John Cleese has made a few very good videos on management theory over the years, through his company Video Arts. This talk on creativity is particularly good:
“Fast Path to a Great UX – Increased Exposure Hours”
IIRC, a variation on this tactic has been used to great effect in parts of the Icelandic healthcare system to improve internally used software.
That thing where you look at old blog posts and despair. “Why can’t I write like that any more? When did my writing stop being this good?”
And then you realise that the reason is extremely simple: you stopped showing up every day and doing the work.
Shadow DOM is now marginally less unusable than before---still unusable
“Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 95”
Safari finally has shadowRoot.delegateFocus which is the next to last major roadblock to shadow dom use. I honestly don’t understand how people could claim that shadowDOM had cross-platform support before—poor and buggy cross-platform focus handling is one of the major reasons why I had to back out all use of the shadow DOM in a recent work project. Shadow DOM just breaks way more than it fixes: focus handling breaks, event handling breaks (event encapsulation means that most third-party scripts, routers, etc. don’t work), and selection handling breaks.
And the selection APIs are still very, very broken because they are still unspecified: there’s no agreement on what to do; every major engine does its own thing.
Which in turn means you can’t really use rich text editing widgets without major bugs and inconsistencies.
I really, truly tried to be all in on web components this year. That turned out to be the worst web dev decision I’ve made in a long long time, mostly thanks to the Shadow DOM. (Custom Elements are usable but much more verbose and boilerplate-y than I’d like.)
I always get a bit sad when a nice website, full of good writing, doesn’t have an RSS feed.
“This is great. Too bad I’ll never read any of it ever again.”
“Nicole Fenton - Words as Material”
“Conflicting ideas are one thing—but it’s even harder to talk about an idea when there is no idea.”
Blogging is only as dead as you want it to be.
“Text Editing Hates You Too – Lord i/o”
Text editing is complicated.
“ETAs are very hard to estimate with any amount of accuracy. Even if you plan well.”
This. So much this.
“Tether: The Story So Far - Kalzumeus Software”
Fascinating story. And it’s extremely worrying how many otherwise smart people have a blind spot for cryptocurrency.
“A Business Case for Dropping Internet Explorer - CSS-Tricks”
“Apple, Your Developer Documentation is Garbage · Chris Krycho”
Here’s another photo from Parc Jarry yesterday that I’m not sure about even though it is kind of interesting.
The parks here in Montréal are always quite picturesque.
These both have a bit of a autumn ‘squirrelly’ vibe. I like both but can’t decide which one is more fun.
Experimenting a bit with the processing on these. I usually try not to be this heavy-handed.
