Today’s must-read.
Any time I see somebody use the word ‘rational’ to describe themselves in a social media profile I assume that they actually mean “will fight tooth and nail to preserve all my biases, preconceptions, and superstitions”.
“The COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory Is Short on Evidence and Long on Guesswork”
Whenever you read reviews of any kind of Icelandic content (TV, movies, novels) you need to dial it down at least five notches. Everything Icelandic gets a massive review bump because people absolutely adore the setting. So crap plot, dialogue, story, etc. gets a pass.
Gleðilega þjóðhátíð!
Happy Independence Day! (In Iceland.)
I don’t know which is worse, the idea that the Chrome team thinks that nobody wants to use modern (i.e. module-based) JS in SVG (or XHTML) or the possibility that they may be true.
“content-visibility: the new CSS property that boosts your rendering performance”
“Maurice Parker - Zavala 1.0 released”
“It is free and Open Source and will be forever, so you have nothing to lose”
Interesting little outliner.
“Kirkville - How the Audio Industry is Deceiving Consumers with High-Resolution Audio”
“CSS Frameworks, hype and dogmatism - Piccalilli”
I’m actually in favour of frameworks under some circumstances, but too often they market themselves by claiming that the platform is broken.
“Fuck Glory – Startups are One Long Con - Stacking the Bricks”
“Hey, so, I Think I Fucking Hate the Internet — No Octothorpe”
“Elevated Stupidity Is the Evolution of the Hot Take Economy at Its Worst”