Gierratio
On The Fuel Efficiency of Launching My Enemies Into The Sun
Launching your enemies into the sun is simple with the one easy trick rocket scientists don't want you to know about!
When snark and nerdiness collide, the results are often delightful, and this post is no exception.
Calculating the delta-v needed to launch someone into the sun is easier mathematically but tougher conceptually because it actually requires the counterintuitive approach of firing your rockets retrograde until your orbital velocity becomes zero. Since your velocity is now zero, the sun is going to pull you straight down until you become a toasty, concerningly fleshy [sic] marshmellow.
In the last 20 years of my life, I’ve slowly devolved into a concerningly fleshy marshmallow with very little aid from gravity.
What a fun post.
These Steam Deck price hikes are making me worried that the Steam Frame is going to cost a hojillion dollars.
Cross-Domain API Access: Beyond the "Obvious" Shortcuts
Another Royal KMG appears in the sheriff's office of Crockett Country with the Sheriff portrayed by well known character actor Andy Devine.
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Andy Devine as the old sheriff with bushy gray eyebrows and a reddish face is on a black rotary desk phone in his office as a closely cropped deputy sits behind him at a desk where we see the left side of a gray Royal KMG typewriter in the background.[/caption]
Of tangential note, comedian and writer Carl Reiner, who portrays the tower controller at Rancho Conejo at which Mickey Rooney and Buddy Hackett attempt to land their airplane, is known to have have used a Royal KMG, though one doesn't appear in any of his scenes in the air traffic control tower.
I’m working on a new search feature in indiebookclub which uses Open Library and supports cover images. It has me tinkering with the UI of the posting form and I’m interested in feedback about this first pass.
My first thought was to display the selected book information in a more compact, read-only block at the top of the form so you only have to select the status (want to read, currently reading, finished reading), then optionally add tags and other choices if you are using Micropub.
However, I still want to give people the option to update the book information before they post, so I was considering a button that would change the book information into editable fields. I experimented with various options and did not come up with anything I loved. I am now leaning towards always showing the fields with the populated values. Keep it simple.
Screenshot 1: on larger screens
Screenshot 2: on smaller screens
I did make the form more compact overall: less padding inside the form fields, less vertical space between them, and a horizontal layout on larger screens (using this WCAG technique). I also moved the timezone offset field out of a collapsed details element.
For comparison, below is a screenshot of the form as it exists. There are still a few parts of it that need to be put into my mockups, like choosing ISBN or DOI.
Screenshot 3: the posting form as it appears currently, for comparison
There will still be an option to use this form without searching Open Library, so if you are using a bookmarklet or prefer to type in all the fields, that will continue to work.
I look forward to any feedback or questions!
