“Why is the Google Cloud UI so slow? - DebugBear”

Slow. Confusing. Disorganised. Ugly.

“Inside the flaming dumpster fire at AT&T/WarnerMedia/HBO Max - The Beat”

“Alt vs Figcaption”

“CSS Scroll Snap”

“Eye of Newt and Stack of Sub — Dorian Taylor”

“Position Statement for the 2020 W3C TAG Election – Lea Verou”

“We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says - MIT Technology Review”

Seems pretty clear cut that Google is punishing inconvenient researchers.

“Nonlinear increases in complexity make unification excruciating. – Jessitron”

“The data pollution problem - Gerry McGovern”

“Metafoundry 17: Twenty-Five Years Later”

“thought leaders and chicken sexers”

“There’s very little worse harm you can do to an application on the complexity level than distribute it. You can take even the smallest problem and as soon as you distribute it, it grows an order of magnitude in complexity.”

“Inherent complexity in most web applications is the same it ever was. Where we regressed is in introducing a tremendous amount of accidental complexity.”

“Astrogator’s Logs » Blog Archive » Cultural Pop amidst the Ruins”

“Why Bookshop.org is not the saviour the book world needs”

If you want to support independent bookshops, buy from them directly. Replacing one intermediary with another solves nothing.

“Is your content too long? Not long enough? - Stacking the Bricks”

‘Apple’s “EDR” Brings High Dynamic Range to Non-HDR Displays — Prolost’

“Apple’s ‘EDR’ Brings High Dynamic Range to Non-HDR Displays — Pixel Envy”

“By the way, this only appears to apply to HDR video — not photos with extended range in the highlights.”

“CSS Tips you won’t see in most tutorials”

These are all good.

“Stripe: Platform of Platforms – Stratechery by Ben Thompson”

IMO, the biggest thing a small country (like Iceland, where I live) could to do foster innovation would be to get Stripe to open up the full range of their services in the country. Do everything you can.

“Thunderbolt on the M1 Mac mini”

Last post via this one

“Thunderbolt on the M1 Mac mini – When 2 Actually Does Equal 4”

Thunderbolt ports on the M1 Macs seem to have a dedicated bus per port and support Thunderbolt docks, turning one port into three.

It’s annoying how, sometimes, when you add two posts to micro.blog, the second one won’t appear in your timeline (or get cross-posted to twitter) for hours.

Adding a third post sometimes flushes them all onto the timeline but none of this is consistent or ideal behaviour

“Adactio: Links—My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?”

“My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be? – The Creative Independent”