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10 Mar, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Apple has gone to extraordinary lengths to make scroll bars invisible, and I hate it

Anyone seen a reliable pattern for having them appear in Safari / MobileSafari / Firefox / Chrome on macOS and iOS?

The ones on StackOverflow from a few years ago don't seem to work any more
To clarify: I want to have them visible for users of my web applications, so fixing this in macOS system preferences, while good for me, isn't the solution I'm after
I think I'm going to do the visual indication that there's more content offscreen thing - maybe with a shadow
Since this is for horizontally scrolling tables I also need to solve the dual scroll bar problem - showing it at the top as well as the bottom. I'll try using a variant of github.com/avianey/jqDoub…
The trickiest audience to cater for here are mouse users, who need to be able to scroll horizontally without first scrolling down to the bottom of the page
Apparently my original tweet in this thread was click-baity enough to get posted to Hacker News! news.ycombinator.com/item?id=264147…

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11 Mar
Built tableau-to-sqlite github.com/simonw/tableau…
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TIL that witches are traditionally associated with pointy hats, cauldrons and cats because that's what women who sold beer they brewed wore to the market - cauldrons to carry the beer, pointy hats for visibility and cats to keep the mice away from the grain
Here's a refutation (thanks, @AdamChainz) from a medieval historian and President and Founder of the Ladies Craft Beer Society of Ireland
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"TL;DR: Medieval or 16th century alewives were not the cause of the modern witch stereotype, which seems to have solidified in children’s chapbooks from the 18th century."
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If I have data with this location information:

"XCoord":"-95640011", "YCoord":"29737404"

And I know it to be somewhere in Houston TX, does anyone know tricks I can use to figure out what the co-ordinate system is that's being used there, and how to turn it into lat/lon?
I tried running them through this "State Plane Coordinate System" against the various Texas options in the menu for this tool earthpoint.us/stateplane.aspx and looking for something close to 29.8 ,-95.6 but I didn't see anything that looked like a match
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17 Jan
I found this profile really useful for helping me understand how so many people have been lost to the QAnon swamp
"Believing in QAnon tends to clear one’s social calendar, and Ms. Gilbert is no exception. She cut ties with her closest friends years ago, after arguing with them about Pizzagate. She is estranged from her sister, who tried and failed to stage an intervention over her Facebook"
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In a futile attempt to distract myself from doomscrolling I wrote about my latest weird Datasette plugin, datasette-css-properties - which lets you retrieve data from SQL queries as custom properties (aka variables) in a CSS stylesheet simonwillison.net/2021/Jan/7/css…
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Researching how to do this is awful. I've had to sit through SO MANY YouTube "tutorials" on doing this which end up not answering my question :(
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