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Potentially controversial opinion: I think Google's Material Design is a bit crap.

Like, the thought underpinning it is (mostly) sound, but I find the most recent version of it just kinda aesthetically bleh and surprisingly hard to parse in my limited experience as a user.

@ripp_ It makes sense for apps or websites though, doesn't it? It probably costs pennies for the bandwidth/storage to have one additional user, so a 70% discount is likely still profitable and gets folks through the door.

@ripp_ Probably. In interior design you often put walls of mirrors up to make spaces feel larger.

Microsoft seem keen to position themselves as better and more hip and happening with good design and practices, but good god some of the code they put out is still utter bollocks.

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Honestly how the ever-loving fuck did Microsoft manage to make a “customisable” SSO solution where the login, registration, and forgotten password pages all use totally different HTML to output the exact same fields????!!!!

The word "descender" doesn't have any letters with descenders in it.

Well shit eBay why don’t you tell us who won then, jeez.

Draft of govt’s replacement to the Common Agricultural Policy falls well short of EU’s environmental and wildlife protection standards. Quelle surprise.

theguardian.com/environment/20

Fun fact: There have only been five Catholic popes named Sixtus.

Don’t the Brexiteers setting off fireworks know that they were invented by FOREIGNERS???

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