What called are you named?

It seems in the UK (and perhaps other UK influenced places) they say “a person called Nick”, but in the US we say “a person named Nick”. I wonder why that is. Do you know?

A word that doesn't exist and yet it does.

I’ll make it easy on you, this is the word: smalm I was playing Wordle with my brother and dad the other day and my dad sent me a word he tried, but he was confused because autocomplete kept correcting it. He had never heard of it. Neither had I. I looked in the dictionary for the word and I …

HTMLInputElement type number fun fact

I am a web developer by day and was working on a feature that was supposed to create an input field that could only accept numbers. Super easy right?! <input type="number" /> I’m demoing said feature to the client (after having tested this) and I’m bashing on the home row …

I was listening to the FunFact (@funfactfm) podcast recently and they mentioned this website. I finally got around to looking at it and it’s so cool! Here is the site by Neal Agarwal (@nealagarwal) about the deep sea. He also has a bunch of other cool sites at his website. Enjoy!

How to show/hide desktop icons on macOS

I often want to do this while doing a demo or filming my screen so I’m writing this down so I remember. I found this on osxdaily.com and have amended it slightly. Maybe this is a mac app I could make… To hide: defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool false && killall …