> Gijsbert van der Wal’s famous 2014 photograph of Dutch teenagers ignoring a Rembrandt masterpiece in favor of staring at their phones has become for many psychologists, social theorists, and concerned ordinary folks a portrait of our current Age of Digital Addiction in a nutshell.
While a great photo, to me it looks like the kids are just doing some kind of school / field trip assignment.
It could be anything, but it resonates with people for a very good reason. Many people feel the negatives of technology and social media and miss the time before it. I know how sentiment will skew here, and I know it's easy to take for granted the advantages of having a fully capable pocket computer. But I also understand what we have given up for it.
Sure, again, there is a reason these things resonate with people. They aren't mad that people aren't communicating with each other. They are reflecting on their own smartphone consumption and feeling that it had substantial negative effects. Something virtually no people feel about newspapers
Every generation that had that big new thing had an enormous group claiming it was terrible and would destroy everything. Smartphones are worse because corporations are allowed to be more evil while receiving more praise (and in that axis everything is worse). Don't scapegoat the platform here. If all we had was newspapers today they'd fuck you in very similar ways. Some executive would make sure of it.
> Every generation that had that big new thing had an enormous group claiming it was terrible and would destroy everything.
Isn't it possible that they all did have negative consequences (as well as positive ones) and we're just now reaching the tipping point?
Like surely movies are less cognitively stimulating and make one less learned than only reading books. But it didn't hinder us to the point where people are frustrated like they are now with phones and social media and slop feeds, etc.
I like the idea! The different scratch pads are cool. But I'm always a bit worried with localStorage of losing my work, is that a fair concern?
If you're looking for feedback, you could consider:
- Host the javascript and fonts yourself, only downsides (privacy, slower) in using a CDN. Ko-fi, Google fonts, Google analytics, Cloudflare, Bootstrapcdn, Numoh -- are all these entities required for note taking?
- Excessive user analytics: Google Analytics is not configured for privacy. Also another Numoh Analytics, but that seems disabled at the moment?
- A pretty writing experience helps me stay in a flow. Nothing wrong with Arial 16px #000, but not inviting either. There is still a lot to win from a typography perspective.
- The saving to .txt is nice, but I'd want a plain text (or markdown) version, no html. Also would be nice if the filename was optimized (scratchpad + timestamp).
- Instead of all CSS inline, it might prevent the flash of a white-screen if the styling was saved/cached in css file, or the prefers-color-scheme tag.
- You've added an <h1> tag but styled it with a font-size smaller than your body text, this makes it lose it semantics (i.e. also no SEO/UX value).
> A Note On Web Applications Added to the Home Screen
> As mentioned, the seven-day cap on script-writable storage is gated on “after seven days of Safari use without user interaction on the site.” That is the case in Safari. Web applications added to the home screen are not part of Safari and thus have their own counter of days of use. Their days of use will match actual use of the web application which resets the timer. We do not expect the first-party in such a web application to have its website data deleted.
I'm glad to know that this isn't [entirely] destroying the concept of webpages acting in an app-like manner. At least this gives the developer and user some ability to give permission for actually persistent storage.
Thanks for your feedback, which font do you think would suit better? Also the point to launching noteux was not to compete with full fledge note taking apps but to quickly jot down something instead of thinking about which directory / note to create. I will keep on improving with the community's suggestions.
Can someone elaborate on what this means? Has Mozilla completely abandoned the "privacy" focus? I.e. should I stop recommending the browser and find an alternative? Deleting sentences like "We never sell your data" is for a long-time fan of the browser very alarming. But frankly I'm confused by the PR/blogs and can't tell from the privacy policy if/how it now allows selling my data.
Having served on a parish council there can certainly be a technology challenge for some.
There are services which will do the work - https://cuttlefish.com/local-councils/ - https://www.parishcouncil.net - are two of many. These have their drawbacks, may not provide exportable data so locking the council in. Some will allow direct access, some require that any new content be sent to them and they upload it.
Some councils will own their domain name, some will not. Then there is the email issue and many will use a gmail / hotmail address.
Cost, especially these days, is also a factor.
I don't see it as a bad thing to have so much variety though.
One thing that British local government definitely is NOT, is consistent. 500 years of continuous monarchic rule means the backbone of the State is a rickety Rube Goldberg machine, riddled with absurdities and obsolete entities that change every few miles. What you mention is the tip of an iceberg as big as Greenland, where every other town or region is administered in fundamentally different ways for no particularly good reason beyond "that's how it's always been".
For all their centralist instincts, the Westminster classes fundamentally don't care about how the provinces go about their business, as long as they keep paying into London and act adequately subservient whenever the Southern classes come knocking. So we have to live with constitutional aberrations like Cornwall and Lancaster.
I fell for the €30 upsell so I could play it this weekend and get the extra maps and civs. Unfortunately, Steam errored the transaction, so now I'm out my money with no game, waiting for support to resolve it. I was glad for the macos release and wanted to support (and play!), but I've learnt my lesson on handing over control before the product is delivered. I'll wait for the UX/UI updates and a price drop, still plenty of fun to be had in civ5.
Looks really nice and I love the domain name, well done!
I see there isn't a privacy policy yet, what do you use the account sections for? Also, what is happening in the code comments, is the JS written by AI? For the branding - you're missing some tomatoes! Maybe as a favicon, or fa-tomato instead of fa-briefcase?
Thanks for noticing the domain name! The account section is currently not fully functional—currently, when logged in, it is intended for syncing configuration settings. Love the idea of using a tomato-themed favicon, I will do that!
While a great photo, to me it looks like the kids are just doing some kind of school / field trip assignment.