Alternate theory: companies that get into the habit of losing money find it hard to break the habit once they grow.
We do this here in Iceland as well.
“Designing the Smallest Possible Thing - Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)”
“In Iceland’s election, political stability again at stake - Reuters”
Voter attendance so far promises to be very high. Looks like this could be a fun election and we might end up with our most diverse parliament ever.
Voted💪🏻
“British indie STRANGEHAVEN optioned by IDW Entertainment - The Beat”
I interviewed Gary Spencer Millidge for some online outlet or another back in the late 90s. He’s one of the nicest people in comics and the series is delightfully strange.
On the EU USB-C mandate:
- It has built-in future-proofing: no mandate for wireless chargers which is what will come after USB-C
- Rules like these can and are updated, so we aren’t stuck with USB-C if wireless doesn’t pan out
I really wish OSS communities would stop defaulting to Discord or Slack. Your software isn’t a lifestyle. I don’t want to live with the goddamn thing. I want a forum I can visit once in a while, not to take out an attention mortgage.
“Russell T Davies to return as Doctor Who showrunner - Doctor Who”
🙏🏻
“Coverage Is Not Strongly Correlated with Test Suite Effectiveness”
Interesting results. Java, so apply to other languages with a grain of salt. But it does find that more tests = more effective
“Bringing instant page-loads to the browser through speculative prerendering”
“Kids who grew up with search engines could change STEM education forever”
We’ve needed better metaphors than f&f for a while now
OTOH: when the dominant form of computing is a sealed widget, of course competence is going to drop like a stone across the board
“Not Releasing Late on Fridays, a Matter of Courtesy · Jens Oliver Meiert”
You’ll know that Windows finally cares about UX when it starts to hide the cursor when you’re typing.
“Why do Webdevs keep trying to kill REST?”
Decent overview from the GraphQL perspective. It seems probable that education on REST is probably poor among frontend devs. Most of their discussions on REST don’t reflect what I’d consider RESTful practices.
“Why Bad CEOs Fear Remote Work - Scott Berkun”
The default management style for most modern companies is authoritarian command-and-control, which is hard (but not impossible) to do remotely. Foucault-style office panopticons are easier to pull off in an open office.
In case any of you have ideas or helpful suggestions: I’ve been putting together a library for dealing with EPUB and LPF files in node.js and I’m not quite sure where to take it next. Your thoughts are welcome.
For some reason tourists think that the burning hot lava is just decorative. Decent chance we’ll see some of them immolate themselves before this eruption abates.
“The Long Tail - Bristol & Bath Creative R&D”
“between 2005 and 2013 the number of writers making a living from their work fell from 40 to 11.5%”
“Eurogamer Closes Its Forums And Moves Its Readers To Discord”
“Please Stop Closing Forums And Moving People To Discord”
“The Future of CSS: Cascade Layers (CSS layer) – Bram.us”
This looks really useful. Could also go a long way towards making CSS more accessible as a language.
“Grainy Gradients - CSS-Tricks”
Remember tho, that SVG filters and complex SVGs in HTML are buggy as hell in most browsers. Firefox is the least bad of the bunch while Chrome and Safari race to the bottom.