It used to be much more common for websites to allow users to modify CSS on pages that showed their content. MySpace profiles were sometimes so busy they were hard to read.
This seems to have almost entirely disappeared. Reddit is the only exception I can think of today.
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I'm considering using WebP more: for example, my websites would load faster and browsers have supported it since 2020: https://caniuse.com/webp
That said, GitHub just added support in August 2025, so I suspect I'd still find use cases that don't work yet:
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I find it fascinating how some businesses have scheduled downtime for their websites (e.g. my electricity provider last weekend), but others don't.
I suspect it's primarily culture. You generally need to turn off electricity to do work, so your other tooling may reflect that.
I've written CLI programs, GUIs, websites, but never a smartphone app. I suspect it would be tricky: playing with your WIP app on a laptop doesn't feel the same as loading it on a handset.
Have you ever written a smartphone app to scratch an itch? How was it?