That thing where you find an article that’s interesting. A decent read certainly. But it has a few tonal red flags. Non sequitur reasoning. And sure enough, click the next article and you find that the author is an ex-leftist culture warrior.
“Douglas Engelbart - Hidden Heroes”
Back when I was teaching interactive media I used to make students watch excerpts from Engelbart’s demo. Only available in realplayer format at the time IIRC.
So, the fact that tour guides have been taking tourists by the thousands on a 17km hike, over dangerous terrain, to an active, erupting, gas-spewing volcano, with no preparation, no warning that it might be dangerous, without the necessary equipment is…
Unsurprising tbh.
Iceland living: overall quite nice. Closer to family: overall good. Manageable subarctic heatwaves. Loads of local food
Geological upside: geothermal heating
Geological downside: three volcanos simultaneously on the verge of erupting (Fagradalsfjall, Askja, Grímsvötn) 😬
I’ve said this before, but it’s kind of interesting how common it is for US-based ‘influencers’ on social media to adopt an evangelistic tone and tactics.
Typescript is quite useful most of the time
I still regularly run into the situation where the types it has for browser APIs are either woefully incomplete or just plain wrong and it takes you hours to figure out just what obscure config you had wrong
“Open-Source Security: How Digital Infrastructure Is Built on a House of Cards - Lawfare”
“Reading Notes, July 2022 - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
Bunch of good links in this one.
“When Leaders Talk About Innovation, Always Be Sceptical – Paul Taylor”
“On disavowing sexual assault – Going Medieval”
In the context of recent statements by those making the Game of Thrones spinoff. Subject matter warning, obv.
Back when I was working in the publishing crowdfunding scene, I was trying to explain what it was to my mother and after I had rambled on about tiers and sponsor listings for a while she just asked:
“Ah, so you mean tabula gratulatoria?”
Crowdfunding? Not invented by the internet
The web I experience as a user is a slog.
But browsers are fast
JS engines themselves are high performance environments used for responsive serverside apps. But JS, run by those same engines, is by far the slowest part of most websites
Feels like we could be doing better 😕
“The (Mostly) Complete Unicode Spiral – Terence Eden’s Blog”
TIL:
const response = new Response(readableStream);
const blob = await response.body();
…will collect the stream into a nice, neat Blob for you.