Archive
2024-05-29: “An easing rule of thumb”
2024-05-23: “Update on the Layer Based SVG Engine (LBSE) in WebKit” This is looking really promising.
2024-05-23: Anybody who thought that OpenAI and Sam Altman were trustworthy before the recent drama has already …
2024-05-23: “Half-ass it | everything changes” This is excellent advice.
2024-05-23: “Boring is good” I don’t think it’s that much of a coincidence that I read this in NetNewsWire.
2024-05-23: Ran across this on social media I just used ChatGPT to generate a 300 character regex for me, saved …
2024-05-23: “I Need Your Help to Make 11ty Fully Independent and Sustainable in 2024—zachleat.com”
2024-05-22: “ongoing by Tim Bray · The Colors of Racism” Trollope’s writings and opinions were strikingly …
2024-05-22: “The most harmful belief I had as a beginner photographer — aows” Speaking of mental models that …
2024-05-22: “Forget Subtext – People Don’t Even Get Surtext – Terence Eden’s Blog” In my experience, …
2024-05-22: “Manton Reece - Yesterday’s AI thoughts” Two things worry me about this post: Explicitly …
2024-05-22: “My own little patch” It feels like things have descended in to a complete shitshow1 and are only …
2024-05-22: “WebAssembly: A promising technology that is quietly being enshitified” So we have this WASI thing …
2024-05-21: We really don’t make enough of the fact that you don’t need JS to make a nice website. Just HTML and …
2024-05-21: Steve Jobs second tenure at Apple was 1997-2011: 14 years Tim Cook’s run it for 13, 2011-2024 …
2024-05-21: “Apple Annie’s Weblog · Working for a Living When Your Living isn’t Working, Part IV” The …
2024-05-21: It’s almost as if Sam Altman has a history of disregarding consent.
2024-05-20: That feeling when you forget to update the timestamp for a blog post, which means that micro.blog in …
2024-05-20: “Relating Natural Language Aptitude to Individual Differences in Learning Programming Languages | …
2024-05-20: “Updating from macOS Ventura to Sonoma silently enables iCloud Keychain”
2024-05-20: “Complicated Sticks. – Faster and Worse” The more complex the product, the more potential it has to …
2024-05-20: “Google Cloud shows it can break things for lots of customers • The Register” Like I said when the …
2024-05-19: That feeling when somebody asks a question on a private mailing list (one that’s usually …
2024-05-19: “Some of my Eleventy Filters · Chris Burnell”
2024-05-19: “Apple Annie’s Weblog · A Community of Concerns”
2024-05-18: Neighbour doing the rounds in the garden #caturday
2024-05-18: “iOS 17.5 Bug May Also Resurface Deleted Photos on Wiped, Sold Devices - MacRumors” 😬😱😭
2024-05-18: “The Future of 11ty (2024)—zachleat.com”
2024-05-17: Only lasted for a moment
2024-05-17: I really don’t want to give up on the community on micro.blog but the constant reliability …
2024-05-17: micro.blog has just given up on trying to reliably cross-post, I see
2024-05-17: But, dammit, I can’t. I love them too much. I am drawn back over and over and I’m in the bag. Not …
2024-05-17: Making a note of all the “expert” commentators who seem genuinely surprised at the resistance “AI” …
2024-05-17: “How Makers of Nonconsensual AI Porn Make a Living on Patreon”
2024-05-17: “Known Purpose and Trusted Potential. – Faster and Worse”
2024-05-16: “The New Golden Age of Black and White Photography - Photography | PentaxForums.com” If I had a …
2024-05-16: “Adactio: Journal—Baseline progressive enhancement” Yet again, Jeremy says what I was thinking.
2024-05-16: “People seem to be tired of reboots and superheroes. What can we do?” “We could foster original work …
2024-05-15: “The four causes of writer’s block and what to do about them — Chocolate and Vodka”
2024-05-15: “The Great Paradox of the U.S. Market!” the best guess is still that this second investment bubble …
2024-05-15: “A.I. and the Silicon Valley Hype Machine” Given these constraints, it seems just as likely to me …
2024-05-15: “The wrong way to do Web Components | Go Make Things”
2024-05-15: “‘Magical thinking’: hopes for sustainable jet fuel not realistic, report finds | Greenhouse gas …
2024-05-14: “Money (That’s What I Want)“ The tl;dr of this newsletter is: It’s difficult to do social …
2024-05-14: “Dark mode & accessibility myth by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer.” I’m biased …
2024-05-14: “WebKit Features in Safari 17.5” starting-style looks like a prime candidate for progressive …
2024-05-14: “An Organizer’s Retrospective on the 11ty Conference—zachleat.com”
2024-05-14: “Why Patching Globals Is Harmful - kettanaito.com”
2024-05-13: “Squarespace to go private in $7 billion private-equity deal” 😬
2024-05-13: You can immediately tell who is using Linkedin’s “AI” features for writing …
2024-05-13: “The Collapse Is Coming. Will Humanity Adapt?” what we’re dealing with is what is …
2024-05-13: “How Good, Kind, Caring People Became The Bad Guys” IMO the conclusion here is that most people who …
2024-05-13: So far, I’m honestly enjoying the new Doctor Who more than any other iteration of the series …
2024-05-13: “Crush!” Apple came along and handed us a perfect visual metaphor for one of our most …
2024-05-13: “Roger Corman, R.I.P. – News From ME” Mark Evanier on Roger Corman
2024-05-13: “Largest Year–Over-Year Gain in Keeling Curve Set in March” This is why I think posting about how …
2024-05-12: One of the things that the Stack Overflow brouhaha demonstrates is that it doesn’t matter if a …
2024-05-12: Every time I scroll through my social media I see a couple instances of “hey, I had a bad idea which …
2024-05-12: “Weekly Roundup #3 — Possum Edition | Ryan Trimble, UX/UI developer” Covers the recent 11ty …
2024-05-12: “Accomplishment vs. Achievement - by John Warner”
2024-05-12: “Roger Corman – cinema’s pulp genius whose talent to shock was rocket fuel” Aw, man. Roger …
2024-05-11: And, bonus #caturday, this neighbour came for a short visit and did a routine inspection tour of the …
2024-05-11: Kolka, my sister’s cat, having a very relaxed weekend. #caturday
2024-05-10: “Luxembourg Copyright Case Against Jeff Dieschburg - Jingna Zhang Fashion, Fine Art & Beauty …
2024-05-10: “Apple Annie’s Weblog · CSS Color Modules and Changes, Part I”
2024-05-10: “Modularity: Enabling Interoperability and Competition”
2024-05-10: Whenever a company has reached a point where a very bad idea can wind its way all the way from …
2024-05-09: “Let’s dissect Apple’s terrible iPad ad and see what it says about understanding your …
2024-05-09: The nice thing about remote conferences is I can follow them while still enjoying the spring weather …
2024-05-09: “11ty’s International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good” Following this now.
2024-05-09: “Five Things: May 9, 2024 — As in guillotine…”
2024-05-09: One of the more annoying things about modern tech and media is just how badly it’s all thought out. …
2024-05-09: “Don’t publish slop”. Everybody agrees. Every dev in sight pats each other on the back. Programmers …
2024-05-08: “Browsers imply noopener for links in new tab”
2024-05-08: “More layoffs for the flutter team 😬 : FlutterDev” This thread on reddit on Google sacking a part of …
2024-05-08: “Bookending | everything changes”
2024-05-08: “Adactio: Articles—Declarative Design”
2024-05-07: “Word Count 74: Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist, reader surveys, do people buy books? — …
2024-05-07: “Modern WordPress - Yikes!“ Am I going crazy? Is this not the most utterly bizarre chimera of …
2024-05-07: I know it’s probably unfair of me, but when one of the presidential candidates here in Iceland …
2024-05-07: “The tech industry doesn’t deserve optimism it has earned skepticism” I’d go even further and …
2024-05-07: “I’ve had this thought but never put it into words. | Apple Annie’s Microblog” Yeah. This.
2024-05-06: Wanna guess what path the neighbourhood cats always take when cutting through this patch of grass to …
2024-05-06: “Misconceptions about CSS Specificity – Bram.us”
2024-05-05: “What Elon Musk’s favorite game tells us about him” I like Polytopia. It’s the sort of game …
2024-05-05: Some context for those reading my essays: Iceland is union country. Union membership in the …
2024-05-05: Took this one yesterday in Hveragerði’s small park next to the river.
2024-05-05: “Twitter reply guys were bad, but Mastodon is no better - localghost” This is, unfortunately, …
2024-05-05: Here I was watching the replies pour in on a moderately popular post on Mastodon and thinking, …
2024-05-04: “What Happens When a Romance Writer Gets Locked Out of Google Docs” Honestly not sure …
2024-05-04: This neighbour came for a short visit earlier and seemed to be in good spirits. #caturday
2024-05-04: The flip side to “Europeans are lazy and don’t work hard” is that we’re able to maintain a modern …
2024-05-04: “Graph: Growing number of threats leveraging Microsoft API | Symantec Enterprise Blogs” As I’ve said …
2024-05-02: There is an upside to how dysfunctional Google has become in it’s post-layoff all-in-on-Ai era. For …
2024-05-02: “Heat Death of the Internet - takahē”
2024-05-02: About half of the new weirdness we’re all encountering in our software services (like GitHub …
2024-05-01: “Resisting the lure of research — Chocolate and Vodka”
2024-05-01: “Social media 1, ChatGPT 0”
2024-05-01: It’s telling so many in tech think the only reason for being against something like cryptocoins or …
2024-05-01: Today is International Worker’s Day, known as Labour Day in most countries. The date was originally …
2024-05-01: “Turning Off Adobe Acrobat’s AI Assistant - Words by Wes”
2024-04-30: “Custom Element Naming | BitWorking” I didn’t have an opinion on this but I’m seeing his point.
2024-04-30: How many companies adopted MongoDB because “it’s the future!” and are now stuck …
2024-04-30: “Adactio: Journal—My approach to HTML web components”
2024-04-30: “Why monopolies are harmful” Remember, pretty much all of tech is either a monopoly or oligopoly. …
2024-04-30: “Managing Up” Like I’ve been saying for a while, like a broken record—that makes sense to people …
2024-04-29: “How do you accidentally run for President of Iceland? | by Anna Andersen” Glad somebody wrote about …
2024-04-29: “Ex-Amazon Was Told to Ignore Law to Develop AI Faster: Lawsuit” I’m not surprised.
2024-04-29: “The polish paradox” The more you polish, the less you see
2024-04-29: “Thoughts on Cosmotechnics - daverupert.com”
2024-04-29: “Luke Kanies | Why We Hate Working for Big Companies”
2024-04-29: Please stop using generated art for thumbnails and illustrations for videos and blog posts that …
2024-04-28: Fun how context is important for making sense of language. Like the phrase “they live in the valley, …
2024-04-28: “Why Would I Buy This Useless, Evil Thing? - Aftermath” This x1000. Just… why?
2024-04-28: Google laid off their python lang team. This is a bad idea: Google is all-in on “AI” and python is …
2024-04-27: “Surviving the AI Summer. When I was in grad school in the 1990s… | by Amy Bruckman | Apr, 2024 | …
2024-04-27: One of the worst things that can happen to a new idea for reforming software development is to have …
2024-04-27: “So much than by the end of 2020, the CEO quietly told me to follow the growth team plans and shut …
2024-04-27: “Passkeys: A Shattered Dream” This feels broadly accurate. The UX for passkeys is, well… unusable.
2024-04-26: That feeling when you do a customer survey for a SaaS investigating generative model features and …
2024-04-26: “Five Things: April 25, 2024 — As in guillotine…”
2024-04-26: I’m thinking “says it’s a good idea to ban TikTok” is my new rubric for assessing whether somebody …
2024-04-26: “Scalable Extraction of Training Data from (Production) Language Models” We show an adversary can …
2024-04-25: So, it turns out that my granddad’s taste in leisure reading was way more interesting before he went …
2024-04-25: At my grandma’s place for the first day of summer (it’s an Icelandic thing) listening to her tell …
2024-04-25: “Neurodiversity and UX: Essential Resources for Cognitive Accessibility by Stéphanie Walter - UX …
2024-04-25: “The many (many) ways I’ve backdoored your dependencies and other supply chain attacks”
2024-04-25: “Why Meta Stock Is Plummetting After Earnings Beat Expectations - Barron’s” The problem with using …
2024-04-24: “Slingshot. — Ethan Marcotte”
2024-04-24: “Civil War (the movie) is a blunt object. - by Dave Karpf” This review makes me actually want to go …
2024-04-24: “Spotify CEO Daniel Ek surprised at negative impact of laying off 1,500 Spotify employees | Fortune” …
2024-04-24: It’ll be interesting to see next week what effect posting pro-worker stuff next week on …
2024-04-24: ‘The Labor Movement Must Learn How to Exploit “Choke Points”’ This seems broadly appropriate as …
2024-04-24: “The Aura of Care. – Faster and Worse”
2024-04-24: “The Man Who Killed Google Search”
2024-04-23: “Word Count 73: Write Start competition, an ecofont saves trees, the Origin Story of zombies — …
2024-04-23: Reminder: mass layoffs usually trigger a cycle of dysfunction. So, to take a hypothetical example, …
2024-04-23: “WSJ: The AI industry spent 17x more on Nvidia chips than it brought in in revenue” Linking to a …
2024-04-22: 99% of tech social media: “I like this thing, but people say it’s bad so here is a list of …
2024-04-22: “BFCache explained”
2024-04-21: I know it’s unrealistic to feel this way, but it’s always disappointing when you get …
2024-04-21: “Moving on from Mocha, Chai and nyc.” Yup, for node dev at least “node –test” and …
2024-04-21: “GitHub - ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt: A list of AI agents and robots to block.”
2024-04-21: “Considerations for AI Opt-Out” Good overview of the state of play.
2024-04-21: “GitHub comments abused to push malware via Microsoft repo URLs” JFC.
2024-04-20: For today’s #caturday, a few pictures from late 2022 when Kolka had just recently arrived at my …
2024-04-20: “No tech for apartheid is within its rights to protest”
2024-04-20: Looking at their reaction to US anti-trust action, EU regulations, and the AI Bubble and it feels …
2024-04-20: “Scientists push new paradigm of animal consciousness” This is what I discovered while researching …
2024-04-20: “You can’t stop AI crime and abuse now! The genie is out of the bottle!” It costs literal billions, …
2024-04-19: “On giant piles of cash, and their origins - by Dave Karpf” The trouble with venture capital is …
2024-04-19: “The Life and Death of Hollywood: Film and television writers face an existential …
2024-04-19: “What you see | everything changes”
2024-04-19: “Join the Crew! | Go Make Things”
2024-04-19: “Struggling with a Moral Panic Once Again | by danah boyd | Apr, 2024 | Medium”
2024-04-19: I keep seeing people talk about using generative models with very low accuracy and success rates. I …
2024-04-19: Reading through recent discourse relating to both Google’s actions and other protests… And, fuck me, …
2024-04-19: “Kids don’t need to get sick to be healthy”
2024-04-19: “I spoke with a Google worker fired for protesting a $1.2 billion contract with Israel” Yeah, this …
2024-04-18: This seems to be the day for typos and grammatical errors in everything I do everywhere. 🙃
2024-04-18: “Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract - The Verge” Welp.
2024-04-17: “AI isn’t useless. But is it worth it?” they do a poor job of much of what people try to do …
2024-04-17: “Craft vs Industry: Separating Concerns” I think it would be incredibly unwise and hubristic to …
2024-04-17: “Claws for Debate – Part 3 – News From ME” But since ‘42, creator credits and writing credits …
2024-04-17: “We Need To Rewild The Internet” When we simplify complex systems, we destroy them, and the …
2024-04-17: “Avoiding hero work pays off in the long run - Duck Alignment Academy”
2024-04-17: Seeing tech people’s hyperbolic response to an incredibly kind and generous youtube review of a …
2024-04-17: “What to do when your mind is blank — Chocolate and Vodka”
2024-04-17: “A Meta-Review of the Summer 2023 Microsoft Exchange Online Intrusion” Microsoft isn’t alone in …
2024-04-16: “Why the US government’s overreliance on Microsoft is a big problem | Ars Technica” It was another …
2024-04-16: I always feel a little bit guilty when me walking into the kitchen startles a bird at the balcony …
2024-04-16: Gonna go over to Linkedin and repost some “AI” sceptics to see if that’ll stem the tide connection …
2024-04-16: Trying to spot the peak of a bubble is an exercise in futility. Things can always stay irrational …
2024-04-16: “Why I’m yet another woman leaving the tech industry | by Chelsey Glasson | Apr, 2024 | UX …
2024-04-16: “‘Means of Control’ – Pixel Envy”
2024-04-16: “On AI agents: how are these digital butlers supposed to get paid?” The promise of personalization …
2024-04-15: “Open Source Security (OpenSSF) and OpenJS Foundations Issue Alert for Social Engineering Takeovers …
2024-04-15: From yesterday, a question for you all: “What would you like to learn from me?” …
2024-04-15: “What Precious Things Does The Corporate World Steal From Us? — Ludicity” Something I spend a lot …
2024-04-15: “What Precious Things Does The Corporate World Steal From Us? — Ludicity” The feeling of suddenly …
2024-04-15: “Faster Connectivity !== Faster Websites - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2024-04-15: “MDN’s AI Help and lucid lies - Seirdy” Mozilla’s shift to “AI everything all the time” is nothing …
2024-04-15: “Blockin’ bots. — Ethan Marcotte”
2024-04-15: “Linux Elitism…Again | Kev Quirk” This simultaneously does not surprise me and disappoints …
2024-04-14: This is the local cat shelter here in Hveragerði. Looks like it has a new occupant, but hopefully …
2024-04-14: So, blog followers and you all on social media are getting tomorrow’s newsletter entry a bit …
2024-04-14: The thing to do when you go out for a walk with only a funky antique lens on our camera like I did …
2024-04-14: “Creative Good: Big Tech’s corruption was 25 years in the making” Mistreating customers, exploiting …
2024-04-14: “Move at the speed of trust | A Working Library”
2024-04-14: “Society of Authors survey reveals a third of translators and quarter of illustrators losing work to …
2024-04-13: “Joe Russo: Artificial Intelligence Will Create Movies in Two Years” AI will be able to “actually …
2024-04-13: These I felt worked a bit better in black and white.
2024-04-13: Took my camera with an “antique” lens (70s/80s is antique now, right?) out on my “clear my head of …
2024-04-13: “Back up everything: corps don’t care about your data but you should” This. Back up your stuff.
2024-04-13: For today’s #caturday post, another batch of photos from my sister of her cat Kolka, a …
2024-04-13: Consultancy that has spent the past year hyping up “AI” solutions as the next big thing, up to and …
2024-04-13: “Google Contract Shows Deal With Israel Defense Ministry | TIME”
2024-04-12: “Phil vs. LLMs - Funranium Labs” As I said back during the whole “use generative models to identify …
2024-04-12: Kinda weird to see the resources I made and posts I wrote last year on generative models finally do …
2024-04-12: Posting “Here’s what ChatGPT has to say about your blog post” in a reply that mentions me is an …
2024-04-12: “More collegiate FOMO • Buttondown” AI Hype is Warping How Universities See Themselves
2024-04-11: “I want to elevate more people with Piccalilli Links - Piccalilli”
2024-04-11: “Five Things: April 11, 2024 — As in guillotine…” Every comics publisher, platform, or …
2024-04-11: “Robin Rendle — Good and useful writing” The most important lesson that blogging taught me is that …
2024-04-11: If you have the right to vote in Iceland, then this might be of interest island.is/undirskri…
2024-04-11: Made the mistake of reading through a discussion between publishing types on an …
2024-04-11: “Toward inquiry | A Working Library” I want to reinforce that phrasing—moving away from decree and …
2024-04-10: “Adactio: Journal—Ad revenue” The important point: behavioural ads aren’t actually more effective …
2024-04-10: It took micro.blog over three hours to publish the posts I made this morning. And it seems to have …
2024-04-10: Now we’re up to an hour of half a dozen micro.blog posts being stuck. They look published in the …
2024-04-10: WTF? micro.blog suddenly stopped publishing my posts? I really do like the community on micro.blog, …
2024-04-10: “A Few thoughts on FOSS Sustainability”
2024-04-10: “Intel is oddly enthusiast about AI replacing everyone’s jobs” “Oddly”? This is the point and …
2024-04-10: “You Are What You Read, Even If You Don’t Always Remember It - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” This is the truth
2024-04-10: “Apple Annie’s Weblog · Owning your content is owning yourself.” Yup
2024-04-09: Last one for today: Generative models, like bitcoin, are radical political projects seeking to …
2024-04-09: It’s almost as if tech industry discourse is being purpose-tailored for needling me into …
2024-04-08: Trying a new thing with the newsletter this week. Instead of bundling everything in the newsletter …
2024-04-08: So far, AI hasn’t been profitable for Big Tech | Ars Technica the cost to Microsoft exceeds $20 a …
2024-04-07: That feeling when the Icelandic spelling of a word leaks into your English writing. (The letters ‘C’ …
2024-04-07: “Critics keep talking as if it’s useles, but it isn’t. It’s cheap and even though it has some flaws, …
2024-04-05: “Inconsistency is a feature, not a bug – Terence Eden’s Blog” The thing that makes Google’s later …
2024-04-05: “The Assist @ Things Of Interest” AI coding assistance seems like an addition, but it actually …
2024-04-05: “Can Using a Grammar Checker Set Off AI-Detection Software? | EdSurge News” “AI” checkers don’t …
2024-04-04: “Thoughts on embedding alternative text metadata into images – Eric Bailey”
2024-04-04: Seeing so many people who I previously considered smart and sensible convince themselves that a …
2024-04-03: Just saw somebody on a mailing list describe “AI” sceptics as performative contrarians …
2024-04-03: “Doing their hype for them • Buttondown” The central claim of the tech companies selling LLMs is …
2024-04-03: “The most beautiful word in the world is ‘No’ — Chocolate and Vodka” This whole post is very …
2024-04-03: “This inherently bad technology whose consequences are overwhelmingly negative has affected me, but …
2024-04-03: “DHS report rips Microsoft for ‘cascade’ of errors in China hack - The Washington Post” Microsoft …
2024-04-03: “Jon Stewart Confirms Apple Wouldn’t Let Him Do Show on AI With FTC Chair” ‘Tech co doesn’t …
2024-04-03: “Substack Is Setting Writers Up For A Twitter-Style Implosion – Home With The Armadillo”
2024-04-02: “How we’re approaching theming with modern CSS - Piccalilli”
2024-04-02: “You Are All On The Hobbyists Maintainers’ Turf Now” I’ve been saying for a while that commercial …
2024-04-01: “’I’m not a cynic, I’m disappointed’ – the ‘Software Crisis’ Easter Sale – …
2024-04-01: “Don’t modernize your code just for the heck of it | Go Make Things” This. “Modernising” a …
2024-04-01: Once I realised that quite a few people not only don’t enjoy reading or writing, many actually …
2024-04-01: Ah, fuck. It’s “post lies without a fucking punchline and pretend it’s funny, only for this shit to …
2024-04-01: “Antitrust, Meta, Apple and more | Ian Betteridge” But governments mandate how products are …
2024-03-31: “using chatgpt and other ai writing tools makes you unhireable. here’s why | by Doc Burford | …
2024-03-31: “EU votes to ban riskiest forms of AI and impose restrictions on others | Ars Technica” The …
2024-03-31: “a lot of people think auteur theory is bad, but the truth is way, way funnier than they realize. …
2024-03-31: ”the biggest threat facing your team, whether you’re a game developer or a tech founder or a CEO, is …
2024-03-30: My sister just sent me another batch of photos of her cat, Kolka, who is very much enjoying the …
2024-03-30: At some point, all these articles analysing LLMs by comparison to this or that prior tech will force …
2024-03-30: “Prototypes, production & fidelity layers | Trys Mudford”
2024-03-30: “On disabled and aria-disabled attributes | Kitty Giraudel”
2024-03-30: “Front-end development’s identity crisis - Elly Loel” There is no choice anymore, I can’t escape …
2024-03-30: “Understanding Software – Ceejbot’s notes” Why? Because communication is, as we nerds like to …
2024-03-30: “The Miseducation of Kara Swisher | Edward Ongweso Jr.”
2024-03-29: “Are large language models on the trajectory of word processing or digital advertising?”
2024-03-29: “NYC AI Chatbot Touted by Adams Tells Businesses to Break the Law | THE CITY — NYC News” This was …
2024-03-29: “Debunking the Myths of Robert Capa on D-Day | PetaPixel” This is all kinds of interesting.
2024-03-29: “Women’s faces stolen for AI ads selling ED pills and praising Putin - The Washington Post” 😬
2024-03-28: “Fill up those praise folders | everything changes”
2024-03-28: micro.blog gets the character count wrong for bluesky crossposting frustratingly often. (And it …
2024-03-28: “AI bots hallucinate software packages and devs download them” As I pointed out recently, the …
2024-03-28: “We’ve been here before: AI promised humanlike machines – in 1958”
2024-03-27: “The Case for Design Engineers, Pt. III - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” But the creative process is not an …
2024-03-27: “Adactio: Journal—Who knows?” This is why just-in-time research is the only way to go. Don’t try to …
2024-03-27: “We have a content quality problem, not a content quantity problem // Cory Dransfeldt”
2024-03-27: Because the pundits are unclear on this A non-compliance investigation by a regulator is not done to …
2024-03-27: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Movie Piracy App Tops App Store Charts” Michael gathers together the latest …
2024-03-27: “Windows users don’t want Copilot on their taskbar; they want it in the bin. - MSPoweruser”
2024-03-26: “Word Count 71: Catch up with Dean Burnett, new BBC training scheme, Gary Gibson on building a …
2024-03-26: It’s interesting that whenever an “AI” article of mine does the rounds, the bit …
2024-03-26: It’s become clear over the past few years is that the job of the journalists and punditry that tech …
2024-03-26: Capitalism Is Dead – Long Live Capital — Crooked Timber I find the insight that we no longer live …
2024-03-26: “Welcome to Canva, Affinity!” I can’t help but worry about this
2024-03-26: “Google’s AI Search Caught Pushing Users to Download Malware”
2024-03-25: “Apple, Meta, and Google targeted by EU in DMA non-compliance investigations - The Verge” Apple …
2024-03-25: “Robin Rendle — I love invokers and you should too” I really really would like Invokers to get …
2024-03-25: “Robin Rendle — :has roundup”
2024-03-25: “The Allure of Local-First Sync Engines - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” I need to brush the dust off my design …
2024-03-25: “It’s A Training Problem - Funranium Labs”
2024-03-24: “Entertainment expert claims “nobody’s watching Apple TV Plus”, suggesting numbers …
2024-03-24: “Radio noise | A Working Library”
2024-03-24: “Building engineering”
2024-03-23: Met this friend while on my mental health walk.
2024-03-23: “A few thoughts on the Apple DOJ antitrust case, from someone who isn’t riding his first rodeo | Ian …
2024-03-23: “Adactio: Links—a view source web”
2024-03-23: “The long and winding road to implement the AI Act – Euractiv”
2024-03-23: Yesterday I followed watching Road House—fun, bit silly, carried by a very charming lead—yesterday …
2024-03-22: Debating the usefulness of LLMs is kind of futile because people rarely appreciate the difference …
2024-03-22: “Why legacy code rewrites are the hardest job in software: A guide to decide whether to rewrite vs. …
2024-03-22: “The negotiation cycle. — Ethan Marcotte” Our tools keep getting updated, processes become more …
2024-03-22: “It’s not about the 30 percent – tyler.io”
2024-03-22: “The Foo Fighters’ AIDS denialism should be on the record | by Schwartz Media”
2024-03-21: “On popover accessibility: what the browser does and doesn’t do” I really, really …
2024-03-21: I’m guessing Gruber will find some way to blame this on the EU “Apple sued by Biden …
2024-03-21: “The creator economy trap: why building on someone else’s platform is a dead end — Joan …
2024-03-20: Finally, a presidential candidate here in Iceland that I can vote for. Exactly the right sort of …
2024-03-20: “What if the doors to the creative industry are all closed?” They used to say in comics that every …
2024-03-20: Now when I see an utterly incorrect statement in a web dev post, it’s hard to tell if it’s a …
2024-03-20: “John Romero doesn’t believe in prototypes - daverupert.com”
2024-03-19: My next blog/newsletter entry isn’t going to be a fun read, I think. Hope I can get it done …
2024-03-19: One of the infuriating aspects of the various electron and chromium-based editors out there is the …
2024-03-19: “CSS Button Styles You Might Not Know – David Bushell – Freelance Web Design (UK)”
2024-03-19: “Adactio: Journal—What the world needs” This. Me, I write primarily to explain and clarify ideas to …
2024-03-19: “There is no EU cookie banner law” But also because, while people think terrible …
2024-03-19: “Auto-margin works with absolute positioned elements | Stefan Judis Web Development”
2024-03-19: I used to call myself an Apple fan, but I’m clearly not unhinged enough to qualify these days. …
2024-03-19: “Amazon’s Big Secret - The Atlantic”
2024-03-18: Just seen somebody describe Gary Marcus as “critical” of AI, which is very 🤨 Gary Marcus …
2024-03-18: “require(esm) in Node.js | Joyee Cheung’s Blog” Kind of interesting to think how sometimes it …
2024-03-18: “Amazon buys nuclear-powered data centre from Talen - Nuclear Engineering International” The other …
2024-03-18: As if I needed more reasons to hate Shopify. (Trying out Ubuntu and hadn’t updated Firefox. …
2024-03-18: “The growing backlash against AI” In this way “AI” is deeply dehumanizing: Making the spaces and …
2024-03-18: “The most important goal in designing software is understandability”
2024-03-17: Whenever I see a pundit claim you can’t make a good Progressive Web App implying that Apple’s …
2024-03-17: “Why single vendor is the new proprietary - OpenSource.net”
2024-03-17: “Today’s AI is unreasonable. - Anil Dash” I still fundamentally distrust Anil Dash’s judgement …
2024-03-17: “Volcanic eruption on Reykjanes Peninsula - RÚV.is” As always, the best places for accurate updates …
2024-03-16: “FTC inquires about Reddit’s AI deals, ahead of IPO” Acquiring user’s personal data for one …
2024-03-15: “This invasive and manipulative service is out-competing our domestic invasive and manipulative …
2024-03-15: “Apple Annie’s Weblog · Creating 3x5.pics”
2024-03-15: I’m guessing this means springs not here yet…………
2024-03-14: “The Ultimate Ideal Bestest Base Font Size That Everyone Is Keeping a Secret, Especially Chet — …
2024-03-14: “How We Fund the Web Ecosystem”
2024-03-14: “Report: Most Subscription-Based Apps Do Not Make Money - MacRumors” the median monthly revenue for …
2024-03-14: “Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology” Always post when somebody finds Gunpei Yokoi and …
2024-03-14: How would anybody notice if Google “crippled search in the EU”? Dysfunctional is already its default …
2024-03-14: “Google’s Gen AI Search Threatens Publishers With $2B Annual Ad Revenue Loss” Hard to see how …
2024-03-13: “Following Links - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” I always try to follow links. You always end up somewhere …
2024-03-13: “Features lost across versions of macOS - TidBITS Talk” I mean, they aren’t wrong. The list is kind …
2024-03-13: My guess is the duration of the AI Bubble in any given industry is going to be proportional to how …
2024-03-13: “A generation of design leaders grapples with their future” Between “let’s get rid of all the …
2024-03-13: “Gender Bias in Tech: 73% of Women Report Experiencing Discrimination | HackerNoon” None of this …
2024-03-12: Web dev: constantly figuring out new ways for people to experience the joy and perfection that is …
2024-03-12: Starlings dropping by for a visit
2024-03-12: Putting together the blog post collection has meant trying to find old links in the Wayback Machine …
2024-03-12: Tech talking about anti-trust regulation conveniently ignores the AT&T and IBM consent decrees …
2024-03-12: “Thoughts on embedding alternative text metadata into images – Eric Bailey”
2024-03-12: “Artists Sell Themselves So Cheap” Artists don’t sell themselves cheap. If you as a rich …
2024-03-11: As I was going through my archives to find essays to include in the collection, I came across this …
2024-03-11: As an experiment, I’ve been putting together a collection of the least bad of my online …
2024-03-11: “Ice farming and web development | Go Make Things”
2024-03-11: “Getting rid of crap data - Gerry McGovern”
2024-03-11: If I hadn’t spotted the starlings raiding the bird feed yesterday, I’d know that they’d been there …
2024-03-11: Me checking the weekly email from plausible analytics: “Oh, that seems unusually low—wait! Is that a …
2024-03-10: Is somebody keeping a list of all of the Youtubers who have “retired” or dialled down …
2024-03-10: These two neighbours of mine, siblings, were out playing in the sun today.
2024-03-10: “Microsoft says Kremlin-backed hackers accessed its source and internal systems | Ars Technica” …
2024-03-10: “Research Suggests A Large Proportion Of Web Material In Languages Other Than English Is Machine …
2024-03-10: “My Books Keep Getting Banned (An Update) — Malinda Lo”
2024-03-09: Mental health walk 💪🏻
2024-03-09: “Access by a thousand curb cuts · Eric Eggert”
2024-03-09: Going through old photos from my iPhone era (the gap between my Canon era and my Fuji era) for …
2024-03-09: My sister has sent me another batch of photos of her cat, Kolka, being very relaxed. Hard to imagine …
2024-03-09: “Epic’s App Store developer account restored in Europe once again – Six Colors” Turns out you can’t …
2024-03-08: “The quiet, pervasive devaluation of frontend - Josh Collinsworth blog”
2024-03-08: “Nielsen needs to think again - Tink - Léonie Watson”
2024-03-08: “Ian Betteridge - On Apple terminating Epic’s E.U. Developer Account”
2024-03-08: “Muse retrospective” I have too many thoughts on this but the short version is that while it’s a …
2024-03-08: “I wonder if I have room for more in this post, what’s the character count at?” (The character count …
2024-03-07: Just realised that this year it’ll be 27 years since I first began to post short essays to a …
2024-03-07: That feeling when you have a look at Linkedin and see a former boss write about how LLMs mean the …
2024-03-07: “Why Anthony Hobday’s sentence-style form is bad UX (and what to do instead) – Adam Silver – …
2024-03-07: Updating my iPad has repaced the frustrating obvious autocomplete errors with an equal amount of …
2024-03-07: “The Money Is In All The Wrong Places | Defector” The reality is that the people with the most …
2024-03-07: “The Public Is Rapidly Turning Against AI, Polling Shows” That an extremely biased poll (76% of the …
2024-03-06: “Churn” The main reason Web Components aren’t going to save you from the JS treadmill, however, is …
2024-03-06: “I know this project has 100% unit testing coverage and I’m using schema validation for …
2024-03-06: “Many services are doing this. | Apple Annie’s Microblog” This is so annoying. Even when you aren’t …
2024-03-06: “WebKit Features in Safari 17.4 | WebKit” One of the tragedies of Apple’s overall hostility towards …
2024-03-06: “The work of creation in the age of AI | Andrew Perfors” AI is the junk food of meaning-making in …
2024-03-06: “Is GenAI’s Impact on Productivity Overblown?” One of the cases where the answer to the heading is …
2024-03-05: Updated my iPad and now the micro.blog share extension stopped working, doesn’t even manage to pop …
2024-03-04: “On having good taste” But, of course, what is considered to be good taste is inherently about …
2024-03-04: “Independent investigation into Söngvakeppnin demanded - RÚV.is” I bet that *chan-style assholes in …
2024-03-04: “Bugs I’ve filed on browsers | Read the Tea Leaves”
2024-03-04: “An Anti-Defense of Science Fiction – Ancillary Review of Books” However, it’s much more common …
2024-03-03: On a lighter note. This neighbour came for a visit yesterday. Did an inspection of the flat. Checked …
2024-03-03: “No more forever projects — Diana Kimball Berlin” This is an aspect of creating book-like objects …
2024-03-02: Met office here is saying that an eruption is probably about to start, based on the seismic activity …
2024-03-02: “npm-free LiveReload(ish): Simple scripts for asset watching and auto-reload in the browser - Ross …
2024-03-02: “AI worms can spread through generative AI-powered emails. - The Verge” If only somebody could have …
2024-03-02: “Automattic Is Doing Some Weird Stuff With Users’ Public Data – Pixel Envy”
2024-03-01: ‘“AI” and accessible front-end components: is the nuance generatable? | hidde.blog’
2024-03-01: Already really tired of all of the shoddy thinking on “AI” that’s popping up everywhere. And we’re …
2024-03-01: “Generative. — Ethan Marcotte” Everything in the reading list up to Ursula Franklin is for context, …
2024-03-01: “ongoing by Tim Bray · Money Bubble” Things have been too good for too long in InvestorWorld: low …
2024-03-01: Always surprised at how many intelligent people in tech genuinely believe any problem becomes …
2024-03-01: ‘Notes from “Why Can’t We Make Simple Software?” By Peter van Hardenberg - Jim Nielsen’s Blog’
2024-02-29: “Care”
2024-02-29: “Exists is the enemy of good” This idea is pretty simple, in principle: sometimes we miss a …
2024-02-29: “Where I’m at on the whole CSS-Tricks thing – Chris Coyier”
2024-02-29: “Platforms are selling your work to AI vendors with impunity. They need to stop.”
2024-02-29: Wached a recommended film youtuber after googling to make sure that they weren’t a rabid …
2024-02-28: You can argue against the EU’s efforts at regulation all you like, but when Apple time and time …
2024-02-28: “On Being an Outlier - Gegenüber - Goethe-Institut” For disabled people, it has been viscerally, …
2024-02-28: “More Files Please - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” This is the thing that’s missing from the web because …
2024-02-28: “AI and Democracy”
2024-02-28: “No big surprise, Matt does it again.” Turns out free/open source software isn’t immune to the …
2024-02-28: ‘The Stubborn Myth of “Learning Styles” - Education Next’ It seems harmless enough, but when …
2024-02-27: ‘The Automattic “AI” thing’ But Automattic has shown their true colors and this goes …
2024-02-27: “AI Videos: Creepy, Boring, Remixed” There are so many AI-generated images out there and they all …
2024-02-27: “Chris’ Corner: Some AdviCSS – CodePen”
2024-02-26: “What the heck is going on with the UX job market?” This doesn’t look particularly good.
2024-02-25: Watched The Lion in Winter yesterday for the first time, and—damn—if it doesn’t have some of the …
2024-02-24: And a couple of shots of one of the local ravens in transit.
2024-02-24: Photos from today’s mental health walk. Scenes near Varmá river here in Hveragerði.
2024-02-24: For today’s #caturday, vintage cat photos. These are photos my sister took of the cat we had …
2024-02-23: “JavaScript Bloat in 2024 @ tonsky.me” This is obscene. JS payloads this big are just outright …
2024-02-23: “Event currentTarget to the rescue - Piccalilli” This is a classic problem that appears regularly. …
2024-02-22: Debating business issues, such as the business risks of generative models, standardisation, or …
2024-02-22: “Unexplanations: query optimization works because sql is declarative”
2024-02-22: One of my new year’s resolutions was to stop debating the incoherent AI claims MBA and tech bro …
2024-02-22: “PWAs wont replace native iOS apps” The reason? Bugs, bugs, and more bugs.
2024-02-22: “AI search is a doomsday cult” To even entertain the idea of building AI-powered search engines …
2024-02-22: I’d use the phrase “he’s the sort of person who would enthusiastically tries to get his posts to the …
2024-02-21: I wonder if people writing about how the sound or colour transformed cinema, or how TV changed …
2024-02-21: “Tell that watcher at the gates of your mind to eff off — Chocolate and Vodka” This post is …
2024-02-21: “It’s a process; not a product – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2024-02-21: “JSR first impressions” All those words and not one of them on the issues caused by ownership of a …
2024-02-21: “Why is JavaScript fragile? | Go Make Things” Devs often dismiss HTML and CSS as toys. But the …
2024-02-21: “How Allowing Copyright On AI-Generated Works Could Destroy Creative Industries | Techdirt” I …
2024-02-21: “Husbands ‘create extra seven hours of housework a week’ | The Independent | The …
2024-02-20: “Dopamine for Me, Addiction for Thee – mssv” It is wrong to use dopamine in place of “addiction” or …
2024-02-20: “Microsoft Is Spying on Users of Its AI Tools - Schneier on Security” This is an inevitability with …
2024-02-20: “The AI community needs to take copyright lawsuits seriously” Maybe people will take this more …
2024-02-20: Clearly, I’m taking Linkedin by storm. The Linkedin king. That’s me.
2024-02-20: “On The Enshittification of Everything!” It’s remarkable to discover just how many people have both …
2024-02-20: “A Global Documentation Platform - Piccalilli”
2024-02-20: “How Google is killing independent sites like ours - HouseFresh” Sites that do genuine research and …
2024-02-20: “Subprime Intelligence” I hope I am wrong. I hope that the bottom doesn’t fall out of AI, and …
2024-02-19: “Static Site Generators and CMS’s | Go Make Things” I had totally missed the weird EOL of …
2024-02-19: “The State of the Culture, 2024 - by Ted Gioia” This turned out to be a better read than I expected. …
2024-02-19: “What’s the fun in writing on the internet anymore?” The purpose of expression is expression.
2024-02-19: “’Novel’ AI-made materials not actually new – study” Published report ‘should be …
2024-02-18: Took these two photos just for fun.
