Here are two great talks by Google engineers on dealing with large sets of data and how they can be used to improve your product. The first is a talk by Peter Norvig - The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data: The point of the talk is that having more data is better than having a more clever algorithm. And you can see this in action in this second talk by Douglas Merrill.

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We need to talk about Shadow DOM. While the Google official docs strongly encourage the use of Shadow DOM, I quite strongly disagree. As an example, a couple weeks ago I realized I could style the <summary> part of a <details><summary> set of elements as a button, which would look great and more readily indicate its function. You can see the improvement here: Before: After: Thankfully I hadn’t swallowed the party-line on Shadown DOM and this is the full set of CSS changes I had to make, just the following additions:

I searched around for a while on how to create a Date column in Notion that defaulted to the current date and time but could also be editable. I didn’t find anything useful and eventually came up with my own solution. This requires three columns: The first column is the Created column which exists by default on tables. The second column is a Date column named Override Date. This will normally be empty unless you enter a value in the column.

In Just Too Efficient, Tim Bray gathers a good set of links and arguments about efficiency. As I’ve said before: "Efficient" is the antonym of "Robust". https://t.co/a05rUC5XKE — Joe Gregorio (@bitworking) April 23, 2020