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I've got decades of hyperfixations ready to go
Do you want to ask me about owl facts?!
Which owl is best?
There are basically two schools of thought...
False! Black bear! Wait... Black owl!
Owlbear!
Bugbear?
Manbearpig
Okay, so
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DSLR photography, CSS, obscure games from long gone times (Nox, Ultima Online, Railroad Tycoon 2). I have savant level of knowledge in these categories. Only one of those allows me to be alive, as in, I work and earn salary because of it. I practically lock up with anything that is of low interest to me.
The historic evolution of the best practice of centering a div, please!
okay, so back in the dark ages, in html3 there wasn’t true horizontal centering. there was a tag that would horizontally center content you enclose in that, but it would not really work for vertical centering, and I’m fairly certain that’s the one you care about. That’s truly goofy. Then html4 came and tables came and that’s when css1 and css2 came out. I believe that was early to mid 90s. With tables, came the table hack where you used valign. Funny thing, this shit is still valid and works and it is used daily. If you receive any newsletters, and they have fancy images, background color, buttons - that is built on the table hack.
Then, the silly hacks got introduced. Backbone.js, underscore.js - these were a must just so a page can work with all the crap people were doing. That’s why… instead of fixing underlying problems of web development, more hacks got introduced. The worst one was the transform hack. You absolutely positioned the element and then used transform to 50% so that made sure that, on a fixed height container, it’ll be centered. You obviously had to plan for the content height itself, etc - hence why it’s the worst one. I hated that one.
I believe the immense pain of doing the transform hack was the reason why finally flex and flexbox were introduced. I have not looked back since.
The newest one is literally telling css “yep, this container is a grid, center the items” and it’s done. Junior UI engineers will never know the pain. Good.
You were fair dinkum. 🤜🏻🤛🏻
I had to search the meaning of that. I haven’t spoken to anyone from Australia. Or New Zealand? If it’s Australia, some of my favourite insects live there.
Christmas Beetle, Cotton Harlequin Bug and the Blue Banded Bee, for anyone caring.
When I typed 'CSS' into google to get the details on how to use it, 'grid' was the first suggestion. 😁
Like Avalon Hill games? Wooden Ships and Iron Men and that stuff?
No, sorry, don’t think these reached my geographical location
I wish I had superfixation like this, everything slips through me except for boring, low math.
you don’t wish for that. It has damaged most of my life in a dumb way.
I see, but my life is pretty much destroyed anyway. I have hyperfixation, but only in my job, so I am basically one of the most boring person in the world.
do what you love. someone out there will find you the most interesting person on the world. it doesn’t matter if you are neurodivergent or neurotypical, longing for companionship is a human trait. There are activities that are considered “cool” because of a trend or because influencers or celebrities or it is being shoved in your face as the newest health craze.
Do what you love. the person that matters will see you. I’d rather be alone, than with people who like me only because I do the thing they like.
Dark Age of Camelot
Is it DSLR photography?
No. I don’t like crowds. Only high paying work there is wedding & events photographer. I like macro photography of flowers, plants and bugs. They are cool.
Played the shit outta nox back in the day!
I play UO on private shards every year and a half. Always lots of fun. And the last few years, lots of cool custom shards popped up
And here I was thinking I was the only one making a living by playing Railroad Tycoon 2.
In all seriousness, I will listen to DSLR photography information all day long.