2024-02-18: This is one of the houses that the cat rescue, Villikettir Suðurlands, uses to shelter cats until …
2024-02-18: There are few things more relaxing than listening to a waterfall, even a small one like this one in …
2024-02-18: “Tailwind marketing and misinformation engine”
2024-02-18: Friðmundur’s cat is on Þorvaldur’s tractor again.
2024-02-18: “ChatGPT 4 fails at solving a Captcha and progress is slow” Some things feel fast because they are …
2024-02-18: “AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants - BBC Worklife”
2024-02-18: conf.11ty.dev/tickets/4…
2024-02-17: “Rotten Apple” All Apple is being asked to do is offer the same level of choice on …
2024-02-17: “The digital equivalent of wearing a fake Chanel bag”
2024-02-17: “‘AI’ is pretty much just shorthand for mediocre” This happened more quickly than I had expected, …
2024-02-17: “Air Canada found liable for chatbot’s bad advice on plane tickets | CBC News” Now that we’re …
2024-02-16: Quite a few people have a rule of thumb that anybody who has self-published a book on a topic is a …
2024-02-16: This is neat “Syntax highlighting code blocks with Prism and the Custom Highlight API”
2024-02-16: “Zero to Unmaintainable in 1.2 Commands - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2024-02-16: “Against Technoableism | A Working Library”
2024-02-16: “Advocating for Protections for the Information Ecosystem | by Emily M. Bender | Feb, 2024 | Medium”
2024-02-16: “Apple makes it official: No Home Screen web apps in the EU • The Register” This is disappointing. …
2024-02-15: No matter whether you’re talking about Apple’s thingamajiggy or “AI”, it’s risky to assume the …
2024-02-15: People keep defending Mozilla along these lines: “This single thing you’re criticising them for …
2024-02-15: “Bootstrapped to death: why America’s favourite saying is strangling mobility — Joan …
2024-02-14: “Achievements will no longer be available in the Community · community · Discussion #106536 · …
2024-02-14: “File over app — Steph Ango” Anybody who’s had to deal with software over a meaningful period of …
2024-02-14: “Some use cases for revert-layer - Piccalilli”
2024-02-14: “Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo | TechCrunch” Going forward, …
2024-02-13: “Immutable array updates with Array.prototype.with | Blog | web.dev” Today I learned about this.
2024-02-13: “StyleSheet Parfait” I’m a big fan of CSS layers. Hope to ship a project built using them in the …
2024-02-13: “I Stopped Using Passwords. It’s Great—and a Total Mess | WIRED” I remain sceptical about …
2024-02-13: “The Case For Design Engineers, Pt. II - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2024-02-13: “Social media is the creator’s dilemma. — Joan Westenberg”
2024-02-12: I know it’s probably just the season (near-peak SAD in Iceland) and the times (gestures …
2024-02-12: “How does Plastic get into the Ocean – Plastic Pollution from Roads - Celtic Water” The ICUN …
2024-02-12: “dax-sh - npm” This package demonstrates Deno’s problem in a nutshell. Anything nice built for the …
2024-02-12: “A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco - The Verge” I have no doubt that we’re …
2024-02-11: “Literacy crisis in college students: Essay from a professor on students who don’t read.” If you’re …
2024-02-11: “Don’t Disable Form Controls — Adrian Roselli”
2024-02-10: My sister sent me these three photos of her cat listening intently to the barks of the dog next …
2024-02-10: “Séamas O’Reilly: If it feels like scams are thick on the ground - it’s because they …
2024-02-10: Seeing more ravens in the area lately.
2024-02-10: “Apple Releases macOS Sonoma 14.3.1 With Fix for Text Overlapping Bug” could cause text to get …
2024-02-10: “Apple Releases iOS 17.3.1 With Fix for Text Bug - MacRumors” could cause text to unexpectedly …
2024-02-10: “The Truth™ about encoding SVG in data URIs / Stoyan’s phpied.com” Though, if you’re …
2024-02-10: “Looney Tunes Movie Coyote vs Acme Expected to Be Destroyed Forever” The feel-good story of a …
2024-02-10: “The Rot Economy - Ed Zitron’s Where’s Your Ed At” Today’s must-read.
2024-02-09: “Miniver Cheevy: Decision-based evidence-making”
2024-02-09: A recurring story over the past four decades of Icelandic budget airlines Iceland’s …
2024-02-09: “I think about AI like I do Plastics. | Apple Annie’s Microblog” Accurate.
2024-02-08: Eruptions are, as always, a little bit distracting. Hard to focus on work when you keep checking the …
2024-02-08: “The web is mostly links and forms | Go Make Things” And many devs grossly underestimate the power …
2024-02-08: “Apple broke web apps in iOS 17 beta and hasn’t fixed them • The Register” What a fucking shit …
2024-02-08: “FTC files complaint against Microsoft for recent Xbox layoffs” The thing about developing a …
2024-02-08: Eruption! This time in a more convenient location, roughly the same place as the December eruption …
2024-02-07: ‘No, AI user research is not “better than nothing.” It’s much worse. | by Pavel Samsonov’
2024-02-07: Looking through threads in the last listserv I’m on and most threads over the past couple of weeks …
2024-02-07: Has anybody written about the accessibility of the asciinema player? Not finding anything in the …
2024-02-07: “Maybe it’s not us who are broken. Maybe it’s the system.” The creative industries, like so many …
2024-02-07: “Will the new judicial ruling in the Vizio lawsuit strengthen the GPL?” That the GPL can be enforced …
2024-02-07: “Romance Novels Aren’t Stupid, You Just Hate Women - grain of salt mag” Agree completely with this. …
2024-02-06: My neighbour’s cats are climbers. This, for example, is not a patio but my balcony.
2024-02-06: There are many reasons not to be interested in Apple’s Vision thingamadoohickey—closed platform, …
2024-02-06: Even though I’m not an accessibility person, just accessibility adjacent insomuch as …
2024-02-06: “You won’t scale | Go Make Things”
2024-02-06: “Today’s YouTubers are repeating the mistakes of yesterday’s bloggers – A Whole Lotta Nothing”
2024-02-06: “A ‘$3,500 Chastity Belt’: Early Apple Vision Pro Adopters Alarmed to Learn VR Porn Doesn’t …
2024-02-05: “Snap is cutting 10 percent of its staff - The Verge” The difference between Snap on the one hand …
2024-02-05: “Inside the Underground Site Where ‘Neural Networks’ Churn Out Fake IDs” What was the line again? …
2024-02-05: “The creator economy can’t rely on Patreon. — Joan Westenberg”
2024-02-05: “My Call Screening is Now Using My Recreated Voice as the Automated Voice : r/GooglePixel” Would …
2024-02-04: ‘Resisting Dehumanization in the Age of “AI” - Emily M. Bender’ This is a danger zone for ML tech …
2024-02-04: “The four phases” In our new relationship, software isn’t just set up to surveil us to report on …
2024-02-02: “The Good, The Bad, The Web Components—zachleat.com”
2024-02-02: “Whose risks? Whose benefits? | everything changes”
2024-02-02: “Treating the Symptoms - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2024-02-01: “Happy international box sizing awareness day - Piccalilli”
2024-02-01: “How France’s Film Industry Works” Not linking to this for the explanation but out of my surprise …
2024-02-01: “Stripping the web of its humanity” A world where everyone uses an app like this is a death spiral …
2024-02-01: “The LLM search engine | Links | hidde.blog” Who’s going to make the input these tools grab …
2024-02-01: “The Tremendous Yet Troubled State of Gaming in 2024 — MatthewBall.co” A long but interesting …
2024-01-31: “Adactio: Journal—Switching costs”
2024-01-31: “The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024 - Infrequently Noted” The performance budget for the JS-Heavy …
2024-01-31: Hardware keyboard + iPad autocorrect + micro.blog native app is a bad combination. It randomly …
2024-01-31: “Google spent billions of dollars to lay people off - The Verge” Layoffs are incredibly expensive …
2024-01-30: “The Feature Trap: Why Feature Centricity Is Harming Your Product — Smashing Magazine”
2024-01-30: “A highly configurable switch component using modern CSS techniques - Piccalilli”
2024-01-30: “Research Suggests A Large Proportion Of Web Material In Languages Other Than English Is Machine …
2024-01-30: “ChatGPT is leaking passwords from private conversations of its users, Ars reader says | Ars …
2024-01-30: “Serious New Warning As Google AI Targets Billions Of Private Messages” The AI Bubble is …
2024-01-29: “Why I Find LLMs Frustrating” Essentially, this is a “using an LLM for this use case was an …
2024-01-29: “What we ask in our Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) interviews: Tips to prepare for an EDI …
2024-01-29: “Should links open in a new tab?” You are taking a piece of self-determination from your visitors …
2024-01-28: “In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox @ tonsky.me” Ugh.
2024-01-28: “Web components for (mathematical) writing, continued”
2024-01-28: “Nicer Text Wrapping with CSS text-wrap / Coder’s Block” One of the nice things about CSS is …
2024-01-28: “New GitHub Copilot Research Finds ‘Downward Pressure on Code Quality’ – Visual …
2024-01-27: “The Fucks and How We Give Them (A Manifesto) – Rhoneisms” These kinds of posts are a bit of a …
2024-01-27: “The LLM Misinformation Problem I Was Not Expecting | RIPE Labs” 😬
2024-01-27: “Google doesn’t actually care about AI generated articles and that you will not be penalized for …
2024-01-27: Also looks like Apple won’t apply EU regulations to the EEA unless forced to, even though EU …
2024-01-27: “Big, beautiful, beefy focus states with :focus-visible | daverupert.com”
2024-01-27: “iPad users will miss out on third-party app stores, browser engines, and more - 9to5Mac” For fuck’s …
2024-01-26: “Nuberodesign > Blog > In Praise of Buttons – Part One”
2024-01-26: “A unified theory of fucks | A Working Library” Yes.
2024-01-26: “One World, One Web, One Love :: Aaron Gustafson”
2024-01-26: “Low-tech Eleventy Categories - Piccalilli”
2024-01-25: So, looks like the built-in test runner, testing and mocking tools in the latest Node LTS release …
2024-01-25: “Five Things: January 25, 2024 — As in guillotine…” 😁
2024-01-25: “Deciphering Glyph :: Unsigned Commits” It is not merely decorative; the words in the document …
2024-01-24: “Concatenating text” My wish for 2024 is that everyone gets the epiphany that React is legacy tech …
2024-01-24: “The myth of technological inevitability - by Dave Karpf” The broader lesson is that inevitability …
2024-01-24: “Echoing Wirth’s plea for lean software”
2024-01-24: “Not clear if Iceland will take part in Eurovision - RÚV.is” it seems that the demand to boycott …
2024-01-24: “The Open Source Sustainability Crisis ❧ Open Path by Chad Whitacre” Not convinced by the proposed …
2024-01-24: “The time to unmaintainable is very low | daverupert.com”
2024-01-24: “93% of Paint Splatters are Valid Perl Programs | Colin McMillen” 😄
2024-01-24: “eBay will lay off 1,000 employees — 9 percent of the company - The Verge” Mass layoffs while you’re …
2024-01-23: Yesterday I wrote a retrospective on Uncluttered, a course I launched a couple of months ago I think …
2024-01-23: “GitHub - nodejs/corepack: Zero-runtime-dependency package acting as bridge between Node projects …
2024-01-22: “Adactio: Journal—Continuous partial ick” It’s not something I can describe, but there’s just …
2024-01-22: “A 2024 Plea for Lean Software (with running code) - Bert Hubert’s writings” It is not just …
2024-01-21: “Choosing Consideration, Not Consumption - by John Warner” More importantly, where is the next …
2024-01-20: “RSS in HTML: A Follow-Up - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2024-01-20: “SourceHut network outage post-mortem” Our provider in PHL has been acquired twice over the past …
2024-01-20: Taken in Selfoss, by the river, a couple of days ago.
2024-01-19: “The Value of Open Source Software by Manuel Hoffmann, Frank Nagle, Yanuo Zhou :: SSRN” We find …
2024-01-19: “Database Performance Simplified”
2024-01-19: ‘”AI” as unregulated space’
2024-01-18: Had to hop over to Selfoss earlier and the local ravens had clearly found something interesting in …
2024-01-18: “Reality Check #3: Building out a layered hero grid layout from Dribbble - Piccalilli”
2024-01-18: “Death should be the end – Bigmouth Strikes Again: Carrie Marshall’s blog”
2024-01-18: “No, Oscar Wilde did not say “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to …
2024-01-17: ‘Google lays off “hundreds” more as ad division switches to AI-powered sales | Ars Technica’ To be …
2024-01-17: “OpenAI CEO Altman says at Davos future AI depends on energy breakthrough” First off, …
2024-01-17: “The Complex But Awesome CSS border-image Property — Smashing Magazine” The syntax is a bit hard to …
2024-01-17: “Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find” This has become trivially obvious to …
2024-01-16: “Why Your Computer is Slow” Not wrong.
2024-01-16: “Disillusioned with Deno” Wasn’t quite in the right headspace to continue with my …
2024-01-16: “Your code base should look like one person wrote it (even when you have a team) | Go Make Things” …
2024-01-16: “Can I disable autocorrect on send? : iphonehelp” This is yet another example of Apple following the …
2024-01-15: “More thoughts about print” A few additional thoughts on pursuing print as a strategy …
2024-01-15: “Disasters are Distracting but work has to continue” Trying a new thing with the …
2024-01-15: “Burning out is not a growth hack. | by Joan Westenberg | Jan, 2024 | Medium”
2024-01-15: It certainly looks like you can protect a town, at least up to a point, from a volcanic eruption, …
2024-01-15: “The incredible shrinking podcast industry | Semafor” Podcasting was in a bubble, but it’s still one …
2024-01-14: “Kind of annoyed at React” If you’ll allow me a short “I told you so” moment. I was a big fan of …
2024-01-14: It’s a little bit shocking to see Icelandic “influencers” use hyperbolic language like “this is the …
2024-01-14: To quote the reporter on the scene at Grindavík: “this probably isn’t good news.” True words.
2024-01-14: And the last few pictures from the fog walk yesterday
2024-01-14: Even the precursor to the fog was atmospheric.
2024-01-14: Feels almost inappropriate to post this now but yesterday I saw that a fog bank was heading towards …
2024-01-14: “Exposed RSS – Chris Coyier”
2024-01-14: Well, this isn’t good. www.ruv.is/english/2…
2024-01-13: Kolka, my sister’s cat, always looks mildly astonished. #caturday
2024-01-12: “Where have all the websites gone?” So here’s the bad news— we are the ones who vanished
2024-01-12: “Sharing links | hidde.blog” I need to rethink my link sharing this year as well.
2024-01-12: “A print project retrospective: the biggest problem with selling print books is the …
2024-01-12: “Hypercritical: I Made This”
2024-01-11: I wrote this pretty much exactly a year ago and now we’re several iterations into this loop …
2024-01-11: “Insights: Mobile accessibility | Fable”
2024-01-11: “Swallowed up without a trace by a crevasse” news like this is pure nightmare fuel …
2024-01-11: “The Intelligence Illusion: stepping into a pile of ‘AI’” Where I talk about how you can …
2024-01-11: “Curation is the last best hope of intelligent discourse. — Joan Westenberg”
2024-01-11: “You can make a React app in only minutes with AI” 😬 “AI” is going to make harmful practice …
2024-01-11: “Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees - The Verge” I’d like to remind you …
2024-01-10: “Just Say No to Artificial Intelligence In Your Creative Pursuits, Please, JFC, WTAF – Chuck Wendig: …
2024-01-10: Part three of my two year review: “Sunk Cost Fallacy: chasing a half-baked idea for much too …
2024-01-10: “communication - How to get coworkers to stop giving me ChatGPT-generated suggestions - The …
2024-01-10: You can tell that much of the tech punditry has never worked in retail, online retail, or had to pay …
2024-01-09: My post from yesterday where I go over some of the principles of entrepreneurial thinking that …
2024-01-09: Following up on what I wrote yesterday, today I go over the book I wrote and published in 2022, Out …
2024-01-09: “The Online Photographer: Why Would a Film Photographer Shoot Color?” Looking around at the film …
2024-01-09: “Editing has always been an integral part of photography — aows”
2024-01-08: “Cutting out the RSS middleman – Six Colors”
2024-01-08: “men are hitting on my scheduling bot because it has a woman’s name — Ask a Manager” I will …
2024-01-08: Massive link post to start off the year Almost a month’s worth of links
2024-01-08: “2022-23 years in review: to plan a strategy you must first have a theory of how the hell …
2024-01-08: “We Need to Talk About the Front Web - Part 5 : Ge Ricci” I don’t believe that those who want …
2024-01-08: “We Need to Talk About the Front Web - Part 4 : Ge Ricci” If we don’t address the front web …
2024-01-08: “We Need to Talk About the Front Web - Part 3 : Ge Ricci” our users are beginning to notice the …
2024-01-08: “We Need to Talk About the Front Web - Part 2: The Three Strengths of the Front Web : Ge Ricci”
2024-01-08: “We Need to Talk About the Front Web / Part 1: Introduction : Ge Ricci” we just keep making it …
2024-01-08: ‘Notes from “An approach to computing and sustainability inspired from permaculture” by Devine …
2024-01-07: “Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem” As a consequence of using benchmarks intended to …
2024-01-07: “Silicon Valley runs on Futurity - by Dave Karpf” Tech co stocks will get annihilated once the AI …
2024-01-06: So, my “simple” end-of-year overview has ballooned into a series of blog posts analysing the past …
2024-01-06: “Fix The System Problem, Not The People Problem – Paul Taylor” Always post a link to somebody …
2024-01-06: “A lot of what people use React for would be better handled with vanilla JavaScript | Go Make …
2024-01-06: “What’s next for Mozilla? | TechCrunch” he also believes that AI will become part of everything …
2024-01-06: “jwz: My dinosaur just threw up in its mouth a little” Are we allowed to criticise Mozilla now? …
2024-01-06: “Advice for new software devs who’ve read all those other advice essays • Buttondown”
2024-01-06: “Simple and Small Git Hosting” It feels like every time I read about Git I learn something new. And …
2024-01-05: “The Website vs. Web App Dichotomy Doesn’t Exist | jakelazaroff.com” The taxonomy here looks …
2024-01-05: “Only you can give meaning to your career: How to mark moments that matter by planting a …
2024-01-05: “An Unreasonable Investment – Rands in Repose”
2024-01-05: “Five Things: January 4, 2024 — As in guillotine…”
2024-01-05: “Should you use an SSG or SSR to build your static site? | Go Make Things”
2024-01-05: “Cold-blooded Software - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” This still remains one of the better analogies on …
2024-01-05: ‘Questionable Advice: “My boss says we don’t need any engineering managers. Is he right?” – …
2024-01-05: “NPM registry prank leaves developers unable to unpublish packages | SC Media” Making this single …
2024-01-04: “Harmful complexity: using React for static content | Go Make Things” That people do this is …
2024-01-04: “Reflections on 2023. Reflections on changes, work, home… | by Sarah Drasner | Jan, 2024 | Medium”
2024-01-03: “#AudioEye Has Dropped Its Suit Against Me — Adrian Roselli” Thank $DEITY. I have to hope that with …
2024-01-03: “Only you can give meaning to your career: How to mark moments that matter by planting a flag”
2024-01-03: “In Case You Missed It: 2023—zachleat.com”
2024-01-02: Controversial web dev opinion of the day: view transitions are amazing but honestly not worth …
2024-01-02: “Level Access crosses the line; buys accessibility overlay company · Eric Eggert”
2024-01-02: “The I in LLM stands for intelligence | daniel.haxx.se” Yet more evidence that the AI Bubble …
2024-01-02: ‘”Inheriting” grid dimensions from siblings with subgrid’ Really enjoy this blog design …
2024-01-02: “Not all automated testing tools support Shadow DOM in web components - Manuel Matuzovic”
2024-01-02: “Is a ChatGPT Takeover Really Inevitable?”
2024-01-01: “2023 book review | Read the Tea Leaves” 😎
2024-01-01: Not a huge fan of fireworks.
2023-12-31: “Reflections on a Month with BBEdit and Nova — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho” If I ever switch …
2023-12-31: “Shadow DOM and the problem of encapsulation | Read the Tea Leaves” I really enjoyed this post but …
2023-12-31: This may be excessively Icelandic* of me, but I strongly prefer the term “platform decay” over …
2023-12-31: The whole vibe with LLMs is “wow, this is much better at language than anything else, surely it must …
2023-12-31: “Big layoff at Duolingo : r/duolingo” Pretty sure that the AI Bubble is kicking of a round of …
2023-12-31: “Tech issues: The myth of inevitable technological progress - Vox” The myth of inevitable …
2023-12-30: I really should be writing blog posts and updating the newsletter but I honestly haven’t had the …
2023-12-30: “Increased probability of a new eruption | News | Icelandic Meteorological office” As magma …
2023-12-30: “Things are about to get a lot worse for Generative AI” Like I and quite a few others have been …
2023-12-30: “AI does not produce reliable information. As Trump’s former lawyer has fucked around and …
2023-12-29: “AI and Lossy Bottlenecks - Schneier on Security” Two points: A lot of previously sensible people …
2023-12-29: “Adactio: Links—Cold-blooded software”
2023-12-29: “Dark Visitors - A list of known AI agents on the internet”
2023-12-29: “Blind CSS Exfiltration: exfiltrate unknown web pages | PortSwigger Research” If you allow unvetted …
2023-12-29: “WCAG 2: Guidelines and Guardrails · Eric Eggert”
2023-12-29: Huh? Looks like micro.blog doesn’t properly delete posts? 😑
2023-12-29: Deleted a post because I hadn’t realised it was a Bryan Lunduke article. I do not trust him as a …
2023-12-29: What we will be left is teachers who cannot do instructional design, students who cannot learn, and …
2023-12-28: “More than calculators: Why large language models threaten learning, teaching, and education” So …
2023-12-28: “Diane Duane on Tumblr” “Can you add AI to the hydraulics system?” We’re in the middle …
2023-12-28: I see the punditry commenting on the NYT lawsuit is is pretending that current era LLMs aren’t …
2023-12-27: A short walk around Reykjavík.
2023-12-27: “The New York Times Sues OpenAI, Microsoft for Copyright” This was inevitable. Especially if search …
2023-12-27: “Adactio: Journal—Words I wrote in 2023”
2023-12-27: “Sergio - The Comics Journal” Sergio Aragonés is probably the world’s greatest cartoonist. One of a …
2023-12-26: “Covid: It’s That Bad”
2023-12-26: “Is software getting worse? - Stack Overflow” The rare “yes” answer.
2023-12-26: “Adactio: Journal—Books I read in 2023” The Intelligence Illusion by Baldur Bjarnason. Refreshingly …
2023-12-24: Don’t make me come over there and explain yet again that the “Jólabókaflóð” is not a tradition like …
2023-12-24: “Google Search Overwhelmed By Massive Spam Attack” They say “days” here because this is in addition …
2023-12-24: Purely anecdata at this point but I’m hearing from a couple of different source that book sales here …
2023-12-23: Did the traditional Icelandic Christmas thing of visiting the graves of relatives. The cemeteries …
2023-12-23: “Untangling Threads - Erin Kissane’s small internet website” Finally got around to reading …
2023-12-23: For the holiday #caturday I managed to take a few photos of Kolka, my sister’s cat, in person. 🙂
2023-12-23: “Michael Tsai - Blog - iOS 17 Autocorrect” People are saying that autocorrect improves after a few …
2023-12-23: “‘Where Do You Get Your Ideas?’ AI and the Creative Industries – Oisín McGann” I can’t think of a …
2023-12-22: “Artificial intelligence can find your location, alarming privacy experts : NPR”
2023-12-22: “Warner Bros Discovery Eyes Paramount Merger, Because Its Last Two Disastrous Mergers Apparently …
2023-12-22: Do I understand it correctly that Zack Snyder’s has somehow managed to, essentially, do a boring …
2023-12-22: “Deep Cloning Objects in JavaScript, the Modern Way” Love structuredClone. Probably overuse it TBH 😄
2023-12-22: If this would help us drop 100k rich text editing widgets then I hope every browser gets on board …
2023-12-21: Wow has this year been shit.
2023-12-21: “They Want You To Forget What A Film Looks Like - Aftermath” There’s an entire portion of the …
2023-12-21: “They Want You To Forget What A Film Looks Like - Aftermath” But the modern application of much of …
2023-12-21: “LH units are cool - Piccalilli”
2023-12-21: “Enough of the homogenous and soulless content all around the internet | Zell Liew” Me, I’m …
2023-12-21: “Child sex abuse images found in dataset training image generators, report says | Ars Technica” …
2023-12-21: “How Marketing Changed OOP In JavaScript — Smashing Magazine” IMO, the primary reasons to use …
2023-12-21: “Duane Puryear and the Quilt Panel — The Dallas Way” He would have been 59 yesterday
2023-12-20: “Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real”
2023-12-20: “This year for the games industry has been an absolute bloodbath”
2023-12-20: “The Road to Accessible Drag and Drop (Part 2) - TPGi”
2023-12-20: “Pluralistic: What kind of bubble is AI? (19 Dec 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory …
2023-12-20: “Why accessibility is good for business (according to my mechanic) – The Interconnected”
2023-12-20: “Eigensolutions: composability as the antidote to overfit • Lea Verou”
2023-12-19: People regularly ask why the security restrictions around eruptions here in Iceland are so strict. …
2023-12-19: “Inside the First ‘SEO Heist’ of the AI Era” The lesson here seems to be that Google is …
2023-12-19: Here’s a fairly convincing, IMO, thread over on twitter outlining how the Hasbro layoffs are most …
2023-12-19: Whenever you encounter the phrase “to be clear, I am not against the idea of regulations” in social …
2023-12-19: “Software Is Beating The World” Effective Accelerationists are not builders; they’re crybabies that …
2023-12-19: “Software Is Beating The World” In many ways, venture capital hasn’t incentivized creating …
2023-12-19: “Facebook Is Being Overrun With Stolen, AI-Generated Images That People Think Are Real”
2023-12-19: “CSS animation-composition | 12 Days of Web”
2023-12-19: This kind of view is a bit disconcerting. Kinda glad the view from Hveragerði was more limited. “Is …
2023-12-18: “Bad AI Business Models, Lazy AI Criticism, Queer Holiday-themed movies, and a bunch of …
2023-12-18: It’s the time of the year where I explain to weary relatives and family members why Love, Actually …
2023-12-18: That thing when a series of dev influencers all in unison say that some feature has arrived—as if …
2023-12-18: “inessential: On Mastodon Support in NetNewsWire” IMO the only sensible conclusion.
2023-12-18: “MongoDB issues weekend warning of breach • The Register” Breaking the trend, this is not a case of …
2023-12-17: “Rebuilding emoji-picker-element on a custom framework | Read the Tea Leaves”
2023-12-17: I do enjoy the low-light photos the iPhone takes even without all of the super-heavy computational …
2023-12-17: “Just Stop Oil activist jailed for six months for taking part in slow march | Environmental …
2023-12-16: “Baseline Does Not Really Cover Baseline Support — Adrian Roselli”
2023-12-16: “The await event horizon in JavaScript”
2023-12-16: This one climbed up onto my balcony in an attempt to inspect the bird feeder before I shooed her …
2023-12-16: Usually, I only get the random unrelated tourism results in my duckduckgo searches, but the …
2023-12-16: “The birth & death of search engine optimization - Xe Iaso”
2023-12-16: “The Trouble with European Green Electricity Certificates - Industry Decarbonization Newsletter” …
2023-12-16: “A (more) Modern CSS Reset - Piccalilli” This is a very reasonable set of defaults. I disagree the …
2023-12-14: “Bad Business AI: Channel 1” Where I relentlessly mock “the world’s first …
2023-12-14: “Etsy lays off 225 workers after ‘essentially flat’ sales, says CEO” Shrinking your profitable …
2023-12-14: “Who Needs This Blog? Robin Ince on why we create”
2023-12-14: You all will, perhaps, forgive me for having a bit of fun with this one. I just published “Bad …
2023-12-14: That feeling when neat but way too complex project ideas stick in your head for days like persistent …
2023-12-14: “The easiest way to get and set CSS Variables in JavaScript | Zell Liew”
2023-12-14: “The Largest Money-Printing UI Element Ever Made - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-12-14: “Google Promises Unlimited Cloud Storage; Then Cancels Plan; Then Tells Journalist His Life’s Work …
2023-12-14: Seeing Mark Millar go all ComicsGate makes me glad that I’d mentally filed him away as a talentless …
2023-12-13: “Apparently …” … the thing I call TDD might not quite be TDD. Also some speculation, and …
2023-12-13: ‘Adactio: Journal—button invoketarget=”share”’ Considering that basic support for using invokers to …
2023-12-13: Has Mozilla lost interest in maintaining a browser? Every announcement I see from them these days is …
2023-12-13: “Puppeteer Support for the Cross-Browser WebDriver BiDi Standard - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer …
2023-12-12: You know Christmas is drawing near when my neighbour has put the light-up Santa in the driver’s seat …
2023-12-12: “One YouTube Embed weighs almost 1.2 MB—zachleat.com” Yikes.
2023-12-12: You can tell that I’m a dev because my project ideas go from “that is nicely scoped and …
2023-12-12: Finally got around to wiping my makeshift blackboard clear post-launch.
2023-12-12: Yesterday’s newsletter broke my recent streak of, roughly, losing one subscriber a day for the …
2023-12-12: “Chris’ Corner: More Surprising Powers of CSS – CodePen”
2023-12-12: “Not-so-random pandemic thoughts on Author Platforms — As in guillotine…” It’s an …
2023-12-12: “Canon TDD - by Kent Beck - Software Design: Tidy First?”
2023-12-12: “WebKit Features in Safari 17.2 | WebKit” Big fan of the custom highlights API as it would have …
2023-12-12: “Can we please talk about the user experience of this years reddit recap? : UXDesign” This sort of …
2023-12-11: I have to say that I’ve been quite enjoying the new Doctor Who specials after having lost …
2023-12-11: “Feeling The Itch” This week I’m thinking out loud about the itch to make …
2023-12-11: “Television: one of the most audacious pranks in history was hidden in a hit TV show for years.” I …
2023-12-11: “Dear anonymous internet user asking for help.. - Bert Hubert’s writings”
2023-12-11: “One Foot Tsunami: Package Camoflague”
2023-12-11: The frosty weather makes the steam rising from the geothermal park next door quite a bit more …
2023-12-11: ‘“Human error” means they don’t understand how the system worked – Surfing Complexity’
2023-12-11: “The surprising connection between after-hours work and decreased productivity | Slack” Surprising? …
2023-12-10: So, Mastodon users are super fond of snitch tagging, huh? I thought we had left that kind of shit …
2023-12-10: ‘cohost! - “enshittification is what happens when a disney adult learns about …
2023-12-10: “Correctly Configure (Pre) Connections – Harry Roberts – Web Performance Consultant”
2023-12-09: “EU AI Act briefing” I’ll need to update my post on the draft to note that the final version was …
2023-12-08: “iA Writer in Paper” I won’t ever buy one of these, but this is supremely cool.
2023-12-08: “is-land Web Component—zachleat.com” One of the more versatile custom elements around.
2023-12-08: ‘Google calls Drive data loss “fixed,” locks forum threads saying otherwise | Ars Technica’ One more …
2023-12-08: Medium has become the place where blog posts go to die, hasn’t it?
2023-12-08: “Michael Tsai - Blog - FastSpring Risk Screening” I had a very rough time dealing with payment …
2023-12-08: “CSS Wrapped: 2023! | Blog | Chrome for Developers” A lot of good stuff got cross-browser support …
2023-12-08: “Please, Expose your RSS • Robb Knight” I second this.
2023-12-08: “The Invokers Are Coming Part II | That HTML Blog” Very excited about this one since it looks like …
2023-12-07: “Is AI leading to a reproducibility crisis in science?” “AI” research itself has had a massive …
2023-12-07: “Simplicity” Who ever got promoted for deleting Google code? We revel in the code we have. …
2023-12-06: This one’s dedicated to all of the reply-guys on Mastodon 🙂️ “Don’t be a correctness …
2023-12-06: “NLRB Files Case Against Mozilla for Not Hiring Apple Labor Activist - Bloomberg” The possibility …
2023-12-06: “Five-Second Testing: Taking A Closer Look At First Impressions (Case Study) — Smashing Magazine” …
2023-12-06: “SQLite Myths | Fractaled Mind”
2023-12-06: “Fediverse Governance Successes & Gaps | Tiny Subversions” Then we are going to make strong …
2023-12-06: “Root & Branch - Erin Kissane’s small internet website” This sounds cool.
2023-12-05: “Baseline’s evolution on MDN | MDN Blog” This is really useful, but it feels a bit weird that …
2023-12-05: The interesting thing about the Invokers proposal isn’t just the ability to wire together …
2023-12-05: A slightly simpler newsletter entry this week: links, so many links. And a few of the photos I …
2023-12-05: Really would like to find the time to restart work on this in the new year. I have an idea for …
2023-12-05: “What happened to the 90s’ coolest failed operating system?: What we can learn from running BeOS on …
2023-12-05: That thing where a bug in Apple’s software catches the public’s attention and the usual suspects …
2023-12-05: “Silicon Valley vs. teenage girls - by Ryan Broderick” That even with the hundreds of millions of …
2023-12-05: Went on public transport here in Iceland yesterday and, again, was the only person masking Everybody …
2023-12-05: “Why Do Pigeon Nests Look So Shitty? An Investigation | Defector”
2023-12-04: “Professionalism And The Software Industry – Flameeyes’s Weblog”
2023-12-04: I can’t believe I watched and enjoyed an entire four-hour video on plagiarism among youtube …
2023-12-03: “Let’s learn how modern JavaScript frameworks work by building one | Read the Tea Leaves”
2023-12-03: “1824831 - Can’t sign in with FIDO2 key on office.com” If this bug report is to be trusted, it …
2023-12-02: “Microsoft’s new Outlook client quietly moves your email to the cloud” We do all realise that …
2023-12-02: “You don’t need JavaScript for that - HTMHell” The rule of least power It’s one of the …
2023-12-02: My sister sent me a new batch of photos of her cat, Kolka, a rescue who was originally found outside …
2023-12-02: “Merge vs. Rebase vs. Squash” This is good advice.
2023-12-02: “Responsible Disclosure: XSS in Codeberg Pages – Terence Eden’s Blog” Gives you an inkling of how …
2023-12-02: “RFC processes are a poor fit for most organizations - Jacob Kaplan-Moss”
2023-12-01: “The Bluffer’s Guide to Principles of Software Engineering Management – Codemanship’s Blog”
2023-11-30: “IA Writer 7” IA Writer releases are always interesting. The idea here of tracking …
2023-11-30: “My Journey Away from the JAMstack | The Spicy Web” Catching up on the “JAMstack is dead; long live …
2023-11-30: “Thoughts on Framework Churn”
2023-11-30: “Gall’s Law” Still not sure how well ‘Yellow’ works as a video product …
2023-11-30: Reading all of the jokes people are making about Kissinger finally being dead has thrown my morning …
2023-11-30: “The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit - Aftermath” But apparently it helps managers write their …
2023-11-30: Finally, some good news.
2023-11-29: What Hveragerði looked like today at noon
2023-11-29: “Losing the imitation game” Always link to posts that cite “Programming as Theory …
2023-11-29: “Rogue Amoeba - Under the Microscope » Blog Archive » A Word of Caution on MacOS Updates”
2023-11-29: I just published “On code smell and gut feeling” It’s an extract from the …
2023-11-29: “OpenAI’s Custom Chatbots Are Leaking Their Secrets | WIRED UK” So, as you might guess, I think …
2023-11-29: “Tech Will Never Love You Back | Jason Rodriguez”
2023-11-29: “Creative use of CSS gradients | Kitty Giraudel”
2023-11-29: “CSS { In Real Life } | Oh No, Overflow!”
2023-11-29: “siderea | Up the Slope: On Mastodon and What Social Engineering Should Be”
2023-11-29: “CSS { In Real Life } | Hide and Debug Empty Elements with CSS” This is a neat feature.
2023-11-29: “The Bluffer’s Guide to A Spiral Model of Software Development and Enhancement – Codemanship’s …
2023-11-29: “(css-color-4) (ok)lch implementations break the entire purpose for authors · Issue #9449 · …
2023-11-29: “Unity Software with a ‘company reset’ walks away from film VFX and the Wētā Deal. – fxguide” …
2023-11-28: Default apps for 2023 This is a thing people are doing. Decided to complete the list to see what I use. 📨 Mail Client: …
2023-11-28: “How to Use Responsive HTML Video (…and Audio!)” This looks useful.
2023-11-28: I got several reports yesterday of people not being able to buy the bundle. I think Teachable had …
2023-11-28: “Some Google Drive for Desktop users are missing months of files - The Verge” Like I said when the …
2023-11-28: “Doctor Who | Writers reportedly not receiving residuals after move to Disney+ | Film Stories” Like …
2023-11-28: “After 151 years, Popular Science will no longer offer a magazine - The Verge” Between VCs/hedge …
2023-11-28: “Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers” That these sites don’t seem to …
2023-11-27: The view from my living room window this morning.
2023-11-27: “Pluralistic: The real AI fight (27 Nov 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow” Where I …
2023-11-27: “Red Jacket Defends Native American Religion, 1805”
2023-11-27: “LukeW | Until the Right Design Emerges…” Your first design, while it may seem like a …
2023-11-26: “Why I Don’t Dig the Singularity” Eight years old but still relevant.
2023-11-26: Reminder: Black Friday Bundle 2023, everything I have made for only $49 Tomorrow will be the last …
2023-11-26: “HTML Web Components are Just JavaScript? | OddBird”
2023-11-26: “Meta’s Free AI Isn’t Cheap To Use, Companies Say - Slashdot” Llama 2 out of the box …
2023-11-26: “You’re Not a Fearmonger. You Have Sentinel Intelligence.”
2023-11-26: “California Man’s Plot to Avoid Tickets With ‘NULL’ Vanity Plate Nets Him $12K in …
2023-11-26: “How Sam Altman Ran Afoul of the Keepers of the AI Faith | The Nation” I really hope these articles …
2023-11-26: Making God by Emily F. Gorcenski A fairly detailed overview of the history of the singularity cult …
2023-11-26: “Effective obfuscation - by Molly White - Citation Needed”
2023-11-25: I have a Black Friday Bundle deal running for only $49: Uncluttered, a 21k words on import maps and …
2023-11-25: Listening to people talk about their productivity, esp. those evangelising LLMs, is like listening …
2023-11-25: “Uncluttered: free yourself from Node with import maps and test-driven web development” …
2023-11-25: “The elevator pitch for Web Components | Go Make Things” This. But also the fact that most of our …
2023-11-25: “William Davies” Interesting interview.
2023-11-25: The next door neighbour.
2023-11-24: Hveragerði has been accused of being picturesque.
2023-11-24: “Launching a new course with a massively discounted Black Friday bundle” …
2023-11-24: Anyway, I’m probably going to be mentioning both the new course and the Black Friday bundle …
2023-11-24: “Launching a new course with a massively discounted Black Friday bundle” …
2023-11-24: “Adactio: Links—Shadow DOM is for hiding your shame”
2023-11-24: “Shadow DOM is for hiding your shame”
2023-11-24: “The Failed Commodification Of Technical Work — Ludicity” This is what drove most of the changes to …
2023-11-24: “CSS { In Real Life } | Why You Should Hold Onto Your Devices For Longer” The biggest environmental …
2023-11-24: “The Bluffer’s Guide to Managing The Development of Large Software Systems – Codemanship’s …
2023-11-24: “The CSS property you didn’t know you needed 👈 - DEV Community” And it looks like the isolate …
2023-11-24: “Don’t Use Fixed CSS height or width on Buttons, Links, or Any Other Text Containers | Ashlee …
2023-11-24: “openai-message-to-board.md · GitHub” It’s next to impossible for an outsider to gauge the accuracy …
2023-11-24: “Google’s New Gmail Tool Is Hallucinating Emails That Don’t Exist” This tech is just so incredibly …
2023-11-23: “git branches: intuition & reality”
2023-11-23: “Binance gets hit with crypto’s worst possible fate: compliance – Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain” …
2023-11-23: My hopes for a snow-free winter have been dashed.
2023-11-23: “No feature” A writing app that thinks for you is a robot that does your jogging. Interesting …
2023-11-23: “Desktop progressive web applications | Trys Mudford”
2023-11-23: “Apple Annie’s Weblog · Working for a Living When Your Living isn’t Working, Part III”
2023-11-23: “The Bluffer’s Guide to The Design of Everyday Things – Codemanship’s Blog”
2023-11-23: ‘A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal” | MIT Technology Review’ …
2023-11-22: “ChatGPT Replicates Gender Bias in Recommendation Letters | Scientific American” A new study has …
2023-11-22: Recording some audio for a bonus feature for the Black Friday bundle. 😁
2023-11-22: The thought pops into my head that free/open source, and by extension software in general, shares …
2023-11-22: “Comic Book Page Rates again: lower than they were 14 years ago” It’s becoming increasingly hard to …
2023-11-21: “The Tension and Future of Jamstack—zachleat.com”
2023-11-21: ‘Boston meetup: “Why do tech workers deserve a union?” — Ethan Marcotte’
2023-11-21: “The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software is Unsustainable | Thomas Stringer” The …
2023-11-21: “lessons from bad Apple experience – MacInTouch” I think in the EU/EEA the window for returns would …
2023-11-21: “On OpenAI: Let Them Fight - by Dave Karpf” These do not look like serious people. They look like a …
2023-11-21: “Width and Height in CSS - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-11-20: “You are not updating Node.js” Not sure what to do with the fact that people aren’t updating node, …
2023-11-20: “Clear evidence of uplift in Svartsengi | Icelandic Meteorological office” The rapid, ongoing …
2023-11-20: “The creepy AI-driven surveillance that may be infiltrating your workplace “ FFS.
