“An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States - A Working Library”
I don’t know who needs to hear this but in case it’s one of you: trauma and developing mechanisms to cope with trauma isn’t growth. Anybody telling you that you need to join a traumatic environment or workplace to grow in your job or as a person is doing you a huge disservice.
Much of what gets posted online in web dev communities (esp. Twitter) is really bad advice being given by people who are too early in their career for them to be fully hit by the consequences of said bad advice.
Not sure what can be done about it. Refuting it all is impossible.
“NFTs, or The Readymade Reversed” [PDF]
“Duchamp used the category of art to liberate materiality from commodifiable form; the NFT deploys the category of art to extract private property from freely available information.”
“Brian Eno on NFTs & Automatism”
“The idea that Ayn Rand, that Nietzsche-for-Teenagers toxin, should have had her whacky ideas enshrined in a philosophy about money is what is terrifying to me.”
“Pixels of the Week – December 19, 2021 by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer.”
“Floating UI - Positioning for tooltips, popovers, dropdowns, and more”
This is the new version of/successor to Popper, I think?
Convinced that Anil Dash’s “web3 is horrible-bad but too big to fail” spiel is a precursor to an eventual web3 pivot for Glitch. Excused as a “this is a horrible-bad thing but we need to be a part of it to minimise the harm (and make tonnes of bubble money)”.
“Introducing fuite: a tool for finding memory leaks in web apps - Read the Tea Leaves”
One thing I just don’t get about the revisionist history of the web that’s so en vogue at the moment:
Do they just expect all of us middle-aged web users to pretend that forums weren’t huge years before Web 2.0?
I mean, why make up something so trivially and obviously untrue?
“Tailwind and the Femininity of CSS”
“The important bit is that they hinder deep learning of CSS”
“Thoughts on skin tone and text descriptions - Tink - Léonie Watson”
Yesterday I wrote about how I’ve been using index cards to figure out what to design next when building my note-taking app. “Working Spaces: Using Cards to Make Cards”
I just published “Working Spaces: Using Cards to Make Cards” as a part of The Making of Colophon Cards
When discussing funding, sustainability, and relationships with corporate sponsors, the distinction between Free Software and Open Source becomes very relevant. Lumping them together in these discussions is counter-productive. (Which is something I’ve done myself, mea culpa)
“Embrace the Platform - CSS-Tricks”
Agree with this all. However, I have my doubts about web dev paying attention. We can’t even convince them that GET should be idempotent and not cause mutations.