“December 2019 Weblog: I Hope Next Year Goes Better - The History of the Web”
“All your questions about pronoun deletion and the inexorable death of the universe, answered.”
I do this so much that it’s almost a linguistic tick.
“how bad ideas in ed-tech spread”
“This Page is Designed to Last: A Manifesto for Preserving Content on the Web”
It’s an interesting challenge to think of how you would make a website that’s supposed to last for a decade. Not sure I’d follow all the rules proposed but they certainly are thought-provoking
“The modern web is becoming an unusable, user-hostile wasteland”
“A Letter From Gary Larson - TheFarSide.com - TheFarSide.com”
“I Like Kill Nerds - Thoughts On Svelte. - I Like Kill Nerds”
Those that write about Svelte and don’t mention how it dramatically simplifies UI state management and animation over many other approaches probably haven’t used it in production.
It’s always fun to watch tech pundits talk about how RSS is dead. No, it isn’t dead. Y’all just stopped taking control of your reading. The rest of us still rely on it daily.
“Where Do Libraries Fit In “A Viable Consumer Marketplace”?“
It’s weird how some in the Chrome team give the impression of not liking HTML and CSS and get offended when people push back against their half-baked, heavy-handed attempts to ‘improve’ them.
“Announcing a Lesson-level Interoperability Standards Effort”
I’ve only just started looking into the courseware/OER nexus but this seems like an interesting development.
I am in Iceland. Yay! Also groggy and trying to adjust to a new time zone. 😝
“6 mistakes to avoid during your first 30 days as a new manager - Signal v. Noise”
Good advice for managers in general, not just new ones. (Although, esp. relevant if you’re just starting out with a new team.)
Toronto Union Station makes a decent first impression. The fact that I spent less than ten minutes in it before taking the express to the airport counts in its favour 🙂