2023-11-20: This is a thing I’m doing this year. A big Black Friday bundle of pretty much everything I …
2023-11-20: “Notes on Tidy First? | Irrational Exuberance”
2023-11-20: “Cloudflare does not consider vary values in caching decisions” Another data point to support the …
2023-11-20: “EU issues Adobe with antitrust warning over $20 billion bid for Figma - The Verge” Good. This is …
2023-11-20: Just heard from my grandmother that she’s been fielding calls from our american relatives (of which …
2023-11-20: Watching Icelanders re-report on social media what geologists are saying in Icelandic media is like …
2023-11-20: “Messin’ around with web components. Also—JavaScript, generally • Lee Reamsnyder”
2023-11-20: Fucking Apple just went and fucking changed how you get the emoji popup when using a hardware …
2023-11-20: “The Bluffer’s Guide to The Mythical Man-Month – Codemanship’s Blog” Still one of the best …
2023-11-19: “Weekend Reading — AI cycling — Labnotes (by Assaf Arkin)”
2023-11-19: “Smart drugs aren’t so smart after all | BPS”
2023-11-19: “htmx ~ Why I Tend Not To Use Content Negotiation”
2023-11-19: “Getting started with CSS container queries | MDN Blog”
2023-11-19: “An Attempted Taxonomy of Web Components—zachleat.com”
2023-11-19: I’m probably the prime target audience for The Marvels. Big nerd. Big fan of the characters in both …
2023-11-18: It’s always fun to see Icelandic media try to “both sides” a potential eruption by finding that one …
2023-11-18: Idle thought: much of modern web dev tooling is built in Rust and available as WASM. Frameworks …
2023-11-18: “I Saw ‘Coyote Vs. Acme’ And It’s As Wonderful As Everyone Says It Is” Dave …
2023-11-18: “dprint - Code Formatter” I hadn’t heard about this Rust-based code formatter before. I’d heard …
2023-11-18: “Deprecation of formatting rules - ESLint - Pluggable JavaScript Linter” This makes sense.
2023-11-17: ‘No, “the Church” did not kill Joan of Arc, you credulous dullards – Going Medieval’ IDK who you …
2023-11-17: “Is Your Team Caught in the Solution Fixation Trap?” The solution fixation trap emerges when a team …
2023-11-17: “Five Things: November 16, 2023 — As in guillotine…”
2023-11-17: “Sweden’s Tesla Blockade Is Spreading | WIRED UK”
2023-11-17: “Byte by byte | Corporate Europe Observatory” The concerted lobbying attempts of Big Tech to avoid …
2023-11-16: “Adactio: Articles—Of Time And The Web”
2023-11-16: “A New Technique for Image Optimization: SVG Short Circuiting—zachleat.com”
2023-11-16: “Web components for (mathematical) writing, a first problem” Turns out counters are tricky.
2023-11-16: “Exclusive accordions exclude · Eric Eggert” It’s unacceptable that we introduce native barriers in …
2023-11-16: What I’ve been working on. Ready soon. Would love to hear feedback on the pitch 🙂 I read it all, …
2023-11-15: So, I’ve updated the course description page yet again. Think it’s getting close to …
2023-11-15: “Warner Bros. Reverses Course on ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ After Filmmakers Rebel”
2023-11-15: ‘David Zaslav Admits Striking Writers Were “Right About Almost Everything”’ 😬️
2023-11-15: That “isn’t this funny” story that’s going around involving a horse that got …
2023-11-15: “Don’t Turn a Table into an ARIA Grid Just for a Clickable Row — Adrian Roselli”
2023-11-15: “Bruce Lawson’s personal site : Formstack, autocomplete and accessibility”
2023-11-15: “Don’t read the comments” is one of those rules that is sometimes great, sometimes causes you to …
2023-11-15: Me to brain: “Why am I so stressed?” Brain to me: “You’re launching a major …
2023-11-15: “HTML Web Components: An Example - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” I’ve been following the discourse around HTML …
2023-11-15: “Productivity vs Insight, Tools for Reflection, and Other Questions Answered”
2023-11-15: “We are drowning in Google’s magnanimity - kpassa.me”
2023-11-15: “Reality Check #2: Building out a fancy 404 page - Set Studio”
2023-11-14: This whole “will there be an eruption or not” situation is distracting Unfortunately, it’s likely …
2023-11-14: “Fieldwork: Adding improv to the mix — Chocolate and Vodka” I got into reading books on improv a …
2023-11-14: The video in this feed shows how extensive the damage to Grindavík is. Half the town sank by an …
2023-11-14: “Stop deploying web application firewalls”
2023-11-13: Looks like volunteers managed to rescue from Grindavík today: 49 cats 4 hamsters 90 pigeons as well …
2023-11-13: Looks like they managed to rescue most of the remaining animals and the ones that remain on the list …
2023-11-13: “HTML Web Components - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-11-13: “Residents of the eastern part of the city allowed in to collect their belongings - RÚV.is” Still …
2023-11-13: “Fauxtomation | A Working Library” But perhaps a more instructive question is, how will the work be …
2023-11-13: Hearing about a company that’s switched over to Microsoft Authenticator for all of their company …
2023-11-13: “Inside New Orleans’ struggle with facial-recognition policing - POLITICO”
2023-11-12: Not sure many people outside of Iceland understand why it’s important for us to see even only …
2023-11-12: “scrollback — ello learns”
2023-11-12: “The product manager role is a mistake - Software Product Development Pills”
2023-11-12: The neighbourhood cats don’t seem concerned about a potentially impending natural disaster or world …
2023-11-12: “Iceland: experts predict feared volcanic eruption could destroy town near Reykjavik | Iceland | The …
2023-11-11: Neyðarsöfnun Rauða Krossins vegna jarðhræringa við Grindavík www.raudikrossinn.is/styrkja/s…
2023-11-11: “CSS { In Real Life } | Stop Using AI-Generated Images” By choosing AI-generated images over those …
2023-11-11: So, turns out the Swedish series Anxious People (Folk med ångest), that’s on Netflix, is a lot …
2023-11-11: Just the earthquakes alone seem to have caused a lot of damage in Grindavík. …
2023-11-11: “Crisis point in AI? - by Gary Marcus - Marcus on AI” If meaningful AI regulation gets scuttled here …
2023-11-11: “How git cherry-pick and revert use 3-way merge”
2023-11-11: “Your Small Imprecise Ask Is a Big Waste of Their Time | Stay SaaSy” In all the years I’ve been …
2023-11-11: So, at this point we just got to hope that either the magma just gives up at the last minute or that …
2023-11-10: Looks like we’re about to have another volcanic eruption. Boo. www.ruv.is/english/2…
2023-11-10: ‘Thoughts on “generative AI Art”’ Your reaction of “this is exactly what I imagined” …
2023-11-10: “Is the Internet really broken? – Elizabeth Tai” The Internet hasn’t been a pleasant place for …
2023-11-10: “Adactio: Journal—HTML web components”
2023-11-10: “The Commit that Updated a Thousand Demos—zachleat.com” This feels like an elegant way of solving a …
2023-11-10: “The Anti-Workforce - Ed Zitron’s Where’s Your Ed At” Those in control do not …
2023-11-10: “Google Should Fire Sundar Pichai” Fire him today and replace him with someone else. If you make …
2023-11-10: “Businesses don’t hire designers for their good work | Koos Looijesteijn”
2023-11-10: “Monaspace” The good thing about bad companies releasing interesting stuff with an open license, …
2023-11-10: “Matt on Tumblr on Tumblr” Matt tries to explain to us how “we’re running Tumblr on a bare-bones …
2023-11-09: “‘Coyote vs. Acme’ Shelved by Warner Bros, Taking $30M Tax Writeoff – Deadline” Sure looks like the …
2023-11-09: This male blackbird is the main customer of my bird feeder. The starlings come and go, but this guy …
2023-11-09: Blue Lagoon closes for a week www.ruv.is/english/2… They should have closed days ago. Even …
2023-11-09: “AI pivots” at software companies usually mean that they’ve lost interest in fixing existing issues …
2023-11-09: “HTML DOM — Phuoc Nguyen” I need to set aside some time to go over this.
2023-11-09: “Omegle, the Site That Paired Strangers for Video Chats, Is Dead”
2023-11-09: “Øredev 2023: Under-Engineered Patterns — Adrian Roselli”
2023-11-09: “Universe 2023: Copilot transforms GitHub into the AI-powered developer platform - The GitHub Blog” …
2023-11-08: So, I wrote a bit of a rant on Mastodon and it was long enough to warrant compiling and editing into …
2023-11-08: “How do build tools break backwards compatibility? | Go Make Things”
2023-11-08: “CSS { In Real Life } | (Don’t) Mind the Gap”
2023-11-08: “What Does and Doesn’t Matter about Apple Shooting their October Event on iPhone 15 Pro Max — …
2023-11-07: “A fountain of fakes – Bigmouth Strikes Again: Carrie Marshall’s blog”
2023-11-07: “An Intermittent Platform Bug – Chris Coyier” These kinds of bugs are essentially impossible for a …
2023-11-07: “Cruise Self-Driving Cars Struggled to Recognize Children” Who’s willing to bet against me that …
2023-11-06: “A new Eleventy mascot from David Neal! — Eleventy” I like this one. A much more defined character.
2023-11-06: “Rebase: what can go wrong?” Honestly, I’m personally more of a “commit histories should be true and …
2023-11-06: “Chatbots May ‘Hallucinate’ More Often Than Many Realize” When summarizing facts, …
2023-11-06: And I’m glad to see that there isn’t a browser in existence that I can’t lock up …
2023-11-06: When did Firefox make bookmarking all tabs in a window so involved? I swear there used to be a …
2023-11-06: This week’s notes are a bit more grumpy than usual, but not too grumpy I think? Sort of …
2023-11-06: “As Good as HTML - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-11-05: “Will We Kill the Humanities? - by John Warner”
2023-11-05: “Ian Betteridge - On Steven Sinofsky’s post on regulating AI” Sinofsky was, IIRC, the dude …
2023-11-05: I’m a big movie buff, always have been, but I generally avoid going to the cinema after COVID hit …
2023-11-05: “The next frontier in IP parasites: codec royalties on content. – Rocknerd” Software patents, …
2023-11-05: Every time the US has one of it’s rare genuine union action, it immediately becomes obvious that US …
2023-11-04: “No, Okta, senior management, not an errant employee, caused you to get hacked | Ars Technica”
2023-11-04: Still working on the pitch page for the course and still trying to figure out how best to convey …
2023-11-04: “Web browsers kind of suck | Go Make Things” This. If I didn’t have bills to pay I’d start brushing …
2023-11-04: “When not to use a subdomain – Chris Coyier” Accurate.
2023-11-04: “Naming things needn’t be hard - Classnames” Bookmarking for future reference.
2023-11-03: This week’s links and notes are so late they’re almost next week’s “Notes, …
2023-11-03: What the fuck? All of a sudden all of my GitHub repositories return a 404!
2023-11-03: Before, when I stumbled on a web dev blog post that spent hundreds of words saying nothing: “Wow, …
2023-11-03: Looking good. 😄
2023-11-03: “Ecosystem rot | Go Make Things” This. Especially the last paragraph.
2023-11-03: “Embeds and Quotations in Writing - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-11-03: “Audio Hijack adds automatic transcription – Six Colors” Automatic transcription remains the least …
2023-11-03: “How I’m using the fragments of social media now - Andy Bell”
2023-11-02: Today’s mood www.youtube.com/watch
2023-11-02: “Confusing git terminology” An incredibly useful blog post that explains so so many of the things …
2023-11-02: “Silicon Valley is the Church of Moore’s Law — Crooked Timber” Moore’s Law only seems special …
2023-11-02: “Videography For Dummies” People think lights and crews are cheating? Because there’s VFX in …
2023-11-01: “Technical Standards Bodies are Regulators”
2023-11-01: “The Online Photographer: AI Imaging is a Pox, a Fraud and a Thief”
2023-11-01: “The Beauty of Finished Software – Pixel Envy”
2023-11-01: “The beauty of finished software | Jose M.”
2023-11-01: “What The Goddamn Hell Is Going On In The Tech Industry? — Ludicity” This understates the problem …
2023-11-01: “Use the accessibility shortcuts on iOS to speed up your testing workflow · Eric Eggert”
2023-10-31: “Advice on Blogging - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-10-31: “Why We Don’t Report Website Carbon Emissions | DebugBear” Website CO2 calculators measure page …
2023-10-31: Me, writing a course on web dev: “I’m not going to be opinionated and alienate the …
2023-10-31: “People expect technology to suck because it actually sucks @ tonsky.me” Three years old but still …
2023-10-30: “Passkeys: A No-Frills Explainer On The Future Of Password-Less Authentication — Smashing Magazine”
2023-10-30: “Why I Get Sick Selling A Curriculum To Homeschool Parents | HuffPost HuffPost Personal”
2023-10-30: “Everything wrong with tech in 2023 (in no particular order) — Joan Westenberg”
2023-10-29: “Land is rising close to Svartsengi” This is bad news because the Svartsengi power …
2023-10-29: “Pushing for a lower dev estimate is like negotiating better weather with a meteorologist”
2023-10-29: “Seriously, Write Your API Spec First | Ready, Set, Cloud!”
2023-10-29: “The Squirminal Web Component—zachleat.com”
2023-10-29: “Adactio: Links—Let’s reinvent the wheel ⚒ Nerd”
2023-10-29: “Let’s reinvent the wheel ⚒ Nerd”
2023-10-28: “You’re Gonna Need A Bigger Browser”
2023-10-28: “Computers, Amirite? - by Dorian Taylor”
2023-10-28: “So you’ve been publicly accessibility-shamed | daverupert.com”
2023-10-27: “Quality software deserves your hard‑earned cash — Steph Ango”
2023-10-27: “CSS is fun again” It really is.
2023-10-27: “Chatbot Hallucinations Are Poisoning Web Search | WIRED” Last week, Griffin discovered that his …
2023-10-27: “Journaling in private with my friends”
2023-10-26: I decided to stop noodling around and just publishing this: “Web Developer Coaching” …
2023-10-26: “The Handcrafted Artisanal Web – nadreck.me”
2023-10-26: “Five Things: October 26, 2023 — As in guillotine…”
2023-10-26: “Introducing Mozilla’s AI Guide, the developers onboarding ramp to AI” Is it just me or has the vibe …
2023-10-26: “How Netlify rebranded their app in just 6 weeks” I wonder what the ROI is of massive rebrands like …
2023-10-26: “Web Components Will Outlive Your JavaScript Framework | jakelazaroff.com”
2023-10-26: “Testing ChatGPT-4 for ‘UX Audits’ Shows an 80% Error Rate & 14–26% Discoverability Rate – …
2023-10-25: Just had to deal with an “AI” customer service chatbot for the first time The software …
2023-10-25: “On the deck-chairs of HTTP/2 — Varnish version trunk documentation”
2023-10-25: “Who can you trust with your online business? – Cloud Four” Managers and owners preferring bad …
2023-10-25: “It’s 2023, here is why your web design sucks.”
2023-10-25: “mjg59 | Defending abuse does not defend free software”
2023-10-24: “Wait, is cloud bad? - by Forrest Brazeal - Good Tech Things” Anytime you hear an appeal to …
2023-10-24: “Microincentives and Enshittification – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow”
2023-10-24: I just did a short rewrite of the landing page for the upcoming test-driven web development course. …
2023-10-24: This is happening today in Iceland www.theguardian.com/world/liv…
2023-10-24: “Monopoly Power Is the Elephant in the Room in the AI Debate”
2023-10-24: “JavaScript Is Enabled by Default in Web Browsers - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” Browsers don’t turn off …
2023-10-24: “1Password discloses security incident linked to Okta breach” ‘Put everything into the cloud’ they …
2023-10-24: “This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI” Unlike Glaze, their …
2023-10-23: Moving very slowly through the kitchen so as to not spook the blackbird feeding on the balcony.
2023-10-23: “Notes, Links, and Weeknotes (23 October 2023)” …
2023-10-23: I’ve just published “How do you even web dev without node? A quick introduction to …
2023-10-23: Honestly, whenever I use SASS I end up regretting it because of some subtle incompatibility with …
2023-10-23: “Why you should roll your own auth — Begin Blog”
2023-10-23: “Robin Rendle — Cut the Intro” This advice works with most types of writing: blog posts, books, …
2023-10-23: “the rat truth” she wanted us to focus on the art, on the innovation of heated plumbing, on the …
2023-10-22: “Narrative - You’re All Set: Casual Language, Embedded Advertising, And The Decline Of …
2023-10-22: “Pixels of the Week – October 22, 2023 by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer.”
2023-10-22: “AI’s Electricity Use Is Spiking So Fast It’ll Soon Use as Much Power as an Entire …
2023-10-21: I just published “How do you even web dev without node? A quick introduction to test-driven …
2023-10-21: “Okta stock falls after company says client files accessed by hackers via support system” Rolling …
2023-10-20: “Meta in Myanmar (full series) - Erin Kissane’s small internet website”
2023-10-20: “P&B: Jim Nielsen – Manu”
2023-10-20: “People and Blogs and Me - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-10-20: Looks like somebody’s figured out how to scrape netlify project domains. Started to get …
2023-10-20: That thing where somebody’s techno-optimist bullshit stinks so bad that even Wired columnists take …
2023-10-20: It’s kind of impressive how ChromeOS just keeps getting worse. “No, I don’t want …
2023-10-20: “The nuances of base64 encoding strings in JavaScript | Articles | web.dev”
2023-10-19: So, the fact that Microsoft’s Language Server Protocol, the protocol that’s become the …
2023-10-19: “Ten Things I’ve Learned - Milton Glaser” PDF warning.
2023-10-19: “Good is the enemy of the great. - Airbag Industries”
2023-10-19: “I’m banned for life from advertising on Meta. Because I teach Python. — Reuven Lerner”
2023-10-18: “Don’t build your castle in other people’s kingdoms” Old post but evergreen advice.
2023-10-18: “Why can’t our tech billionaires learn anything new?” these are anti-democratic …
2023-10-18: “Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture” A fairly convincing argument that VS Code …
2023-10-18: “Web performance and parallel vs. waterfall downloads | Go Make Things” IMO bundling, for standard …
2023-10-18: “Does working from home damage productivity? Just look at the data. | The Hill”
2023-10-18: ‘“Massive” | everything changes’
2023-10-18: “Unless Explicitly Specified Otherwise, Open Source Software With Users Carries Moral Obligations” …
2023-10-18: Mastodon and Bluesky present interesting contrasts. On Mastodon you can expect a lot of replies, …
2023-10-17: “I Will Fucking Haymaker You If You Mention Agile Again” Which absolute fucking maniac …
2023-10-17: Tried to watch an episode of the 2017 Twin Peaks revival series and couldn’t even get through …
2023-10-17: “Not setting up Find My bricked my MacBook | TokyoDev” Yikes.
2023-10-17: “Adactio: Journal—Decision time”
2023-10-17: “AI is Becoming a Band-Aid over Bad, Broken Tech Industry Design Choices - Scientific American” …
2023-10-17: “The Web Is For User Agency”
2023-10-17: “The Three Cs: Concatenate, Compress, Cache – Harry Roberts – Web Performance Consultant”
2023-10-16: “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto | Andreessen Horowitz” This manifesto is one of the more horrific …
2023-10-16: Might as well link to this again, since I’m here: “The Elegiac Hindsight of Intelligent …
2023-10-16: This week’s notes post! www.baldurbjarnason.com/2023/week… Has notes on burnout in the …
2023-10-16: “The Cost of Avoiding Annoyance - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-10-16: “Report finds few open source projects actively maintained | InfoWorld”
2023-10-15: Strongly considering unsubscribing from Disney + and only resubscribing when the next season of Only …
2023-10-15: “Adactio: Journal—Increment by increment” That’s great company to be in.
2023-10-14: “Paul Barton: The Pianist of Elephants - DanHonMusic”
2023-10-14: “Paul Barton: The Pianist of Elephants - DanHonMusic”
2023-10-14: ‘“Maybe I’ll never feel that motivation again.” | by Sara Wachter-Boettcher | Nice Work | Medium’
2023-10-14: So, for this #caturday I’d like to celebrate the fact that my sister’s rescue, Kolka, has been with …
2023-10-14: “The Interface of Kai Krause’s Software”
2023-10-14: “Building The Next Web” We’re not far from not having a Web left. It’s been so captured …
2023-10-14: “We need web progress, not pessimism” I disagree with the premise of this post. Progress requires a …
2023-10-14: “Meta in Myanmar, Part IV: Only Connect” Our new platforms and tools for global connection have …
2023-10-13: I just published “The Elegiac Hindsight of Intelligent Machines” It’s essentially …
2023-10-13: “Scrollbars are becoming a problem” The current state of scrollbars is, on the face of it, objective …
2023-10-13: “Frugal Computing – On the need for low-carbon and sustainable computing and the path towards …
2023-10-12: “Where to Put Focus When Deleting a Thing — Adrian Roselli”
2023-10-12: “CSS { In Real Life } | Greenwashing and the COP28 Website”
2023-10-12: “Fast(er) JavaScript on WebAssembly: Portable Baseline Interpreter and Future Plans” This is …
2023-10-12: “AI’s Electricity Use Is Spiking So Fast It’ll Soon Use as Much Power as an Entire …
2023-10-12: The first snows have hit my area of Iceland. Both of the main roads are closed (or about to be). …
2023-10-11: “Joint Statement by Free Software Foundation Europe and Software Freedom Conservancy Regarding …
2023-10-11: “16 things you believe about software: A retrospective on the Searls-Briggs Type Indicator®”
2023-10-11: “Google Insiders Question Usefulness of Bard AI Chatbot - Bloomberg”
2023-10-11: “Adobe previews AI upscaling to make blurry videos and GIFs look fresh - The Verge” That everybody …
2023-10-11: “Using Web Components on My Icon Galleries Websites - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-10-11: “Ian Betteridge - Publishers need to wake up to the truth about Google traffic” Hard to see how this …
2023-10-10: “Tech Leaders Are Obsessing Over the Obscure Theory E/acc. Here’s Why” 😬
2023-10-10: “Word Count 60: Writerly practice, US author income survey — Chocolate and Vodka”
2023-10-10: “Adactio: Journal—Making the Patterns Day website” I didn’t use any build tools. There was no …
2023-10-10: “Adactio: Links—Did technology kill the craftsman? - The Progress Network”
2023-10-10: Here I thought the biggest news of the day here in Iceland would be bad weather It’s notable that he …
2023-10-10: “AI hype is built on high test scores. Those tests are flawed.”
2023-10-10: “Naming Variables In CSS”
2023-10-10: “1491342 - Atomics.wait(sb, 0, 0, delay) might fail unpredictably on notify(sb, 0) - chromium”
2023-10-10: “Ian Betteridge - GitHub Copilot costs more per user than it charges” People generally don’t realise …
2023-10-09: “Adactio: Links—Against Scale”
2023-10-09: “Against Scale”
2023-10-09: “AGI Researchers Stop Quoting White Supremacists Challenge (Impossible)” That the AGI …
2023-10-09: “Notes, Links, and Weeknotes (9 October 2023)” I’m trying a slightly different format …
2023-10-09: “Hey designers, they’re gaslighting you. By Sara Wachter-Boettcher | Nice Work” They tried so, so …
2023-10-09: “Absolutely Do Not Change Your Blogging Platform (unless you have to)” As somebody who has migrated …
2023-10-09: “Adactio: Links—Kinopio’s Design Principles”
2023-10-09: “Kinopio’s Design Principles”
2023-10-08: “The Labor Market Returns of Being An Artist: Evidence from the United States, 2006-2021 by Christos …
2023-10-07: “What Happened to Separation of Concerns in Frontend Development · Jens Oliver Meiert”
2023-10-07: “A Note From WIRED Leadership | WIRED” One of the benefits of being old enough to remember the 90s …
2023-10-07: “Meta in Myanmar, Part III. The Inside View” Again, all the content warnings. But also this: I …
2023-10-07: “Meta in Myanmar, Part II: The Crisis - Erin Kissane’s small internet website” ALL the content …
2023-10-07: “Robin Rendle — The Cascade”
2023-10-06: “Ro Salarian: rosalarian: I spent ten years building up a…” I don’t want to make “content,” …
2023-10-06: “There aren’t really big gaps in OKLCH where it just doesn’t render any color at all. - …
2023-10-06: We have, what, maybe a decade left of our current hyperconnected global tech industry left before it …
2023-10-06: “Who Is OpenAI’s Sam Altman? Meet the Oppenheimer of Our Age”
2023-10-06: “Target says it’s closing 9 stores due to theft. The crime data tells a different story.”
2023-10-05: “Imposter Syndrome Driven Design and a Bedfordshire Clanger - Stephanie Stimac’s Blog”
2023-10-05: “Why side projects are essential for creatives—and employers should embrace them | Jonas Downey”
2023-10-05: “My Books Have Been Banned or Challenged in 16 States” Even if the book banners do read …
2023-10-05: “Fair Warning: For as long as there has been AI research, there have been credible critiques …
2023-10-05: “Navigation API · Issue #34 · WebKit/standards-positions · GitHub” If we get both the Navigation API …
2023-10-04: I expected the AI bubble to get bad, but the scale of the bullshit still hits hard Only those who …
2023-10-04: “Seven lies in four sentences” Rumors that LLMs have solved then hallucination problem are greatly …
2023-10-04: “Don’t Build Microservices, Pursue Loose Coupling - DevOps.com”
2023-10-04: “Adactio: Journal—Websites in the dock” I wonder if there’s much point using wrappers like Electron …
2023-10-03: And I wrote about how making or using generative models is, all else being equal, a dick move. …
2023-10-03: I also published my weeknotes yesterday, with the links for the week. …
2023-10-03: Quick reminder that I’ve set up a pre-order page for the print edition of Out of the Software …
2023-10-03: “Adactio: Journal—Crawlers”
2023-10-03: “Nine things automated accessibility tests can’t test | daverupert.com”
2023-10-03: “Return to Office Is Bullshit And Everyone Knows It - Dhole Moments” Executives are genuinely bad at …
2023-10-03: “Boys will be boys | Revert to Saved: A blog about design, gaming and technology” I’m not sure …
2023-10-03: “NASA satellites reveal restoration power of beavers”
2023-10-02: “Scammers Are Using AI to Sell Ripped Off Versions of Other People’s Books”
2023-10-02: “OpenAI’s ChatGPT Can Actually Make Workers Perform Worse” I’m pretty sure that the overall …
2023-10-02: “Opening remarks on “AI in the Workplace: New Crisis or Longstanding Challenge” | by Emily M. Bender …
2023-10-02: “Making a Website is for Everyone - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” This.
2023-10-02: “The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!)”
2023-10-02: “They Studied Dishonesty. Was Their Work a Lie? | The New Yorker” Certainly starting to look like …
2023-09-30: What is it with 80s/90s movies presenting predatory sociopaths destroying people’s lives as …
2023-09-30: “‘I follow you for tech, not politics’ | Go Make Things” My friend, all tech is political.
2023-09-30: “table-saw Web Component—zachleat.com”
2023-09-30: “Adactio: Links—Just Another Music Monday - by Rusty Foster - Today in Tabs”
2023-09-30: “Sam Altman Says He Intends to Replace Normal People With AI” AGI is a religion and it isn’t one of …
2023-09-29: My aunt’s husband has been making violins for forty years so there’s going to be a show dedicated to …
2023-09-29: “Microsoft comes under blistering criticism for “grossly irresponsible” security | Ars Technica” No, …
2023-09-29: “Compromised Microsoft Key: More Impactful Than We Thought” This includes managed Microsoft …
2023-09-29: “The Gravitational Pull Of Business As Usual – Paul Taylor”
2023-09-29: “Meta in Myanmar, Part I: The Setup - Erin Kissane’s small internet website” Fucking hell.
2023-09-29: “Why We’ll Never Live in Space - Scientific American” I’ve always been a big fan of space …
2023-09-28: “Open Source does not win by being cheaper”
2023-09-28: “Pre-order the hard-cover print edition of Out of the Software Crisis“ So, this is a …
2023-09-28: That Ive/Altman “AI phone” thing is going to reach Segway levels of hype isn’t it? Ugh.
2023-09-28: ‘The FTC Sues to Break Up Amazon Over an Economy-Wide “Hidden Tax”’
2023-09-28: “Google accidentally leaking Bard AI chats into public search results” Mass layoffs followed by …
2023-09-28: “NODE_ENV Considered Harmful” Not a huge fan of “considered harmful” these days but, in addition to …
2023-09-28: “We Don’t Need CEOs Anymore and AI Could Easily Replace Them” Can’t be any more dysfunctional …
2023-09-27: “Why multi-page apps? | Go Make Things”
2023-09-27: “Robots.txt - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” What he said. Robots.txt is a convention based on a social …
2023-09-27: So, Shopify is the only option I have for setting up pre-orders for the print edition of Out of the …
2023-09-27: Switching to career Plan N+1 (where N is wherever I was) means I need to rethink what I’m …
2023-09-27: “Failing Without Knowing Why: The Tragedy Of Performative Content - DaedTech”
2023-09-27: “Jim Nielsen’s Notes” Just say “No!” to A/B tests. This might be a trend.
2023-09-27: “Optimizing for Taste”
2023-09-27: “Summary of the 2023 WGA MBA” So, most of the details here are outside of my wheelhouse, but the …
2023-09-26: “Classic rock, Mario Kart, and why we can’t agree on Tailwind”
2023-09-26: “Introducing Railway V2” They say the day you delete all the Kubernetes code from your …
2023-09-26: “Software is What We Learned Along the Way - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-09-26: “13 super rad web dev tricks you don’t know about (but should) | Go Make Things”
2023-09-26: “Generative Artificial Intelligence is slowly entering children’s lives - AlgorithmWatch”
2023-09-26: “Enhance: SSR for Web Components”
2023-09-25: ‘The Illusion Of Developer “Productivity” Opens The Door To Snake Oil – Codemanship’s Blog’ …
2023-09-25: “The Beat is looking for a Managing Editor”
2023-09-25: “Elon Musk and the Infinite Rebuy - by Dave Karpf”
2023-09-25: “Weeknote: 25 September 2023” A long one this week. Mostly because I’m using the …
2023-09-25: “Build Great Software By Repeatedly Encountering It - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-09-25: “WordPress Kills The Blogger Star – Flameeyes’s Weblog”
2023-09-24: “The invisible problem – Scott Jenson” Text editing on mobile isn’t ok. It’s actually much worse …
2023-09-24: “Writing Is Thinking - by John Warner” Easily this week’s best read.
2023-09-23: “Google’s New Gmail Tool Is Hallucinating Emails That Don’t Exist” 😬️
2023-09-23: “Writers and talkers and leaders, oh my! | everything changes”
2023-09-23: “React is slow at its very core | Go Make Things” The golden rule of JavaScript: more abstractions …
2023-09-23: “How to escape CSS selectors in JavaScript | Stefan Judis Web Development”
2023-09-23: “Elegant and powerful new result that seriously undermines large language models” Like I’ve been …
2023-09-23: ‘”AI”, and the trouble with inaccessible SaaS - localghost’
2023-09-23: “Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem - Polyfills gone rogue”
2023-09-22: “Google Books – search results confuse reviewers with authors – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2023-09-22: “Patterns for Reactivity with Modern Vanilla JavaScript | Frontend Masters”
2023-09-22: I see that AI boosters advocating we change copyright law, globally, in ways that contravene …
2023-09-22: “Adactio: Links—Statement on Generative AI | Ben Myers”
2023-09-22: “Statement on Generative AI | Ben Myers” Agree completely.
2023-09-22: “Building like it’s 1984: A comprehensive guide to creating intuitive context menus - Height” …
2023-09-22: “ChatGPT Caught Giving Horrible Advice to Cancer Patients” Like I’ve said in the past: this AI …
2023-09-21: “Don’t prematurely optimize for performance | Go Make Things”
2023-09-21: “Why I chose Codepen PRO over Copilot - CodePen Blog”
2023-09-21: “Why I chose Codepen Pro over Copilot” So, the standard advice in any creative industry on improving …
2023-09-21: “Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff hiring boomerang employees” I’ve been saying over the past year that …
2023-09-21: “Why not React? - DEV Community”
2023-09-21: “CSS Shorthand Syntax Considered an Anti-Pattern – CSS Wizardry – Web Performance Optimisation” This …
2023-09-21: “Accessibility is not binary | Erik Kroes - Accessibility Consultant”
2023-09-21: “Writers: use the Spoken Content accessibility feature to have your Mac and iPad read words and help …
2023-09-21: “AI data training companies like Scale AI are hiring poets - Rest of World” Scabs.
2023-09-20: “Bullet Points: Oh-just-shut-up edition - by Dave Karpf”
2023-09-20: “Blocking AI Scraper Bots - Chris Coyier”
2023-09-20: “Adactio: Links—Get it shipped — building better relationships with Devs”
2023-09-20: “Get it shipped — building better relationships with Devs | by Ness Grixti | Sep, 2023 | Redesigning …
2023-09-20: “Impostor phenomenon’s origin story — Chocolate and Vodka” Interesting deep dive.
2023-09-20: “Microsoft AI researchers mistakenly leaked 38TB of company data” Reporting on all of Microsoft’s …
2023-09-19: “Adactio: Links—Tailwind, and the death of web craftsmanship”
2023-09-19: “Tailwind, and the death of web craftsmanship” I’ve wondered too about the field’s refusal to …
2023-09-19: “Browser Video Players Review”
2023-09-19: “A (more) Modern CSS Reset - Andy Bell”
2023-09-19: “Go Direct — Audacious” There should rarely be more than three people involved in delivering …
2023-09-19: “38TB of data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers | Wiz Blog” Over the past thirty …
2023-09-19: “WebKit Features in Safari 17.0 | WebKit” Looks like a solid release.
2023-09-19: “AI at the Crossroads – EduGeek Journal”
2023-09-18: So, Hveragerði is a quiet town and I live next door to the Geothermal Park. This means that if I …
2023-09-18: “The JS community on Twitter is dead.” Yup.
2023-09-18: “Sustainability and Tech and Us · Jens Oliver Meiert” What I find troubling is how in tech, we’re …
2023-09-18: “Which Kinds of Tests Should I Write? Revisited - The Code Whisperer”
2023-09-18: “Notes from “Weathering Software Winter” by Devine Lu Linvega - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-09-18: “The Rules of Margin Collapse” Honestly, margin collapse in CSS was probably a bad idea and because …
2023-09-17: My dad has a bit of a retro approach to listening to music.
2023-09-17: “Ableist interactions | hidde.blog” I agree with everything in this post but would like to emphasise …
2023-09-17: “Scope vs Shadow DOM” I have never personally needed shadow DOM. Every time I dig in to assess it, …
2023-09-16: Black and white photos from said bad weather photography walk.
2023-09-16: Went for a short bad weather photography walk
2023-09-16: “Book Review: Kill It With Fire – Manage Ageing Computer Systems by Marianne Bellotti – Terence …
2023-09-16: “David Golumbia, 1963–2023 – Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain”
2023-09-16: “Adactio: Links—We’re still not innovating with AI-generated UI.”
2023-09-16: “We’re still not innovating with AI-generated UI.” I generally feel like companies with poor …
2023-09-16: “Fixing Search” However, browsers selling users to search engines to keep the web going is a bit …
2023-09-15: Found my dad’s old typewriter. Might be a bit of a project but it would be fun to get it into proper …
2023-09-14: ‘Microsoft Publishes Garbled AI Article Calling Tragically Deceased NBA Player …
2023-09-14: So, this is happening. I can already see that the final version needs to have a gloss, not matte, …
2023-09-14: “The Myth of Artificial Intelligence - The American Prospect”
2023-09-14: “Critical WebP bug: many apps, not just browsers, under threat” One of the issues with the …
2023-09-13: This book is required reading for everyone involved in looking at Generative AI for their business …
2023-09-13: After noodling around with mocha and deno, I’m pretty sure it’s possible to set up a …
2023-09-13: “The A.V. Club’s AI-Generated Articles Are Copying Directly From IMDb” This was utterly …
2023-09-13: Starlings relaxing after raiding my bird feeder. Blurry phone picture as they scarpered as soon as …
2023-09-13: “Bricolage | Some notes on Local-First Development” I think Local-First is going to be an essential …
2023-09-13: “The death of unity” Looting your customer base.
2023-09-12: Found out that my granddad owned a .22 pistol in the 60s which was honestly out of character Then my …
2023-09-12: “I think I kind of hate lazy loading – Terence Eden’s Blog” I ran into this quite a bit back when I …
2023-09-12: “Team size isn’t a measure of success - Jacob Kaplan-Moss”
2023-09-12: “Your feedback means more to small teams | daverupert.com”
2023-09-12: “On exponential growth of LLMs” LLMs aren’t growing exponentially. Even if they were …
2023-09-11: “Can Large Language Models Reason?” See Betteridge’s law On a dataset of …
2023-09-11: “If a hammer was like AI…”
2023-09-11: A new weeknote, where I talk about dev environments, cross origin isolation, Dario Argento, and Jack …
2023-09-11: “Ian Betteridge - No, the UK government did not back down on its plans to spy on encrypted messages”
2023-09-11: “TBM 242: The Simplicity Fetish - by John Cutler”
2023-09-10: “The hardest part of building software is not coding, it’s requirements” The problems have become …
2023-09-10: We’re pretty much caught up on the history of my amateur photography. Around 25 years of photos …
2023-09-10: Other than the ravens, 2023 was light on photography for me. The highlight was probably our trip to …
2023-09-10: And once in a blue moon you’d get a raven that’d just post for you. Pretty far away on the top of a …
2023-09-10: The thing about youths of any species is that they Do Not Sit Still. It’s a universal law. And my …
2023-09-10: The photographic highlight of 2023 so far was the raven parliament Raven youths congregate …
2023-09-10: “Advanced NLP with SpaCy | Hacker News” The world cannot migrate all its current NLP models for …
2023-09-10: “Pixels of the Week – September 10, 2023 by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer.”
2023-09-10: “Design Under Pressure – Simply Secure”
2023-09-10: “Storing UTC is not a silver bullet | Jon Skeet’s coding blog”
2023-09-09: “On productivity metrics and management consultants – Surfing Complexity”
2023-09-09: Now that the starlings have discovered my bird feeder my balcony railing has become a bit of a …
2023-09-09: “OpenAI confirms that AI writing detectors don’t work | Ars Technica” Yeah.
2023-09-09: The only real opportunity I got for photography in 2022 was a trip to the caves near Hella. They’re …
2023-09-09: Now we’re in the depressing part of my photographic history. Things got pretty rough after the …
2023-09-09: “Remembering Molly :: Aaron Gustafson”
2023-09-08: “Silicon Valley’s Slaughterhouse” This, in my mind, began tech’s age of empty innovation, …
2023-09-08: “Microsoft announces new Copilot Copyright Commitment for customers” I see that some of …
2023-09-08: I’m not pessimistic about technology. I’m disappointed and let down. The distinction is …
2023-09-08: This here is the last picture I took in 2021. It’s also my grandmother’s favourite because that’s …
2023-09-08: The place is also a stop for the raven population in the sout of Iceland. We don’t have that many of …
2023-09-08: Hveragerði itself can be pretty picturesque, though. There’s something photogenic in pretty much …
2023-09-08: So it’s not entirely surprising that I don’t have that many photographs to show from that year. Most …
2023-09-08: The view from my balcony of the industrial greenhouse next door. Nice folks Another turn in 2021: my …
2023-09-08: We’re up to 2021 in my photographic history. I had just found an apartment in a small but nice town …
2023-09-08: “Read terrible books, too - Austin Kleon” Terrible media is can be fearless and inventive despite …
2023-09-07: Where my mind is at regarding web dev. github.com/baldurbja… Going to see how well this works …
2023-09-07: “Why are we not still using tables-for-layout? – Rachel Andrew”
2023-09-07: “Remembering Molly, one of the greats - The History of the Web”
2023-09-07: “The room-temperature superconductor that wasn’t | Ars Technica” Oh, well.
2023-09-07: The last two photos I found from 2020 that I liked were these two photos of ravens flying over the …
2023-09-07: One of the projects I did in 2020 was to document my mother’s radio documentary on the discovery of …
2023-09-07: We’re up to 2020 in the history of my amateur photography and I’ll be honest: it was rough. Every …
2023-09-07: “Memories of Molly – Eric’s Archived Thoughts”
2023-09-07: “Bruce Lawson’s personal site : Goodbye Molly Holzschlag–a memoriam post”
2023-09-07: “Bogus CVE follow-ups | daniel.haxx.se”
2023-09-07: “CVE-2020-19909 is everything that is wrong with CVEs | daniel.haxx.se”
2023-09-06: Newsletter update “Fear Of Missing Out is lethal when somebody invents a footgun” …
2023-09-06: My last attempt at serious photography in Montréal was in the middle of the lockdown. I went around …
2023-09-06: After a year where my mother had had a serious health scare (now fine), racists locked up the …
2023-09-06: I visited Iceland that Christmas. Not just to celebrate the holiday but also to prepare my move back …
2023-09-06: We’re up to autumn 2019 in the history of my amateur photography and none of us had any idea of what …
2023-09-06: “How often do you get to rewrite and rethink?”
