Opening Wordle today on my phone to find it has lost my history and settings.

I might have mentioned this before, as it's certainly annoyed me before, but some twit seems to find it funny to honk his(?) horn every time he drives past my place. I have no idea who it is, I have no idea why, and I have no idea whether it's aimed at one of the neighbours, but when I'm working from home and 'in the zone' doing software development it's really jarring and destroys productivity for several minutes.

First small thing - the way that the browser/keyboard on my phone adds a space to the end of email addresses when entering them in web page forms.  So you fill in a form and get a "you need to enter a valid email address" error and then have to check all the email fields for trailing spaces.

Second small thing - that web page authors aren't smart enough to add functionality to strip any trailing spaces from email address and other fields before validating the data.

Jase2985:

 

Yep but my wifes work has had dozens of cars that have been flooded because the storm water system couldn't handle the amount. while rain is almost never bad, the share amount that has fallen is the problem.

 

Niwa recorded the "second-wettest hour" in Auckland between 8am and 9am, with 76.8mm of rainfall.

 

But this is after months of almost no rain.  Storm water drains would have been full of leaves and junk.

blackjack17:

 

Jase2985:

 

Yep but my wifes work has had dozens of cars that have been flooded because the storm water system couldn't handle the amount. while rain is almost never bad, the share amount that has fallen is the problem.

 

Niwa recorded the "second-wettest hour" in Auckland between 8am and 9am, with 76.8mm of rainfall.

 

 

But this is after months of almost no rain.  Storm water drains would have been full of leaves and junk.

 

so? read the second paragraph, second wettest hour. would likely have happened anyways

blackjack17:

But this is after months of almost no rain.  Storm water drains would have been full of leaves and junk.

shk292:

First small thing - the way that the browser/keyboard on my phone adds a space to the end of email addresses when entering them in web page forms.  So you fill in a form and get a "you need to enter a valid email address" error and then have to check all the email fields for trailing spaces.

It's not just email addresses it's pretty much everything, names, labels, postal addresses, everything you enter on a form gets a spurious space added to the end by the soft keyboard - try typing a dotted url for a particularly annoying example. The killer is that a large amount of software then treats it as significant rather than silently stripping it.

Exactly, but given that spaces are never significant or allowed in email addresses or URLs, surely it should be web design 101 for any field asking for these to strip off spaces before validating and parsing them.  I'm surprised it's not part of any standard template to be honest, although given it only happens on a limited number of websites (looking at you, Westpac) maybe most sites do this.

Talking of website design, I remember in the early days an enthusiastic amateur at my place of work (UK MOD) built a homepage and wanted a purple background.  The solution chosen was a large all-purple .bmp file as a picture background.  Needless to say this loaded very slowly.

shk292: Talking of website design, I remember in the early days an enthusiastic amateur at my place of work (UK MOD) built a homepage and wanted a purple background.  The solution chosen was a large all-purple .bmp file as a picture background.  Needless to say this loaded very slowly.

 

PTSD from Telecom X-Ville...

 

1. Hmm, my spelling seems really good today
2. [Far too much time later ...]
3. Nope, Edge has just turned spell-check off for some reason.

Realising a few months later that all of the "great, new" features of IOS 15 were at the cost of one well used feature - access to Significant Locations

Of course, Apple will never publish a list of removed features; you just need to install it and find out what's missing. MacOS 12 has removed the "show volume in menu bar" feature that's been there since the PowerPC days.

Aw --- I don't believe it here we ----ing go again!

neb: In regards to the rain, in the immortal words of Rodney Rude as given in his charming little ditty about telephones:

Aw --- I don't believe it here we ----ing go again!

(Blue skies to thunderous downpour in the space of a few minutes).

Hoyts offering me a VIP membership for $10, which gives me 10% off food and drink. Which is fine until you realize that after that discount they are still 30-40% more expensive for popcorn and drink than the other two big chains. It's bordering on theft to charge that for popcorn.