“Restyling apps at scale – Space and Meaning”
The tragedy of Gnome over the past fifteen years or so is that it’s an OSS project with an ingrained culture of caring about UX, catering to an audience that couldn’t care less.
Been thinking a lot about evaluating tech because I have a new project starting and Jeremy touches on a lot of the same thoughts I had (tho, obv. a diff conclusion as I can choose what I want 😎)
“Why you should prioritise quality over speed in design systems by Amy Hupe, content designer.”
“Designing better file organization around tags, not hierarchies”
Interesting. Another entry in the common genre of “intellectual designs a system they think is superior without referencing any research supporting the notion that it’s actually easier to use”.
“Fire-breathing requirements. The mythical design tool. - by Alan Cooper - Nov, 2021 - Medium”
“Web Development Best Practices: What The Data Tells Us”
These are always interesting although many of the conclusions seem to be logical non-sequiturs. I’m assuming the slides are missing some context.
“Let’s talk about AMP - by Barry Adams - SEO for Google News”
“Google penalised these publishers for not using AMP”
“AMP Has Irreparably Damaged Publishers’ Trust in Google-led Initiatives – WP Tavern”
“I think it’s important that Google leadership acknowledge how AMP has damaged publishers’ trust”
Another day, another npm/node-related exploit.
“Breaking down Apollo Federation’s anti-FOSS corporate gaslighting”
Web dev has a host of ‘lost arts’: previously well-documented practices that have since faded away from the discourse. Behold RFC5005, a more detailed yet nuanced take on pagination than any ‘best practices’ blog post published in the past decade.
“macOS 12 Monterey and User Interface Inconsistencies – Corbin’s Treehouse”
Something has gone really, really wrong with software development at Apple.
“Adactio: Articles—The State Of The Web”
“When I talk to people about using the web—especially on mobile—their expectations are that they will have a terrible experience. That websites will be slow to load.”
“s3-credentials: a tool for creating credentials for S3 buckets”
A heuristic for whether to pay attention to the opinions of a pundit
As a rule of thumb, I tend to distrust the opinions of pundits who are all in on cryptocoins and NFTs.
That is if you read an essay or blog post that seems interesting, you browse through their other stuff, and if you discover that they are super enthusiastic about cryptocoins (or some variation of “crypto/NFT is the future!”) take everything else they say with a grain of salt.
The reason is simple: those who are vehemently pro-crypto tend to have a mental model of human behaviour, culture, and society that’s simplistic and unrealistic. That kind of mental blinker is almost certainly going to colour all of their opinions, not just those on crypto.
(Also, the reason why I generally distrust the opinions of economists.)
I have no opinion on whether web3, crypto, or the like is ‘the future’ or not. I hope they won’t be but you can’t say for certain either way at the moment.
What I do know is that the fate of these technologies is going to be decided by the human factor (society, culture, law, psychology, power) and not technological merit. And we can’t predict how the human factor is going to go, long term, at this point in time. So, anybody who is all-in on crypto right now has either reached that position by disregarding the human factor or wants to sell you something. Either is reason enough to distrust any of their other opinions.
I also distrust the values and motives of anybody who thinks that walking back the non-rival, non-excludable nature of digital goods is a positive development for human society but that’s more an ideological disagreement than anything else.
“Some Older Macs Reportedly Bricked After Installing macOS Monterey - MacRumors”
Something has gone really, really wrong with software development at Apple.
“DNSServiceNATPortMappingCreate was quietly killed in macOS Monterey”
“But the worst part isn’t the lack of a fix, it’s the total lack of communication from Apple.”
Something has gone really, really wrong with software development at Apple.
The character miscounting bugs on micro.blog are honestly infuriating. Esp. since they are often just off by one character. A single period turns what should have been a cross-post into a microscopic blog post. 😑
“Have Single-Page Apps Ruined the Web? (“Transitional Apps”) - CSS-Tricks”
Chris makes the point that a lot of real-world apps are Transitional Apps™ simply by virtue of being made using a mix of technologies over time. IMO, just another reason why it’s a good label.