2023-09-06: “Rewrite & Rethink - Chris Coyier”
2023-09-06: “Tucson’s Molly Holzschlag, known as ‘the fairy godmother of the web,’ dead at 60 …
2023-09-05: Finally, I always enjoy pictures where people look more like abstract shadowy or silhouette-y …
2023-09-05: Double-decker buses always feel a bit out of place in Iceland, but apparently they’re used for …
2023-09-05: In the summer 2019, we went on a bit of a tour of the lighthouses of the Reykjanes peninsula.
2023-09-05: We’re into spring 2019 with this triptych of spring sports in Parc Jarry. These images don’t work …
2023-09-05: “Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops” the culture and the order imposed to …
2023-09-05: “cola: a text CRDT for real-time collaborative editing”
2023-09-05: “Out of the Software Crisis: Gardening - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” So far, I’ve really been enjoying these …
2023-09-05: “Chris’ Corner: Web Components Don’t Need You - CodePen Blog”
2023-09-05: Hopefully Tuesday will be less groggy and grumpy than Monday.
2023-09-04: “Nine Essential Information Architecture Practices | Jorge Arango”
2023-09-04: Edited my weeknote to be a little bit more coherent. Having a bit of a foggy Monday. …
2023-09-04: All seasons must end eventually and winter is no exception. Spring must arrive eventually. This is …
2023-09-04: Other than that, winter in Montréal is how you imagine winter in storybooks. That makes it pretty …
2023-09-04: We’re up to winter 2018/19. This is probably my mother’s favourite photo. Here, familiarity with a …
2023-09-04: “siderea | Software Development Worst Practices”
2023-09-04: “«When AI systems are used, they are usually used for surveillance» – Schweizer Monat”
2023-09-04: It’s striking how much harassment authors on social media get from anti-copyright blowhards and …
2023-09-03: “PATH” Explaining the PATH variable is a missing step from so many tutorials online.
2023-09-03: Finally, today’s photo history ends with a few pictures from autumn 2018/winter 2019 that only work …
2023-09-03: OTOH, whereas the previous photo worked pretty well in both monochrome and colour, these just plain …
2023-09-03: So, here’s a colour experiment from 2018. Same photo. Same processing. Only difference which …
2023-09-03: ‘“Out of the Software Crisis”: Dependencies - Jim Nielsen’s Blog’ 😁
2023-09-03: “Pixels of the Week – September 3, 2023 by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer.”
2023-09-03: “Like The Social Dilemma Did, The AI Dilemma Seeks To Mislead You With Misinformation | Techdirt”
2023-09-03: “Generative AI closes off a better future - by Paris Marx”
2023-09-02: The trip to Iceland was educational in terms of photography. Took a lot of pictures. Tried a lot of …
2023-09-02: These pictures, taken in the ruins of an abandoned WW2 hospital in Hvalfjörður (and like many …
2023-09-02: We’re still in 2018 in my personal history of amateur photography and I’m about to try my hand at …
2023-09-01: “Why do companies become hostile to their customers? – On my Om” Software companies are particularly …
2023-09-01: “ChatGPT, Ethics & Careers in Computational Linguistics”
2023-09-01: I did learn though that some pictures just plain have to be in colour. This here is probably my …
2023-09-01: I’ve always favoured black and white, although I keep experimenting with colour. The issue here is …
2023-09-01: Early on I decided to focus on Parc Jarry. It was close to where I lived and I made documenting it …
2023-09-01: I also decided to be more proactive in going out and looking for things to photograph. It was one of …
2023-09-01: We’re up to 2018 and I was feeling limited by the phone camera for a simple reason: I’m just not a …
2023-09-01: “How to add syntax highlighting to code as a user types in realtime with vanilla JavaScript | Go …
2023-09-01: “A lot of stuff is just fine. - Chris Coyier” True. One major wrinkle, tho. Just how fine any given …
2023-09-01: “AI Startups Are Already Running Into Some Serious Problems”
2023-08-31: “siderea | I Blame the W3C’s HTML Standard for Ordered Lists”
2023-08-31: That thing where a community fork of a project, by most of the core contributors, makes you feel …
2023-08-31: I began to feel stifled by the iPhone’s camera and realised I really did enjoy photography so I …
2023-08-31: Then I moved to Montréal in 2016. In hindsight, this was a mistake, for reasons that have nothing to …
2023-08-31: The high point in my iPhone photography is probably the trip we took to the top of Snæfellsjökull. …
2023-08-31: We’re up to 2015 in my amateur photography and I’ve discovered that, in good light, iPhones had …
2023-08-31: “How often do you get to rewrite and rethink?” 😁
2023-08-31: “Book Notes: “Out of the Software Crisis” by Baldur Bjarnason - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” 😁
2023-08-31: “milen.me — Premature Optimization: Universally Misunderstood”
2023-08-31: “Money Is Pouring Into AI. Skeptics Say It’s a ‘Grift Shift.’” Tech is inflating a new financial …
2023-08-30: “You Are Not The Man In The Arena” Much like cryptocurrency, the AI conversation almost always …
2023-08-30: “Safari Un-Intelligent Tracking Prevention: Data loss by design”
2023-08-30: Experiment of the day: turns out deno run --allow-all npm:@11ty/eleventy works. At least for the …
2023-08-30: So, this looks like a very interesting module github.com/WebReflec…
2023-08-30: That feeling when best-laid plans turn out to be only middling well-laid and you need to turn a …
2023-08-30: Bath, UK, which is where I was living in 2015, is similarly picturesque. Hard to go wrong with these …
2023-08-30: The photos from the iPhone 6 are for the most part spur-of-the-moment snapshots. That’s freeing, but …
2023-08-30: We’re up to 2011 in my personal history of my amateur photography and I had given up on dedicated …
2023-08-30: This opinion, though unusually clearly stated here, is getting quite common and is why I’m writing …
2023-08-30: “Educational Sensational Inspirational Foundational”
2023-08-30: “Why are websites embarrassing?” I mean, fundamentally it’s because managers in charge of websites …
2023-08-29: I just published “That thing where you change your mind” For the past few weeks, I’ve …
2023-08-29: Fucking micro.blog dropped three whole photos from the cross-post. That’s after a fifteen minute lag …
2023-08-29: That thing where micro.blog just fucking refuses to publish a post unless you post another to flush …
2023-08-29: So, we’re up to 2010 and I’ve been asked by my friend, Tom Abba, to document the making of a project …
2023-08-29: “Falling For Oklch: A Love Story Of Color Spaces, Gamuts, And CSS — Smashing Magazine”
2023-08-29: “Cerebus: Misogyny and Madness – Literate Machine” It’s also thousands of pages of unbridled hate …
2023-08-28: That thing where micro.blog’s Mastodon poster posts entries out of order.
2023-08-28: Not that I wasn’t also taking landscapes like everybody else. You’re practically required by law to …
2023-08-28: Here we get to the problem. The pictures I personally liked the most were pictures everybody else …
2023-08-28: Then, late 2008, I go myself a Canon G9, a digital camera with a built-in zoom lens. It was …
2023-08-28: Until around 2008, I was mostly a DSLR photographer. My frustration with photography was mounting. I …
2023-08-28: “LLM Security”
2023-08-28: “The value-destroying potential of AI” 👇🏻 A lot of the people trying to deploy AI as a business …
2023-08-27: This one, from last year, is of a male blackbird in the same tree.
2023-08-27: It’s the time of year when the local starlings and blackbirds hoover up the berries of the rowan in …
2023-08-27: Most of the pictures I took during this period were of people—friends and family. The only ones I’m …
2023-08-27: I’ve always limited my spending on photography Spending creates obligations and those will …
2023-08-27: One of the early excuses to “camera” I got with my first DSLR was a free midday concert that …
2023-08-27: “iCloud sucks and it really shouldn’t” It really does and it really shouldn’t
2023-08-26: My sister sent me a few more pictures of her #cat to post for #caturday. She, very sensibly, isn’t …
2023-08-26: I’m posting pigeon photos because during that time most of my photos were of people, at events and …
2023-08-26: In 2006 I finally got myself a digital SLR, a low-end Canon 350D. Taking pictures in Bristol meant …
2023-08-26: “Visiting OpenAI – jill/txt” Seems like OpenAI has started a charm offensive. Wining and dining …
2023-08-26: “Pants on Fire – Pixel Envy” But Evans does not give nearly enough weight to how often big industry …
2023-08-25: My first attempt at digital photography involved fairly low-end cameras. Despite not being the …
2023-08-25: Continuing with my posting of photos from my archives. These two photos couple of notable failures …
2023-08-25: That thing where somebody breathlessly talks about a “great” AI feature being added to an app they …
2023-08-24: “GitHub - orlp/polymur-hash: The PolymurHash universal hash function.”
2023-08-24: Final photos of the day. These were taken at an outdoor commitment ceremony for a couple of my …
2023-08-24: For some reason, I really enjoy photos of mundane, day-to-day, stuff. These are probably from 2003, …
2023-08-24: I’ve always been fond of taking pictures in urban green spaces, even when there’s no “there” there. …
2023-08-24: I’ve been posting some of the older photos I’ve taken. This one is one of the last pictures I took …
2023-08-24: “Ugly Numbers from Microsoft and ChatGPT Reveal that AI Demand is Already Shrinking” A huge amount …
2023-08-24: “The Rise and Fall of ChatGPT? - by Gary Marcus” In less than a year, ChatGPT has gone from being …
2023-08-23: “Pluralistic: Supervised AI isn’t (23 August 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow” …
2023-08-23: “Use web components for what they’re good at” This is a solid and practical overview of …
2023-08-23: “Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science” In this paper, we have …
2023-08-23: “Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science” Any factual AI system …
2023-08-23: “Pros and cons of using Shadow DOM and style encapsulation” I’ve generally found …
2023-08-23: This old photo was taken in Ashton Court in 2002 or 2003, I think? I was using the Werra camera made …
2023-08-23: This photo was taken in the old cemetery in Clifton (I forget the name, it’s the one belonging to …
2023-08-23: Continuing with the reposting of my old photos. These are all from 2000, still using the battered …
2023-08-23: Is it possible to hyperventilate for two weeks straight? Just ordered review copies of the books …
2023-08-23: “Worrying about the NPM ecosystem | Sam Bleckley”
2023-08-23: “How to protect yourself from npm – Timo Tijhof”
2023-08-23: “less code, more software: The principles of product development flow” I’ve enjoyed all of …
2023-08-23: “View Transitions Break Incremental Rendering — ericportis.com”
2023-08-22: “Reloading a Document (and Preserving Query String Parameters) Using Only HTML - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-08-22: “Progressively Enhanced Form Validation, Part 3: Validating a checkbox group – Cloud Four”
2023-08-22: “Please size your inline SVGs :: Aaron Gustafson”
2023-08-21: “The modern era of research-backed software delivery” Essentially, making projects …
2023-08-21: “Lightweight software delivery methods” Following the example set at Honda, the …
2023-08-21: “Early software delivery models” Though not the intention… This phrase is …
2023-08-21: “A brief history of software delivery” These three essays provide a good overview of the …
2023-08-21: “Mail, run. — Ethan Marcotte”
2023-08-21: ‘“We’re All Just Temporarily Abled” - Jim Nielsen’s Blog’
2023-08-20: Took this one using a Carl Zeiss Jena Werra about twenty years ago in Ashton Court, Bristol, IIRC.
2023-08-20: “Granularity walkers for textual descriptions”
2023-08-20: “Dialogue Is Still Really Hard to Hear – Pixel Envy” In my experience, there is generally a clear …
2023-08-19: “The New Gatekeepers: How Disney, Amazon, and Netflix Will Take Over Media” A report by …
2023-08-19: “Netflix and other streamers wield too much power over labor. Use antitrust law to break them up” …
2023-08-19: “Netflix and other streamers wield too much power over labor. Use antitrust law to break them up” …
2023-08-19: “Death Spiral of Hollywood Monopolies - by Alena Smith” Without regulation of these monopolies, …
2023-08-19: “Make Hollywood Great Again - BIG by Matt Stoller” The best way to understand what’s happening to …
2023-08-19: “Artificial Intelligence Lawsuit: AI-Generated Art Not Copyrightable – The Hollywood Reporter” This …
2023-08-18: “Short session expiration does not help security”
2023-08-18: Interesting looking clouds over Hellisheiði.
2023-08-18: “85. Timnit Gebru Looks at Corporate AI and Sees a Lot of Bad Science - Initiative for Digital …
2023-08-18: “Can’t lose what you never had: Claims about digital ownership and creation in the age of generative …
2023-08-18: “No, streaming is not more expensive than cable TV” This comparison was always bogus, not just …
2023-08-17: “Microsoft pulls AI-written article telling tourists to visit the Ottawa Food Bank - The Verge”
2023-08-17: “aria-haspopup and screen readers - Manuel Matuzović”
2023-08-17: I would love to read a financially-literate article that digs into how much of the streamer …
2023-08-17: “EXCLUSIVE: Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes” Now that they know that I could be dead …
2023-08-17: “New York Times considers legal action against OpenAI as copyright tensions swirl” The problem with …
2023-08-17: ‘The “Hero’s Journey” Is Nonsense - Tales of Times Forgotten’ The “Hero’s Journey” …
2023-08-16: “Why the Hollywood strike matters to all of us | Cognoscenti”
2023-08-16: “You Deserve a Tech Union is here! — Ethan Marcotte”
2023-08-16: “Don’t Throw “Consulting Services” Onto Your Website - DaedTech”
2023-08-16: “Accessibility is a part of inclusive design and disability rights) · Eric Eggert”
2023-08-16: “The Imminent Enshittification of the Internet” Generative models are an existential threat to …
2023-08-16: “Don’t expect quick fixes in ‘red-teaming’ of AI models. Security was an …
2023-08-16: “Google Chrome will summarize entire articles for you with built-in generative AI - The Verge” I …
2023-08-16: “WordPress 6.3; breaking decades of CSS!” This issues I’ve highlighted are a product of seemingly …
2023-08-15: “ChatGPT answers more than half of software engineering questions incorrectly” That 40% didn’t spot …
2023-08-15: “/bɑs ˈtjɛ̃ no ˈse ʁɑ/ (hadess) | News: New responsibilities” Relevant to what I wrote the other day …
2023-08-15: I just published “You can’t debate bullshit” where I vent some of my frustrations with …
2023-08-15: “Unraveling the Digital Markets Act” Those defending Facebook should reevaluate their stance …
2023-08-15: “What exactly are the economics of AI? - by Gary Marcus” just because something is powered by AI …
2023-08-15: “It’s pretty rude of OpenAI to make their use of your content opt-out | hidde.blog”
2023-08-14: “There’s Meaning in the Ordering of the Web’s Tech Stack - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-08-14: “The bad year | Go Make Things” I relate so much to this. Been a shitty year on the whole. Hopefully …
2023-08-14: There’s an Icelandic phrase I’ve found to be extremely useful lately: “Þetta endar …
2023-08-14: “Heading off confusion: When do headings fail WCAG? - TPGi”
2023-08-13: What possesses programmers to deliberately try to make OSS LLM systems for generating whole fiction …
2023-08-13: “No regrets: Gender-affirming chest surgery in adults has long-term satisfaction | Ars Technica” …
2023-08-13: “AddyOsmani.com - Write about what you learn. It pushes you to understand topics better.”
2023-08-13: “What if Generative AI turned out to be a Dud?” Like I’ve been saying for months, the functionality …
2023-08-13: “These Women Warned Of AI’s Dangers And Risks Long Before ChatGPT – Rolling Stone”
2023-08-13: “ChatGPT In Trouble: OpenAI may go bankrupt by 2024, AI bot costs company $700,000 every day”
2023-08-12: “Not so private room: Zoom’s AI privacy fiasco exposes how vulnerable we are to Big Tech’s …
2023-08-12: I don’t think it’s possible for anybody who has read Ursula Franklin’s The Real World of Technology …
2023-08-12: “AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble” The similarities have been obvious for months now. …
2023-08-12: “Unions strike to save the world from bad TV and movies | New Scientist”
2023-08-12: “Zoom AI Backlash: TOS Update Says No Customer Content Used in Training - Variety” Must have found …
2023-08-11: Is it no longer possible to change the crop of image uploads in the micro.blog iOS app? Feels like …
2023-08-11: There are those who take photographs arranged beforehand and those who go out to discover the image …
2023-08-11: I just published “Authorship” This is a bit of a self-indulgent post where I’m …
2023-08-11: “AI Causes Real Harm. Let’s Focus on That over the End-of-Humanity Hype - Scientific American”
2023-08-11: “LoFi software and inverting our relationship to The Cloud – chadkohalyk.com”
2023-08-11: “Negative Space - Ed Zitron’s Where’s Your Ed At” I strongly relate to what Ed is saying …
2023-08-11: “Fantasy Meets Reality – cabel.com”
2023-08-11: “As HashiCorp adopts the BSL, an era of open-source software might be ending” Relevant to what I …
2023-08-10: “Adactio: Journal—Automation” The problem I see with using LLMs for large-scale automation is that …
2023-08-10: “Progressively Enhanced HTML Accordion — Adrian Roselli”
2023-08-10: “Amazon removes books ‘generated by AI’ for sale under author’s name | Books | The Guardian” The …
2023-08-09: “Forgive The Writers, For We Are So Tired – Chuck Wendig: Terribleminds”
2023-08-09: “Google says AI systems should be able to mine publishers’ work unless companies opt out | …
2023-08-09: “Scientists discover new ecosystem underneath hydrothermal vents” This is very cool.
2023-08-08: “What helps people get comfortable on the command line?”
2023-08-08: “How to piss off your entire audience in one simple step” This. Also, because tech cos broke the …
2023-08-08: “Maðurinn sem fór í leyfisleysi í Surtsey kærður til lögreglu” Do not fucking set foot on Surtsey …
2023-08-08: “Stop using Brave Browser - by Corbin Davenport” Another reason to stop using Brave is one you can …
2023-08-07: “I Would Rather See My Books Get Pirated Than This (Or: Why Goodreads and Amazon Are Becoming …
2023-08-07: “Zoom’s Updated Terms of Service Permit Training AI on User Content Without Opt-Out”
2023-08-06: “Language Is a Poor Heuristic for Intelligence” While the human brain may have been the inspiration …
2023-08-06: “Degenerative AI in education | code acts in education” Resignation to AI as an inevitable feature …
2023-08-06: “Cleaning up a baby peacock sullied by a non-information spill | by Emily M. Bender | Aug, 2023 | …
2023-08-05: “Patreon issues are causing paused payouts and canceled subscriptions - The Verge” We’re seeing an …
2023-08-05: “Adactio: Links—Just normal web things.”
2023-08-05: “Just normal web things.”
2023-08-04: “Energy makes time | everything changes”
2023-08-04: ‘“AI” Hurts Consumers and Workers – and Isn’t Intelligent’ In their joint statement, US …
2023-08-04: “Non-Thoughts on the Open Source Initiative”
2023-08-04: “AddyOsmani.com - The value of a prototype is in the insight it imparts, not the code.”
2023-08-03: [“The Age Of Mediocrity - Ed Zitron’s Where’s Your Ed …
2023-08-03: ‘“If It Sounds Like Sci-Fi, It Probably Is” - Linguistics professor Emily M. Bender separates …
2023-08-03: “Five Things: August 3, 2023 — As in guillotine…”
2023-08-03: Almost got annoyed into a writing a blog post on some AI bullshit, but the feeling thankfully went …
2023-08-03: “Microsoft comes under blistering criticism for “grossly irresponsible” security | Ars Technica” I’m …
2023-08-03: Always a bit annoying how consistently some tech types degrade themselves by insisting that language …
2023-08-03: “Movie extras worry they’ll be replaced by AI. Hollywood is already doing body scans : NPR”
2023-08-03: “‘It’s destroyed me completely’: Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI models | Artificial …
2023-08-02: “Google’s Plan To DRM The Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood For” Basically, the …
2023-08-02: “Why women were overrepresented in tech layoffs.” I know of at least one woman who was laid off …
2023-08-02: My 89 year old grandmother went to see the Barbie movie and heartily approved of it. Apparently it …
2023-08-02: “Tech experts are starting to doubt that ChatGPT and A.I. ‘hallucinations’ will ever go away: ‘This …
2023-08-02: “Knowledge Laundering - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-08-02: “Adactio: Links—Splitting the Web”
2023-08-02: “Splitting the Web”
2023-08-02: “Legal Subreddit Bans All Ex-Twitter Links Due To Safety Risk | Techdirt” This is going to happen a …
2023-08-02: “A New Attack Impacts ChatGPT—and No One Knows How to Stop It | WIRED”
2023-08-01: “Other People’s Busted Software is an Opportunity - Chris Coyier”
2023-08-01: Trying out Manjaro with Gnome instead of the usual Ubuntu. Immediately ran into wifi driver issues, …
2023-08-01: Look, heaven knows we need a counterweight against the fishing industry mafia here in Iceland so I …
2023-08-01: “Word Count 54: SAG-AFTRA has entered the game — Chocolate and Vodka” Again, if actors can’t earn a …
2023-07-31: “The Future of the Web is VNC – Terence Eden’s Blog” Google desperately needs to be broken up. …
2023-07-31: Was wondering why I felt wonky today. Then I went to check out loftgaedi.is and saw that sulphuric …
2023-07-31: “Remote Synthesis | Is Jamstack Officially Finished?”
2023-07-31: Seeing flaws in your work is an advantage, because it means you learned something from making said …
2023-07-30: ‘Eschatology › The “Promise” of “Easier” Programming’ It’s like saying we won’t need writing and …
2023-07-30: “Worldcoin: a solution in search of its problem”
2023-07-30: Me: constantly dissatisfied with everything I write, to the point of living with a constant …
2023-07-30: ‘“Ensuring Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy AI”: What those seven companies avoided committing to | by …
2023-07-30: “Pull Requests are cake or puppies - Textual”
2023-07-30: “Cis woman shares relentless transphobic attacks on her gender”
2023-07-29: Artificial Intelligence.
2023-07-29: “Shakespeare Serif – an experimental font based on the First Folio – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2023-07-29: ‘“AI” content and user centered design’ There are benefits to one-click-content-creation for …
2023-07-29: “Axess Lab | Toggles suck!”
2023-07-29: “Mastodon is easy and fun except when it isn’t - Erin Kissane’s small internet website”
2023-07-29: “The ChatGPT revolution is another tech fantasy”
2023-07-28: “Techdirt’s down to zero results on Bing; meanwhile, Bing shows 1,760 for Lucire”
2023-07-28: “The size of the World Wide Web” I know it’s only one metric, but it sure does look like Bing is …
2023-07-27: “Weizenbaum examines computers and society - The Tech” I think the computer has from the beginning …
2023-07-27: “Nobody cares about your blog.”
2023-07-27: As if I was sad enough already about her death. From six years ago. “Sinead O’Connor is donating …
2023-07-26: “The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor” Really hoping that this research on …
2023-07-26: Fucking Taylorism. Still the tech industry’s default mode of management. Anyway, this is …
2023-07-26: “The boom times are over.” Amy Hoy is right, as usual.
2023-07-26: “Eleventy and CloudCannon: New Best Friends—zachleat.com” Feels like a good fit for both Eleventy …
2023-07-26: “Does writing really have to be so solitary? — Chocolate and Vodka” I’ve struggled with …
2023-07-26: “AI Does Not Help Programmers” What use do I have for a sloppy assistant? I can be sloppy just by …
2023-07-25: “Blockquotes in Screen Readers — Adrian Roselli”
2023-07-25: “Vision for W3C” Our vision is for a World Wide Web that is more inclusive, and more …
2023-07-25: That thing where you find an interesting blog that doesn’t have an RSS feed… “Too …
2023-07-25: “Formative posts – Eric Bailey” Seriously good reading list.
2023-07-25: “The Power of Being New: A Proven Recipe for High Impact | Hazel Weakly”
2023-07-24: Disinterest. Fucking hell is this shit tedious.
2023-07-24: “Writing Tools” One of my favourite books on writing.
2023-07-24: “Oppenheimer and AI — Emily F. Gorcenski” Rather, it’s the wholesale death of culture, the mass …
2023-07-23: “Antitrust Guidelines and Overthrowing a Corrupt Priesthood”
2023-07-22: The tourist urge towards self-destruction continues. A group of 60 tried to disregard warnings and …
2023-07-22: “Stop treating all of your content as if it were news – Rachel Andrew” This! x1000 this!
2023-07-22: “The affordance loop - Erin Kissane’s small internet website”
2023-07-21: If an app manages to look okay on every platform, but is actually so full of annoying UX bugs and …
2023-07-20: “Study claims ChatGPT is losing capability, but some experts aren’t convinced” I remain …
2023-07-20: “Business Model Fueling Silicon Valley Tech Companies May Be Illegal” This is what many of us in …
2023-07-20: “Google Tests A.I. Tool That Is Able to Write News Articles - The New York Times” These companies …
2023-07-19: “siderea | How Professional Ethics Work” If I didn’t have a profession with an ethical code …
2023-07-19: “The Hereditarian Hypothesis and Scientific Racism - Kevin Bird” However, the …
2023-07-18: “Chris’ Corner: More Like CSBest - CodePen Blog”
2023-07-18: “AddyOsmani.com - Software engineering: problem-solving and critical-thinking”
2023-07-15: “The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training”
2023-07-13: “Signal’s Meredith Whittaker: ‘These are the people who could actually pause AI if they wanted to’” …
2023-07-13: “Adactio: Links—Pulling my site from Google over AI training – Tracy Durnell”
2023-07-13: “Pulling my site from Google over AI training – Tracy Durnell” Definitely going to have a closer …
2023-07-13: ‘New Low in the Accessibility “Industry:” Overlay Company Sues Globally-Recognized Accessibility …
2023-07-12: ‘How to Identify “Truthy” Tech Trends’
2023-07-12: “Stop Being Fancy - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-07-11: “Adactio: Journal—Permission” We can rescind our invitation to Google.
2023-07-10: “The Wizard House” Either it’s all of us or it’s none of us, because if we leave the …
2023-07-10: “Nowhere to retvrn | Red Pepper” The idea that women had no business outside the home not only …
2023-07-08: “How to report better on artificial intelligence - Columbia Journalism Review”
2023-07-08: “The new font-face syntax”
2023-07-07: “Adactio: Links—Legibility”
2023-07-07: “RFC 9413: Maintaining Robust Protocols”
2023-07-06: So NImona is a lot of fun. Different from the graphic novel in structure but in a way that works.
2023-07-06: Sure sounds like Mozilla is planning on pushing ahead with “AI” garbage in MDN once the …
2023-07-06: “Can We Query the Root: The complexities of containment, overflow, and” What I’ve …
2023-07-06: “Scams upon scams: The data-driven advertising grift” This. Absolutely this.
2023-07-06: “Language-Level Toll Roads - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” I really disagree with this framing. The KV …
2023-07-06: “Deno 1.35: A fast and convenient way to build web servers” I really enjoy working with Deno. …
2023-07-06: “Talking about a ‘schism’ is ahistorical | by Emily M. Bender | Jul, 2023 | Medium”
2023-07-05: “How elite schools like Stanford became fixated on the AI apocalypse: A billionaire-backed …
2023-07-05: “A Deep Dive Into SVG Path Commands”
2023-07-05: “Tiffin Tom: Fish, chips and a side of identity theft” This is an amazing story about …
2023-07-05: ‘Adactio: Articles—“Web3” and “AI”’
2023-07-04: So, earlier today I published “The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models …
2023-07-04: “Google Says It’ll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI” 😬
2023-07-04: “the article element and screen readers - Manuel Matuzović”
2023-07-04: “Word Count 53: The state of AI and the Goodreads fiasco”
2023-07-01: “Gulls choose what to eat by watching humans, study suggests | Science | The Guardian”
2023-07-01: “MDN can now automatically lie to people seeking technical information · Issue #9208 · mdn/yari · …
2023-06-30: “On Hate Scaling Laws For Data-Swamps” Highly recommended. This paper looks at the effects of scale …
2023-06-30: “That old WIRED ideology - by Dave Karpf” If you’re too young to remember just how awful Wired used …
2023-06-30: “Bullet Points: the SSC lives, VC financial logic kills everything it touches, and the difference …
2023-06-30: “The massive bug at the heart of the npm ecosystem”
2023-06-30: “Out and Proud for the Miners” Great interview.
2023-06-30: “Authors Sue OpenAI Claiming Mass Copyright Infringement of Novels – The Hollywood Reporter” …
2023-06-29: “ChatGPT maker OpenAI faces class action lawsuit over data to train AI - The Washington Post”
2023-06-29: Always bear in mind that most tech companies have lost between 10-20% of their staff. Moderation …
2023-06-29: “Next-gen content farms are using AI-generated text to spin up junk websites | MIT Technology …
2023-06-28: “The Perils of ‘Innovator’ Mindset” Confident idiots who think regulation is for …
2023-06-28: “2,200 Forgotten Vintage Computers Are Being Liberated From a Barn in Massachusetts” …
2023-06-28: “Adactio: Links—Why I moved on from Figma – No Handoff”
2023-06-28: “Why I moved on from Figma – No Handoff” What I do instead is work directly on …
2023-06-28: “The AI is eating itself - by Casey Newton - Platformer”
2023-06-27: I see that a bunch of ostensibly business-minded people either have immediately forgotten about all …
2023-06-27: Just got a weird phone call from somebody pretending to be from the FTC and trying to keep me on the …
2023-06-27: “AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born - The Verge” I have mixed feelings …
2023-06-26: “How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)”
2023-06-26: “Ecological doom-loops: Why ecosystem collapses may occur much sooner than expected” …
2023-06-25: “XML is the future” About developer hype culture. Or the pop culture as Alan Kay used to …
2023-06-25: “Arnold’s Docuseries: A Case Study in Online Content Pollution – On my Om” The new stuff on …
2023-06-23: “How AI can distort human beliefs. Models can convey biases and false information to …
2023-06-23: “Inside the AI Factory: the humans that make tech seem human - The Verge”
2023-06-23: ‘Get a clue, says panel about buzzy AI tech: it’s being “deployed as surveillance”‘
2023-06-22: “Adobe Stock creators aren’t happy with Firefly, the company’s ‘commercially …
2023-06-22: “Amazon’s allegedly “dangerous and illegal” warehouses spur Senate probe | Ars Technica”
2023-06-22: “The Best Time to Regulate A.I. Is Today – Pixel Envy” Give existing regulators extra …
2023-06-22: “In new AI hype frenzy, tech is applying the label to everything now” But they also …
2023-06-22: “AI Expert Says ChatGPT Is Way Stupider Than People Realize”
2023-06-21: “Announcing my new book, You Deserve a Tech Union. — Ethan Marcotte”
2023-06-21: “Daring Fireball: DPReview Found a Buyer: Gear Patrol” There’s something fundamentally wrong with a …
2023-06-21: “Cascade Layers are useless* - Manuel Matuzović” Layers have only been out for a short while but …
2023-06-20: “You Can Have It All – Cloud Four” The web today is an amazingly capable platform let down by …
2023-06-20: “The Next Phase of Eleventy: Return of the Side Project” Big fan of Eleventy, used it …
2023-06-20: “How to Prepare for the Deluge of Generative AI on Social Media”
2023-06-20: “The Dot-com surge - The History of the Web” Those are the glory days that today’s tech industry is …
2023-06-20: “The cavalry have arrived. But not for long. – Hi, I’m Heather Burns”
2023-06-20: Hashing
2023-06-20: “Exclusive: OpenAI Lobbied E.U. to Water Down AI Regulation | Time” I had been wondering …
2023-06-19: “Button types” I really like this idea. Declarative button actions would make many web …
2023-06-19: Today’s post, “A prayer wheel for capitalism”, should lose me a few newsletter …
2023-06-19: “The New CSS · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer”
2023-06-19: “Google doesn’t want its employees using Bard code • The Register” Who’s willing to bet that …
2023-06-18: “🤦🏽♂️ No, GPT4 can’t ace MIT” Most “AI” research is bad science whose only “value” comes from …
2023-06-18: “The Elements of AI Ethics”
2023-06-17: “If You Have an Enemy, Then Buy Them a Car: Gig Workers vs. Multinational Corporations in India”
2023-06-17: “AI Hype-Driven Development - Parallels in History. Recurring Patterns from Simulmatics to the …
2023-06-17: “I Am a Careless Person and AI Is Smarter. A Self Fulfilling Prophecy” I was struck by …
2023-06-17: “Probable events poison reality - by Rob Horning”
2023-06-17: Warner Bros included a deepfake of George Reeves as Superman in the new Flash movie? That can’t be …
2023-06-17: It’s kind of weird to see frequent “the camera didn’t destroy painting; AI art won’t destroy art” …
2023-06-17: Happy independence, Iceland! youtu.be/7IwuFU4aw…
2023-06-16: Just a reminder that we’re solidly in bubble territory now, which means that you need to be …
2023-06-16: “The customers might be human, but the audience is Google” Looks like most of Google’s …
2023-06-15: “How CRDTs make multiplayer text editing part of Zed’s DNA” Even long edit …
2023-06-15: “The gotchas of CSS Nesting | Kilian Valkhof” Sometimes it feels like I’m the only web …
2023-06-14: “The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models Forget” Indeed, the …
2023-06-14: “Good work is not enough — aows” We do not become what we are today overnight; …
2023-06-14: “My thoughts on Apple Vision Pro” Thus, I would implore developers to charge separately …
2023-06-13: “Positioning anchored popovers | hidde.blog”
2023-06-13: “Adactio: Journal—Days of style and standards”
2023-06-13: “Minute Rice, Minute Text, Minute Websites - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” The difference is …
2023-06-13: “margin-trim as a best practice? - Chris Coyier”
2023-06-13: “Did GPT-4 Hire And Then Lie To a Task Rabbit Worker to Solve a CAPTCHA?” Note that the …
2023-06-12: “Plagiarism Engine: Google’s Content-Swiping AI Could Break the Internet | Tom’s …
2023-06-12: “What’s the game?” Where I ponder a bit about WTF I’m doing.
2023-06-12: “GPT on the platform: Data, actions, and outcomes - Meta Stack Exchange”
2023-06-12: “Ghost in the Cloud | Issue 28 | n+1” AGI and the singularity is such a fucking …
2023-06-11: “Dashboard is reborn in macOS Sonoma. Apple: bring back these lost Mac features too” …
2023-06-11: “Is GitHub Copilot Any Good? — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho” basically everything it …
2023-06-10: “LLMs are good at playing you - lcamtuf’s thing”
2023-06-10: “As Smoke Fills the Sky, Google’s New AI Gives Wildly Inaccurate Info on Air …
2023-06-10: “Iceland passes historic conversion therapy ban and yes, it’s trans-inclusive” Some good …
2023-06-10: It’s disconcerting how many people assume current tech can be scaled exponentially over the …
2023-06-10: “Modern CSS For Dynamic Component-Based Architecture | Modern CSS Solutions”
2023-06-10: “Cascade Layers | 12 Days of Web”
2023-06-09: “Today’s AI is unreasonable - Anil Dash” Good post. Tactfully elides the fact that …
2023-06-09: “ChatGPT Goes to Court. The fault lies not in our machines, but… | by Jeff Jarvis | Whither …
2023-06-09: “On Jackpot Technologies, or, what Apple’s new headset is actually for“ A grim …
2023-06-09: “Vertical rhythm using CSS lh and rlh units | pawelgrzybek.com” TIL that this exists.
2023-06-09: “No, ‘AI’ Will Not Fix Accessibility — Adrian Roselli”
2023-06-09: “AlphaDev uncovered new sorting algorithms that led to improvements in the LLVM” As …
2023-06-09: “Assume the Position—A Labelling Story - TPGi”
2023-06-09: “Using linear() for better animation”
2023-06-08: “Deepfake Porn Victims Are Seeking Federal Protections Through Legislation | Teen Vogue” …
2023-06-07: “History revealed – Bigmouth Strikes Again: Carrie Marshall’s blog”
2023-06-07: “Web Apps on macOS Sonoma 14 Beta” I know it’s popular to only acknowledge …
2023-06-07: “Introducing Jetpack AI Assistant in WordPress.com” Do you think this will: Level up …
2023-06-07: “Modern CSS in Real Life - Chris Coyier”
2023-06-07: “FBI warns of increasing use of AI-generated deepfakes in sextortion schemes | Ars …
2023-06-07: “TV’s Streaming Model Is Broken. It’s Also Not Going Away.”
2023-06-06: ‘Google’s Top Result for “Johannes Vermeer” Is an AI-Generated Version of …
2023-06-05: “AI chatbots lose money every time you use them. That’s a problem.” AI chatbots have a …
2023-06-05: “Microsoft 365, including Outlook and Word, goes offline for thousands” “Why do we …
2023-06-05: “Modern software quality, or why I think using language models for programming is a bad …
2023-06-05: “Dear Stack Overflow, Inc.” Specifically, moderators are no longer allowed to remove …
2023-06-05: “Tech Elite’s AI Ideologies Have Racist Foundations, Say AI Ethicists”
2023-06-04: “Speed and Efficiency are not Human Values - by John Warner”
2023-06-04: There’s a good chance that in a year or two we’ll see a spike in hard to replicate bugs, where …
2023-06-04: “Crypto collapse? Get in loser, we’re pivoting to AI – Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain”
2023-06-04: “Maps To The “Gold”” The current state of the art’s been creeping up …
2023-06-04: “Ayyyyyy Eyeeeee. The lie that raced around the world… | by Cory Doctorow | Jun, 2023 | …
2023-06-04: “Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good” This is what I use most …
2023-06-02: “How the media is covering ChatGPT - Columbia Journalism Review”
2023-06-02: Incredibly disappointing to see a bunch of smart poeple do a “nonono I don’t actually agree with the …
2023-06-02: “Watch Transitions in Slow Motion in Chrome’s DevTools - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-06-02: “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow”
2023-06-02: That article about an “AI” drone killing its operator in a simulation is a complete fabrication. …
2023-06-01: “I can just suck up all of the data in the world to build my model and not pay anybody anything” …
2023-06-01: “On Understanding Power and Technology” The current “existential threat” framing is …
2023-06-01: “Lessons from Soviet Russia on deploying small nuclear generators | daverupert.com”
2023-06-01: We’re going to need to come up with AI bubble coping strategies. The epic “AI voice” is taking over …
2023-05-31: “What is the real point of all these letters warning about AI?” Quotes some smart …
2023-05-31: “Biden’s former tech adviser on what Washington is missing about AI - The Washington …
2023-05-31: “Against Predictive Optimization”
2023-05-31: “‘This robot causes harm’: National Eating Disorders Association’s new chatbot advises people …
2023-05-31: “Yes, you should be worried about AI – but Matrix analogies hide a more insidious …
2023-05-31: It’s heartening that I’m starting to get anti-AI SEO hustle emails 😄
2023-05-30: One thing’s for sure. As long as the primary focus of AI discourse is either AGI nonsense or similar …
2023-05-30: Oh, ffs! I come back to work after a bank holiday weekend and see that the AI industry is ramping up …
2023-05-29: this is our second blast of abusive traffic from an AWS customer today apparently from an AI company …
2023-05-29: “AI statement” From Clarkesworld We believe that governments should be seeking advice …
2023-05-28: “Excluding GPLed code from training data sets and only training on permissive licenses is …
2023-05-28: I know Harlan Ellison is a bit of controversial figure (i.e. a dick) but on this he wasn’t …
2023-05-28: I wish I was more optimistic about large language models, but everything I’m seeing at the …
2023-05-28: “Chile’s Atacama Desert has become a fast fashion dumping ground”
2023-05-28: “How Congress Fell for OpenAI and Sam Altman’s AI Magic Tricks”
2023-05-28: “Workers Are Terrified About AI, So What Can They Do About It?”
2023-05-28: “Brown M&Ms | blarg” Canary questions.
2023-05-27: “Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People” What it really is is a form of …
2023-05-27: “Opinion: AI tools like ChatGPT are built on mass copyright infringement - The Globe and …
2023-05-27: “Absentee Capitalism - Ed Zitron’s Where’s Your Ed At” Executive excitement …
2023-05-27: “The Next Larger Context. “Always design a thing by considering… | by Camille Fournier | May, …
2023-05-26: “Optimum tic-tac-toe” > Something to keep in mind the next time someone tries to …
2023-05-26: “Link Preload as Image - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-05-26: “AI and book bans are pretty existential in terms of the threat they represent to …
2023-05-26: “Where does my computer get the time from?”
2023-05-26: It strikes me that ChatGPT-style fine-tuning is in effect specifically optimising for The Barnum or …
2023-05-26: “Why we’re bad at CSS” I like this. Personally, tho, I think it’s less that the …
2023-05-25: “Markdown images are an anti-pattern” HTML image markup is also easier to remember, IMO.
