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60 years ago tonight, the big beat acid test, on the grateful dead’s home turf in palo alto, at a soon-to-open go-go club on the outskirts of town. full chaos, with the dead & prankster band playing at the same time. local historian @… on the big beat:

Client explaining spec: “Clicking the drop-down opens a product grid menu with pop-ups to choose colors.”
Me: “Wut.”
Technical pedantry is important in UI and digital accessibility work. As practitioners we have to translate lingo all the time.
Suggestions…
• Drop-down: https://adrianroselli.…

Stop Using ‘Drop-down’
TL;DR: Stop using the word drop-down. Instead choose a term that accurately describes the control you want. I have worked both with native platform developers and web developers. While control names might differ, if a control was functionally the same then it was not an issue. A TextBox, for example,…

Cadence shares closed up 7.6% on Wednesday after the chip design company reported Q4 revenue up ~6% to $1.44B and adjusted EPS of $1.99, both above estimates (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/18/cadence-design-systems-stock-earnings-ai-chip.h…

Cadence Design Systems shares pop on earnings beat, custom chip optimism
CEO Anirudh Devgan said he expects the trend of companies making their own custom chips to accelerate.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Massive Attack:
🎵 I Against I (feat. Mos Def)
#MassiveAttack
https://shoshodj.bandcamp.com/track/massive-attack-and-mos-def-i-against-i-shosho-peppou-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/0NxTDkes19DzkFCo3ZHTGU

« Vous direz qu’il a travaillé » : écoutes accablantes au procès pour emploi fictif du maire d’Orange - Le Parisien
https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/vous-direz-…

« Vous direz qu’il a travaillé » : écoutes accablantes au procès pour emploi fictif du maire d’Orange
Des échanges entre la député (RN) du Vaucluse Marie-France Lorho et son attaché parlementaire ont jeté plus que le doute sur la réalité du travail effectué par Yann Bompard pour l’élue.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Phoebe Bridgers:
🎵 Motion Sickness
#PhoebeBridgers
https://babyweight.bandcamp.com/track/phoebe-bridgers-motion-sickness-baby-weight-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5xo8RrjJ9CVNrtRg2S3B1R

Mais, le #rn c'est différent :
« Vous direz qu’il a travaillé » : écoutes accablantes au procès pour emploi fictif du maire d’Orange - Le Parisien

« Vous direz qu’il a travaillé » : écoutes accablantes au procès pour emploi fictif du maire d’Orange
Des échanges entre la député (RN) du Vaucluse Marie-France Lorho et son attaché parlementaire ont jeté plus que le doute sur la réalité du travail effectué par Yann Bompard pour l’élue.

Austin-based Circuit, which is building an AI platform for manufacturing and service enterprises, raised $30M from a group of angel investors (Karoline Leonard/Austin American-Statesman)
https://www.statesman.com/business/technol

Former Silicon Labs CEO Tyson Tuttle raises $30M for Austin AI startup
Former Silicon Labs CEO Tyson Tuttle’s Austin startup Circuit raised $30 million in one of Texas’ largest angel rounds to address manufacturing labor shortages.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Nation of Language:
🎵 In Another Life
#NationofLanguage
https://nationoflanguage.bandcamp.com/track/in-another-life
https://open.spotify.com/track/6pEvh57vzBZ2qFF8v7Zo0r

NetEase says 2M people played martial arts game Where the Winds Meet in the 24 hours after its global release, as Chinese companies' cultural influence expands (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/china-conn

CNBC's The China Connection newsletter: China’s homegrown games capture overseas players as its cultural influence expands
In a big year for Chinese cultural exports, a new video game is the latest to win a global audience.