A well deserved criticism of ‘open’ as a movement, which has increasingly become an exploitative enabler of the ad/surveillance tech state. Not entirely sure it’s fair to Popper, though.
“22/01/2020, 13:51 – Colin Walker”
On blogging, RSS, and email.
“Bad accessibility equals bad quality - Manuel Matuzović”
“Ant Colonies, Agile At Scale & The Illusion Of Control – Codemanship’s Blog”
Cross-browser puppeteer. Could be useful.
“Host your Git on Glitch with Gogs”
This is cool
“Frank Chimero · Redesign: Scales and Hierarchy”
I’m loving this series.
Loads of useful tools here.
This is a neat, interactive explanation of the CSS Cascade. Looks cool too.
“The Dashboard Problem ･ Robin Rendle”
“My point is that you can see mismanagement down at the UI level”
Conway’s law as a symptom of organisational mismanagement.
“Why Software is Slow and Shitty” Actually a different blog post from the last one
“Why Software is Slow and Shitty ･ Robin Rendle”
An interesting example of experts in one field falling prey to pseudoscience in another specialty.
“Publishers should be fretting over the illness, not its symptoms”
“Rogue Amoeba - Under the Microscope » Blog Archive » Designer Notes: Making a Colour Scheme”
The new Edge browser feels like it’s what Chrome should be but can’t because it’s made by an ad company: built-in tracking prevention, a nice reader mode, collections that support page snippets and full pages, and a user-friendly interface
It’s the Chrome Google can’t make
“Frank Chimero · Redesign: Picking Typefaces”
I’m really enjoying this series.
People are really calling the ending to the Watchmen TV series a cliffhanger? That’s like calling the ending to Inception a cliffhanger. Or saying that Total Recall ends on a cliffhanger because it never resolves whether it’s all dream or reality.
“Kill your productivity: Stuff’s top 40 free browser games for 2020 - Stuff”
“Debugging your application for accessibility - LogRocket Blog”
“Deborah J. Ross: Sexuality in Fantasy”
TypeScript is also a poor fit for vanilla JS as its DOM/browser API types have gaps/flaws.
(Inevitably, as DOM APIs were not designed for typescript so there’s a hard upper limit to how good the types can get)
“Call for Publishers: Responsible JavaScript — Jeremy Wagner”