2023-05-25: “Origin Stories: Plantations, Computers, and Industrial Control”
2023-05-25: “Five Things: May 25, 2023”
2023-05-25: “Thought experiment in the National Library of Thailand | by Emily M. Bender” The only …
2023-05-25: “Tina Turner remembered by Mad Max director George Miller: ‘She was the opposite of a diva’ | …
2023-05-24: Wrote a short blog post explaining why I felt the need to make needtoknow.fyi “‘Generative AI: …
2023-05-24: “New EPIC Report Sheds Light on Generative A.I. Harms” Had a quick read through this …
2023-05-24: “Generative AI: What You Need To Know” gives you an overview of the main topics in …
2023-05-24: I’ve rejigged “Generative AI: What You Need To Know” to work as a free resource. …
2023-05-24: “Webinar: Alex North in conversation. Join us at 19:00 BST on Thursday 8 June for a …
2023-05-24: I wonder how many people realise that the theme of Phillip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream Electric …
2023-05-23: “What Will Transformers Transform?” If you are interacting with the output of a GPT …
2023-05-23: “What Will Transformers Transform?” GPT-n cannot reason, and it has no model of the …
2023-05-23: “Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already And stop confusing performance with competence” No, …
2023-05-23: “Review by glecharles - The Intelligence Illusion | The StoryGraph” Whether …
2023-05-23: “TV writer David Simon weighs in on the Writers Guild of America strike : NPR” If …
2023-05-23: “A Well Known URL For Your Personal Avatar - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” Any reason why this …
2023-05-23: If you have to complain about EU behaviour, complain about the drive to break End-to-End encryption …
2023-05-23: Predictably the tech industry is reacting with outrage at the EU deciding that the US is …
2023-05-22: Remember back when tech bubbles were lightweight fluff like “NoSQL means you don’t need …
2023-05-22: Apparently “I let ChatGPT control my life for X days/hours” has become a genre of Youtube videos. 🤨
2023-05-22: I decided I didn’t like the original title for this week’s newsletter entry, so I …
2023-05-22: In addition to being potentially vulnerable to black-hat keyword manipulation and plundering the …
2023-05-22: Watch for bait-and-switch. Intentionally or not, some leader-level positions with purportedly large …
2023-05-22: “The Hawthorne Effect or Observer Bias in User Research” Rather than mitigating it, IME most rely on …
2023-05-22: “The Interpretive Dance”
2023-05-22: They should not call themselves “I” and they should not refer to themselves and humans as “we.” …
2023-05-22: “Resisting AI: A Review”
2023-05-22: ‘There was all sorts of toxic behaviour’: Timnit Gebru on her sacking by Google, AI’s dangers and …
2023-05-21: “The Senate’s hearing on AI regulation was dangerously friendly” A number of experts …
2023-05-21: “The Urgency of Moving from Bias to Power”
2023-05-21: An important thing to note is that whenever an AI vendor says that “we don’t understand …
2023-05-21: “Why Timnit Gebru Isn’t Waiting for Big Tech to Fix AI’s Problems“
2023-05-21: Is there another micro.blog client that has a usable sharing widget? Because if I can’t find a …
2023-05-21: Well, this sucks. Micro.blog’s new iOS client is a complete downgrade on the iPad. Scaled up phone …
2023-05-21: That thing when romance author Twitter shows a deeper and more technical understanding of language …
2023-05-21: So is there a greater bullshit phrase than “latent spaces” as used by AI fans?
2023-05-20: Worrying in public seems to be the theme of the day for me. Just published “Writing when tech …
2023-05-20: “Data Statements: From Technical Concept to Community Practice - ACM Journal on Responsible …
2023-05-20: “Pluralistic: Venture predation”
2023-05-19: “Drag Your GAN: Interactive Point-based Manipulation on the Generative Image Manifold” …
2023-05-19: “It continues… – Neil Clarke” Every paying outlet—even many that only ‘pay’ in attention—is going to …
2023-05-19: “The Fanfic Sex Trope That Caught a Plundering AI Red-Handed” If, like me, you get the login wall, …
2023-05-19: “Debt Collectors Want To Use AI Chatbots To Hustle People For Money” So, this sort of stuff is …
2023-05-18: Just been collecting some of what people have said about my two books and I’m honestly …
2023-05-18: So, I managed somehow, in some way without realising, to close all tabs in iPad Safari. Again. And I …
2023-05-18: “The web’s most important decision - The History of the Web”
2023-05-18: “This Is Catfishing on an Industrial Scale - WIRED” Generative AI is amazing for fraud. It’s quickly …
2023-05-18: “Respeecher’s CEO on working on Star Wars, Book of Boba Fett Luke, & more” Human voice gives …
2023-05-18: I don’t think people appreciate just how much work people do to accomplish some of the more …
2023-05-17: The Intelligence Illusion is full of practical down-to-earth advice based on plenty of research …
2023-05-17: I just published “The truth about the EU AI Act and foundation models, or why you should not rely on …
2023-05-17: “Adactio: Journal—Nailspotting” 🙂
2023-05-17: “Adactio: Links—The Industrial Hammer Complex”
2023-05-17: “The Industrial Hammer Complex”
2023-05-17: “Patience is its own reward — Chocolate and Vodka”
2023-05-17: Even if AGI weren’t science fiction, the first successful one would be less “skynet destroys us all” …
2023-05-17: “Texas A&M Professor Wrongly Accuses Class of Cheating With ChatGPT – Rolling Stone”
2023-05-17: “Model Card Regulatory Check” This Space matches information in model cards to proposed regulatory …
2023-05-17: “Ethics & Society at Hugging Face - a Hugging Face Space by society-ethics”
2023-05-17: “Model Card Regulatory Check - OECD.AI” So Hugging Face and its ethics team is doing an amazing job …
2023-05-16: “On cats – Going Medieval” medieval people fucking loved cats.
2023-05-16: “ChatGPT is not ‘artificial intelligence.’ It’s theft.” If the tech industry wanted to …
2023-05-16: I’m going to have to write a blog post on what the current version of the EU AI Act actually …
2023-05-16: “Indirect Prompt Injection via YouTube Transcripts”
2023-05-16: “Indirect Prompt Injection via YouTube Transcripts · Embrace The Red” 🤨
2023-05-16: “I just did a test to apply as a front end developer – and things aren’t going well - Christian …
2023-05-16: I expected VC types and hangers-on to uncritically accept lies about the EU AI Act. That’s normal …
2023-05-15: “Ireland’s privacy regulator is a gamekeeper-turned-poacher”
2023-05-15: “Algorithms’ Transparency Problem is Everyone’s Problem”
2023-05-15: Tech punditry “EU AI Act means that OSS language models don’t get safe harbour protections! Model …
2023-05-15: Looks like the tech industry and media is having an apopleptic fit about the proposed EU AI act. …
2023-05-15: So far, generative AI is a one hit wonder among consumers. The only service with uptake is ChatGPT. …
2023-05-15: I just published “Google Bard is a glorious reinvention of black-hat SEO spam and …
2023-05-15: “Adactio: Links—Google’s AI Hype Circle”
2023-05-15: “Google’s AI Hype Circle” Medium-free link to Doctorow’s post.
2023-05-14: “The Slow Death of Hollywood” From 2019, but useful background to the current situation.
2023-05-14: “The Algorithm is a Lie” But when it comes to picking and choosing what TV shows and …
2023-05-14: “Can a Writers Strike Save Hollywood from Monopoly?”
2023-05-14: “Google’s AI Hype Circle” The entire case for “AI” as a disruptive tool worth trillions …
2023-05-14: “How Iceland sold the same Green Electricity twice - Industry Decarbonization Newsletter”
2023-05-14: “Google Bard hits over 180 countries and territories—none are in the EU - Ars Technica” …
2023-05-14: “On browser compatibility and support baselines · molily” My fear is that Google’s Baseline …
2023-05-14: “AI and Data Scraping on the Archive - Archive of Our Own” We’d like to share what …
2023-05-13: “GitHub and OpenAI fail to wriggle out of Copilot lawsuit • The Register” This one is likely to have …
2023-05-13: “Amazon Is Still Running an Injury Mill for Workers”
2023-05-12: TIL that the screenplay for Honey I Shrunk the Kids was written by horror legends Brian Yuzna and …
2023-05-12: I just published “‘What next?’ he asks with trepidation” where I have a low-key anxiety …
2023-05-12: “The Computers Are Coming For The Wrong Jobs”
2023-05-12: ‘Google Neural Net “AI” Is About To Destroy Half The Independent Web – Ian Welsh’ But in the larger …
2023-05-12: “Humans and algorithms work together — so study them together”
2023-05-12: “ChatGPT is powered by these contractors making $15 an hour. Two OpenAI contractors spoke to …
2023-05-12: “The downside of AI: Former Google scientist Timnit Gebru warns of the technology’s built-in …
2023-05-12: “Google wants to take over the web” The threat here isn’t sci-fi fantasies of …
2023-05-12: “Cats Migrated to Europe 7,000 Years Earlier Than Once Thought”
2023-05-12: “Five Things: May 11, 2023 — As in guillotine…”
2023-05-12: “Data Statements: From Technical Concept to Community Practice - ACM Journal on Responsible …
2023-05-12: “Fake Pictures of People of Color Won’t Fix AI Bias - WIRED” “Despite being designed to empower and …
2023-05-12: “Understanding ChatGPT: A Triumph of Rhetoric” Second, we need to stop thinking of ChatGPT as …
2023-05-12: “On the Impossible Safety of Large AI Models” Apparently, the writers of this paper—working for …
2023-05-12: “Data Harm Record – Data Justice Lab”
2023-05-11: “EU lawmakers back transparency and safety rules for generative AI - TechCrunch” This is pretty …
2023-05-11: “A quote from PaLM 2 Technical Report (PDF)” That PaLM 2 models are smaller than PaLM 1 tracks with …
2023-05-11: “’We Shouldn’t Regulate AI Until We See Meaningful Harm’: Microsoft Economist to …
2023-05-10: “Baseline” Looks like a genuinely useful addition to web dev documentation.
2023-05-10: “I unintentionally created a biased AI algorithm 25 years ago – tech companies are still …
2023-05-10: “Pluralistic: Two principles to protect internet users from decaying platforms”
2023-05-10: “On Generative AI and Satisficing - by Dave Karpf” There is not $100 billion+ of revenues to be …
2023-05-10: “Artificial Intelligence: Pearson takes legal action over use of its content to train AI - Evening …
2023-05-10: “MEPs to vote on proposed ban on ‘Big Brother’ AI facial recognition on streets”
2023-05-10: “Writers On Set - Not a Blog”
2023-05-09: All of this research and writing has gone into a book, on the risks of using generative AI at work: …
2023-05-09: The latest link post that gathers up the links I posted last week is here: “Poisonings, …
2023-05-09: I put together an overview of all of my writing on AI here: “My writing on AI; the story so …
2023-05-09: “The Computer Scientist Peering Inside AI’s Black Boxes”
2023-05-09: “Word Count 47: Why we should all care about the WGA writer’s strike — Chocolate and Vodka”
2023-05-09: I wonder how long it’ll take for fans of AI art to discover that it both has a specific aesthetic …
2023-05-08: “AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are - Naomi Klein” Because what we are …
2023-05-07: Always fun to see AI art enthusiasts siding with fascists in denouncing abstract artists like …
2023-05-07: “‘I didn’t see him show up’: Ex-Googlers blast ‘AI godfather’ Geoffrey Hinton’s silence on …
2023-05-07: “Patterns, Prophets and Priests For a good chunk of the past 10 or 12 years, it’s felt to me like …
2023-05-06: “The World Wide Web became available to the broader public 30 years ago : NPR”
2023-05-05: “Meredith Whittaker: Consciousness isn’t AI risk—it’s the corporations”
2023-05-05: “AI is already writing books, websites and online recipes - The Washington Post”
2023-05-05: The last one is “AI code copilots are backwards-facing tools in a novelty-seeking …
2023-05-05: The second is about how incredibly common pseudo-science and snake oil is in AI research. …
2023-05-05: I’ve been publishing extracts from The Intelligence Illusion as essays. The first and most …
2023-05-05: I just published “AI code copilots are backwards-facing tools in a novelty-seeking …
2023-05-05: “Scary ‘Emergent’ AI Abilities Are Just a ‘Mirage’ Produced by Researchers, …
2023-05-04: “The UX Research Reckoning is Here”
2023-05-04: “Google shared AI knowledge with the world — until ChatGPT caught up” When he uses …
2023-05-04: “Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?”
2023-05-04: “GitHub Copilot AI pair programmer: Asset or Liability?” Copilot can become an asset …
2023-05-04: “We Have No Moat And neither does OpenAI” This is an interesting document, ostensibly a …
2023-05-04: Here’s a ‘fun’ statistic. Microsoft says that among Copilot users: 40% of the …
2023-05-04: “Mojo may be the biggest programming advance in decades”
2023-05-04: “fast.ai - Mojo may be the biggest programming language advance in decades” Mostly vapour at the …
2023-05-04: “Updog” I was writing for me, all along.
2023-05-03: “The other side of egoism” Mandy Brown is easily one of my favourite writers on the web …
2023-05-03: “Prompt injection explained, with video, slides, and a transcript” Between training …
2023-05-03: “Web3’s fake version of Web history - by Dave Karpf”
2023-05-03: “Poisoning Language Models During Instruction Tuning” So, large AI models are a security …
2023-05-03: This essay I wrote back in February remains relevant: “Generative AI is the tech …
2023-05-03: Finally got around to watching this video where Adam Conover interviews Emily Bender and Timnit …
2023-05-03: ‘And my reaction to such claims is like my reaction to crypto: what are they smoking? Or is it …
2023-05-03: I just published “Beware of AI pseudoscience and snake oil” It’s important to be …
2023-05-03: “Don’t use custom CSS scrollbars – Eric Bailey”
2023-05-02: In case you missed it, I have a book out that’s a critical analysis of language and diffusion …
2023-05-02: Too many AI pundits, pro or con, are either misogynistic dudes who really want AGI to happen, or …
2023-05-02: “Artificial General Intelligence and the bird brains of Silicon Valley” 4700 words on the biggest …
2023-05-02: “150 African Workers for ChatGPT, TikTok and Facebook Vote to Unionize at Landmark Nairobi …
2023-05-02: “Give it the Craigslist test - Erica Heinz”
2023-05-02: “‘It’s the opposite of art’: why illustrators are furious about AI”
2023-05-02: I just published “Artificial General Intelligence and the bird brains of Silicon Valley” 4700 words …
2023-05-02: “A Short History of Eugenics: From Plato to Nick Bostrom - Truthdig”
2023-05-02: “The Luring Test: AI and the engineering of consumer trust” Given these many concerns …
2023-05-02: I just published “Artificial General Intelligence and the bird brains of Silicon Valley” …
2023-05-02: I haven’t read the “AI does mind-reading! Hyperventilate!” survey. But it should be noted that …
2023-05-01: “Users demand X! Any business that doesn’t do X will fail!” “Do you have …
2023-05-01: “Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?” This is an interesting …
2023-05-01: “AI Chatbots Have Been Used to Create Dozens of News Content Farms”
2023-05-01: “Rise of the Newsbots: AI-Generated News Websites Proliferating Online”
2023-05-01: “Circles and Momentum” This is an improvement over other models. Still the wrong metaphor. Tech only …
2023-05-01: “Blue skies over Mastodon”
2023-05-01: If you want to make a grown Icelandic socialist cry, this’d do it Maístjarnan, “The May Star”. …
2023-05-01: Obligatory, international workers day post youtu.be/UztKxSsEE…
2023-04-30: “A research team airs the messy truth about AI in medicine” In some instances, an AI could lead to …
2023-04-30: Common types of “AI beats humans at X” studies “We compared ChatGPT to a bunch of reddit trolls!” …
2023-04-30: “Avoiding the Rewrite Trap. A common challenge for engineering… - by Camille Fournier - Apr, 2023 - …
2023-04-30: “Why Silicon Valley is bringing eugenics back”
2023-04-30: “Deno KV - Simon Willison’s TILs” This looks really interesting. Looks like you could use the open …
2023-04-29: “Stanford Professor: Mass Tech Layoffs Caused by ‘Social Contagion’”
2023-04-29: It’s becoming quite clear that many—if not most—people working in AI believe that language models …
2023-04-29: “AI in News Reporting: A Test Is Coming for Journalism Ethics - Bloomberg” The signal-to-noise ratio …
2023-04-29: “MEPs seal the deal on Artificial Intelligence Act”
2023-04-29: “EU proposes new copyright rules for generative AI - Reuters” Companies deploying generative AI …
2023-04-28: “The Intelligence Illusion: A practical guide to the business risks of Generative AI” …
2023-04-28: “A Photographer Tried to Get His Photos Removed from an AI Dataset. He Got an Invoice Instead.”
2023-04-28: “ongoing by Tim Bray · Amazon Q1 2023 Financials” And why is it legal for Amazon to be the prime …
2023-04-28: “The Cliffs Notes paradox” I didn’t realise people genuinely thought summaries led to actual …
2023-04-28: Looks like generative AI is going to show us what sort of economic value mediocrity and arrested …
2023-04-28: “Using crypto for crime is not a bug — it’s an industry feature - Financial Times”
2023-04-28: “AI translation jeopardizes Afghan asylum claims - Rest of World”
2023-04-27: “Five Things: April 27, 2023 — As in guillotine…”
2023-04-27: ‘False Alarm: How Wisconsin Uses Race and Income to Label Students “High Risk”’
2023-04-27: Fjandinn.
2023-04-27: “Too Big to Challenge?. I find it deeply disturbing that the… - by danah boyd - Apr, 2023 - Medium”
2023-04-27: ‘“A Critical Division of Starfleet Intelligence”: Section 31 and the Normalization of the Security …
2023-04-27: “Does OAuth2 have a usability problem? (yes!)”
2023-04-26: “Quantifying ChatGPT’s gender bias” We found that both GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 are strongly biased on one …
2023-04-26: “‘As an AI language model’: the phrase that shows how AI is polluting the web - The Verge”
2023-04-26: “Forums will be destroyed by Blogs,” they said. “Forums are doomed.” “Blogs will be destroyed by …
2023-04-25: “FTC Chair Khan and Officials from DOJ, CFPB and EEOC Release Joint Statement on AI” …
2023-04-25: “An AI Scraping Tool Is Overwhelming Websites With Traffic” Why should these companies sit idly by …
2023-04-25: “Noncompliance by default with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR/RGPD) · Issue #303 · …
2023-04-25: “Silence Isn’t Consent”
2023-04-24: “Snapchat sees spike in 1-star reviews as users pan the ‘My AI’ feature, calling for its …
2023-04-24: It’s kind of worrying to see how many software developers are convinced that emergent …
2023-04-23: “The Dark Side of the Mac App Store: How Scam Apps and Shady Developers Are Preying on …
2023-04-23: “Deno vs. Node: No One is Ready for the Move” I actually prefer Deno these days, much nicer …
2023-04-22: “A quote from Dan Sheehan”
2023-04-22: “Parrots taught to video call each other become less lonely, finds research - Animal behaviour - The …
2023-04-21: “Adactio: Journal—Read-only web apps”
2023-04-21: That AI is providing some companies with rhetorical cover for doing layoffs that they were planning …
2023-04-20: “Schumacher family planning legal action over AI ‘interview’ with F1 great” What the …
2023-04-20: ‘Discord’s New “AI” Chatbot Is a Useless, Miserable Nightmare’
2023-04-20: “Evaluating Verifiability in Generative Search Engines” On average, a mere 51.5% of …
2023-04-20: “From Bitter Ground” My friend, Tom Abba, has released a narrative experience that weaves together a …
2023-04-19: “OpenAI’s hunger for data is coming back to bite it” These methods, and the sheer size of the data …
2023-04-19: “GayIceland sits down with Álfur Birkir, chairperson of Iceland’s National Queer Organization …
2023-04-19: “See the websites that make AI bots like ChatGPT sound so smart - Washington Post” This kind of …
2023-04-19: “Is Critical Thinking the Most Important Skill for Software Engineers? - The Pragmatic Engineer”
2023-04-19: “Google’s Rush to Win in AI Led to Ethical Lapses, Employees Say” One former employee …
2023-04-19: I’ve put together a web page for my soon-to-be-released book on the business risks of language …
2023-04-19: “Offline Is Just Online With Extreme Latency - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-04-19: “Google CEO peddles #AIhype on CBS 60 minutes - by Emily M. Bender”
2023-04-19: “The Calm Web: A Solution to Our Scary and Divisive Online World - Calibre”
2023-04-19: “Reddit Wants to Get Paid for Helping to Teach Big A.I. Systems - The New York Times” If you had any …
2023-04-19: “Google calls for relaxing of Australia’s copyright laws so AI can mine websites for information” …
2023-04-19: “AI Users Are Neither AI Nor Users - by Debbie Levitt - Apr, 2023 - R Before D” These are not …
2023-04-19: “Sorry AI, but User Research is More Than Just Predictive Text” Feedback would be generic at best, …
2023-04-18: “Competition authorities need to move fast and break up AI” Without the robust …
2023-04-18: “Google CEO peddles #AIhype on CBS 60 minutes - by Emily M. Bender” if you create ignorance about …
2023-04-18: “Stop Treating AI Models Like People”
2023-04-18: I hesitate to link to debunks, because all too often it doesn’t do much more than help spread the …
2023-04-17: “A Computer Generated Swatting Service Is Causing Havoc Across America” This sounds like a not good …
2023-04-17: “AIs can write for us but will we actually want them to? - Bryan Braun - Frontend Developer” Algogen …
2023-04-16: “The cloudy layers of modern-day programming”
2023-04-16: “It takes a body to understand the world – why ChatGPT and other language AIs don’t know what …
2023-04-16: “Efficiency trades off against resiliency - Made of Bugs”
2023-04-16: “Everybody Lies. Your Users Too. - UX Collective”
2023-04-15: “AI-Generated Images from AI-Generated Prompts — Adrian Roselli” “Anyone suggesting ChatGPT, Bard, …
2023-04-15: “Building LLM applications for production”
2023-04-15: “Building LLM applications for production” Given how fast things are moving, isn’t anybody …
2023-04-15: “New prompt injection attack on ChatGPT web version. Markdown images can steal your chat data”
2023-04-15: “Prompt injection attack on ChatGPT steals chat data - System Weakness” 🤨
2023-04-14: “Poking around OpenAI. - Irrational Exuberance”
2023-04-14: This is what I’ve been working on for the past few months. My new ebook, The Intelligence …
2023-04-14: “The Great Flowering: Why OpenAI is the new AWS and the New Kingmakers still matter” This is why it …
2023-04-14: “I Think I Found a Privacy Exploit in ChatGPT - Development tutorials for modern web development” …
2023-04-14: “Italy’s new rules for ChatGPT could become a template for the rest of the EU” For the tech …
2023-04-14: “General Purpose AI Poses Serious Risks, Should Not Be Excluded From the EU’s AI Act - Policy …
2023-04-12: “Toward a Critical Technical Practice: Lessons Learned in Trying to Reform AI” This 1997 …
2023-04-12: “Federal privacy watchdog probing OpenAI, ChatGPT following complaint - CBC News” I’d missed this …
2023-04-12: “Faster Horses” Speed was never the issue with horses. People bought cars so they wouldn’t have to …
2023-04-12: “Linda Gottfredson - Southern Poverty Law Center” This is the author of the definition of …
2023-04-11: “‘I didn’t give permission’: Do AI’s backers care about data law breaches? - Artificial intelligence …
2023-04-10: “‘It’s called stealing’: new allegations of plagiarism against Roy Lichtenstein” Lichtenstein and …
2023-04-09: “The Company Behind Stable Diffusion Appears to Be At Risk of Going Under” Stability AI raised $100 …
2023-04-09: “Pixels of the Week – April 10 , 2023 by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer.”
2023-04-09: “Tech Companies Are Ruining Their Apps, Websites, Internet” These companies don’t make good software …
2023-04-08: I ran into this blog post the other day and enjoyed it enormously. “Worldwide Story …
2023-04-08: “I tried out SyntheticUsers, so you don’t have to” Niloufar Salehi, who is way more generous …
2023-04-06: OpenAI: we were literally training the model with customer data techcrunch.com/2023/03/0… AI …
2023-04-06: “I’m an ER doctor: Here’s what I found when I asked ChatGPT to diagnose my patients” If my patient …
2023-04-06: The tech sphere at the start of every new innovation seems to utterly forget that laws exist. Then …
2023-04-05: “A quote from Jim Fan” This theorises that Midjourney is collecting user data to fine tune its …
2023-04-05: “Blinded by Analogies - by Ethan Mollick - One Useful Thing” The use of wishful comparisons, where …
2023-04-05: “April 4 - by Rob Horning - Internal exile”
2023-04-05: “Socialtrait App” Good lord. This nonsense is a thing. FFS.
2023-04-05: “Synthetic Users: user research without the headaches” Y’all do realise this is a really bad idea, …
2023-04-05: “Midjourney CEO Says ‘Political Satire In China Is Pretty Not Okay,’ But Apparently Silencing Satire …
2023-04-04: “Copyright lawsuits pose a serious threat to generative AI” Between the lawsuits, EU regulators, and …
2023-04-04: “Closed AI Models Make Bad Baselines”
2023-04-04: “Closed AI Models Make Bad Baselines - Hacking semantics”
2023-04-04: “Italy’s ChatGPT ban attracts EU privacy regulators - Reuters” I told you so.
2023-04-03: “Merchant: How AI doomsday hype helps sell ChatGPT - Los Angeles Times” Scaring off customers isn’t …
2023-04-03: “More Everything With AI - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-04-03: “The Most Dangerous Codec in the World: Finding and Exploiting Vulnerabilities in H.264 Decoders” …
2023-04-02: “AI as centralizing and distancing technology” This touches on one of my concerns with how Microsoft …
2023-04-01: “※ ChatGPT Survey: Performance on NLP datasets” Related to what I noted recently about these large …
2023-04-01: “SoK: On the Impossible Security of Very Large Foundation Models” I’ve only had a quick read of this …
2023-04-01: ‘Statement from the listed authors of Stochastic Parrots on the “AI pause” letter’
2023-03-31: “The web we broke. — Ethan Marcotte”
2023-03-31: “AI is going to make teaching worse, but not in the way everyone thinks - Charles Kenneth Roberts”
2023-03-31: “Buzzfeed Has Begun Publishing Articles Generated by A.I. — Pixel Envy” Predictably, the articles …
2023-03-31: “The Impact of AI on Developer Productivity: Evidence from GitHub Copilot” I can spot at least four …
2023-03-30: “Manton Reece - Introducing Micro.blog podcast transcripts” One of the good things to come out of …
2023-03-30: “The problem with artificial intelligence? It’s not artificial or intelligent” The ultimate risk of …
2023-03-30: “Neither artificial, nor intelligent - hidde.blog”
2023-03-30: “AI and the American Smile: How AI misrepresents culture through a facial expression” …
2023-03-30: “Policy makers: Please don’t fall for the distractions of #AIhype - by Emily M. Bender - Mar, 2023 - …
2023-03-28: “Code, not Chat, in Generative AI” I think the seeming effectiveness of AI-assisted coding is …
2023-03-28: “Types in JavaScript With Zod and JSDoc - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” Definitely an approach I’d like to try …
2023-03-28: “JavaScript import maps are now supported cross-browser” Now all we need are module workers in …
2023-03-28: “Defaulting on Single Page Applications (SPA)—zachleat.com”
2023-03-27: “Ship Small, Ship Fast”
2023-03-26: You see a fashion co revealing their racism and ignorance. I see a multinational attempting a …
2023-03-25: “Content negotiation considered harmful - snarfed.org”
2023-03-25: “The Online Photographer: How Is TOP Doing? (Blog Note)” Looks like all of the old photography …
2023-03-24: “Peerless Whisper – Eric’s Archived Thoughts” Transcription and captioning is exactly the sort of …
2023-03-24: “The machines won’t save your design system” We have too much confidence in our ability …
2023-03-24: “Some Thoughts on Five Pending AI Litigations - Avoiding Squirrels and Other AI Distractions - The …
2023-03-24: It’s in the nature of social media discourse to diverge into extremes. So, it shouldn’t have …
2023-03-23: “The venture capitalist’s dilemma: The embarrassing investor meltdown surrounding …
2023-03-23: “Disruption Killed Innovation”
2023-03-23: “Privacy Violations Shutdown OpenAI ChatGPT and Beg Investigation” Almost as if centralising an …
2023-03-23: “AI Takes Over Because of Human Hype, Not Machine Intelligence - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-03-23: “Here are more details on Ubisoft’s Ghostwriter AI tool from GDC 2023”
2023-03-23: “OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on language models”
2023-03-22: “The Uncanny Valley” People are justifiably frustrated at the fact that the world’s …
2023-03-22: “ChatGPT-4 produces more misinformation than predecessor - NewsGuard” This shouldn’t come as a …
2023-03-22: “Adactio: Journal—Disclosure” Not disclosing that something is AI-generated is so obviously …
2023-03-22: “Adobe made an AI image generator” That this is trained only on images they explicitly have the …
2023-03-22: “DPReview.com to close” The site will be available in read-only mode for a limited period …
2023-03-22: “Don’t trust AI to talk accurately about itself: Bard wasn’t trained on Gmail”
2023-03-22: “The problem with Don Norman’s new book”
2023-03-21: “Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought - Bitestring’s Blog”
2023-03-21: “Chatbots, deepfakes, and voice clones: AI deception for sale” From the US FTC. Also …
2023-03-21: “You’re Doing It Wrong: Notes on Criticism and Technology Hype” On criti-hype and how …
2023-03-21: “Great, Dating Apps Are Getting More Hellish Thanks to AI Chatbots” Tech is digging up its “all …
2023-03-20: A worrying aspect of the wholesale adoption of LLMs in all of our productivity and coding tools is …
2023-03-20: “On Generative AI, phantom citations, and social calluses” The Generative AI age is …
2023-03-20: “ChatGPT in Colombian Courts” The short answer is that they used ChatGPT as if it was …
2023-03-20: “The Nightmare of AI-Powered Gmail Has Arrived” Are you excited for your co-workers to …
2023-03-19: We’ve had over thirty years of experience in assessing the credibility of online source. Dismissing …
2023-03-19: we need to we regulate these devices not based on what they are called or what cases they operate …
2023-03-19: “No Doctor Required: Autonomy, Anomalies, and Magic Puddings – Lauren Oakden-Rayner” By calling the …
2023-03-19: “This Week in AI Doublespeak - by Gary Marcus”
2023-03-19: AI “art” is like moving into a house, painting the living room, and declaring that you built the …
2023-03-19: I’m not against using generative AI tools but, AFAICT there are very few trustworthy actors in the …
2023-03-19: “‘ChatGPT said I did not exist’: how artists and writers are fighting back against AI - Artificial …
2023-03-18: “Google won’t honor medical leave during its layoffs, outraging employees” She was let go by Google …
2023-03-18: “Why open data is critical during review: An example - Steve Haroz’s blog” But OpenAI …
2023-03-18: “What do tools like ChatGPT mean for Math and CS Education?” Nothing could be farther from how a …
2023-03-17: “Epic’s overhaul of a flawed algorithm shows why AI oversight is a life-or-death issue” …
2023-03-17: “Against Predictive Optimization: On the Legitimacy of Decision-Making Algorithms that …
2023-03-17: “Tooled. — Ethan Marcotte” But I’ll just note that labor economics has an old, old term for …
2023-03-17: “OpenAI’s GPT-4 Is Closed Source and Shrouded in Secrecy”
2023-03-17: “Social sponges: Gendered brain development comes from society, not biology”
2023-03-16: “Copyright Registration Guidance: Works Containing Material Generated by Artificial …
2023-03-16: “The stupidity of AI” The belief in this kind of AI as actually knowledgeable or meaningful is …
2023-03-16: JFC, it’s like the past few years’ discussions on bias in training data and issues with shortcut …
2023-03-15: “Modern Font Stacks”
2023-03-14: “How to tell if AI threatens YOUR job” I’ve come to a pretty grim, if obvious, realization: the …
2023-03-14: Remember when we had the ostensibly reasonable side of the tech influencer sphere saying that web3 …
2023-03-14: “Microsoft just laid off one of its responsible AI teams” Building an ethics and responsibility team …
2023-03-13: “The climate cost of the AI revolution • Wim Vanderbauwhede” From this it is clear that large-scale …
2023-03-13: “All data is health data. – Hi, I’m Heather Burns” It is merely contextual. So you need to …
2023-03-13: “Don’t ask an AI for plant advice • Tradescantia Hub” Using AI for specialist problems (which is …
2023-03-13: “TBM 205: “Process” vs. Systems & Habits - by John Cutler”
2023-03-13: “It Took Me Nearly 40 Years To Stop Resenting Ke Huy Quan - Decider” This is so touching.
2023-03-13: “Craft vs Industry: Separating Concerns - hello, yes. I’m Thomas Michael Semmler: CSS …
2023-03-12: Lovely to see AI critics split into adversarial factions over Liliputian which-end-of-the-egg …
2023-03-12: “Vanderbilt Apologizes for ChatGPT-Generated Email” Like I’ve said before, the technical term for …
2023-03-12: “Influencer Parents and Their Children Are Rethinking Growing Up On Social Media - Teen Vogue”
2023-03-10: “Startup Winter is Coming - Stacking the Bricks” A few years’ old but very accurate.
2023-03-10: “The long shadow of GPT - by Gary Marcus” I’ve tried hard in my research to be even-handed—try to …
2023-03-09: “The Exploited Labor Behind Artificial Intelligence” The “AI” industry runs on the backs of these …
2023-03-09: “Artists can now opt out of generative AI. It’s not enough.” the problems that generative AI …
2023-03-09: “Can ChatGPT—and its successors—go from cool to tool? - Freedom to Tinker” Where somebody tries to …
2023-03-08: “’Horribly Unethical’: Startup Experimented on Suicidal Teens on Social Media With …
2023-03-08: “Disability, Bias, and AI :: Aaron Gustafson”
2023-03-08: “Employees Are Feeding Sensitive Business Data to ChatGPT” I’m guessing that the reason why OpenAI …
2023-03-07: “Large Language Models and software as a medical device - MedRegs”
2023-03-07: “More than you’ve asked for: A Comprehensive Analysis of Novel Prompt Injection Threats to …
2023-03-07: “I tested how well ChatGPT can pull data out of messy PDFs” Bullshitting, misgendering, …
2023-03-07: “Briefly, my concern with ChatGPT - by Daniel Zollinger”
2023-03-06: “Kodsnack discussion with Tim Urban and Torill Kornfeldt” A really interesting …
2023-03-06: “Diffusion Art or Digital Forgery? Investigating Data Replication in Diffusion Models” This is …
2023-03-06: “New data: what consumers really think about generative AI” People who used Chat GPT find the …
2023-03-06: “Why chatbots fail. The novelty of AI does not make up for… - by Skyler Schain - Mar, 2023 - UX …
2023-03-06: “Lethal words – Bigmouth Strikes Again: Carrie Marshall’s blog”
2023-03-06: “Open source is good for AI but, is AI good for open source? - BCS”
2023-03-05: “Is it time to hit the pause button on AI?” TBH, if the US DoJ or Attorney General said that AI …
2023-03-04: “A Silicon Valley Love Triangle: Hiring Algorithms, Pseudo-Science, and the Quest for …
2023-03-04: “Is remote work in your future? Here’s why more women say yes”
2023-03-04: “Immaterial Sensations - blarg”
2023-03-04: “Historical pragmatism and the internet - James W. Carey, 2005” We are now living with the …
2023-03-04: “On technological optimism and technological pragmatism” Always post a link when somebody points out …
2023-03-03: “A fake news frenzy: why ChatGPT could be disastrous for truth in journalism”
2023-03-03: “Those Meddling Kids! The Reverse Scooby-Doo Theory of Tech Innovation Comes with the Excuses …
2023-03-03: “The Fallacy of AI Functionality” Sounds like policy people have been paying attention to papers …
2023-03-03: “Keep your AI claims in check - Federal Trade Commission” People are starting to notice that AI …
2023-03-03: “WAI is making it easier to create more noise, when all I want is good search” I have no use for an …
2023-03-03: “It’s Scary Easy to Use ChatGPT to Write Phishing Emails - CNET”
2023-03-03: “Shadow Gristle – Dimitri Glazkov”
2023-03-02: “The Great Replacement (Not That One, the Real One)” This society made of of fleshy …
2023-03-02: “Can publishing survive the oncoming AI storm?” Publishing outlets are going to be drowned in …
2023-03-02: “You can just put a folder of files on the internet if you want to. - Chris Coyier” This.
2023-03-02: “The Great Gaslighting of the JavaScript Era - The Spicy Web” Yeah.
2023-03-01: “Linguist Emily M. Bender on How an AI Chatbot Is Not a Human” Read this.
2023-03-01: “Web Interface Guidelines” Generally good points.
2023-03-01: “Indirect Prompt Injection on Bing Chat” It genuinely feels like Bing Chat is the result of a series …
2023-03-01: “Draft2Digital killed my account – angelahighland.info” Eek.
2023-02-28: “Pagi on the App Store” As I’ve been saying, app stores are unsuitable for serious …
2023-02-28: “New AI-generated RadioGPT can broadcast voice, DJ music and find local news stories” The issue, as …
2023-02-28: “World Building With GPT” A little bit 😳 at the cost. I keep forgetting just how expensive this …
2023-02-28: “Apple’s machines are learning more intelligently than Bard and Bing - Macworld” Apple’s …
2023-02-27: “End Users Over All Else, Even In Our Tools - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-02-26: “Agile Leadership. How I’ve Wasted 3 Years of My PM Career 😟”
2023-02-26: “How much of AI’s recent success is due to the Forer Effect? – Terence Eden’s Blog” I hadn’t made …
2023-02-25: “Place your bets - Charlie’s Diary” This is what I’ve been saying all along 🙂
2023-02-24: “The AI Crowd Is Mad” I don’t want to say that these qualities can’t or …
2023-02-24: “People keep anthropomorphizing AI. Here’s why”
2023-02-24: ‘Don’t believe ChatGPT - we do NOT offer a “phone lookup” service’ I don’t think …
2023-02-24: “An update on Robust Client-Side JavaScript · molily”
2023-02-23: I can’t imagine being 18, wondering if there will be any way to get a job in the arts when every …
2023-02-23: “How Shadow DOM and accessibility are in conflict”
2023-02-23: “Chrome’s Headless mode gets an upgrade: introducing --headless=new - Chrome Developers” I’m hoping …
2023-02-22: Boostered! 💉
2023-02-21: “GPT is an unreliable information store - by Noble Ackerson” Ok so obviously it got one fact half …
2023-02-21: ‘This AI chatbot “Sidney” is misbehaving - Nov 23 2022 Microsoft community thread’ It …
2023-02-21: “A Concerning Trend – Neil Clarke” I’ve reached out to several editors and the situation I’m …
2023-02-21: “A Concerning Trend – Neil Clarke” A Sci-Fi/Fantasy short story publisher had to close submissions …
2023-02-20: So many of the AI-related business decisions I’m seeing companies make these days give off such a …
2023-02-20: Do people have opinions on djot? It’s made by John MacFarlane of panddoc fame as an effort to …
2023-02-20: “Notetaking, Tagged Templates, and How Deno is a Clear Improvement Over Node” Project update, a …
2023-02-20: “Shakespeare’s Missing Smile – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2023-02-20: “Vibe Driven Development”
2023-02-19: It’s well established that open offices are really bad for productivity It was extremely popular …
2023-02-19: I just published a new newsletter: “Notetaking, Tagged Templates, and How Deno is a Clear …
2023-02-19: “Can We Trust Search Engines with Generative AI? A Closer Look at Bing’s Accuracy for News Queries”
2023-02-19: “Can We Trust Search Engines with Generative AI? A Closer Look at Bing’s Accuracy for News Querie” …
2023-02-18: “Introducing the AI Mirror Test, which very smart people keep failing” Exacerbated by how text …
2023-02-18: “How Not to Test GPT-3” “GPT-3 has almost certainly read about this experiment again and again and …
2023-02-17: “Defending against AI Lobbyists - Schneier on Security”
2023-02-17: And now it’s not posting anything at all. I’ll bet it’ll just suddenly publish a …
2023-02-17: micro.blog is having that almost daily thing where it just won’t publish a post, no matter how …
2023-02-17: “Experimental conditional tagged templates for generating HTML strings” This is all …
2023-02-17: “ChatGPT is such a mess of academic dishonesty that it isn’t even necessary to prove its products …
2023-02-17: “Collections: On ChatGPT” “But calling this a hallucination is already ascribing mind-like …
2023-02-17: “Collections: On ChatGPT” “ChatGPT does not understand the logical correlations of these words or …
2023-02-17: “Collections: On ChatGPT – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry” “boosters of this technology …
2023-02-17: “Collections: On ChatGPT – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry” Absolutely nails the description of …
2023-02-17: “SpiderMonkey Newsletter (Firefox 110-111)” “This includes supporting modules in Workers, adding …
2023-02-17: “Safari 16.4 Beta Release Notes - Apple Developer Documentation” Guessing most people will talk …
2023-02-16: “Amazon Begs Employees Not to Leak Corporate Secrets to ChatGPT” Well, this is an interesting …
2023-02-16: “Announcing Squire 2.0—Fastmail releases next generation of open-source rich text editor” Looks …
2023-02-15: Last couple of times I had this strong a sense of “wow, people are really buying into the hype with …
2023-02-15: “Tech Was Supposed to Make Cars Safer. It Didn’t Deliver.”
