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The best approach is to embed the required JavaScript and CSS inline on the page, and then temporarily hide the text pending the execution of the text balancer.
Improving the New York Times’ Line Wrap Balancer
ctrl.blog
Interestingly, too, “after their subscription period ended, many struggled to distinguish between what kind of content required payment or not.” That’s not a great sign for the distinctiveness of paid-for news content.
Why News Subscriptions Feel Like a Burden to Young People
niemanlab.org
But tweet IDs are big numbers, bigger than 2^53. The Twitter API now returns them as both integers and strings, so that in Javascript you can just use the string ID (like “1612850010110005250”), but if you tried to use the integer version in JS, things would go very wrong.
Examples of Floating Point Problems
Julia Evans
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