I wrote a small custom component using Lit[1] for use on my personal blog[2]. It provides some clever logic around timestamps, showing them in the readers time zone and with their locale formatting. Should that fail, there's a fallback to just plain text. When working with shortened, relative, or whatever else timestamps, the full value is available, in iso 8601, as the title text. I've used them all over the site, and they work rather nicely

A funny story about developing them. I had a friend in India check them to see if they worked on his computer/browser combo, and for a short period of time I was incredibly frustrated at the screenshots he was sending back. They displayed nearly the exact same time as mine, but shifted by half an hour. After a bit of thought, I realized his locale formatting didn't use a meridian indicator, and his time zone was 12:30 different than mine, so 9pm was 9:30 in the morning for him

[1]: https://github.com/paradox460/pdx.su/blob/main/assets%2Fjs%2...

[2]: https://pdx.su

I used to have a fun novelty plate when I lived in California, but when it came time to get new ones, I went with the most boring, plain plate I could. With how many crazy assholes there are on the road these days, anything I can do to promote my own inconspicuousness is something I'll do. No bumper stickers, no cute plate frames, nothing. When I'm not carrying skis, the rack comes off

In a world where people scratch sports cars painting out of pure envy. It's hard to criticise someone trying to stay under the radar of the crazy.

Imagine them trying to sue every person on one side of a netsplit

...and back in my day (yeah I am becoming an old fart), it was dead simple to cause a netsplit on most networks.

I'll admit to sending a couple of the messages that made Linksys routers restart. I also set up automatic k-lines on Snoonet for these very strings, years ago

That's basically what phash does

Feels like the article started with a conclusion and worked backwards to fulfill it

Regardless of the reasons why, I'm glad. I cannot stand calibri. It's one of the ugliest fonts I've ever had to use, somehow looking uglier than even joke fonts like comic sans

After having stolen all their eyeballs?

In the land of the blind, the man with a I is king!

Oh that's not red, it's crimson

Orwell wrote 1984 after working at the BBC

Maybe they could add a filter which removes items from brands with gibberish titles. No, I don't want to buy something from zxutringly or qorduger or any similar nonsense

Define "gibberish title." It's harder than you think!

For example, there's a (Shenzhen-based, but well-established in the US market) 3D printer vendor called "Elegoo." Their name was (apparently...) chosen as an abbreviation of "Electronics with a Googol applications." Does your filter block them?

chinese speakers in particular have a hard time recognizing what kind of names make sense in the english language. mind you, we would have an equally hard time to come up with chinese names that don't sound weird to native speakers.