2023-02-15: ‘Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”’ “A search engine that summarizes results is …
2023-02-15: “I agree with Blake Stacey”
2023-02-14: I know I’ve said several times that the hype for AI is going to be deafening over the next …
2023-02-14: “It’s not aliens. It’ll probably never be aliens. So stop. Please just stop. - Ars Technica”
2023-02-14: “Declarative Shadow DOM - WebKit” I know knocking WebKit is always fashionable, but lately it’s been …
2023-02-13: “Video Game Voice Actors Doxed and Harassed in Targeted AI Voice Attack” The more this happens, the …
2023-02-13: Some thoughts on how to make a book, three months after I made one So, on Friday I wrote up a few …
2023-02-13: “<3 Deno”
2023-02-13: “Machine learning offers a fantastically powerful toolkit for building complex systems quickly. This …
2023-02-12: “Inside the Heart of ChatGPT’s Darkness” “OpenAI’s current guardrails are only skin deep; some …
2023-02-12: “Automated testing won’t solve web accessibility · Eric Eggert”
2023-02-12: “The Limits of ‘Computational Photography’ - PetaPixel” So, because tech is a pop …
2023-02-11: Whenever you see an AI/ML paper making extraordinary claims remember that the field has a …
2023-02-11: “Some thoughts on how to make a book, three months after I made one – Baldur Bjarnason” Wrote this …
2023-02-10: “Magazine Publishes Serious Errors in First AI-Generated Health Article”
2023-02-10: “Should Schools Tackle Andrew Tate Head On? - Novara Media”
2023-02-10: “The worst part is that the people who give so much over to automation may have no idea that …
2023-02-10: “The dangers of autocomplete: Why we should resist AI’s attempts to eliminate friction …
2023-02-10: For those committed to ignoring history: “the brain works just like this new tech” is a …
2023-02-10: My CSS wishlist is simply to have more time to be able to do things properly. Also my JS, HTML, and …
2023-02-10: “Why I’m not the biggest fan of Single Page Applications - Manuel Matuzović”
2023-02-10: “ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web - The New Yorker” “What use is there in having something that …
2023-02-10: “ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web - The New Yorker” “Generally speaking, though, I’d say that …
2023-02-10: “ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web - The New Yorker” “When we’re dealing with sequences of words, …
2023-02-09: So, somebody in Canada hit one of my blog posts with a 1.5 million requests using a script of some …
2023-02-09: “Automating podcast transcripts on my Mac with OpenAI Whisper – Six Colors” Making audio transcripts …
2023-02-09: “Oops! How Google bombed, while doing pretty much exactly the same thing as Microsoft did, with …
2023-02-09: “Weeknotes: A bunch of things I learned this week, plus datasette-explain”
2023-02-09: That 90s Show feels like one of those show-within-a-show bad sitcoms that’s included in a middling …
2023-02-08: “ChatGPT: Is its use of people’s data even legal?” I’m not the only one to doubt the legality …
2023-02-08: “Nintendo to increase wages 10% despite lowered forecast” A few days ago I posted a link to a 13 …
2023-02-08: Unofficial theme song for my current writing project: www.youtube.com/watch
2023-02-08: “MotherDuck: Big Data is Dead” “The cost of keeping data around is higher than just the cost to …
2023-02-08: “‘Disrespectful to the Craft:’ Actors Say They’re Being Asked to Sign Away Their Voice to AI” The …
2023-02-07: “Applications of Gall’s Law”
2023-02-07: I like how Google decided to take an already controversial tech and use it to go all in on exactly …
2023-02-06: “We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it.” “For these players, the seductive …
2023-02-06: “Stable Attribution” This is an interesting experiment in trying to find the original images that …
2023-02-05: “The Market for Lemons - Infrequently Noted” Always post links that reference Akerlof.
2023-02-04: “OpenAI’s Whisper is another case study in Colonisation”
2023-02-04: “Getty Images v. Stability AI – Complaint - Copyright Lately” This is in the US, in addition to …
2023-02-03: “4chan users embrace AI voice clone tool to generate celebrity hatespeech” AFAICT, this is exactly …
2023-02-03: “ChatGPT writes performance feedback” Eeek.
2023-02-03: “You wise up. – Hi, I’m Heather Burns” “Much chatter amongst the chatterati, then, with …
2023-02-03: “Introducing the Slickest Con Artist of All Time”
2023-02-03: “SOLVED! The Case of the Bing Ban Theory - daverupert.com” Bing was marking a bunch of normal blogs …
2023-02-03: “Bradley Robb - WTF is ChatGPT - a No BS Breakdown”
2023-02-03: “Five Things: February 2, 2023 — As in guillotine…”
2023-02-03: “Against risk-based authentication (or, why I wouldn’t trust Google Cloud)” Add to that the …
2023-02-03: “How AI is stealing your art” Even if you think generative AI is the bee’s knees, this is exactly …
2023-02-02: “A patchwork dodo is not a dodo”
2023-02-02: “Netlify Acquires Gatsby, Its Struggling Jamstack Competitor - The New Stack” The only thing I’ll …
2023-02-02: “Gaslighting and reality in AI - by Gary Marcus”
2023-02-02: “Modern Health, frameworks, performance, and harm – Eric Bailey”
2023-02-01: “Geeking with Greg: Layoffs and tech layoffs” From 14 years ago and still true.
2023-01-31: ‘“Everyone Used to Be a Designer”’
2023-01-31: “An AI app walks into a writers room - Charlie’s Diary”
2023-01-30: “Revised Issues Paper on Intellectual Property Policy and Artificial Intelligence” This …
2023-01-30: “Copyright and Artificial Creation: Does EU Copyright Law Protect AI-Assisted Output?” …
2023-01-30: ‘Qualification of AI creations as “works” under EU copyright law: AI-assisted …
2023-01-30: “No, large language models aren’t like disabled people (and it’s problematic to argue that they are) …
2023-01-30: “Reading code is a different experience to writing code”
2023-01-29: “Leakage and the Reproducibility Crisis in ML-based Science”
2023-01-29: “OpenAI has hired an army of contractors to make basic coding obsolete - Semafor” Not sure what to …
2023-01-29: “My perspective on ChatGPT (and creativity and teaching) – Learning and Technology”
2023-01-28: Seeing people adoringly praise AI art on social media is like having that “so, wait, you actually …
2023-01-28: “AI-generated code helps me learn and makes experimenting faster” If you’re going to use Copilot, …
2023-01-28: “Tolerance for boredom - A Working Library”
2023-01-28: “To help you best, I’d need to know you” AI business models are going to collide so hard with …
2023-01-28: “The contagious visual blandness of Netflix”
2023-01-27: “Monetizing uninformation: a prediction” “Flood the zone with bullshit (or …
2023-01-27: “Use the dialog element (reasonably) - scottohara.me”
2023-01-27: “ChatGPT Cites Economics Papers That Do Not Exist – Economist Writing Every Day” Here’s a bunch of …
2023-01-26: “Deno 1.30: Built-in Node modules” I’ve been using Deno quite a bit for a side project and it’s …
2023-01-25: “Software and its Discontents, Part 2: An Explosion of Complexity - Kellan Elliott-McCrea: Blog” …
2023-01-25: “Software and its Discontents, January 2023, Part 1 - Kellan Elliott-McCrea: Blog”
2023-01-25: “The Best Time to Own a Domain Was 20 Years Ago; The Second Best Time Is Today - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-01-24: “As ComiXology fades, the industry reacts – and wonders what’s next” An overview of what’s …
2023-01-24: “A Short, Totally Unofficial, History of Port Numbers in Web Development - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-01-24: “Why Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata refuses to lay off staff - Polygon” From 2013. But still good …
2023-01-24: “Maybe the Book Doesn’t Need to Be “Disrupted” in the First Place?” “But the fact …
2023-01-22: “SEO Spammers Are Absolutely Thrilled Google Isn’t Cracking Down on CNET’s AI-Generated …
2023-01-22: “What Companies Still Get Wrong About Layoffs”
2023-01-21: “Enshittification truly is how platforms die. That’s fine, actually.”
2023-01-21: “10x Devs Don’t Exist, But 10x Organisations Do” Yesterday’s newsletter. About how the …
2023-01-20: “Technology: What about “Log in with Twitter”? – Adam Chandler’s Blog”
2023-01-20: “Inside the Comixology bloodbath” This’ll either de facto kill off the product category or, if it …
2023-01-20: “UK’s Online Safety Bill Gets Ridiculous: Includes Jail Time For Tech CEOs - Techdirt”
2023-01-19: “AI and Political Lobbying - Schneier on Security”
2023-01-19: “Updates on my Bing ban - daverupert.com”
2023-01-19: “The Anti-Capitalist Web - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-01-19: “24 Seriously Embarrassing Hours for AI - by Gary Marcus”
2023-01-19: “A quote from Justin Etheredge”
2023-01-19: “20 Things I’ve Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer - Simple Thread” Good advice.
2023-01-18: “The Art of Knowing When to Quit - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2023-01-18: “On women who talk, and also write books – Going Medieval”
2023-01-18: “Getty Images is suing the creators of AI art tool Stable Diffusion for scraping its content” There …
2023-01-18: “CNET’s AI-Written Articles Are Riddled With Errors” The web’s signal-to-noise ratio is going …
2023-01-17: “Patrick / articles / (Almost) everything about storing data on the web”
2023-01-17: “My talk on CSS runtime performance - Read the Tea Leaves” Highly recommended if you ever work in …
2023-01-17: “Meaning vs process – The Bottom Line Bulletin”
2023-01-17: “Principles over Process - Silicon Valley Product Group : Silicon Valley Product Group”
2023-01-17: “We invested 10% to pay back tech debt; Here’s what happened”
2023-01-17: “Resilience and Waste in Software Teams – Jessitron”
2023-01-16: “Can dogs smell time?”
2023-01-15: “Exploring the implications and existential terror of AI’s impact on creative industries - Revert to …
2023-01-15: “Producing HTML using string templates has always been the wrong solution”
2023-01-15: “I’m Shadow Banned by DuckDuckGo (and Bing)”
2023-01-14: “State of the World 2023: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky” ‘Big Tech, in financial and technical …
2023-01-14: “Agile vs. Waterfall (And Other Obfuscation) – Charles Lambdin”
2023-01-14: “A Writer Used AI To Plagiarize Me. Now What?” The stochastic parrot strikes again.
2023-01-14: “Life, the UXverse and Everything. So Long UX, and Thanks for All the… - by Lisa Angela - Jan, 2023 …
2023-01-13: ‘“Beyond Command and Control” (Book Review) – As I learn …’
2023-01-12: “JavaScript, Community—zachleat.com”
2023-01-12: “Silicon Valley’s Loophole Arbitrage on Display Yet Again with OpenAI – The Trichordist”
2023-01-10: There’s a kind of post I encounter quite a bit on Twitter that falls squarely under …
2023-01-08: “The Power of Indulging Your Weird, Offbeat Obsessions - by Clive Thompson - Jan, 2023 - Medium” How …
2023-01-07: ‘Ten Years Since NYT’s “Snow Fall” - Chris Coyier’
2023-01-05: “The App Store does not protect consumers”
2023-01-04: “State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 11? – NTDEV” This is one …
2023-01-03: Taking ten days off over the holidays only made me more aware of just how tired I am 😬
2023-01-03: “Adactio: Links—We Live In The Age of The Bullshitter ❧ Current Affairs”
2023-01-03: “We Live In The Age of The Bullshitter ❧ Current Affairs” “A liar knows what they are saying is …
2023-01-03: “Reentry - A Working Library”
2023-01-02: “Why Not Mars (Idle Words)” There’s a reason why everybody is linking to this.
2023-01-01: “I am not a supplier”
2022-12-31: “Is ChatGPT Really a “Code Red” for Google Search?”
2022-12-29: Grant me the confidence of the “thought leader” who has absolute conviction in their predictions, …
2022-12-29: “TBM 56/52: The NPS Effect - by John Cutler”
2022-12-26: “What to Expect When You’re Expecting … GPT-4”
2022-12-26: You should not take a stroll on Iceland’s beach of death. It’s a lethal hazard even in still …
2022-12-22: “Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of …
2022-12-22: ‘Moving Fast and Breaking Things’ ‘They always believe that they alone are worthy. They never have …
2022-12-20: “Why I’m Not Losing Sleep Over AI – Rhetorical Thinking”
2022-12-20: “The Performance Inequality Gap, 2023 - Infrequently Noted”
2022-12-19: “Gamification gone wrong: stop the streaks - by Ben Davies-Romano - Dec, 2022 - UX Collective”
2022-12-18: “All-knowing machines are a fantasy - Emily M. Bender and Chriag Shah » IAI TV”
2022-12-16: “ChatGPT hype in the Washington Post” The hype train is barrelling forward at max speed.
2022-12-16: “Stability AI plans to let artists opt out of Stable Diffusion 3 image training - Ars Technica” This …
2022-12-15: “Select The Right Tool For The Job - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-12-15: “Pulling on the corkscrew of life: Why my cats are lyonized (and you may be too)”
2022-12-14: “Space debris expert: Orbits will be lost—and people will die—later this decade - Ars Technica”
2022-12-14: “Code brushes for GitHub Copilot - Christian Heilmann” This is a much more interesting direction …
2022-12-13: “The viral AI avatar app Lensa undressed me—without my consent - MIT Technology Review”
2022-12-11: “An Update On My Thoughts on AI-Generated Art - Whatever” Given how little money there is in most of …
2022-12-10: “AI’s Jurassic Park moment” “It is no exaggeration to say that systems like …
2022-12-09: “Horribly low pay is pushing out my fellow authors – and yes, that really does matter - Joanne …
2022-12-08: “Your platform is not an ecosystem — Crooked Timber”
2022-12-07: Wild how regulatory actions are shaping up. On the one hand people are debating whether the very …
2022-12-07: “Freaking Out About ChatGPT—Part I”
2022-12-07: “I’m Never Assigning an Essay Again. And you shouldn’t either.”
2022-12-07: “Twitter turns its back on open-source development - ZDNET” This is going to happen a lot more as …
2022-12-05: “How come GPT can seem so brilliant one minute and so breathtakingly dumb the next?”
2022-12-02: ‘“The politest possible version of blood libel” – Bigmouth Strikes Again’
2022-12-02: “How to Start a Fire - The Forum - Ben Miller”
2022-12-01: “83% of Developers Suffer from Burnout - 01” There’s something seriously wrong with this industry.
2022-12-01: “The current and future state of AI/ML is shockingly demoralizing with little hope of redemption : …
2022-12-01: “Reading Notes, November 2022 - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-12-01: “Too much efficiency makes everything worse: overfitting and the strong version of Goodhart’s law - …
2022-11-30: This is kinda cool. “FFMPEG.WASM”
2022-11-30: “It’s Time For ‘Maximum Viable Product’ - by Clive Thompson - Debugger” Feature creep is also one of …
2022-11-29: “Why Big Teams Keep Getting Bigger – Paul Taylor” “I have literally seen Brook’s law happen in real …
2022-11-29: “Shadow DOM and accessibility: the trouble with ARIA - Read the Tea Leaves”
2022-11-29: “Slip Through Your Fingers: Thoughts on Andor” This.
2022-11-28: ‘“Thinking in Systems” (Book Review) – As I learn …’
2022-11-28: ‘How to split JavaScript strings into sentences, words or graphemes with …
2022-11-24: “My old Richter scale for system outages, revisited (Interconnected)”
2022-11-23: “LGBTQ+ Icelanders face ‘dehumanising’ new form of abuse – barking”
2022-11-23: “The Perks of a High-Documentation, Low-Meeting Work Culture”
2022-11-22: “Adactio: Links—Word Persons and Web Persons · roytang.net”
2022-11-22: “Word Persons and Web Persons”
2022-11-22: So, I published this yesterday: “Programming is a Pop Culture” …
2022-11-21: “A quick hypothetical situation, or, your crash introduction to the real world – Hi, I’m …
2022-11-21: “Tools for Thought as Cultural Practices, not Computational Objects” Interesting analysis. Honestly, …
2022-11-20: “Don’t specialize, hybridize — Stephan Ango”
2022-11-19: “GitHub Copilot Isn’t Worth the Risk” What she said
2022-11-19: “Web technology optimism hour”
2022-11-18: “WTF is a Framework?” Where I have a go at coming up with a constructive definition of …
2022-11-17: Starting to get distinct “Wired in the early 2000s” vibes from The Verge. (This is not a …
2022-11-16: “Constant churn in a software development team, both among the programmers and designers, is …
2022-11-15: “Inclusion doesn’t come for free with open source software by Amy Hupe, content designer.”
2022-11-15: “Obscure Things Power the Imagination - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-11-14: “Adactio: Links—Jack Rusher ☞ Classic HCI demos”
2022-11-12: “Defensive CSS” Not dug into this but seems useful in concept.
2022-11-12: “Introducing iA Presenter, the story-based presentation app” UI designs from iA are consistently …
2022-11-10: “Browsers, JSON, and FormData - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” FormData is great.
2022-11-10: “Don’t build Cities of Nowhere – Dan Slimmon” Posting this almost entirely for the Le Corbusier …
2022-11-09: “Don’t work with psychopaths. Unless you are a trained therapist. - by Livia Labate - Medium”
2022-11-09: “Dialogs, modality and popovers seem similar. How are they different? - hidde.blog”
2022-11-09: “Mastodon is just blogs” Blogs remain the reference point for federated social media.
2022-11-09: “Position Statement for the 2022 W3C TAG Election – Lea Verou” One of the smartest people in web …
2022-11-09: “What Does The Back/Forward Cache Mean For Site Speed? - DebugBear” From an end user perspective …
2022-11-07: “Adactio: Journal—Negativity bias” View Transition API shipping for both SPAs and MPAs would be a …
2022-11-07: “Is Open Graph Protocol dead? – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2022-11-05: “Adactio: Journal—Time for transitions” I’m a bit conflicted about this. I share his excitement but …
2022-11-04: “Removing the camera overlay icon on images in Microsoft Edge - Christian Heilmann” I absolutely …
2022-11-03: “Privacy as Product”
2022-11-03: “Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety Bill; or, welcome to hell – Hi, I’m …
2022-11-02: When it comes to all trends digital, I’m less interested in questions like “is it legal?” or “is it …
2022-11-02: “Invasive Diffusion: How one unwilling illustrator found herself turned into an AI model” The AI …
2022-11-01: “Why Musicians & Other Creative Professionals Will Soon Get Their Revenge on the Old Guard” …
2022-11-01: “Don’t remove a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place”
2022-10-31: “Website Fidelity: Browser Perspective - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-10-30: One day I’ll post my blogroll—the blogs I follow regularly—but cleaning up my feed list is a bit of …
2022-10-30: “Blogroll - Max Böck” These are all very good blogs to follow.
2022-10-29: “Getting started with Mastodon”
2022-10-28: “Accessibility in the Fediverse (and Mastodon) · Eric Eggert”
2022-10-28: “Underjord - Complex Systems All The Way Down”
2022-10-28: “Optimize For Nothing - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-10-28: It would be a fulltime job to maintain a blog that does nothing but correct DHH’s misconceptions and …
2022-10-28: “Adobe steals your color”
2022-10-27: “Why does my office smell of sulphur?” Turns around. Sees the open window facing the geothermal park …
2022-10-27: “Scroll to Text Fragments - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” One of my fav new additions to the web stack. Two …
2022-10-27: “Adactio: Links—Programming Portals”
2022-10-27: “Programming Portals” These ideas would not be out of place in the original Smalltalk systems which …
2022-10-27: “The shorter the feedback loop, the better” Excellent point. This applies to product design and …
2022-10-26: “A beginner’s guide to Chrome tracing - Read the Tea Leaves”
2022-10-26: “OKLCH in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog”
2022-10-26: “How to balance software architecture goals with limited resources”
2022-10-26: “What if the team assumes my functional JavaScript is slow?”
2022-10-25: ‘What “Work” Looks Like - Jim Nielsen’s Blog’
2022-10-25: “WebKit Features in Safari 16.1 - WebKit”
2022-10-24: “Why ‘dark mode’ causes more accessibility issues than it solves - by H Locke - Medium”
2022-10-24: “Strategic and necessary”
2022-10-23: “Style performance and concurrent rendering - Read the Tea Leaves”
2022-10-22: “The Shared Element Transition API is FLIPping Cool - Chris Coyier” If there’s one proposal that I …
2022-10-21: “Let’s talk about web components - Brad Frost”
2022-10-21: “The cost of convenience — surma.dev”
2022-10-21: “Seeing vs. Using - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-10-20: “Why We’re Breaking Up with CSS-in-JS - Brad Frost”
2022-10-20: “ConwaysLaw” “Pretty much all the practitioners I favor in Software Architecture are deeply …
2022-10-20: “Bad UX Might Have Just Ruined My Girlfriend’s Career - Simple Thread”
2022-10-20: “We’re drowning - snarfed.org”
2022-10-20: “Adactio: Journal—JavaScript” Against profligate client-side JS.
2022-10-20: “Transferable skills - Chris Coyier”
2022-10-20: “Ro Salarian: iraprince: weird little brain tweak/reframing that…” Good explanation of what …
2022-10-19: That thing where a web app or service doesn’t allow Icelandic characters in names or …
2022-10-18: “Why Rust” I need to find a good excuse to learn Rust.
2022-10-18: “Think About Minsky for a Moment - by Stephanie Kelton”
2022-10-18: “The Proprietary Syndication Formats - Chris Coyier”
2022-10-18: “Monarch”
2022-10-17: “Three baffling claims about AI and machine learning in four days, statistical errors in top …
2022-10-14: “André Staltz - The Myth of Mass Collaboration”
2022-10-14: “Streaming services lost the plot - Jeff Geerling”
2022-10-14: ‘No one is “non-technical” - A Working Library’
2022-10-14: “Upgrading colors to HD on the web – Bram.us”
2022-10-13: “Two JavaScripts”
2022-10-13: “Adactio: Links—Progressively enhance for a more resilient web :: jjenzz”
2022-10-13: “Progressively enhance for a more resilient web :: jjenzz”
2022-10-13: “Adactio: Links—The Web’s Next Transition - Epic Web Dev by Kent C. Dodds”
2022-10-13: “The Web’s Next Transition - Epic Web Dev by Kent C. Dodds”
2022-10-12: “Adactio: Journal—Knowing”
2022-10-12: “Pluralistic: 11 Oct 2022 Trusting (machine learning) trust; The housing market turns (more) toxic – …
2022-10-12: “TBM 46/52: (F)acts, (A)ssumptions, (B)eliefs”
2022-10-12: “Everything in its write place: Cloud storage abstraction with Object Store - Dropbox” An …
2022-10-12: “Wired.com: 20 years later - Stopdesign” One thing I love about RSS feeds is when a blog comes to …
2022-10-11: “Stripe is Paypal circa 2010”
2022-10-10: “Pluralistic: 09 Oct 2022 $100 billion later, autonomous vehicles are still a car-wreck – …
2022-10-10: It’s really annoying when web.dev writes about tech that’s Chrome-only and not on a path towards …
2022-10-10: “Novelty fallacy: why new isn’t always better - Ness Labs”
2022-10-09: “Works as currently designed”
2022-10-09: “Take a Break You Idiot”
2022-10-08: “Why Streaming Doesn’t Pay”
2022-10-08: “Understanding Your System Beats Recruiting People Every Time – Paul Taylor”
2022-10-08: That thing where a blog you followed fifteen years ago, and whose feed is still in your feed reader …
2022-10-08: “5:00am is the enemy” Sleep deprivation is not a sustainable strategy. And one rule of thumb that …
2022-10-08: “Michael Tsai - Blog - iOS Action Discoverability” iOS usability is horrendous. It’s essentially …
2022-10-08: “Adding Components to Eleventy with WebC—zachleat.com” Interesting. Not sure if I would use it but, …
2022-10-07: Always interesting to see somebody evangelise the four day work week who you know for a fact expects …
2022-10-07: “Unless you’re in the mafia, your company isn’t your family - Christian Heilmann”
2022-10-05: “Descriptive engineering: not just for post-mortems – Dan Slimmon”
2022-10-05: That thing where you think all of the “State of..” surveys are quite misguided but feel obligated to …
2022-10-02: Hveragerði in a nutshell
2022-10-01: “Reading Notes, September 2022 - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-10-01: “The Demise of the Mildly Dynamic Website”
2022-09-30: “Five Types of Links - Jorge Arango”
2022-09-30: “Few People Get Promoted For Asking Difficult Questions – Paul Taylor”
2022-09-29: “Debut - Sonic Symbolism • Mailchimp Presents” Gonna have to give this a listen. Björk digs into …
2022-09-29: “The Quietus - Features - Anniversary - Into The Pre-Gap: Forty Years Of The CD”
2022-09-28: “Ships have feelings - A Working Library”
2022-09-28: “Let Go of the Learning Baggage - Farnam Street”
2022-09-28: Why are designers obsessed with hiding stuff on web pages? Scrolling works! Just let me scroll the …
2022-09-27: “Introducing workerd: the Open Source Workers runtime” While their recent “our CEO …
2022-09-27: Current operating theory: if your app truly needs to be offline-first then you should go all the way …
2022-09-27: “Outdated vs. Complete”
2022-09-26: “Marco’s Rule (Expanded) — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho”
2022-09-25: “ImperialViolet - Passkeys” How to implement passkey support from scratch. Looking forward to this …
2022-09-25: “The Patchability of the Open Web”
2022-09-24: “Stable Diffusion Based Image Compression” Interesting application of ML-generative art. Trying to …
2022-09-23: “The sum of all knowledge - Christian Heilmann”
2022-09-23: “The New Sport of Misrepresenting AI Criticism”
2022-09-22: Nice autumn day.
2022-09-22: A rule of thumb of mine that’s absolute certainly completely unfair, but has served me over …
2022-09-22: “Introducing LiteFS · Fly” This looks interesting
2022-09-22: “Moving With Prototypes - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-09-22: “Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 154 - WebKit” “Enabled Scroll To Text Fragment by …
2022-09-21: “You don’t want to be on Cloudflare’s naughty list - Ctrl blog”
2022-09-21: “Consenting to decisions - A Working Library”
2022-09-20: “Doubt explanations - Derek Sivers” “Stop asking people for explanations, and ignore the ones …
2022-09-20: “Trajectory - by Dorian Taylor - The Making of Making Sense”
2022-09-20: “Opinion - We warned Google that people might believe AI was sentient. Now it’s happening. - The …
2022-09-19: “Thoughts on Print Equation Layout” Linked to this earlier but it deserves another push: on maths …
2022-09-19: “Accidental Dismissal of Overlays: A Common Mobile Usability Problem”
2022-09-19: “Playacting genius: the performative logic of reasoning from first principles – Baldur Bjarnason” I …
2022-09-19: “Form, function, and the giant gulf between drawing a picture and understanding the world”
2022-09-18: “squoze - family of fast, reversible unicode hashes”
2022-09-18: “Font Family and supports - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-09-18: “Thoughts on Print Equation Layout” Interesting essay that’s ostensibly about maths layout on the …
2022-09-18: “Doing the Work. How to Write When You Suck - by Cory Doctorow - Sep, 2022 - Medium”
2022-09-17: A loooot of people are confusing “reasons from first principles” with “fast …
2022-09-16: ‘Spotting Misinformation in “Studies Have Shown” – Chelsea Troy’
2022-09-16: “If A Third Of What We Do Is Waste – Why Can’t We See It? – Paul Taylor” If a post in my feed cites …
2022-09-16: “Performance is the Moat » Mike Industries”
2022-09-16: “Against Superficial Simplicity - Jorge Arango”
2022-09-16: “Replit - History++ - A Better Way to Do Versioning” Interesting experiment. It seems to use OTs, …
2022-09-15: “A new collaboration with Adobe” So, let’s hope that as far as you’re …
2022-09-15: “Comments - Did GoogleAI Just Snooker One of Silicon Valley’s Sharpest Minds?”
2022-09-14: “We Spoke With the Last Person Standing in the Floppy Disk Business – Eye on Design” This was more …
2022-09-13: “Always time for the important things in life – Burningbird”
2022-09-13: The responses on Twitter to The Verge’s redesign are like from a parallel universe. The tech …
2022-09-13: I see that The Verge has decided it doesn’t like having readers. Chaotic and unreadable front …
2022-09-12: “The details and summary elements, again - scottohara.me”
2022-09-12: “Take Care of Your Blog”
2022-09-11: “Quality Is Systemic - Jacob Kaplan-Moss” Comes with the obligatory Deming citation
2022-09-11: “Adactio: Links—Giving your future self a little credit with progressive enhancement - Blog - Pixo - …
2022-09-11: “Giving your future self a little credit with progressive enhancement - Blog - Pixo - Apps, …
2022-09-09: A common factor in most of the so-called “zero configuration” and “easy to …
2022-09-09: “The self-fulfilling prophecy of React - Josh Collinsworth blog” “React keeps getting …
2022-09-09: “Paged.js — Paged Break, the long overdue update” This has worked well for PDF generation for me in …
2022-09-08: “Lightning CSS” I have no idea what this library is like but I’m enjoying this aesthetic
2022-09-08: “Adactio: Links—What it’s like working with an editor”
2022-09-08: “What it’s like working with an editor”
2022-09-06: “Why your website should work without Javascript. - endtimes.dev”
2022-09-06: “Meet Understanding Privacy, A New Smashing Book By Heather Burns — Smashing Magazine”
2022-09-06: “Why Are We Adding Another Modal?: The ripple effects of including software developers in product …
2022-09-06: “Generating an EPUB File in the Browser” I got something like this working in 2015 for a project. …
2022-09-05: ‘“Writing an app is like coding for LaserDisc” – Terence Eden’s Blog’
2022-09-05: It’s shaping up to be the warmest day of the year here in Hveragerði, Iceland. The thermometer …
2022-09-05: “The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse” This was as depressing a …
2022-09-05: Browsing my morning feeds and between statements along the lines of “language models are …
2022-09-05: “After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has …
2022-09-04: “You Paid for Your Tech but You Don’t Really Own It – Review Geek” “A Large Part of the Problem is …
2022-09-03: “Be good-argument-driven, not data-driven - Richard Marmorstein”
2022-09-03: “Lessons learned from the Wayback Machine – Burningbird”
2022-09-03: “Statement on Stable Diffusion” Some of the things you seem to be able to generate when running on …
2022-09-03: “Spreading the Disease and Selling the Cure – Krebs on Security” “The sad truth is that most booter …
2022-09-02: “Cloudflare protests over Kiwi Farms customer - Protocol”
2022-09-02: “Intent to Prototype: OriginPrivateFileSystem” When Firefox ships this we’ll have a full set. I’ve …
2022-09-02: “The ancient fabric that no one knows how to make - BBC Future” I’m a bit obsessed with lost tech …
2022-09-02: “Meet the CSS highlight pseudos - delan azabani”
2022-09-02: “Five Things: September 1, 2022”
2022-09-02: “The Money Is In All The Wrong Places - Defector” Nobody ever seems to believe me when I tell them …
2022-09-02: “Validating HTML - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-09-01: “American Publishing is Rooted in Theft - by Anne Trubek”
2022-09-01: “Why Is A British Baroness Drafting California Censorship Laws? - Techdirt” This is not good.
2022-08-31: “The End of Professional Photography”
2022-08-31: “Adactio: Links—Folk Interfaces”
2022-08-31: “Folk Interfaces”
2022-08-31: “Exploring 12 Million of the 2.3 Billion Images Used to Train Stable Diffusion’s Image …
2022-08-30: Techies continue to be unable distinguish between a bundle of garbage code and a sentient mind. A …
2022-08-30: “Forget Crypto, Blockchain, NFTs, and web3: The Next Phase of the Web is defined by AI Generation - …
2022-08-29: “Landing Page - Alpha” This looks promising. I loved my alphasmart back in the day.
2022-08-28: “Pixels of the Week – August 28, 2022 by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer.”
2022-08-28: “Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers - The Old New Thing”
2022-08-27: “How to Avoid Misplacing Things - Jorge Arango”
2022-08-27: “What happened when we disabled Google AMP at Tribune Publishing? Shockingly little. So you should …
2022-08-25: The fact that most software developers seem to not only think that death marches are inevitable but …
2022-08-25: “Why your website should be under 14kB in size - endtimes.dev”
2022-08-25: “Twitter Whistleblowing Report Actually Seems To Confirm Twitter’s Legal Argument, While Pretending …
2022-08-24: “Adactio: Journal—Work ethics” Also, just noodling around is work as well. It creates the space …
2022-08-24: “Adactio: Journal—Work ethics” Also, sometimes just noodling around is work. It creates the space …
2022-08-22: Have an offline-first thingamabob I’m working on (so client-rendered out of necessity) and …
2022-08-21: “The Tools Don’t Matter: Why are product managers so obsessed with tools?”
2022-08-19: “‘I got really grounded and loved it’: how grief, going home and gabber built Björk’s new album - …
2022-08-19: “All communication is lossy - A Working Library”
2022-08-19: “The web is a harsh manager - daverupert.com” “I’d argue for a “CSS Engineer” title, someone who …
2022-08-19: “Does Bionic Reading actually work? We timed over 2,000 readers and the results might surprise you” …
2022-08-18: So, what are the odds that node vs deno vs bun is going to play out along the old “familiarity …
2022-08-18: “Files That Change Together Should Stick Together”
2022-08-18: I’m guessing that if the health effects of leaded petrol were just being discovered today, our …
2022-08-17: Perennially relevant to software dev: ‘I’m so totally impressed at this Way New …
2022-08-17: “Instagram, TikTok, and the Three Trends – Stratechery by Ben Thompson” Lot of poorly founded …
2022-08-16: “Rust in Perspective — linusw”
2022-08-16: “Hacking the terrorist timepiece - Interaction Magic”
2022-08-16: “Daring Fireball: The Fit and Finish of the All-New System Settings on MacOS 13” Appreciate Apple …
2022-08-16: “A Well-Known Links Resource - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-08-15: “Big Changes Ahead for Deno” Not quite sure what I think about this.
2022-08-15: I’m trying to figure out whether markdown or HTML should be the primary notes format for …
2022-08-14: “The open source paradox - ”
2022-08-14: According to the authorities 17 people needed assistance from rescue squads yesterday at the …
2022-08-14: “10 Observations on Tragedy in a Digital Age - by Ted Gioia” “the tragic protagonists of our own …
2022-08-13: 18 people needed assistance from rescue teams at the eruption site yesterday according to the …
2022-08-13: “Things You Can And Can’t Do - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-08-13: “Breaking apart the monolith · GitHub” Interesting outline of the problem. It kind of glosses over …
2022-08-13: That thing where you read an ‘influencer’ see the exact same situation as you, outline exactly the …
2022-08-12: “Litestream backups for Datasette Cloud (and weeknotes)”
2022-08-11: “Adactio: Journal—Democratising dev” People keep assuming there is no middle ground between no …
2022-08-11: “Let websites framebust out of native apps - Holovaty.com” We need this.
2022-08-10: According to officials almost 2000 tourists disregarded the safety closure of the eruption site over …
2022-08-10: Maybe what’s needed for websites and web apps is a kind of Prepper Web Dev? Code that assumes …
2022-08-10: Browsing through social media today and I see that it’s still the norm in tech to think that …
2022-08-06: That thing where you find an article that’s interesting. A decent read certainly. But it has a …
2022-08-05: “Adactio: Links—Douglas Engelbart - Hidden Heroes”
2022-08-05: “Douglas Engelbart - Hidden Heroes” Back when I was teaching interactive media I used to make …
2022-08-04: So, the fact that tour guides have been taking tourists by the thousands on a 17km hike, over …
2022-08-04: “The anomaly of cheap complexity”
2022-08-04: “s12e44: Yet Another DALL·E-related Reckon”
2022-08-02: Iceland living: overall quite nice. Closer to family: overall good. Manageable subarctic heatwaves. …
2022-08-02: I’ve said this before, but it’s kind of interesting how common it is for US-based ‘influencers’ on …
2022-08-02: “Navigate, don’t search - thesephist.com”
2022-08-01: “Just hit publish - Marco Heine - Freelance Web Developer”
2022-08-01: Typescript is quite useful most of the time I still regularly run into the situation where the types …
2022-08-01: “Open-Source Security: How Digital Infrastructure Is Built on a House of Cards - Lawfare”
2022-07-31: “Reading Notes, July 2022 - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” Bunch of good links in this one.
2022-07-31: “The future needs files – Scott Jenson”
2022-07-31: “The cost of opinion – Dimitri Glazkov”
2022-07-31: “When Leaders Talk About Innovation, Always Be Sceptical – Paul Taylor”
2022-07-30: “What is Refactoring? - The Code Whisperer”
2022-07-29: “On disavowing sexual assault – Going Medieval” In the context of recent statements by those making …
2022-07-28: Back when I was working in the publishing crowdfunding scene, I was trying to explain what it was to …
2022-07-28: “GitHub - cloudflare/svg-hush”
2022-07-27: “SQLite Internals: Pages & B-trees · Fly”
2022-07-27: The web I experience as a user is a slog. But browsers are fast JS engines themselves are high …
2022-07-26: “The (Mostly) Complete Unicode Spiral – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2022-07-25: TIL: const response = new Response(readableStream); const blob = await response.body(); …will …
2022-07-24: “TBM 31/52: Those Pesky Question-Askers - by John Cutler”
2022-07-23: “Potential fabrication in research images threatens key theory of Alzheimer’s disease - Science - …
2022-07-22: “Fixing the UK’s Online Safety Bill, part 0: no, it’s not fixable. – Hi, I’m Heather Burns”
2022-07-22: “Four Comments on Netflix’s _Persuasion_”
2022-07-21: “Adactio: Journal—Subscribing to newsletters” This. Every major newsletter platform automatically …
2022-07-20: “Finding Stuff to Write About - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-07-20: “Soft Deletion Probably Isn’t Worth It — brandur.org”
2022-07-18: “A practical guide to changing code so you can understand it: Automated refactoring tools basics”
2022-07-18: “Peering into the accessibility of Dark Mode - by Dora Cee - UX Collective” “Whether you use Light …
2022-07-17: “Not Too Late”
2022-07-16: What does “vanilla JS” mean to people? Does it mean JS with no dependencies (write everything …
2022-07-16: “Help Me Help You: A Guide to Asking for Help - Kitty Giraudel”
2022-07-16: It’s kind of remarkable how lower my computing requirements are now that I don’t use Slack. Memory …
2022-07-15: Kind of impressive how useful it is, when you’re working on something complex, to regularly …
2022-07-15: “The New Numbers on Music Consumption Are Very Ugly”
2022-07-15: “Giving a Shit as a Service - Allen Pike”
2022-07-15: “Perceived affordances and the functionality mismatch - Tink - Léonie Watson”
2022-07-15: “Colors don’t solve problems”
2022-07-15: “The week the open web won – Hi, I’m Heather Burns”
2022-07-14: “What is the best way to mark up an exclusive button group? – Lea Verou”
2022-07-13: “Distraction-free writing environment” is not something an app can deliver. Everything in a writing …
2022-07-13: “The CSS behind Figma - Ahmad Shadeed” Lot’s of interesting tactics there.
2022-07-12: Idle thought of the day: if you assume that environmental crises, political instability, and …
2022-07-12: “Activation - macwright.com”
2022-07-12: “In Praise of Shadows” Essay on photography in a weirdo format. If you’re like me and the title …
2022-07-11: Life’s too short to debate the absurd opinions of web dev influencers on social media.
2022-07-11: “Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety Bill; or, welcome to hell” Got to hope …
2022-07-11: “Good Managers Write Good - Stay SaaSy”
2022-07-10: “The Fediverse can be pretty toxic”
2022-07-10: “Maintaining Software Correctness”
2022-07-10: “My Office Space - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-07-08: “New Covid subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 are the most contagious yet – and driving Australia’s third …
2022-07-08: “It’s Mid-2022 and Browsers (Mostly Safari) Still Break Accessibility via Display Properties — …
2022-07-07: “How to to Clean Our Indoor Air Properly Against COVID-19 - Time”
2022-07-06: ‘“Magic links” can end up in Bing search results — rendering them useless.’ This is not …
2022-07-05: “Cory Doctorow: The Swerve – Locus Online”
2022-07-05: “I don’t care how you web dev; I just need more better web apps” Published this yesterday. We …
2022-07-04: MBAs and wage stagnation - Going to business school makes you a dick - by Cory Doctorow - Jun, 2022 …
2022-07-02: “Software Over Time - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-06-30: “The time horizon outlook: an alternative to technical debt – Dan Slimmon”
2022-06-29: “Color.js Released • Chris Lilley”
2022-06-29: “Releasing Color.js: A library that takes color seriously – Lea Verou”
2022-06-29: “Complexity”
2022-06-29: “Pluralistic: 28 Jun 2022 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow” On the deterioration of web …
2022-06-28: “One Foot Tsunami: The Wonk-Eyed Bonus Pig Shall Not Be Forgotten”
2022-06-27: “SPAs: theory versus practice - Read the Tea Leaves” Nolan consistently writes blog posts that I …
2022-06-27: “How we built a $1M ARR open source SaaS - Plausible Analytics”
2022-06-27: “DOC — The vanishing designer”
2022-06-26: Random COVID-fogged thought of the day: machine learning-based generative art (like that of DALL-E …
2022-06-25: “Random notes around service workers development and testing · mmazzarolo.com”
2022-06-25: “When You Should Prefer Map Over Object In JavaScript”
2022-06-25: ‘Part 2 of 2, of “In defense of blocks for local scopes”’
2022-06-24: “I’m not saying that all those ‘underground fringes’ that Anderson celebrated have …
2022-06-23: “GitHub Copilot and open source laundering” “leveraging this platform for this move is a deep …
2022-06-23: “Adactio: Articles—In And Out Of Style”
2022-06-23: “Style scoping versus shadow DOM: which is fastest? - Read the Tea Leaves” Love these sort of …
2022-06-23: “Achievement Unlocked: Intent to Mathify”
2022-06-23: “Doing Well - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-06-22: Fuck. I’ve finally caught covid after avoiding it for over two years. Picked it up from my dad who …
2022-06-22: “Text-overflow: ellipsis considered harmful · Eric Eggert” Like all “considered harmful” essays, it …
2022-06-22: “What will a Chromium-only Web look like?” Paints a pretty dire picture.
