... works as a web developer in Hveragerði, Iceland, and writes about the web, digital publishing, and web/product development
These are his notes
Web devs writing typescript: “we need to use Proxies so we can transparently map all the objects to immutable values. It’ll be a lot of work but a bit of over-engineering never hurt anybody!”
Devs writing CSS: “why use variables or names? Just use literal values everywhere!”
One for the “sustainability of open source” files.
Found this in a box. AFAICT this should be Alan Moore’s complete run on Supreme.
Y’know Google, pretty sure some sort of automatic check could have told you that you didn’t need to send me a super-cryptic, super-scary sounding email telling me to log in to read this information.
“Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny - Blood Knife”
I will always post a link to this classic whenever I come across it in one of my feeds
“Why I chose to leave my successful UX career: Building the wrong thing faster doesn’t help.”
This is tech: almost all of it is building the wrong thing. Almost every attempt at improvement is building the wrong thing faster or less buggy.
“You can’t capture the nuance of my form fields”
Custom form controls are rarely a good idea.
Occasionally, I’m reminded of the American couple I met back in 2002 who were so appalled by George W. Bush’s cronyism and extreme right wing politics that they decided to emigrate to Italy.
They worked in tech, natch.
“Whatever Happened to UI Affordances? – Terence Eden’s Blog”
One of the most offputting things about TailwindCSS is the aggressive ‘“Best practices” don’t actually work’ on the front page. When those best practices have worked quite well for you in the past, a statement like that implies that your work isn’t important enough to matter.
“Banning Surveillance-Based Advertising - Schneier on Security”
Interesting report from the Norwegians.
“All kinds of online marketplaces are creaking under scams (Interconnected)”
—Reads a dev.to post about the evolution of Web 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 which states outright that the entire web was read-only until Web 2.0 came along and that the term API was invented in 2004.
—Hyperventilates. Checks self for signs of stroke. Whyyyyy?
“Amazon’s Staggering HR Failures - Amazon Chronicles”
“This is all awfully close to The Way Things Are Done Now.”
“mnot’s blog: How the Next Layer of the Internet is Going to be Standardised”
“Pixels of the Week – June 20, 2021 by Stéphanie Walter - UX designer & Mobile Expert.”