For work web dev I’ve switched from the Pixelbook back to the four(ish) year old, slightly water-damaged, MacBook Pro. The 2015 MacBook Pro really is a great machine.
Spending a few weeks primarily with ChromeOS has given me a newfound appreciation for MacOS, Gnome and Windows.
“Passwords Evolved: Authentication Guidance for the Modern Era”
Lots of good advice.
“The Online Photographer: The Biggest Flaw I See in Pictures*”
My entire history as an amateur photographer has centred on this struggle to find a photo’s “punctum”
“HTML5 Input Types: Where Are They Now? — Smashing Magazine”
‘Asking the Wrong Questions: The Illusion of Free Will: On “Bandersnatch” and Interactive Fiction’
“Not only does it revel in some of Black Mirror’s worst excesses, it’s also an extremely bad example of interactive fiction”
“Creating distraction-free reading experiences — Adrian Zumbrunnen”
“Use the :lang pseudo-class over the lang attribute selector for language-specific styles”
“The kids are alright – Carrie Marshall: Bigmouth Strikes Again”
“Automatic preview image based on screenshot – Terence Eden’s Blog”
I’ve been using a Google Pixelbook (with Linux apps) as my main work device for a few weeks and I have two things to say:
“The lost art of legendary Apple UX”
…it’s simply UX from hell
“Towards a general method for accessible content trees or: deep aria-labels for equations revisited”
That’s a good reading list.
“Build for failure - Go Make Things”
CSS also tends not to be blocked by ad blockers and, in most modern website, is a much smaller payload that the JS.
“A more complicated web - Christian Heilmann”
Sounds pretty accurate to me.
How are folks who support Web Mentions handling spam mentions? (I’m assuming there’s spam, there’s always spam.) Is everybody using Vouch? Moderating? Akismet?
(No reason for the question, just suddenly became curious as I was reading up on IndieWeb for other reasons.)
“The Flexbox Holy Albatross Reincarnated - HeydonWorks”
These “Albatross” series of articles on flexbox really give you a sense of when to use flexbox and when to use the grid
“AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source – Stratechery by Ben Thompson”
“Web Standards:: The What, The Why, And The How — Smashing Magazine”
Comprehensive, actually.
I can’t be the only one who thinks that hyperviolent superheroes, especially in live action are really unsympathetic and, yeah, should be arrested by the police for their crimes?
(See: Daredevil, Titans, Punisher, etc.)