2022-06-20: “FIDO passkeys are an existential threat to fintech startups” This is your regular reminder that US …
2022-06-19: Every time I see somebody use the word “seminal” unironically in a blog post or article I flashback …
2022-06-17: “The cost of convenience — surma.dev”
2022-06-17: Hæ hó jibbíjei og jíbbíjei, það er kominn sautjándi júní youtu.be/ZVHVZMYWC…
2022-06-17: “Pop-ups are dead, long live pop-ups: or, the bait-and-switch hidden in today’s cookie announcement …
2022-06-16: “Not cancelled – Bigmouth Strikes Again”
2022-06-16: “How to make absolutely any app look like a macOS app — Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team …
2022-06-16: “Goodbye Ed-tech, and Good Riddance”
2022-06-15: “Dialogs and shadow DOM: can we make it accessible? - Read the Tea Leaves”
2022-06-15: “Reading the news is the new smoking - by Adam Mastroianni” One day I’ll manage to quit reading the …
2022-06-12: “What does it mean when an AI fails?”
2022-06-10: “The collapse of complex software - Read the Tea Leaves” Must read blog post of the week.
2022-06-10: “The Spam Has Arrived - Miriam Eric Suzanne” Tackbacks, pingbacks, webmentions—they all seem to …
2022-06-09: “RFC 9205 - Building Protocols with HTTP”
2022-06-09: “Why Ventura System Settings is bad, Part 2”
2022-06-08: Every time I take another look at Shared Element Transitions the more convinced I get that …
2022-06-08: People who spread Wired Mag’s ‘scary accurate predictions’ from 1997 are giving …
2022-06-08: “Why Ventura System Settings is bad” macOS used to have a substantial UX advantage over other OSes. …
2022-06-08: “Alrighty Then — Pixel Envy” “They lack the visual clarity and integrity of great Mac software.”
2022-06-07: “A New Definition of HTTP”
2022-06-05: “Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly - by Adam Mastroianni” Not convinced by the cited causes but …
2022-06-04: “How much research is just enough research? How much is too much?”
2022-06-03: Yesterday I published “On online collaboration and our obligations as makers of …
2022-06-02: “The tech tool carousel - Andy Bell”
2022-06-01: “Keyboard-Only Scrolling Areas — Adrian Roselli”
2022-05-31: “Adactio: Journal—Re-evaluating technology”
2022-05-29: Midnight sun
2022-05-28: “Reading Notes, May 2022 - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-05-28: “You should be reading academic computer science papers - Stack Overflow Blog”
2022-05-28: “Getting comfortable with being uncomfortable · Caffeinspiration”
2022-05-27: “The Case for Design Engineers - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-05-27: “Learnings from 5 years of tech startup code audits - Ken Kantzer’s Blog”
2022-05-26: “Smaller is better (The rise, fall, and rise of flat file software) - Wilcosky”
2022-05-26: “More thoughts on SPAs - Read the Tea Leaves”
2022-05-24: “My Stance on Toxicity About Programming Languages - Xe”
2022-05-24: I’ve never understood the view I sometimes hear from Americans that increased customer rights and …
2022-05-23: “Ghost 5.0” What are people’s impressions of Ghost these days? I seem to recall …
2022-05-22: “The balance has shifted away from SPAs - Read the Tea Leaves” What can I say except that I totally, …
2022-05-22: ‘”Disregard the Words” - Internet Blue’
2022-05-21: “Experimental: components - Playwright” Looks useful. Thought quite weird that it does not seem to …
2022-05-21: “The startup slump may be a blessing in disguise” Gonna see a lot of acquihires or crypto pivots in …
2022-05-21: “Deep Dive into Text Wrapping and Word Breaking / Coder’s Block”
2022-05-20: “A Return to Analog — The Focus Course”
2022-05-19: “Glitch acquired by cloud service provider Fastly” I have confessed to an anti-Glitch …
2022-05-19: “Readability: The Optimal Line Length – Articles – Baymard Institute”
2022-05-18: “Hog Bay Software – Bike: Tool for thought” I’d definitely try this out if I were still a macOS …
2022-05-17: “The Surprising Truth About Pixels and Accessibility: should I use pixels or rems?”
2022-05-17: So, turns out Joe Lycett and Bill Bailey were in my neck of woods (I live in Hveragerði) this …
2022-05-17: Yesterday, I published “The different kinds of notes” Which would be the post where I …
2022-05-17: “More common accessibility issues that you can fix today”
2022-05-16: “The Blanc Media 8-Week Work Cycle with Sabbaticals — The Focus Course” I know of a few companies …
2022-05-16: “GitHub - yisibl/resvg-js: A high-performance SVG renderer and toolkit, powered by Rust based resvg …
2022-05-14: “Angelheaded Hipsters Burning for the Ancient Heavenly Connection” On Twitter.
2022-05-13: It’s beginning to look a bit like spring around here.
2022-05-13: “Test in many browsers - hidde.blog” I’ve been using Playwright to test in multiple browser engines …
2022-05-12: “Adactio: Links—The Demise of the Mildly Dynamic Website”
2022-05-12: “The CADT Model” “Let’s call it the “Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers” …
2022-05-12: “The Demise of the Mildly Dynamic Website” I have some thoughts on this.
2022-05-10: “The Case Against Collaboration – Paul Taylor”
2022-05-10: I’m beginning to think that complex note-taking systems that supposedly make you smarter …
2022-05-10: ‘A simple string of “and”s seems to crash Google Docs pages - Engadget’
2022-05-10: “Questions for a new technology. - Kellan Elliott-McCrea”
2022-05-10: “A Management Maturity Model for Performance - Infrequently Noted”
2022-05-08: “Reflections on software performance - Made of Bugs”
2022-05-08: “Xilem: an architecture for UI in Rust - Raph Levien’s blog”
2022-05-07: Posted this yesterday: “What I learned about markdown from interviewing a bunch of …
2022-05-07: “Pinboard vs. Raindrop: Two bookmark apps enter… – Dorothea Salo”
2022-05-04: “In Defence of the Single Page Application” Actual LOL.
2022-05-04: “JavaScript Containers” A year old but gives a bit of insight into what Deno is trying …
2022-05-04: “Contextual Spacing For Intrinsic Web Design - Modern CSS Solutions”
2022-05-04: “Postmark has been acquired by ActiveCampaign - Wildbit” Acquisitions are always worrying.
2022-05-04: “You Don’t Need A UI Framework — Smashing Magazine”
2022-05-03: ‘About using “the platform”’ Google’s rhetoric has created the misconception that …
2022-05-03: “Web Scraping via Javascript Runtime Heap Snapshots - Adrian Cooney’s Blog” Just… wow.
2022-05-01: “Hard to work with. - Irrational Exuberance” Not entirely sure I know what to think about this. Some …
2022-04-29: “Chromium Blog: Chrome 102” AccessHandle, an API for faster file- and worker-based persistence is …
2022-04-28: “Exploring the SameSite cookie attribute for preventing CSRF”
2022-04-28: “Adactio: Journal—Suspicion” Jeremy goes over some of the responses to his post on web dev trust.
2022-04-28: “Trusting Browsers - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” A response to Jeremy Keith’s post on the lack of trust …
2022-04-27: “Adactio: Journal—Trust” This trust dynamic, where devs mistrust built-in browser features (which …
2022-04-27: “Forget Passwords! - by Dorian Taylor”
2022-04-26: There are few things about modern productivity that I dislike more than the Google Docs model of …
2022-04-26: “Michael Tsai - Blog - App Store Removing Old Apps That Still Work” An overview of Apple’s latest …
2022-04-25: “Progressively Enhanced Builds - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-04-25: “Best Font for Online Reading: No Single Answer” It depends, basically.
2022-04-23: “Progressive Enhancement and HTML Forms: use FormData – Bram.us”
2022-04-22: “Age of Invention: Myth-busting Innovation Prizes”
2022-04-21: “Brief Note on Buttons, Enter, and Space — Adrian Roselli”
2022-04-20: “You Don’t Hate Mocks; You Hate Side-Effects - The Code Whisperer”
2022-04-20: “The Front-End Developer’s Guide to the Terminal”
2022-04-20: “Organize your CSS declarations alphabetically – Eric Bailey” Not really convinced but the argument …
2022-04-20: “Ordering CSS Declarations - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-04-19: ‘“Best Practice” is not a reason to do something – Chelsea Troy’
2022-04-19: “Principles for hiring engineers with Jacob Kaplan-Moss (The Changelog #479) -> Changelog” The …
2022-04-19: “Annual Performance Reviews Ruin Everything - by Elizabeth Ayer - Apr, 2022 - Medium”
2022-04-16: “My Cease & Desist from AudioEye — Adrian Roselli” Intimidating accessibility professionals …
2022-04-16: “Daring Fireball: 30 Years of BBEdit Not Sucking” Great app. Great documentation which has some of …
2022-04-15: “How we lost 54k GitHub stars – HTTPie blog”
2022-04-15: “Adactio: Journal—Declarative design”
2022-04-15: “Why We Need to Start Seeing the Classical World in Color”
2022-04-14: “Errors are constructed, not discovered”
2022-04-13: “DALL-E, the Metaverse, and Zero Marginal Content” One day I’ll read a deep analysis of the social, …
2022-04-13: So that’s two blogs so far today that I’ve found to be very intereseting but will probably never …
2022-04-13: “Using the platform by Elise Hein”
2022-04-13: “How good code dies - nilsnh.no”
2022-04-13: “The Wrong Abstraction — Sandi Metz” “duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction”
2022-04-13: “Write Libraries, Not Frameworks - Brandon’s Website” “Frameworks’ key trait is that …
2022-04-13: “Innovating beyond libraries and frameworks - nilsnh.no” A lot of libraries and frameworks are …
2022-04-13: “BBEdit at 30 – Six Colors” Amazing app. One of the many apps I miss from being a mac user. (I won’t …
2022-04-13: “A list of new(ish) command line tools”
2022-04-12: “The startup employee grinder”
2022-04-12: “Is my advice too mercenary?” “I think many people, especially those newer to the working world, …
2022-04-12: “Meta Problems and Where to Find Them – Accidentally in Code”
2022-04-11: “To make something simple, make it predictable - by A Vora”
2022-04-09: “The struggle of using native emoji on the web - Read the Tea Leaves”
2022-04-08: “Why Literate Programming Might Help You Write Better Code – The New Stack”
2022-04-07: Funny how everywhere I turn online, I read articles telling me that I’m not a designer or not a …
2022-04-05: “Why Netflix Should Sell Ads – Stratechery by Ben Thompson” Counterpoint: Netflix’s unique content …
2022-04-05: “The Squeaky Blog - Why we don’t use a staging environment” I know of a few that do this. With …
2022-04-05: “Exit Interviews Are a Trap - Jacob Kaplan-Moss” Good advice.
2022-04-04: “There’s no way to report spam on Google Drive – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2022-04-03: “Which Kinds of Tests Should I Write? - The Code Whisperer”
2022-04-02: “Time lies - Technovia” The “good old times” were almost universally awful.
2022-03-31: “Making the world’s fastest website, and other mistakes - DEV Community”
2022-03-31: “Reading Notes, March 2022 - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2022-03-31: “My guiding principles after 20 years of programming - by Alex Ewerlöf - Medium”
2022-03-31: “Adactio: Links—Carousels: No one likes you - Joni Halabi”
2022-03-31: “Carousels: No one likes you - Joni Halabi”
2022-03-31: “Semverflation: a new software metric proposal—zachleat.com” I like it.
2022-03-30: “Architecture Decision Records help you, your team, and future teams”
2022-03-28: “Understanding Layout Algorithms” This is a really, really good explanation of CSS’s fundamental …
2022-03-28: “Adactio: Links—Artifice and Intelligence”
2022-03-28: “Artifice and Intelligence”
2022-03-28: “Weeknotes: datasette-auth0”
2022-03-28: That thing where services position themselves as NFT/crypto adjacent without actually shipping a …
2022-03-27: “Do you want me to leave the Apple ecosystem?”
2022-03-27: “Streaming TV services: stop being as awful as the tech you replaced - Stuff” Why are these apps so …
2022-03-25: “Conference talk: WordPress’s role in a changing web + my retirement from open source – Hi, I’m …
2022-03-25: “Russian plugin, go fuck yourself – Hi, I’m Heather Burns” Think this is the third of Heather Burns’ …
2022-03-24: “Using bound functions to unit test EcmaScript Modules – Aral Balkan”
2022-03-24: “How Eugenics Shaped Statistics - Nautilus - Science Connected”
2022-03-24: “On Rigor, White Supremacy, and Occam’s Razor - avdi.codes”
2022-03-24: “On Racialized Tech Organizations and Complaint: A Goodbye to Google - by Alex Hanna - Feb, 2022 - …
2022-03-22: Really tired of micro.blog’s repeated cross-posting failures. That’s literally …
2022-03-22: Occasionally I’m tempted to set up a newsletter called “Don’t Read This” …
2022-03-22: “Okta hack puts thousands of businesses on high alert - The Verge” Okta owns Auth0, so quite a few …
2022-03-21: “Fyrstu heiðlóurnar komnar til landsins” Very important news.
2022-03-20: “That’s 6 search results for 6 screens, interrupted by an impossible amount of distractions, …
2022-03-20: “His software sang the words of God. Then it went silent.” This an amazing heartfelt story about a …
2022-03-19: “Yes, the UK is trying to Brexit the Internet – Hi, I’m Heather Burns” What Heather said.
2022-03-18: “Why I Prefer Makefiles Over package.json Scripts for Node.js Projects” I’ve started doing this as …
2022-03-18: “Packages with high download numbers that nobody wanted to install - Stefan Judis Web Development” …
2022-03-18: “Is Digital Bureaucracy Making Us Less Productive? – Paul Taylor”
2022-03-18: “A quick take on three pretty terrifying changes to the Online Safety Bill – Hi, I’m Heather Burns” …
2022-03-17: “How to do what’s right without starting World War III - A conversation with historian …
2022-03-17: “A case for CSS-Like Languages”
2022-03-17: “SpeedCurve - Ten years of page bloat: What have we learned?”
2022-03-16: “The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway - ALEXSKRA” This outfit seems to be taking over …
2022-03-16: Is it just me or have Google’s results for non-English searches declined even further? A good …
2022-03-15: “Why is it so hard to buy things that work well?” Most products don’t actually work well, esp. …
2022-03-14: “Sooner, Not Faster: Revisited (and Intensified)”
2022-03-11: It’s a bit funny to me how the XML ecosystem, so loathed by web devs at the time, offered a lot of …
2022-03-11: “Make it boring”
2022-03-09: “WebGPU — All of the cores, none of the canvas — surma.dev” Interesting in a “read again in a couple …
2022-03-09: “Hope for the Future”
2022-03-08: Typos typos typos everywhere. Ugh. Need more coffee.
2022-03-08: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Mac Software Stagnation” This gathers some of the recent discussion on Mac …
2022-03-08: “A sysadmin’s rant about feed readers and crawlers” Unfortunately tyhis, isn’t new. I remember …
2022-03-07: “JavaScript naming conflicts: How existing code can force proposed features to be renamed” JS’s …
2022-03-07: “Adactio: Journal—A bug with progressive web apps on iOS” This is exactly the sort of bug that makes …
2022-03-04: “Disambiguation - A Working Library”
2022-03-04: “Half-assed Mac Apps - tyler.io”
2022-03-02: “Towards a Unified Theory of Web Performance - Infrequently Noted”
2022-03-02: “Write plain text files - Derek Sivers”
2022-03-02: “The Parthenon Sculptures • Robin Rendle”
2022-02-25: “Why Do You Take Notes? - Jorge Arango”
2022-02-24: “Support open source that you use by paying the maintainers to talk to your team” I mean, it’s worth …
2022-02-23: “Solutions That Create Problems” “I am sick and tired of so many people giving Web3 the benefit of …
2022-02-23: “Bypassing Apple’s AirTag Security - Schneier on Security” A stalker’s delight.
2022-02-23: “The web is overrun and pop-up blockers haven’t worked in years”
2022-02-23: “SPAs were a mistake - Go Make Things” This. Except I’d go further and say that Youtube’s SPA PiP …
2022-02-23: “Understanding CSRF Attacks - Zell Liew” TIL about login CSRF attacks.
2022-02-22: Apropos of nothing, I wonder if there is a correlation between having an evangelical style of …
2022-02-22: “The first week for Amazon’s new Comixology storefront and app wasn’t pretty” Between …
2022-02-22: “Misidentifying talent”
2022-02-20: “Why I removed my articles from Medium - by Stéphanie Walter - Feb, 2022 - Medium” TIL that Google …
2022-02-20: “Programming things that have gotten easier”
2022-02-20: “There is no character limit for “alt text”: Myth Debunked! · Eric Eggert”
2022-02-20: “Apple needs to start helping developers and not allow scammers to thrive - Revert to Saved: A blog …
2022-02-20: “Server-Sent Events, WebSockets, and HTTP”
2022-02-19: “Thoughts On Markdown — Smashing Magazine” We’re due for a critical appraisal of the use of markdown …
2022-02-17: So, is micro.blog cross-posting broken again or…?
2022-02-17: I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: the various State of * surveys are web dev …
2022-02-16: “Adactio: Links—Canned web development — Jeremy Wagner”
2022-02-16: “Canned web development — Jeremy Wagner”
2022-02-15: “The File System Access API with Origin Private File System - WebKit” I’m really excited about this …
2022-02-15: “Using SQLite and Datasette with Fly Volumes”
2022-02-14: “Canned web development — Jeremy Wagner”
2022-02-14: “Adactio: Links—gilest.org: What using RSS feeds feels like”
2022-02-14: “gilest.org: What using RSS feeds feels like” This. Reading through my feed reader in the morning, …
2022-02-13: “Pixels of the Week – February 13 , 2022 by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer”
2022-02-13: “Settings are not a design failure” I will add, though, that settings are almost always a code …
2022-02-13: “Framing accessibility in broader terms”
2022-02-12: “Hello, CSS Cascade Layers - Ahmad Shadeed” This is going to be a big part of CSS practice in a …
2022-02-12: “Your CSS reset needs text-size-adjust (probably) - Kilian Valkhof”
2022-02-11: “ThinkingLabs:: Thierry de Pauw - Accidental Architects - how HR designs software systems”
2022-02-10: “Wherein nobody’s boosted, and nobody believes that Long COVID exists” “Nobody seems to be …
2022-02-10: “Manton Reece - Moving away from App Store-focused development” Apple has mismanaged their app …
2022-02-09: “Add Responsive-Friendly Enhancements to details with details-utils—zachleat.com”
2022-02-09: “Automate Mindfully - Jorge Arango”
2022-02-08: So, that’s maybe 40cm of snow, I’m guessing, piled up in front of my door? ⛄️
2022-02-08: “Dialog element - Can I use… Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc” AFAICT, dialog is happening …
2022-02-08: “The web is a miracle” What Ben said.
2022-02-08: “Introducing the Dialog Element - WebKit” It’s starting to look like we might actually be able to …
2022-02-07: “Using Google Fonts Breaches GDPR” Looks like using free services from major ad companies has become …
2022-02-06: “Are we live? - scottohara.me”
2022-02-06: “Considering dynamic search results and content - scottohara.me”
2022-02-05: “You Can’t Handle OKRs. When Can You Use Them and Actually… - by Christina Wodtke - Feb, 2022 - …
2022-02-03: “No Accessibility Without Disabilities · Eric Eggert”
2022-02-02: “Five years of quitting Twitter - Read the Tea Leaves”
2022-02-02: “Oh Hello Ana - TIL: A situation where the doesn’t fully appear in Safari.” Bookmarking this …
2022-02-01: “Memberships Work — by Craig Mod”
2022-02-01: “How to keep up with web development without falling into despair” I wrote a bit …
2022-02-01: “54 years ago, a computer programmer fixed a massive bug — and created an existential crisis”
2022-02-01: “ongoing by Tim Bray · Lock-in and Multi-Cloud”
2022-01-30: I can’t recall the last time somebody fell as much in my regard as the basecamp management has over …
2022-01-30: “Request bodies in GET requests” Always post links that cite “death of the author” in a standards …
2022-01-29: Icelandic fact of the day: “Guð launar fyrir hrafninn” is an Icelandic idiom dating back …
2022-01-29: “Caching Header Best Practices – Simon Hearne” Super useful reference that you should bookmark
2022-01-27: “Making the web better. With blocks!” “People like it and it makes sense.” …
2022-01-27: “A launch.json setting for end-to-end web development - Christian Heilmann” This looks pretty …
2022-01-26: “Yanis Varoufakis on Crypto & the Left, and Techno-Feudalism” This was a much much more …
2022-01-26: “The five Levels of Hype”
2022-01-26: “GitHub - skymethod/denoflare: Develop, test, and deploy Cloudflare Workers with Deno” Interesting …
2022-01-26: “Working with web performance budgets”
2022-01-26: “Pulp Futures - by Anne Trubek - Notes from a Small Press”
2022-01-26: “Google Ends Security Updates for Its Pixel 3 Line Just Three Years After Launch — Pixel Envy” I’m …
2022-01-26: “Improve equity in software by not negotiating salaries”
2022-01-25: So, eggjs looks like a really sensible and pragmatic node server framework built on Koa. Looks …
2022-01-24: “An Introduction To CSS Cascade Layers — Smashing Magazine” Probably the most important addition to …
2022-01-23: So this video is much better than it has any right to be. Long because it actually covers the …
2022-01-23: AFAICT, Iceland is the only country in the European Economic Area that doesn’t have Apple TV + or …
2022-01-23: Building tools for thought that record ideas in the same form and shape as they are in your head is …
2022-01-22: “CSS-only External Link Favicons—zachleat.com”
2022-01-22: “CoinDesk: conflicts of interest make journalists more independent, apparently – Attack of the 50 …
2022-01-20: “NFTs means the future value of art is zero – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2022-01-20: “That’s Not What They Are Hearing” Whenever I’ve said “I’m worried about X” to a manager what I’ve …
2022-01-20: “Stop paying tech debts, start maintaining code” Changing the name of something businesses are …
2022-01-19: “A Deep CSS Dive Into Radial And Conic Gradients — Smashing Magazine” Huge fan of conic gradients. …
2022-01-19: “Sampling bias, FDR, and The State of JS” This blog post is much too kind to surveys …
2022-01-18: What on earth possessed the ChromeOS team to think that audio focus was a good idea? Not being able …
2022-01-18: “The Great Hiring Debacle Continues - Think Different”
2022-01-18: “Adactio: Journal—Installing progressive web apps”
2022-01-18: This is amazing. Eleventy provides a set of free API services you can use. And you can even …
2022-01-18: “Complexity Debt - Stay SaaSy”
2022-01-17: “Adactio: Links—The computer built to last 50 years - ploum.net”
2022-01-17: “The computer built to last 50 years - ploum.net”
2022-01-16: I have to confess that I may be stalking the local raven population. I count three in the …
2022-01-16: “It’s not still the early days”
2022-01-16: “Elided Branches: Structural Lessons in Engineering Management”
2022-01-14: “Adactio: Journal—Partnering with Google on web.dev”
2022-01-13: “Web3: A Map in Search of Territory”
2022-01-13: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Catching Native Apps”
2022-01-12: Reiterating a thought I had the other day: most of us know devs who creep us out to the point where …
2022-01-12: “Why Are Hyperlinks Blue”
2022-01-11: “A semblance of understanding - macwright.com”
2022-01-11: “Don’t Fight the Cascade, Control It! - CSS-Tricks - CSS-Tricks”
2022-01-11: “Five Things: January 6, 2022 — As in guillotine…”
2022-01-11: “George Pérez opens up about his fans, his legendary career, and his terminal illness - GamesRadar+” …
2022-01-10: “You Are Not Your User - Even When You Make Employees Dash — Users Know”
2022-01-09: “Adactio: Links—Ban embed codes”
2022-01-09: “Ban embed codes”
2022-01-09: “Modularity and Performance - The Code Whisperer”
2022-01-08: Debating and analysing the tech behind web3 is like arguing about what OS Enron used for their …
2022-01-07: “In praise of slowness – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2022-01-07: A common thing coders do when they want to delve into serious topics is to make shit up based on …
2022-01-06: Here’s an example of how CaptureOne gets much better black and white photos out of Fuji raws. …
2022-01-06: “Working Backwards: Why the Best Product Teams Use This Method”
2022-01-05: “Memory leaks: the forgotten side of web performance - Read the Tea Leaves”
2022-01-05: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Search Engines and SEO Spam” Geeks finally start to notice Google’s quality …
2022-01-04: “Keeping up-to-date with web development” I’m guessing a lot of people are doing their web dev …
2022-01-04: “Superheroes create cultural acceptance for popular oligarchy (Interconnected)” The only thing …
2022-01-04: “Lefsetz Letter » Blog Archive » Don’t Look Up” “Don’t judge the movie as a movie. Judge it as a …
2022-01-04: “The web doesn’t have version numbers”
2022-01-04: “Viral software deadlines”
2022-01-04: “On a long bet – A Whole Lotta Nothing”
2022-01-03: “Adactio: Links—Metaphors We Web By: Paper and Place”
2022-01-03: “Metaphors We Web By”
2022-01-03: “Adactio: Links—Start at the beginning: the importance of learning the basics - localghost”
2022-01-03: “Start at the beginning: the importance of learning the basics - localghost”
2022-01-03: This is the third post I’ve written on micro.blog that hasn’t yet appeared anywhere. …
2022-01-03: I’m starting to hesitate to post via micro.blog because the publishing delays and the …
2022-01-03: “Nobody reads blogs anymore” = “I don’t read blogs anymore”. One data …
2022-01-02: “Is the Human Impulse to Tell Stories Dangerous? - The New York Times” If you can get past the …
2022-01-02: Accidentally open a new window in iOS Safari. Spend 30m trying to figure out how to close the …
2022-01-02: “Wesley Aptekar-Cassels - web3 is Centralized”
2022-01-01: It’s a constant disappointment for me to see people working on writing, “thought processing” …
2021-12-31: “Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to… — programming is terrible”
2021-12-31: “The Gift of It’s Your Problem Now - apenwarr”
2021-12-30: So, micro.blog just gives up on the whole posting thing sometimes, huh? You had one job, etc. etc.
2021-12-30: One defining part of tech discourse (esp. crypto/web3) is the assumption that US needs and problems …
2021-12-30: “Draggabilly”
2021-12-30: “CSS in 2022 – Bram.us” So exciting 😁. CSS is easily my favourite part of the web stack.
2021-12-30: “CSS and Momentum • Robin Rendle”
2021-12-30: “Reading Notes, December 2021 - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2021-12-30: “A/A Testing: How I increased conversions 300% by doing absolutely nothing”
2021-12-29: “NetNewsWire - On Not Being the Free Alternative”
2021-12-29: “Add a Service Worker to Your Site - CSS-Tricks - CSS-Tricks”
2021-12-28: Given how fast framework complexity has escalated in the past couple of years, it feels like …
2021-12-28: Definitely having a ‘nothing fucking works’ day.
2021-12-28: ‘A Response To “Have Single-Page Apps Ruined the Web?“’ “The javascript ecosystem is …
2021-12-28: Having another one of those days where micro.blog just won’t do the posting thing
2021-12-28: Recent photos from around town
2021-12-28: One of the neighbourhood’s ravens was doing their rounds earlier today
2021-12-28: “Michael Tsai - Blog - iOS 15 Autocorrect” Apple’s software development continues its steady …
2021-12-27: It’s looking likely that a lot of otherwise staid tech cos will cash in on web3 over the next …
2021-12-26: “The human toll of log4j maintenance - DEV Community”
2021-12-26: “Crisis or Not? - Think Different”
2021-12-25: “Care for the Text - CSS-Tricks”
2021-12-24: “(mac)OStalgia – Hello. I’m Michael.” A bit of Mac Classic nostalgia.
2021-12-23: “The Pipeline To Your Corporate Soul - by Alan Cooper - Dec, 2021 - Medium”
2021-12-23: Hate it when a type + autocorrect results in you writing the opposite of what you meant. 😝
2021-12-23: “The data model behind Notion’s flexibility”
2021-12-23: “False narratives - A Working Library”
2021-12-23: “An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States - A Working Library”
2021-12-23: “Apple + NeXT, 25 years ago today”
2021-12-22: I don’t know who needs to hear this but in case it’s one of you: trauma and developing …
2021-12-21: Much of what gets posted online in web dev communities (esp. Twitter) is really bad advice being …
2021-12-21: “The Sexism of CSS • Robin Rendle”
2021-12-20: “Product Ops Overview - Silicon Valley Product Group”
2021-12-20: “NFTs, or The Readymade Reversed” [PDF] “Duchamp used the category of art to …
2021-12-20: “Brian Eno on NFTs & Automatism” “The idea that Ayn Rand, that …
2021-12-19: “Pixels of the Week – December 19, 2021 by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer.”
2021-12-19: “Floating UI - Positioning for tooltips, popovers, dropdowns, and more” This is the new version …
2021-12-19: “The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Probably Not Real - Office for Science and Society - McGill …
2021-12-19: Convinced that Anil Dash’s “web3 is horrible-bad but too big to fail” spiel is a …
2021-12-17: “Introducing fuite: a tool for finding memory leaks in web apps - Read the Tea Leaves”
2021-12-17: One thing I just don’t get about the revisionist history of the web that’s so en vogue at the …
2021-12-16: “Tailwind and the Femininity of CSS” “The important bit is that they hinder deep …
2021-12-16: “Remove Trackers - CSS-Tricks”
2021-12-16: “Thoughts on skin tone and text descriptions - Tink - Léonie Watson”
2021-12-16: “Sustaining Maintaining - daverupert.com”
2021-12-15: Yesterday I wrote about how I’ve been using index cards to figure out what to design next when …
2021-12-14: I just published “Working Spaces: Using Cards to Make Cards” as a part of The Making of …
2021-12-14: When discussing funding, sustainability, and relationships with corporate sponsors, the distinction …
2021-12-14: “On Design Thinking - Issue 35 - n+1”
2021-12-14: “Embrace the Platform - CSS-Tricks” Agree with this all. However, I have my doubts about web dev …
2021-12-12: Experimenting a bit in creating pictures using a combination of Wombo Dream, Daz3D, Geometrize, SVG …
2021-12-12: “Adactio: Journal—More writing on web.dev”
2021-12-12: ‘”Open Source” is Broken - Xe’ Not wrong.
2021-12-11: “How do you decide which browsers to support and which features to use? - Go Make Things”
2021-12-10: Now that excessive SPAness is heading towards being somewhat disreputable, it feels a bit like CRDT …
2021-12-09: “Avoiding Internet Centralization” By the ever-thoughtful Mark Nottingham.
2021-12-08: “Bruce Lawson’s personal site : Component libraries, accessibility and transparency”
2021-12-08: “Test Your Product on a Crappy Laptop - CSS-Tricks”
2021-12-07: So, is Google Sheets the most absolutely horrible UX that Google makes (mystery meat buttons, …
2021-12-07: “China’s queer internet is being erased - Rest of World”
2021-12-07: “Linking Manifesto – Manifesto for Ubiquitous Linking”
2021-12-07: “The Case Against Crypto - Pervasive Media Studio”
2021-12-06: One thing I wonder about is why people who obsess about note-taking and research apps seem to care …
2021-12-06: “Understanding why our build got 15x slower with Webpack 5 - Tines Engineering”
2021-12-06: “One weird trick to improve your website’s performance - Read the Tea Leaves” Good commentary on …
2021-12-04: ‘Book Notes: “An Essay on Typography” by Eric Gill - Jim Nielsen’s Blog’ Eric Gill is the perfect …
2021-12-03: I just published “HTML Sketches: Whither Cards?” on The Making of Colophon Cards site. …
2021-12-03: You know Christmas is approaching once your neighbour puts Christmas decorations on his tractor.
2021-12-02: It’s impressive just how much worse word processing is today than it used to be even just a …
2021-12-02: micro.blog’s cross-posting seems to be misbehaving again.
2021-12-02: D*h is racking up the logical fallacies in his blog posts of late, isn’t he? This time it’s the good …
2021-12-02: I’m suddenly struck by the idea that all Microsoft’s ultra-modernistic Metro UI needed …
2021-12-02: “Firefox’s Optimized Zip Format: Reading Zip Files Really Quickly - Perf and other stuff” This …
2021-12-01: So, in case you missed it, I announced this on Monday: www.colophon.cards It’s a prototyping …
2021-12-01: “Webrise”
2021-11-30: “Towards a research community for better thinking tools - thesephist.com”
2021-11-30: “Twitter Is The Worst Reader”
2021-11-30: “Wildfires are erasing Western forests. Climate change is making it permanent. - Grist”
2021-11-29: “Software development pushes us to get better as people – Jessitron” “There is an alignment between …
2021-11-28: Another autumn photo from a few weeks ago
2021-11-28: Don’t know what I think about this one, honestly. I both like it and don’t
2021-11-28: Reworking a couple of earlier photos from here in Hveragerði.
2021-11-28: Reworking a couple of earlier photos from here in Hveragerði.
2021-11-28: “Over 40” I’m 43 and my career prospects seem roughly the same as they were five years ago. As in, …
2021-11-28: “Reading citations is easier than most people think” It’s also kind of fun.
2021-11-26: “Complexity is killing software developers - InfoWorld” Related to my Software Crisis 2.0 essay. Dev …
2021-11-26: “Adactio: Links—The Handwavy Technobabble Nothingburger”
2021-11-26: “The Handwavy Technobabble Nothingburger”
2021-11-25: “And now it’s… Springtime For Crypto – Terence Eden’s Blog” Like Terence points out, money transfers …
2021-11-25: “Modern CSS Reset / Global Styles” A good ‘you don’t need to make the same decisions but you do need …
2021-11-24: “Modern CSS in a Nutshell - Cloud Four” IMO, common CSS processors and build tools are a big part of …
2021-11-23: Is cross-posting broken? My micro.blog posts haven’t been posting anywhere else.
2021-11-23: “How to detect Emojis in JavaScript strings - Stefan Judis Web Development” TIL about unicode …
2021-11-23: Having both arts & humanities education and a coding career is having to constantly witness how …
2021-11-20: “Introducing Buy now, pay later in Microsoft Edge - Microsoft Tech Community” Here I’ve been talking …
2021-11-19: ‘Get Ready for the “Kessler Syndrome” to Wreck Outer Space - by Clive Thompson’ The odds of the …
2021-11-19: “We’re turning off AMP pages at Search Engine Land”
2021-11-19: “Amazon’s Dark Secret: It Has Failed to Protect Your Data - WIRED” This is exactly the sort of …
2021-11-18: “S’Notes – Lucy Bellwood”
2021-11-18: “Exploiting CSP in Webkit to Break Authentication & Authorization” In every project I’ve worked …
2021-11-18: “Cloudflare Pages Goes Full Stack” I know that the punditry keeps saying that Cloudflare is …
2021-11-17: It seems to be the norm for smart people to utterly lack self-awareness, esp. if they are young. …
2021-11-17: “Sticky CSS Grid Items - Melanie Richards”
2021-11-17: “Using Position Sticky With CSS Grid - Ahmad Shadeed”
2021-11-17: “Adactio: Journal—Tracking”
2021-11-17: “Line length revisited: following the research - CSS-Tricks” The flaw in the original research is …
2021-11-16: “wrangler 2.0 — a new developer experience for Cloudflare Workers” They did the right thing and …
2021-11-16: “I will pay you cash to delete your npm module” That’s one way to address the problem.
2021-11-16: “Thinking of uses for BlockChains – Terence Eden’s Blog” Kevin Kelly is wrong so often that you …
2021-11-16: “The Software Slip — Pixel Envy” All software dev is broken, but Apple’s seem especially broken.
2021-11-16: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Apple Software Quality in 2021”
2021-11-16: “Don’t soften feedback. - Lara Hogan”
2021-11-16: “Individuals matter” Like I’ve been saying for a while, the reason why most modern software is …
2021-11-16: “Your CSS is an interface – Eric Bailey”
2021-11-15: “If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big thing won’t matter - Macworld” The …
2021-11-15: “A random man walks into my office and asks if I’m single… - Stephanie Stimac’s …
2021-11-13: “Apple, Its Control Over the iPhone, and The Internet — MatthewBall.vc”
2021-11-12: “Tale of the Tape: Highlight.js vs Shiki - Begin” The only thing I’d add is that you should also go …
2021-11-11: “View-Source” The irony of the view-source drama is that the fearmongers are siccing …
2021-11-11: The fear-mongering over Chrome updating an enterprise policy feature to let device admins block …
2021-11-11: “Notes on Web3” If anything, Robin is being too generous towards Web3.
2021-11-10: “Adactio: Articles—The State Of The Web” Gonna link to this again ‘cause it’s so good.
2021-11-10: Web dev communities seem to be one part “X is bad UX, unusable on mobile, inaccessible, and an …
2021-11-10: “Microsoft and the Metaverse – Stratechery by Ben Thompson” An interesting insight into the mind of …
2021-11-10: “System76: A Case Study on How Not To Collaborate With Upstream – Chris’s Design & …
2021-11-10: “Restyling apps at scale – Space and Meaning” The tragedy of Gnome over the past fifteen years or so …
2021-11-09: “Adactio: Journal—Inertia” Been thinking a lot about evaluating tech because I have a new project …
2021-11-09: “Culturally transmitted skills and values”
2021-11-08: “Why you should prioritise quality over speed in design systems by Amy Hupe, content designer.”
2021-11-08: “Designing better file organization around tags, not hierarchies” Interesting. Another entry in the …
2021-11-07: “Fire-breathing requirements. The mythical design tool. - by Alan Cooper - Nov, 2021 - Medium”
2021-11-07: “Web Development Best Practices: What The Data Tells Us” These are always interesting although many …
2021-11-07: “Let’s talk about AMP - by Barry Adams - SEO for Google News” “Google penalised these …
2021-11-07: “AMP Has Irreparably Damaged Publishers’ Trust in Google-led Initiatives – WP Tavern” “I think it’s …
2021-11-05: “Adactio: Journal—Memories of Ajax”
2021-11-05: “Malware found in coa and rc, two npm packages with 23M weekly downloads - The Record by Recorded …
2021-11-05: “Adactio: Journal—Writing on web.dev”
2021-11-05: “Breaking down Apollo Federation’s anti-FOSS corporate gaslighting”
2021-11-04: Web dev has a host of ‘lost arts’: previously well-documented practices that have since …
2021-11-03: “macOS 12 Monterey and User Interface Inconsistencies – Corbin’s Treehouse” Something has gone …
2021-11-03: “Adactio: Articles—The State Of The Web” “When I talk to people about using the web—especially on …
2021-11-03: “s3-credentials: a tool for creating credentials for S3 buckets”
2021-11-02: A heuristic for whether to pay attention to the opinions of a pundit As a rule of thumb, I tend to distrust the opinions of pundits who are all in on cryptocoins and …
2021-11-02: “World Wide Words: Sphexish”
2021-11-02: “Name, labels, ARIA, what to do? - scottohara.me”
2021-11-02: “Some Older Macs Reportedly Bricked After Installing macOS Monterey - MacRumors” Something has gone …
2021-11-02: “DNSServiceNATPortMappingCreate was quietly killed in macOS Monterey” “But the worst part …
2021-11-02: The character miscounting bugs on micro.blog are honestly infuriating. Esp. since they are often …
2021-11-02: “Have Single-Page Apps Ruined the Web? (“Transitional Apps”) - CSS-Tricks” Chris makes …
2021-11-02: “Buttons vs. Links - CSS-Tricks”
2021-10-29: “Introducing the layer based SVG engine” Nikolas Zimmermann goes over the work …
2021-10-29: “TBM 44/52: Three Teams (Boring, Chaotic, Buffered) - by John Cutler - The Beautiful Mess”
2021-10-29: “Process People - Silicon Valley Product Group”
2021-10-29: “The Inner Osborne Effect”
2021-10-28: “Users > developers - Go Make Things”
2021-10-28: “When you’re a manager, your behavior is under a microscope - Jacob Kaplan-Moss”
2021-10-28: “Having an open dialog - scottohara.me” “I’m just going to say right now that the dialog element …
2021-10-27: “Quickie: The Latest Technology - Think Different” “I am struck by so many hiring companies …
2021-10-27: “Code quality: a concern for businesses, bottom lines, and empathetic programmers - Stack Overflow …
2021-10-27: “Auto Dark Theme - Chrome Developers” Feels like a bad idea, badly done.
