“With the MacBook Air, Apple repeats the mistakes it made on the MacBook”
“Apple’s corporate leadership clearly isn’t concerned about what its customers want”
Not wrong
“Apple’s new MacBook Air faces strong Windows and iPad competition - The Verge”
‘It’s been clear for some time that Apple is prioritizing the iPad Pro over the MacBook as its consumer “computer” of choice’
“React Native Accessibility Is Pretty Bad”
A common reason for using frameworks in native and web apps is to save time and money. Those savings tend to mostly come from not making the project accessible.
A question for those who have both micro.blog and Mastodon accounts:
How are you planning to juggle having two identities on the ‘fediverse’?
If you’ve been cross-posting (via Twitter or some other way) are you planning to continue that?
“Google, After Employee Walkout, Overhauls Sexual Misconduct Policy - The New York Times”
“The Commons: The Past Is 100% Part of Our Future | Flickr Blog”
“Getting the iPad to Pro — by Craig Mod”
He’s much more optimistic than I am.
“On a gut level, today’s iPad hardware feels about two or three years ahead of its software.”
I’d say 5 years and falling further behind with every hardware update.
The spread of ActivityPub (or, how am I going to handle cross-posting now?)
So, due to the magic of ‘open standards’ I now find myself with two ActivityPub accounts instead of one: ‘Micro.blog + Mastodon’
(Or, will find, pending a switch to SSL for the custom domain I use for this notes blog.)
On the one hand, this is an amazing example of what an open standard enables and proves that despite its idiosyncrasies and quirks, ActivityPub is a practical specification (the best kind of specification).
On the other hand, now I need to rethink my cross-posting tactics.
Currently, the notes blog (hosted by micro.blog) is the source of most of my social media posting. I post images, links, short notes, etc on the notes blog and micro.blog cross-posts to Twitter, which in turn cross-posts to Mastodon via moa.party.
It’s a bit hacky, but it works, and I set it up that way because I expected micro.blog to roll out Mastodon cross-posting.
Which, in hindsight, was clearly a half-baked idea because Mastodon is built on an open standard and so there’s nothing preventing micro.blog from becoming a full member of the ‘fediverse’.
So, now I potentially am going to have two usernames on the fediverse @baldur@toot.cafe and, I guess, @baldur@notes.baldurbjarnason.com once the SSL gets activated.
That’d be fine, normally. Plenty of people juggle different Mastodon accounts. But those tend to be accounts for focusing on different topics and I’m very bad at segregating the topics I’m interested in.
For now, I’m going to keep things as they are and see how it goes. But I’m also open to suggestions if any of you have any.
“CSS isn’t broken, your developers just suck at it“
Or, as likely, their dismissive attitude has caused them to not put in the effort needed to understand CSS.
“The Online Photographer: Is Apple Showing Overt Hostility to…Us?!?”
Apple is great for photography as long as you shoot with their cameras and import into their apps. You want to import directly into Lightroom on your iPad? Has to go through Photos first
She stood there in the park and waited for quite a while.
#blackandwhite #MastoArt #art #photography #photo #montreal
“New iPad Pro review: can it replace your laptop?”
This feels like broadly the right take on the new iPads Pro. (The answer is: ‘for the most part, no.’)
Pressbooks (Rebus’s sister company) on Wordpress’s Gutenberg. It isn’t just the accessibility problems.
“Neverland: the hyperHTML’s Hook – Andrea Giammarchi – Medium”
“Five years of PostCSS: State of the Union — Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog”
This couple was having a spirited conversation in the park yesterday.
#blackandwhite #MastoArt #art #photography #photo #montreal
“Harlequin reminds us we don’t own our purchased ebooks“
“My pessimistic guess is that reading is declining everywhere, including in romance”
Yeah. That’s my guess as well.
“Troy Hunt: Here’s Why [Insert Thing Here] Is Not a Password Killer”
“A Netflix Web Performance Case Study – Addy Osmani – Medium”
“Icelandair Group Buys Out WOW Air”
Hooooly crap. Huge news. Now one company controls 80% of air traffic to Iceland. Wow Air has been haemorrhaging money and had tried a desperate bond sale to stay afloat