“How to Survive the Next Era of Tech (Slow Down and Be Mindful) - The New York Times”
Here’s an accessiblity benefit to Electron apps: they all provide fairly granular full UI zoom for us middle-aged folks.
Author compares FOSS to public infrastructure (e.g. public toilet). Public infrastructure is never free. Unpaid for, a public toilet is just a hole full of shit
“I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back”
One of the crappiest tech trends ever (that isn’t actively evil, y’know, like union busting, surveillance, election rigging, etc.)
“Just use :focus styles, damnit“
This is me. I’m a mouse and keyboard user and find it really helpful to always know where the focus is (and which pages I’ve visited for that matter).
“This is the future of X” posts almost always fail to mention that the current form of X with continue to exist and even grow substantially, it’s just that something else is growing faster and tech journalists have a zero-sum mentality.
“Antitrust, the App Store, and Apple”
I suspect that most people won’t realise how stifling the iOS app store is for iOS software innovation unless something forces Apple to open up their platform
Fog plus spotlight makes this look like something out of X-Files. #dated90sreference
Fog plus spotlight makes this look like something out of X-Files. #dated90sreference
Creepy park tables.
Parc Jarry on a foggy night
“I don’t know what to say. · Issue #116 · dominictarr/event-stream · GitHub”
A popular npm package transferred ownership to what looks like a malicious actor. This is the sort of stuff that keeps me up at night.
I agree with this post.
This makes a very good point.
“Secure Authentication for JavaScript Apps – Insightful Software”
“Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma, and The Quest to Kill eBay – Steve Yegge – Medium”
Icelandic culture is a weird mix of literary and rural sensibilities. My sister just pointed out to me that two books on haymaking are being published in Icelandic this year and a few years ago one of Iceland’s bestselling non-fiction series was a trilogy on tractors.
This family looked like they were posing for a painting, in silhouette and everything.
