“I’m not saying that all those ‘underground fringes’ that Anderson celebrated have disappeared—I’m merely claiming that they have less cultural impact than at almost any point in modern history”
“GitHub Copilot and open source laundering”
“leveraging this platform for this move is a deep betrayal of the community’s trust”
“Style scoping versus shadow DOM: which is fastest? - Read the Tea Leaves”
Love these sort of investigative data blog posts. Highly recommended. And do subscribe to Nolan’s blog if you use a feed reader. It’s full of good stuff.
Fuck. I’ve finally caught covid after avoiding it for over two years. Picked it up from my dad who picked it up during his doctor’s appointment (we’ve ruled out all of the other potential sources) which I find utterly fucking annoying.
Typical, but fucking annoying.
“Text-overflow: ellipsis considered harmful · Eric Eggert”
Like all “considered harmful” essays, it contains caveats, but makes a good point.
“What will a Chromium-only Web look like?”
Paints a pretty dire picture.
“FIDO passkeys are an existential threat to fintech startups”
This is your regular reminder that US fintech and banking is a complete and utter shitshow.
Every time I see somebody use the word “seminal” unironically in a blog post or article I flashback to The Boys season finale where Homelander is furiously masturbating on a rooftop.
(That word doesn’t mean what you think it means.)
Hæ hó jibbíjei og jíbbíjei, það er kominn sautjándi júní
“Dialogs and shadow DOM: can we make it accessible? - Read the Tea Leaves”
“Reading the news is the new smoking - by Adam Mastroianni”
One day I’ll manage to quit reading the news.
“The collapse of complex software - Read the Tea Leaves”
Must read blog post of the week.
“The Spam Has Arrived - Miriam Eric Suzanne”
Tackbacks, pingbacks, webmentions—they all seem to handwave their way through the spam problem.