“Trying a New Book-Reading Strategy · Chris Krycho”
I really like this strategy and plan on stealing elements of it.
“Common CSS Issues For Front-End Projects — Smashing Magazine”
This list contained one solution I was not aware of despite being a CSS user from the very start of CSS (the font-size: 0px on a parent of inline-blocks, which was screamingly obvious in hind-sight).
“My Wish List for Progressive Web Apps in 2019 – Maximiliano Firtman – Medium”
We’re reaching a point in the evolution of PWAs where the needs of each platform are starting to diverge. The needs of desktop WIMP platforms in terms of usability and UI are pretty different from that of a tablet, which in turn is different from that of a phone (something that Apple, at least, hasn’t fully accepted yet)
“Audacious Fox: ‘Nobody Reads’”
A lot of ‘nobody does/uses X’ actually just means ‘nobody uses X when we make it because we make it so baldy’.
“Throwing Storage At The Problem – Andy Ihnatko’s Celestial Waste of Bandwidth”
Always have a spare empty drive (in addition to your backup). It can help enormously with troubleshooting.
Watching the Great British Bake-Off for the first time and it has got to be the most British tv show I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen some very British shows.
(It’s great relaxation TV.)
“The 100 Year Web (In Praise of XML)”
“One of the problems with using programming as the basis of functionality is that standardisation flies out of the window.”
Don’t agree with everything here, but agree more than I disagree.
“R.I.P.C. — Postlight — Digital product studio”
“Every operating system is a batch-card processing retro-mess underneath. Linux makes this a virtue to be celebrated rather than a sin”
The economics of mixing the touch and pointer app paradigms are too compelling for even Apple to ignore.
“feed discovery in firefox, redux”
Note to self: add visible links to feeds on my blog.
Glitch is another thing that’s on my ‘very very interesting tech’ list for 2019. Like on the same level of interesting as HyperCard. Definitely planning to play with it in 2019.
Making native apps on an Apple platform requires high investment just to stay in place.
“tink FAQ: a Package Unwinder for JavaScript”
If you work with Node at all, the possibilities presented by tink are really, really intriguing.
If you want to get a sense for how utterly fucked up Apple has become in terms of usability, try teaching somebody over over 60 to use one of those confounded Apple TV touch remotes and navigate the weirdo hybrid Apple TV iOS UI.
“Some thoughts on Social Networking and Usenet”
This reminds me, I should finish writing that “apps that should exist but don’t” blog post. A best practices social media consumption app is one of them.