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I'm a longtime zsh user. A colleague introduced me to it in 2009, and I was an instant convert, if nothing else than for directory aliases and simpler $PATH management. Within a couple of years, I discovered oh-my-zsh, which put my shell on steroids...

I have a number of locations on my website where I've been faking a masonry layout (you know, like how Pinterest lays things out) using CSS grid columns. They work, but they're not what I'm looking for.
I've been waiting for the official masonry grid display to land, and discovered that it's now an experimental feature in Chrome-based browsers that you can enable (it's been available for Firefox for awhile)....

I've been using Linux on the desktop for more than 25 years now. While I don't put icons on my desktop any longer (and haven't for probably around 15 years), I do use the gnome-shell launcher to quickly open programs, and this utilizes desktop files...

Zoom used to have a strange behavior, one I'm sure they thought would be useful, but in reality was infuriating: if you moved between virtual workspaces, Zoom would minimize to a thumbnail window that followed you around to workspaces.
At some point, it went away, thankfully... but after a recent release, it turned back on, and it's been a huge pain for me. There's a bug in that the mini window follows me to the initial virtual workspace, but then doesn't follow around from there,...