So this video is much better than it has any right to be. Long because it actually covers the subject. Highly recommend.
AFAICT, Iceland is the only country in the European Economic Area that doesn’t have Apple TV + or the Apple Book store. They’re the only major streaming service I know of who have excluded Iceland when rolling out to the Nordic countries
Did we piss off Tim Cook somehow? 😝
Building tools for thought that record ideas in the same form and shape as they are in your head is like building a shovel by replicating the shape of your hands. The tool you need has to have one end that fits you (the grip of the shovel) and one end that is shaped for the job.
“NFTs means the future value of art is zero – Terence Eden’s Blog”
“That’s Not What They Are Hearing”
Whenever I’ve said “I’m worried about X” to a manager what I’ve meant is “I think your decisions about X are misguided and borderline disastrous” but that’s never what they hear
“Stop paying tech debts, start maintaining code”
Changing the name of something businesses are fundamentally uninterested in doing won’t make them do it.
“A Deep CSS Dive Into Radial And Conic Gradients — Smashing Magazine”
Huge fan of conic gradients. Use them a lot in projects lately.
“Sampling bias, FDR, and The State of JS”
This blog post is much too kind to surveys like the various State of * efforts but it’s a start.
What on earth possessed the ChromeOS team to think that audio focus was a good idea? Not being able to play two videos at the same time or a video and audio is pretty damn limiting.
This is amazing. Eleventy provides a set of free API services you can use. And you can even self-host them on Netlify if you want.
“Adactio: Links—The computer built to last 50 years - ploum.net”
I have to confess that I may be stalking the local raven population. I count three in the neighbourhood. I think that they’re youths as they look a little bit bigger this winter than last. If I’m not imagining things
“Elided Branches: Structural Lessons in Engineering Management”
Reiterating a thought I had the other day: most of us know devs who creep us out to the point where we’d feel unsafe alone in a room with them. But we also routinely trust those same devs to maintain OSS dependencies we rely on.
Which seems… sub-optimal at best.