“Diary of an Engine Diversity Absolutist – Dan’s Blog”
Daniel Appelquist writes about a worrying shift in rhetoric from Google’s Chrome team.
“To fix Climate Change, stop being a techie and start being a human”
I wish Notes on iOS behaved more like Photos in that it worked as a central repository for notes data that other apps could easily write to and read from.
This is totally babies — intjint: mcgregorswench: estebanwaseaten: …
The best live action Superman.
Using the friendly-words package to implement your mock collection names can be fun.
“I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea”
I’ve worked for more than one org that made all of the mistakes this writer did (including the mistakes they still don’t know they made)
“How we built a GDPR compliant website analytics platform without using cookies”
This approach seems sound enough tho I am not an expert.
“Don’t let your camera outlive you — aows”
Applies to a lot of tools, not just cameras.
I’ve defaulted to DuckDuckGo for my search for a while, only dropping down to Google when DDG’s results aren’t good enough.
After Google’s new search results design update, I’ve had to go back to DDG after dropping to Google because the results are such a mess.
A well deserved criticism of ‘open’ as a movement, which has increasingly become an exploitative enabler of the ad/surveillance tech state. Not entirely sure it’s fair to Popper, though.
“22/01/2020, 13:51 – Colin Walker”
On blogging, RSS, and email.
“Ant Colonies, Agile At Scale & The Illusion Of Control – Codemanship’s Blog”
Cross-browser puppeteer. Could be useful.
“Host your Git on Glitch with Gogs”
This is cool
“Frank Chimero · Redesign: Scales and Hierarchy”
I’m loving this series.
Loads of useful tools here.
This is a neat, interactive explanation of the CSS Cascade. Looks cool too.
“The Dashboard Problem ･ Robin Rendle”
“My point is that you can see mismanagement down at the UI level”
Conway’s law as a symptom of organisational mismanagement.
“Why Software is Slow and Shitty” Actually a different blog post from the last one
An interesting example of experts in one field falling prey to pseudoscience in another specialty.