“WebKit Features in Safari 17.2 | WebKit”
Big fan of the custom highlights API as it would have saved me so much time in past projects. Too late to help those projects but good to know it’s there for future ones.
“Can we please talk about the user experience of this years reddit recap? : UXDesign”
This sort of bullshit is the norm for the software industry.
I have to say that I’ve been quite enjoying the new Doctor Who specials after having lost interest several years ago. RTD seems to have a handle on what makes the character and the world they inhabit interesting.
This week I’m thinking out loud about the itch to make something. And a few links.
“Television: one of the most audacious pranks in history was hidden in a hit TV show for years.”
I genuinely love this.
“Dear anonymous internet user asking for help.. - Bert Hubert’s writings”
The frosty weather makes the steam rising from the geothermal park next door quite a bit more visible.
‘“Human error” means they don’t understand how the system worked – Surfing Complexity’
“The surprising connection between after-hours work and decreased productivity | Slack”
Surprising? This is literally literally what almost every post-WW2 productivity study has told us and has been the consensus in work and organisational psychology since the seventies
So, Mastodon users are super fond of snitch tagging, huh?
I thought we had left that kind of shit behind at Twitter.
‘cohost! - “enshittification is what happens when a disney adult learns about captialism”’
enshittification is not what companies become, it’s what companies set out to be. enshittification is talked about as if it’s an affliction affecting capitalism, rather than the desired outcome.
“Correctly Configure (Pre) Connections – Harry Roberts – Web Performance Consultant”
I’ll need to update my post on the draft to note that the final version was watered down into uselessness.
I won’t ever buy one of these, but this is supremely cool.
“is-land Web Component—zachleat.com”
One of the more versatile custom elements around.
‘Google calls Drive data loss “fixed,” locks forum threads saying otherwise | Ars Technica’
One more incident and Google will have pulled a full “dysfunctional organisation falling apart because of ill-conceived lay-offs” hat trick
Medium has become the place where blog posts go to die, hasn’t it?
“Michael Tsai - Blog - FastSpring Risk Screening”
I had a very rough time dealing with payment providers initially. FastSpring has hidden costs. And I tried to get approved by Paddle multiple times, but they replied with “you and your products look like fraud” every time
“CSS Wrapped: 2023! | Blog | Chrome for Developers”
A lot of good stuff got cross-browser support this year.
“Please, Expose your RSS • Robb Knight”
I second this.
“The Invokers Are Coming Part II | That HTML Blog”
Very excited about this one since it looks like cross-browser support looks very likely.
“Is AI leading to a reproducibility crisis in science?”
“AI” research itself has had a massive reproducibility crisis for years. But the more these tools spread into other fields, the more those fields will be affected by the inherent snake-oil nature of “AI”
Who ever got promoted for deleting Google code? We revel in the code we have. It’s huge and complex.
A talk that Rob Pike held at Google in 2009
This one’s dedicated to all of the reply-guys on Mastodon 🙂️