Usually, I only get the random unrelated tourism results in my duckduckgo searches, but the contagion has spread to Google now as well
I don’t know how Google got “Hotel in Breiðholt” from my query. I should have just searched directly in IMDB
“The Trouble with European Green Electricity Certificates - Industry Decarbonization Newsletter”
This system is so utterly fucking stupid. This is what we’re doing to fight the climate crisis? Sheesh.
“A (more) Modern CSS Reset - Piccalilli”
This is a very reasonable set of defaults. I disagree the list-style thing. Safari decision was based on what they heard from their users and I don’t think I have a strong enough case for my preference to override it
The rest is great, tho
Where I relentlessly mock “the world’s first AI-powered news network” for being such a dumb business idea that it’s indistinguishable from parody.
“Etsy lays off 225 workers after ‘essentially flat’ sales, says CEO”
Shrinking your profitable company—sabotaging its ability to function—to make it grow faster is obviously dumb, even without the tons of research and case studies that show it doesn’t work
You all will, perhaps, forgive me for having a bit of fun with this one.
I just published “Bad Business AI: Channel 1” over on the blog.
All about a tech industry staple: grand business ventures by people who genuinely don’t have a clue about what they’re doing.
That feeling when neat but way too complex project ideas stick in your head for days like persistent intrusive thoughts.
“The easiest way to get and set CSS Variables in JavaScript | Zell Liew”
“The Largest Money-Printing UI Element Ever Made - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
Nice to see this properly written up.
Seeing Mark Millar go all ComicsGate makes me glad that I’d mentally filed him away as a talentless asshole back in 1999.
Also funny to see friends who made fun of my dislike of Gervais and Millar twenty years ago finally cotton onto them
… the thing I call TDD might not quite be TDD. Also some speculation, and some other speculation.
‘Adactio: Journal—button invoketarget=”share”’
Considering that basic support for using invokers to drive popups and custom events is already on its way in all three major browser engines, this has a better than usual chance of happening
Has Mozilla lost interest in maintaining a browser? Every announcement I see from them these days is for some “AI” thing. Who in Mozilla’s management is the “AI” fanatic?
This is good news.
You know Christmas is drawing near when my neighbour has put the light-up Santa in the driver’s seat of his tractor.
“One YouTube Embed weighs almost 1.2 MB—zachleat.com”
Yikes.
You can tell that I’m a dev because my project ideas go from “that is nicely scoped and doable” to “I’m going to invent cold fusion with silly string, mustard, a beach ball, and 999 red light bulbs” in ten seconds flat
Irrational scope creep seems baked into the dev mindset 😅️
Finally got around to wiping my makeshift blackboard clear post-launch.
Yesterday’s newsletter broke my recent streak of, roughly, losing one subscriber a day for the past twenty days or so. Only four unsubscribes on a weekly newsletter! 🥳️🥂️🎉️
“Not-so-random pandemic thoughts on Author Platforms — As in guillotine…”
It’s an unfortunate truth about books that it’s never simply been about being a good writer