defining a series of points and offsets and lines. You can refer to variables such as body measurements or other dimensions for bags. https://freesewing.eu/ is their more "consumer" facing site where you can enter your measurements and then download sewing patterns sized for you specifically.

One of the other nice things they do as part of the pattern design process is testing the pattern makes sense at many "scales" and so you can actually define a "body" the size of a doll and use this for defining dolls clothing, or make really size inclusive clothing, there are members of the community with varying disabilities such as forms of dwarfism who otherwise struggle to find appropriately sized clothes.

You should provide some sort of default preview with a generic task to help entice the user to make their own.

NB use reader mode on mobile Safari, otherwise the tables are illegible

Desktop site on Chrome mobile

Bottom line:

> In our study, no evidence was found for a protective effect of the most common UK safer gambling message.

What surprised me most was the messaging seems to suggest people actually gambled more..

> Participants who saw the “when the fun stops, stop” message were 6% more likely to gamble all of their money, if they gambled at all, compared with participants who were not shown this message

At least that how i ready that part.

The image links seem to all be broken but you can see some high-res maps in the video starting around 1m10s

Yeah that's really sad, I really want to see some of those, especially with drawing stations. I hope it get fixed :) And a nice read btw!