2021-10-27: “How to hold employees accountable without micromanaging them - Know Your Team - Blog”
2021-10-26: “A Deep Dive Into object-fit And background-size In CSS — Smashing Magazine”
2021-10-26: “The Greatest CSS Tricks Vol. I eBook (PDF and EPUB) - CSS-Tricks” 😁
2021-10-26: Unpopular opinion: an OSS project that is constantly getting feature changes and additions is de …
2021-10-25: It’s weird that the Github Readme retelling of the story of why the lucky stiff omits any mention of …
2021-10-25: “A Note to Self on Churn - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” “Humans get good at what they practice. Doesn’t …
2021-10-25: “Notes: Hammock Driven Development by Rich Hickey - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” “A classic. I’ve listened …
2021-10-25: “talk-transcripts/HammockDrivenDev-mostly-text.md at master · matthiasn/talk-transcripts · GitHub” …
2021-10-25: As an industry, we’re bad at the whole package: HTML, JS, CSS, accessibility, security. Only …
2021-10-25: The difference in how web devs treat CSS and JS CSS: write broken code that looks ugly because they …
2021-10-25: “How to do Discovery and Delivery at the same time … with Pivot Triggers” Interesting idea.
2021-10-25: Decidedly uncomfortable about how pervasive singularity-style progress myths seem to be among …
2021-10-25: “Better Footnotes in WordPress JetPack – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2021-10-25: “Switch Role Support - Adrian Roselli”
2021-10-24: “Develop Mastery by Revisiting the Basics - Jorge Arango” This doesn’t apply to just apps. If you …
2021-10-23: “Can I include a tag to a tag? Based on HTML Spec WHATWG” Useful more often than you’d think.
2021-10-22: “Pair programming sucks - Go Make Things” Don’t know which bucket I’d fall into as I’ve never …
2021-10-22: “Laurie Anderson’s 5 questions - Austin Kleon”
2021-10-22: “On Using Custom Properties – Bram.us”
2021-10-22: “(the return of) Tables, Tequila and Beer – HTML Accessibility”
2021-10-21: “Decoupling HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in design systems - Go Make Things”
2021-10-21: Been doing a bit of research in various JS/web dev online communities and, wow, there’s a lot …
2021-10-21: “You should be ready, willing, and able to read the source code of your dependencies -> …
2021-10-21: “Let’s Talk about Native HTML Tabs - daverupert.com” Interesting proposal. Could work.
2021-10-21: “Willingness to look stupid” This is really good advice.
2021-10-20: “CSS { In Real Life } - Evaluating Clever CSS Solutions” I’m not the only one worried about the …
2021-10-19: I wrote a short blog post on reading for skills development: you need to change how you read and …
2021-10-19: “How I Structure My CSS (for Now) · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer” Is ITCSS the most …
2021-10-18: “Fix web accessibility systematically · Eric Eggert”
2021-10-18: “Learning to build conviction - benkuhn.net”
2021-10-17: I guess winter has arrived.
2021-10-17: “Blaming Screen Readers 🚩×5 - Adrian Roselli”
2021-10-17: “Joyce and Walky! » The baby can hear stuff now”
2021-10-17: “Software developers have stopped caring about reliability” This x1000. There’s been a shift in …
2021-10-16: Remember this Chrome headless bug that I’ve been obsessing about? Turns out that this is a …
2021-10-16: “Some reasons to work on productivity and velocity”
2021-10-15: “Custom properties with defaults: 3+1 strategies – Lea Verou” I don’t mind the verbose solution, …
2021-10-15: “Implementing form filling and accessibility in the Firefox PDF viewer – Attack & Defense” …
2021-10-15: “The dark side of Eureka: Artificially induced Aha moments make facts feel true - ScienceDirect”
2021-10-14: “Was it easier to build websites a decade ago? - Go Make Things” Absolutely agree with this. The …
2021-10-14: “Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2021-10-14: So, it looks like the kerning/spacing problems I saw in the PDF output of puppeteer/headless chrome …
2021-10-14: “CSS is Going Gosh-Darned Hog Wild, I Tell Ya What - CSS-Tricks” CSS is easily my favourite part of …
2021-10-14: “Appwalls and their apps are destructive to the open web. - Airbag Industries”
2021-10-13: So, it turns out that the typographic quality of Chrome’s PDF output varies quite a bit OS to OS. …
2021-10-12: As always, I am a goddamn bug magnet. Not only have I run into a known Chrome bug in my PDF testing …
2021-10-12: “Discovery - Feedback - Silicon Valley Product Group”
2021-10-12: “About TypeScript Hype. Are you happy about TS? Good, really…” TS is a very useful JS superset. Its …
2021-10-11: Working on a series of reviews of various free/OSS tools for generating print-ready PDFs from HTML …
2021-10-11: “Heading off confusion: When do headings fail WCAG? - TPGi”
2021-10-10: People with smarphones: use all sorts of fancy software and machine learning to fake a shallow DoF. …
2021-10-10: Also met one of the friendly neighbourhood cats
2021-10-10: Walk around the neighbourhood 3: not the only person on an autumn walk
2021-10-10: Walk around the neighbourhood 2
2021-10-10: Walk around the neighbourhood 1
2021-10-09: “Google’s apps to embrace iOS on iOS – Six Colors” About time.
2021-10-08: “Service worker strategies - Go Make Things”
2021-10-08: “Comparing Google Analytics and Plausible Numbers - CSS-Tricks” As with all statistics and metrics, …
2021-10-08: “Windows 11’s Start Menu ～ take” Curious to see all of this nostalgia for the Windows 10 start …
2021-10-08: “Buttons vs. Links · Eric Eggert”
2021-10-07: “Transitional Apps with Rich Harris” “The secret sauce in transitional web apps is progressive …
2021-10-07: “Safe DOM manipulation with the Sanitizer API” IMO, this would be the most important addition to web …
2021-10-07: “A practical example of flat file storage” There’s a ‘magic’ trick that lets you use flat file …
2021-10-07: “How to blog - macwright.com”
2021-10-07: “Writing for distributed teams · Vicki Boykis”
2021-10-06: “Did iOS 15 kill Google AMP?”
2021-10-06: Do those who make mobile sites with React truly believe that it works on low end phones? I’ve …
2021-10-05: “Footnotes now supported in Markdown fields - GitHub Changelog” 🙂
2021-10-05: Idly pondering whether refocusing on serverside dev over the front end might be a good move, …
2021-10-05: Interesting thoughts from Dorian Taylor on sheering/pace layers in software dev. …
2021-10-05: Unpopular opinion: “clever tricks” have no place in code that needs to be maintained by humans.
2021-10-05: “Designing Low Upkeep Software” How do I make software that’s cheap and easy to maintain? This is a …
2021-10-05: “Conditional Border Radius In CSS – Bram.us” This is very clever. But it’s also the sort of thing …
2021-10-02: “Using the platform” Interesting. Disagree with the caveat that CSS can’t go buildless. Had an …
2021-10-02: “No, We Won’t Have a Video Call for That! - xahteiwi.eu”
2021-10-01: So Free Guy’s actually a decent movie, huh?
2021-09-30: If you ever wondered what would be the simplest way to serialise a form… well here you go. …
2021-09-30: “Everyone Should Read ‘Teaching Machines’ - Just Visiting”
2021-09-29: “Adactio: Links—Get Lost on the Web – Dan Q”
2021-09-29: “Get Lost on the Web – Dan Q”
2021-09-29: “New Azure Active Directory password brute-forcing flaw has no fix - Ars Technica” Azure has been …
2021-09-29: “Climate Change Is the New Dot-Com Bubble - WIRED” I’m guessing that the trust many younger devs …
2021-09-28: TIL that you can use pretty much any arbitrary programming language for recipe execution in GNU …
2021-09-28: “GitHub - cloudflare/miniflare: 🔥 Fully-local simulator for Cloudflare Workers” Keeping an eye on …
2021-09-28: “I Guess People Really Hate AMP — Pixel Envy” When your fancy HTML superset is so disliked that …
2021-09-27: Pondering more about going ‘buildless’ with front end development (or achieving …
2021-09-27: I’ve been experimenting with ways to do frontend unit testing without building, node, or npm. …
2021-09-27: “What to Make of Isaac Asimov, Sci-Fi Giant and Dirty Old Man? ‹ Literary Hub” Asimov and Heinlein, …
2021-09-27: Web 3.0 is shaping up to be the same sort of self-serving VC grift that dominated Web 2.0. The last …
2021-09-26: “SaaS margins are terrible.” Alternate theory: companies that get into the habit of losing money …
2021-09-26: “Cooperative Overlap” We do this here in Iceland as well.
2021-09-26: “Beware False Negatives - Adrian Roselli”
2021-09-26: “Designing the Smallest Possible Thing - Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)”
2021-09-25: “In Iceland’s election, political stability again at stake - Reuters” Voter attendance so far …
2021-09-25: Voted💪🏻
2021-09-25: “Quickie: The Software Industry - Think Different”
2021-09-25: “British indie STRANGEHAVEN optioned by IDW Entertainment - The Beat” I interviewed Gary Spencer …
2021-09-25: On the EU USB-C mandate: It has built-in future-proofing: no mandate for wireless chargers which is …
2021-09-24: I really wish OSS communities would stop defaulting to Discord or Slack. Your software isn’t a …
2021-09-24: “Russell T Davies to return as Doctor Who showrunner - Doctor Who” 🙏🏻
2021-09-24: “Coverage Is Not Strongly Correlated with Test Suite Effectiveness” Interesting results. Java, so …
2021-09-24: “Bringing instant page-loads to the browser through speculative prerendering”
2021-09-24: “Kids who grew up with search engines could change STEM education forever” We’ve needed better …
2021-09-24: “Not Releasing Late on Fridays, a Matter of Courtesy · Jens Oliver Meiert”
2021-09-21: You’ll know that Windows finally cares about UX when it starts to hide the cursor when …
2021-09-21: “Why do Webdevs keep trying to kill REST?” Decent overview from the GraphQL perspective. It seems …
2021-09-20: “Why Bad CEOs Fear Remote Work - Scott Berkun” The default management style for most modern …
2021-09-20: In case any of you have ideas or helpful suggestions: I’ve been putting together a library for …
2021-09-18: For some reason tourists think that the burning hot lava is just decorative. Decent chance we’ll see …
2021-09-17: “The Long Tail - Bristol & Bath Creative R&D” “between 2005 and 2013 the number of writers …
2021-09-16: “Eurogamer Closes Its Forums And Moves Its Readers To Discord” “Please Stop Closing Forums And …
2021-09-16: “The Future of CSS: Cascade Layers (CSS layer) – Bram.us” This looks really useful. Could also go a …
2021-09-16: “Grainy Gradients - CSS-Tricks” Remember tho, that SVG filters and complex SVGs in HTML are buggy as …
2021-09-16: “Reducing The Need For Pseudo-Elements — Smashing Magazine”
2021-09-16: “Reducing The Need For Pseudo-Elements — Smashing Magazine”
2021-09-16: “Monotype Announces the Acquisition of Iconic Type Foundry Hoefler&Co. - Monotype” This seems to …
2021-09-16: “In Quest of Search” “On why I think adding a new HTML sectioning element for search is a good …
2021-09-15: “Should we make deprecation more prescriptive?” Just don’t deprecate APIs that have cross-platform …
2021-09-15: “An Idea from Computer Science That Can Change Your Life – Jorge Arango”
2021-09-14: For a moment there, I was filled with an overwhelming nostalgia for writing with WordPerfect on DOS. …
2021-09-14: “Aggregators aren’t open-ended - by Gordon Brander - Subconscious”
2021-09-14: “I Didn’t Come Here to Make Enemies – Lucy Bellwood”
2021-09-14: “Hacking CloudKit - How I accidentally deleted your Apple Shortcuts - Detectify Labs” Whoops.
2021-09-14: “MailChimp: an inequitous acquisition” Kinda glad I’m not a MailChimp user, tbh.
2021-09-13: “Touch the keys”
2021-09-13: “Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS” “All of a sudden, things started making so much more sense. …
2021-09-13: “Adactio: Journal—Stakeholders of styling”
2021-09-13: “How to write about web performance - Read the Tea Leaves”
2021-09-12: “Learning and Being Wrong - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2021-09-12: “Assume that both are true - Seth’s Blog”
2021-09-11: Reviewing some of the work that came out of W3C Publishing WG: web publications, lightweight …
2021-09-11: Did web packaging ever get any adoption outside of Google? github.com/WICG/webp… My …
2021-09-11: “Just ask”
2021-09-11: “I completely ignored the front end development scene for 6 months. It was fine” There must be some …
2021-09-11: “Counterfeit Capitalism: Why a Monopolized Economy Leads to Inflation and Shortages - by Matt …
2021-09-10: Experimenting a bit with PDF-generation using latex/xetex via pandoc. Kind of digging it, tbh. …
2021-09-10: “Enough With Must-Have Features - Itamar Gilad Product Management”
2021-09-09: “Vanilla JS is a web performance decision - Go Make Things” “If you actually care about your users, …
2021-09-09: “Ship / Show / Ask” Interesting pattern for handling git pull requests.
2021-09-09: “Don’t attach tooltips to document.body - CSS-Tricks”
2021-09-09: “Enterprise UX: essential resources to design complex data tables by Stéphanie Walter - UX …
2021-09-09: “Don’t attach tooltips to document.body - Atif Afzal”
2021-09-09: “Oddkin - A Working Library”
2021-09-08: “Breaking projects into smaller parts - Go Make Things”
2021-09-08: “Adactio: Links—404PageFound – Active Vintage Websites, Old Webpages, and Web 1.0”
2021-09-08: “404PageFound – Active Vintage Websites, Old Webpages, and Web 1.0”
2021-09-07: “Adactio: Links—Using the platform”
2021-09-07: “Using the platform”
2021-09-06: “Replacing broken avatar images with background SVG Emoji – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2021-09-05: “Online Trolls Also Jerks in Real Life: Aarhus University Study”
2021-09-04: “Review Notes: Shape Up. These notes are based off of the v 1.7… - by John Cutler - Medium” …
2021-09-04: “A link (Phil Gyford’s website)”
2021-09-04: E.W.Dijkstra: The strengths of the academic enterprise “The second reason is that what society …
2021-09-04: “Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data controls”
2021-09-04: “Notes for an annotation SDK – Jon Udell”
2021-09-04: “Adactio: Links—A/A Testing: How I increased conversions 300% by doing absolutely nothing”
2021-09-04: “A/A Testing: How I increased conversions 300% by doing absolutely nothing”
2021-09-02: “Some simple advice for Apple and app developers: It’s not about you”
2021-09-02: “GitHub Copilot – Productivity Boon or Considered Harmful?” “What I’ve noticed is that the …
2021-09-01: “We get what the business model wants - Seth’s Blog” Truth in the title. The rest is …
2021-08-31: “technology was going to change everything” “We experience technology moving through its …
2021-08-31: “Tolkien and Amazon’s Fight for a Franchise - by Tim Carmody - Amazon Chronicles”
2021-08-31: “How Weak Analogies About Software Can Lead Us Astray – Rich Mironov’s Product Bytes”
2021-08-30: The fact that my dad (an organisational psychologist) used to test his management training workshops …
2021-08-30: “Frank Oz on life as Fozzie Bear, Miss Piggy and Yoda: ‘I’d love to do the Muppets again but Disney …
2021-08-28: ‘“Worst cloud vulnerability you can imagine” discovered in Microsoft Azure - Ars Technica’
2021-08-28: “Developers Should Abandon Agile”
2021-08-28: “Agile at 20: The Failed Rebellion - Simple Thread”
2021-08-28: “My tiny side project has had more impact than my decade in the software industry – Mike’s …
2021-08-27: “Some reasons to measure”
2021-08-27: “Jimmy Wales on Constraints for Bad Behavior – Jorge Arango” “if you design for the worst people, …
2021-08-27: “The Rise Of User-Hostile Software - Den Delimarsky” This is directly relevant to what I was writing …
2021-08-27: “Why are hyperlinks blue?”
2021-08-26: “Start small - Go Make Things” This! Not just for those who are learning. Always start small. Even …
2021-08-26: “My love-hate affair with technology - Read the Tea Leaves”
2021-08-26: “Software Crisis 2.0 – Baldur Bjarnason” I decided to dump everything I’ve learned that’s relevant …
2021-08-26: “Wax On, Wax Off. There’s Value In Simple Exercises. – Codemanship’s Blog”
2021-08-25: “The Cognitive Costs of Bad UX – Jorge Arango”
2021-08-25: “Robin Rendle › Newsletters”
2021-08-23: I may have finished writing almost 9000 words on software project failure to publish later this …
2021-08-23: The next article link I clicked in my feed reader did exactly this, to an uncanny degree. Good job …
2021-08-22: It feels like every time I come across an interesting-looking series on Netflix made by Netflix, the …
2021-08-19: “Focus groups are worthless.. Now, I’ll tell you how I really feel - by Erika Hall - Mule Design …
2021-08-19: Every time micro.blog gets the character count wrong on a post and cross-posts a truncated version …
2021-08-19: “Is Safari the new Internet Explorer?” They detail how the biggest Safari issues are a result of …
2021-08-18: Is there something in the employee handbook at Google that mandates that they be condescending and …
2021-08-18: Got a booster shot Monday. Icelandic authorities feel there’s preliminary data indicating that …
2021-08-18: “Release it and it will sell without any effort”
2021-08-13: This post is an experiment. I had a go at revisiting an almost decade old blog post on the nature of …
2021-08-13: Six years ago I wrote this… “The web has covered the basics — that’s why it’ll get …
2021-08-13: “How Not To Be A Jerk • Robin Rendle”
2021-08-12: That feeling when your best received work in a long while is a screenshot of something you made ten …
2021-08-12: Looking back at old designs for my weblog, I kind of miss the simpler, more book-like designs I was …
2021-08-12: Only just now realised that my flickr feed from about 15 years ago is still online …
2021-08-11: “Adactio: Journal—Resigning from the AMP advisory committee” “Whenever a representative from Google …
2021-08-11: “Stress systems. — Ethan Marcotte” “You don’t start by fixing the system. You start by relieving …
2021-08-10: “Stay alert” “If alert is fair game for removal, then so is every API we add to the platform if the …
2021-08-10: “CSS Transforms tutorial”
2021-08-10: “Cool URIs and Image Hotlinking - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2021-08-10: “Notes on the Perfidy of Dashboards – charity.wtf”
2021-08-10: “Google vs. the web - Go Make Things” Chromers are so argumentative and condescending that they …
2021-08-09: Odds are that updating an established app, site, or service just to keep its look …
2021-08-09: “ongoing by Tim Bray · Apps Getting Worse” This is happening more than it used to. (Possibly because …
2021-08-07: Most of those who are writing about the web and media these days haven’t read Amusing Ourselves to …
2021-08-07: “Chrome is Not the Standard · Chris Krycho”
2021-08-07: “Browsers and Representation - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2021-08-06: “Apple’s photo scanning and our state of forced collective paranoia (Interconnected)”
2021-08-06: One recurring issue that keeps popping up in the years I’ve been on the web, acerbated by social …
2021-08-05: “See Xena stars Lucy Lawless, Renee O’Connor reunion on My Life Is Murder” Lucy Lawless and …
2021-08-05: “About Web Components. It was the year 1998 when W3C proposed… - by Andrea Giammarchi - Aug, 2021 - …
2021-08-04: “Handling properties in custom element upgrades - Read the Tea Leaves”
2021-08-04: “Adactio: Journal—A Few Notes on A Few Notes on The Culture”
2021-08-04: ‘Deming: “Cease Dependence on Inspection” - Think Different’
2021-08-04: “Exploring the SameSite cookie attribute for preventing CSRF” In every project where I’ve set the …
2021-08-03: I keep wondering how big the ‘hidden’ podcasting ecosystem is; the podcasts not listed …
2021-08-03: “How To Build Resilient JavaScript UIs — Smashing Magazine”
2021-08-03: “Making Reasonable Use of Computer Resources”
2021-08-03: “Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine”
2021-08-03: “Better coordination, or better software? – Jessitron”
2021-08-03: “Adactio: Journal—Facebook Container for Firefox”
2021-08-02: Genuinely think that whoever okayed this change in behaviour should be fired. And then whoever hired …
2021-08-02: “Why it’s okay for web components to use frameworks - Read the Tea Leaves”
2021-08-01: The whole “automation increases employment in the long run” example of ATMs not reducing teller jobs …
2021-08-01: “Pixels of the Week – August 1, 2021 by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer.”
2021-08-01: “On data rights, immigration, privilege, power, and the shit life throws at you – Hi, I’m Heather …
2021-08-01: The more I hear from musicians who have essentially quit the business because of how little it pays …
2021-08-01: “Tension in Chrome and Safari’s Dominance — Pixel Envy”
2021-07-31: Another SVG experiment.
2021-07-31: “Survivorship bias”
2021-07-31: “Aligning a Button Label Vertically - Ahmad Shadeed” Neat solution for a common problem.
2021-07-31: “From Iceland — Food Of Iceland: Landi” Turns out you can now buy landi (Icelandic moonshine) …
2021-07-31: ‘The Oxymoron of “Data-Driven Innovation” – Chelsea Troy’
2021-07-31: “Too Smart” “The big blowups in any field aren’t typically caused by a lack of smarts. The …
2021-07-30: “Adactio: Journal—Reader” Opening up my feed reader app in the morning feels the same as opening the …
2021-07-30: “Nobody gives a hoot about groupthink – Baldur Bjarnason” Where I write about the two bad software …
2021-07-30: “On Permalinks and Paradigms… – plasticbag.org”
2021-07-30: “Safari isn’t protecting the web, it’s killing it - HTTP Toolkit” This is a great post. …
2021-07-29: “What the team lacked was the psychological safety to go and do product discovery. The mere act of …
2021-07-29: “Kent Beck’s Paint Drip People - Think Different”
2021-07-29: “The Baked Data architectural pattern”
2021-07-28: Tried to watch the Icelandic Netflix series Katla out of national loyalty and hate it after the …
2021-07-28: “Don’t listen to Le Corbusier—or Jakob Nielsen” “This is what psychology and …
2021-07-28: “Kevin Smith Masters of the Universe Backlash: Tells Fans Grow Up” This actually makes me want to …
2021-07-28: “Measuring Inner-Loop Agility – Codemanship’s Blog”
2021-07-28: “One-offs and low-expectations with Safari - daverupert.com” Here’s an example of somebody who …
2021-07-28: “I often get the impression that software vendors, in general, imagine that it is inherently good …
2021-07-28: Kremlinology and the motivational fallacy when blogging about Apple. “For developers, Apple’s Safari is crap and outdated – Perry Sun - Blog” The reason for Apple’s …
2021-07-26: “Rationality Is Not A Way Out Of Group Action Problems like Climate Change and Covid – Ian Welsh”
2021-07-26: If you were curious about what Icelanders were doing during the quarantine year, births increased by …
2021-07-26: I think this one works better in black and white.
2021-07-25: “Hacking is the opposite of marketing - macwright.com”
2021-07-24: Just finished re-reading Alan Moore’s entire Supreme run, for the first time in twenty years. …
2021-07-23: “Sylvie Was Right To Do What She Did On ‘Loki’”
2021-07-23: Looks like 90% of all tech writing today is either hagiography (VCs and CEOs as saints spouting …
2021-07-23: I’ll stop worrying about COVID only if research confirms that breakthrough infections of those who …
2021-07-23: “Twitter locked my account (again) for an obvious joke”
2021-07-23: “The problem here then is that the reconstructions systematically whitened the emperors (through, I …
2021-07-22: “Meeting the User – Jorge Arango”
2021-07-22: “The Dirty Secret About AI”
2021-07-22: One clear example of how tech is built on cargo culting are the various estimated read time widgets. …
2021-07-22: “Lost Business - Think Different” I’ve seen this in action way too often.
2021-07-22: “PresentationDomainDataLayering” “The reduced scope of attention reason is sufficient on its own.” …
2021-07-21: “The stockmarket is a machine for creating cults (Interconnected)”
2021-07-21: “Delegate Outcomes, Not Methods - Jacob Kaplan-Moss”
2021-07-21: “Async functions & microtasks”
2021-07-21: “Adactio: Journal—Hope” “For each year back in time, the probability of a link still working …
2021-07-21: “Make Failure A (Safe) Option - Jacob Kaplan-Moss”
2021-07-21: “The accessibility stalemate - Christian Heilmann”
2021-07-21: “A natural shadow with SVG filters - Stefan Judis Web Development” Aside from the Safari bugs, last …
2021-07-20: ‘Inner-Loop Agility (or “Why Your Agile Transformation Failed”) – Codemanship’s Blog’ “A very …
2021-07-20: “Things I Learned Reading Webkit’s UA Stylesheet” Namespace scoping in CSS is one of the reasons why …
2021-07-20: “The Handshake of Generations”
2021-07-20: “BBEdit 14.0 arrives with Notes and LSP support – Six Colors”
2021-07-20: People see that we keep using ill-fitting paradigms to think about web development and web authoring …
2021-07-19: Been digging through a few boxes of comics I haven’t touched in 20 years and found these two. …
2021-07-19: “Marvel, DC Offer ‘Shut Up Money’ As Comic Creators Go Public – The Hollywood Reporter” US superhero …
2021-07-19: “Toxic Positivity & The Decline of UX - by UX Uncensored - Medium”
2021-07-19: “Pixels of the Week – July 18, 2021 by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer.”
2021-07-17: “Underjord - Trust in Software, an All Time Low” Software quality in general seems to be …
2021-07-16: “Accessibility of the section element - scottohara.me” ‘Semantically, the section specifies an …
2021-07-16: “Hobson’s Browser - Infrequently Noted”
2021-07-16: “How many happy users did your product have this month? - Christian Heilmann”
2021-07-16: “Collections: The Queen’s Latin or Who Were the Romans? Part III: Bigotry and Diversity at Rome – A …
2021-07-15: “America’s Abstract Freedom”
2021-07-15: “A bad accessibility trend I’ve noticed – Eric Bailey”
2021-07-14: “Stop the Medium”
2021-07-14: “The rise of JavaScript compilers and micro-libraries - Go Make Things”
2021-07-14: “Tip: not everyone has macOS to hide those ugly scrollbars”
2021-07-14: “A privacy war is raging inside the W3C” 😕 Parts of the W3C have been dysfunctional (and coopted by …
2021-07-14: Pretty much, yeah. www.youtube.com/watch
2021-07-13: “D.C. Circuit overturns FDA ban on shock device for disabled students - Reuters” The US keeps …
2021-07-13: “Scroll Snap Challenges - Adrian Roselli”
2021-07-12: “Redesign: Content Migration ･ Robin Rendle” One problem with being an early adopter of projects …
2021-07-12: “How Intel Financialized and Lost Leadership in Semiconductor Fabrication - naked capitalism”
2021-07-11: I see the Personal Knowledge Management industry (what used to be called ‘notes’) is …
2021-07-11: “Behind the scenes, AWS Lambda”
2021-07-11: “Decentralization and the templated society”
2021-07-10: “Discovery vs. Design - Silicon Valley Product Group”
2021-07-10: “The infinite scroll - Columbia Journalism Review”
2021-07-10: “The Infinite Ugly Scroll — Pixel Envy” Googlers keep talking about how the content web is …
2021-07-09: “NDA Expired – let’s spill the beans on a weird startup – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2021-07-09: “Probably Are Gonna Need It: Application Security Edition - Jacob Kaplan-Moss”
2021-07-08: “’We Make Mistakes’: Twitter’s Embrace of the Extreme Far Right - Southern Poverty …
2021-07-08: “Self-driving cars, self-driving bullets: Why even Elon Musk has been forced to admit that …
2021-07-08: “Michael Tsai - Blog - GitHub Copilot and Copyright”
2021-07-08: “Breaking: GitHub’s Copilot Is Generating Functional API Keys”
2021-07-08: “1998: Open Season with Mozilla, W3C’s DOM, and WaSP – Web Development History”
2021-07-07: “npm audit: Broken by Design” Every node project I’ve worked on since npm audit …
2021-07-07: “Trusted Types - mid 2021 report - Google Docs”
2021-07-07: I wrote a thing on how our reading of techno-utopianists and techno-pessimists is coloured by our …
2021-07-07: “The Mindset That Kills Product Thinking – Help your organization focus on successful outcomes”
2021-07-07: “Reactions to Amazon’s Purchase of MGM — Pixel Envy”
2021-07-07: “Yale Law Journal - Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox”
2021-07-06: Am I right in thinking that the main precedent letting companies like GitHub claim that their …
2021-07-06: “Techno-Feudalism Is Taking Over by Yanis Varoufakis - Project Syndicate”
2021-07-06: “Tabs in HTML?”
2021-07-05: “Fail whale. Fail Captain Ahab. Fail Ishmael. Fail the Pequod and her whole damn crew! Oh, just …
2021-07-05: “Health Check – Lucy Bellwood”
2021-07-04: “Is GitHub a derivative work of GPL’d software?”
2021-07-04: “CA habitat restoration used beavers to restore Placer - The Sacramento Bee”
2021-07-04: “export default thing is different to export { thing as default } - JakeArchibald.com”
2021-07-04: “The Decision Diamond: a simple and effective prioritisation technique - Joe Leech”
2021-07-04: “6 Ways to Reduce Cognitive Demand When Designing UX - by Alexander Rådahl - May, 2021 - UX Planet”
2021-07-04: “Pixels of the Week – July 4, 2021 by Stéphanie Walter - UX designer & Mobile Expert.”
2021-07-03: “What if infosecbikini is a CIA psyop? Also, Github Copilot is just 21st century enclosure of …
2021-07-03: “The amorality of Web 2.0 - ROUGH TYPE” This 2005 blog post by Nicholas Carr looks pretty prescient …
2021-07-03: “Jaron Lanier Interview on What Went Wrong With the Internet” “The truth is that we totally have …
2021-07-03: “Bruce Lawson’s personal site : prefers-reduced-motion and browser defaults”
2021-07-03: “My theory on why advertising is so terrible – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2021-07-03: “Remote Work Is Always Efficient But Efficient Isn’t Always Effective – Paul Taylor”
2021-07-03: “Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to… — programming is terrible”
2021-07-03: “Back to the Bad Old Days of the Web – Jorge Arango” Google is as bad a steward of the web as …
2021-07-03: “Long passwords don’t cause denial of service when using proper hash functions”
2021-07-03: “The hidden costs of software inventory” “Controlling software inventory is a business opportunity, …
2021-07-03: “Reinventing the Fiery Wheel – Running In Production With Scissors”
2021-07-02: “Iceland fishing company goes ‘guerilla’ on journalists who uncovered alleged corruption - Committee …
2021-07-02: One reason why I bounce off a lot of projects and services are poor docs. The most common culprit is …
2021-07-02: GitHub Copilot adds several new wrinkles to the question whether you should open source code and put …
2021-07-02: “YAGNI exceptions - lukeplant.me.uk”
2021-07-02: “PAGNIs: Probably Are Gonna Need Its”
2021-07-02: “App Platform on Digital Ocean - CSS-Tricks” I tested this at my last job with the intent to turn it …
2021-07-02: “Out-group animosity drives engagement on social media” This would explain why creating an in-group …
2021-07-02: “Stop Using ‘Pop-up’ - Adrian Roselli”
2021-07-01: “Cybersecurity Workers Flood Twitter With Bikini Pics to Protest Harassment”
2021-07-01: “Books Are Cheap” Anne Trubek observes that book prices have failed to keep up with …
2021-07-01: “Manton Reece - Open-sourcing the Micro.blog apps”
2021-07-01: “I once said that if Twitter was real life our bodies would always be slowly shrinking, and …
2021-07-01: ‘Michael Tsai - Blog - Remixing Old Tracks in Spatial Audio Is “Sacrilegious”’
2021-07-01: “The unseen benefits of accessibility - Christian Heilmann”
2021-07-01: “Towards richer colors on the Web - Darker Ink”
2021-07-01: “The Rotting Internet Is a Collective Hallucination - The Atlantic”
2021-06-30: That most of everything is crap usually isn’t a problem for machine learning. You use them to …
2021-06-30: “Adactio: Journal—Safari 15”
2021-06-30: “Deciding Between Cloud-based & Local Apps – Jorge Arango”
2021-06-30: “Research recitation - GitHub Docs” Here’s a hugely biased paper from GitHub handwaving around the …
2021-06-29: IME, whenever you seem somebody pride themselves on social media for being a hyper-rational …
2021-06-29: “Adactio: Journal—ReCoil” “The whole thing smells of grift”
2021-06-29: Web devs writing typescript: “we need to use Proxies so we can transparently map all the objects to …
2021-06-28: “The open source space (maybe?) works if you build developer-facing utilities, but it has …
2021-06-28: Found this in a box. AFAICT this should be Alan Moore’s complete run on Supreme.
2021-06-28: Y’know Google, pretty sure some sort of automatic check could have told you that you …
2021-06-28: “Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny - Blood Knife” I will always post a link to this classic …
2021-06-28: “Why I chose to leave my successful UX career: Building the wrong thing faster doesn’t …
2021-06-28: “You can’t capture the nuance of my form fields” Custom form controls are rarely a good idea.
2021-06-28: “Bitcoin myths: immutability, decentralisation, and the cult of “21 million” – Attack of the 50 Foot …
2021-06-26: Occasionally, I’m reminded of the American couple I met back in 2002 who were so appalled by …
2021-06-26: “Whatever Happened to UI Affordances? – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2021-06-25: “Using CSS to Enforce Accessibility - Adrian Roselli”
2021-06-25: “Robin Rendle ･ The web is too damn complex”
2021-06-24: One of the most offputting things about TailwindCSS is the aggressive ‘“Best practices” don’t …
2021-06-24: “Banning Surveillance-Based Advertising - Schneier on Security” Interesting report from the …
2021-06-23: “All kinds of online marketplaces are creaking under scams (Interconnected)”
2021-06-22: “The full stack developer myth - Go Make Things”
2021-06-21: —Reads a dev.to post about the evolution of Web 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 which states outright that the …
2021-06-21: “#162: Minimum Viable Self - Kneeling Bus”
2021-06-21: “Amazon’s Staggering HR Failures - Amazon Chronicles” “This is all awfully close to The Way Things …
2021-06-21: “The perfect link - The A11Y Collective”
2021-06-21: “Just link!”
2021-06-21: “mnot’s blog: How the Next Layer of the Internet is Going to be Standardised”
2021-06-20: “How to Draw a Wireframe (Even if You Can’t Draw)”
2021-06-20: “Pixels of the Week – June 20, 2021 by Stéphanie Walter - UX designer & Mobile Expert.”
2021-06-20: “To Learn a New UX Skill, Read an Old Book”
2021-06-20: “UTC is Enough for Everyone, Right?”
2021-06-20: “Don’t Feed the Thought Leaders - Earthly Blog”
2021-06-20: “Robin Rendle ･ The web is too damn complex”
2021-06-19: “We’re often told that we live in the greatest era of technological progress in history. But …
2021-06-18: “Leveraging System Fonts on the Web - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2021-06-18: Any time I see somebody use the word ‘rational’ to describe themselves in a social media …
2021-06-18: “The COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory Is Short on Evidence and Long on Guesswork”
2021-06-18: “Safari 15 and Chickenshit Minimalism — Pixel Envy”
2021-06-18: “The Power of Inversion 🔃 - Refactoring”
2021-06-17: Whenever you read reviews of any kind of Icelandic content (TV, movies, novels) you need to dial it …
2021-06-17: Gleðilega þjóðhátíð! Happy Independence Day! (In Iceland.)
2021-06-16: I don’t know which is worse, the idea that the Chrome team thinks that nobody wants to use …
2021-06-16: “Why America Overrates Scientific Research - The Atlantic”
2021-06-15: “content-visibility: the new CSS property that boosts your rendering performance”
2021-06-15: “New aspect-ratio CSS property supported in Chromium, Safari Technology Preview, and Firefox …
2021-06-15: “The MBA Pathology - Silicon Valley Product Group”
2021-06-15: “Abstraction and Implementation – Jorge Arango”
2021-06-15: “Maurice Parker - Zavala 1.0 released” “It is free and Open Source and will be forever, so you have …
2021-06-15: “Kirkville - How the Audio Industry is Deceiving Consumers with High-Resolution Audio”
2021-06-15: “Kirkville - Why Hi-Res Lossless Music from Apple Music Won’t Sound Different when Played on Macs …
2021-06-15: “CSS Frameworks, hype and dogmatism - Piccalilli” I’m actually in favour of frameworks under some …
2021-06-13: “Fuck Glory – Startups are One Long Con - Stacking the Bricks”
2021-06-12: “The Digital Garden — Pixel Envy”
2021-06-12: “Hey, so, I Think I Fucking Hate the Internet — No Octothorpe”
2021-06-12: “Elevated Stupidity Is the Evolution of the Hot Take Economy at Its Worst”
2021-06-12: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Fanhouse vs. Apple” “Fanhouse’s presumably largest competitor, Patreon, gets …
2021-06-11: “Best method for dark-mode friendly SVG in HTML” “You should always specify either role=img (static …
2021-06-10: “The rise of community-owned monopolies” “how did software collapse become normal? I believe that …
2021-06-10: “The dependency hubs in Open Source software” “there is no practical difference between Microsoft …
2021-06-10: “It’s time to ditch Chrome - WIRED UK” Apple vs Google is one of the few times where I use the …
2021-06-10: “The CSPO Pathology - Silicon Valley Product Group” “These people are confusing the rituals of a …
2021-06-10: “The CSPO Pathology - Silicon Valley Product Group” “What I want to address specifically is why our …
2021-06-09: “Is beef bad for the environment? 🐄 💨 - Justin Mares” The short answer is yes, but pretty much only …
2021-06-09: “An Unbelievable Demo”
2021-06-09: “Adactio: Journal—Deceptive dark patterns”
2021-06-09: “Adactio: Links—Real-world CSS vs. CSS-in-JS performance comparison - Tomas Pustelnik’s personal …
2021-06-09: “Real-world CSS vs. CSS-in-JS performance comparison - Tomas Pustelnik’s personal website” …
2021-06-09: “Robin Rendle ･ Everything that books ought to be” A hardback book’s primary purpose is to be …
2021-06-09: ‘Reasons why bugs might feel “impossible”’
2021-06-09: “Adactio: Links—Introducing Astro: Ship Less JavaScript”
2021-06-09: “Introducing Astro: Ship Less JavaScript” This is a good idea and timely. I’m curious to see what …
2021-06-08: “The mobile web is the web - Go Make Things”
2021-06-08: “Fixing a design flaw that’s also an industry standard - Lynn Fisher”
2021-06-07: “CSS Houdini - Vincent De Oliveira”
2021-06-07: I’m starting to kinda like the super-minimalistic epub reader that’s built into Dropbox.
2021-06-07: “Ancestors and Descendants – Eric’s Archived Thoughts” For some reason I swiped right past this the …
2021-06-07: “Adactio: Links—The right tag for the job: why you should use semantic HTML - localghost”
2021-06-07: “The right tag for the job: why you should use semantic HTML - localghost”
2021-06-07: “No thanks to the App Store - Riccardo Mori”
2021-06-07: “The Entire Amount of Commerce – tyler.io”
2021-06-07: “An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding - by Camille Fournier - Jun, 2021 …
2021-06-07: “Hixie’s Natural Log: Extracts from a private Q&A retrospective about the WHATWG” HTML5 …
2021-06-05: “Lux Year 4: Doubling Down”
2021-06-05: “Adactio: Links—Two articles on SPA or SPA-like sites vs alternatives — Piper Haywood”
2021-06-05: “Two articles on SPA or SPA-like sites vs alternatives — Piper Haywood”
2021-06-04: “Age of Invention: Why Didn’t the Ottomans Print More? - Age of Invention, by Anton Howes”
2021-06-04: “Non-uniform memory access - Wikipedia” Have any of the tech sites covered the possibility of Apple …
2021-06-03: “For Apple to continue to deny these is dishonest, factually wrong, and extremely insulting — not …
2021-06-03: “Gaining a Competitive Advantage with a Solid Experience Vision” “Competitive parity ultimately …
2021-06-03: “I helped pioneer UX design. What I see today horrifies me” “What got lost along the way was a view …
2021-06-03: “The take-away here is when anyone starts talking about various testing categories, dig deeper on …
2021-06-03: “On the Diverse And Fantastical Shapes of Testing” “Similarly their notion of integration test …
2021-06-03: “On the Diverse And Fantastical Shapes of Testing” “it’s not clear what people see as the …
2021-06-03: “TBM 23/52: The Mediocrity Trap - The Beautiful Mess”
2021-06-03: “1997: The Year of DHTML – Web Development History” I remember being very excited about this. Which …
2021-06-03: “Trying Your Best is really bad advice (and strategy) - Zell Liew”
2021-06-02: “The hidden world of aria-hidden – HTML Accessibility”
2021-06-02: “Tech interviews are stupid - Go Make Things”
2021-06-02: “Embracing Design Constraints - Adrian Roselli”
2021-06-02: “Reflections on HTML - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2021-06-01: “How to Write Creative Fiction: Umberto Eco’s Four Rules”
2021-06-01: ‘What are “unusual characters” – Terence Eden’s Blog’
2021-06-01: “Identity and ideas - Seth’s Blog”
2021-06-01: “Islands of Data - BitWorking” “The depressing part is that in every single one of those …
2021-06-01: “Thoughts for the Aging Web Developer · Jens Oliver Meiert”
2021-06-01: “ongoing by Tim Bray · Testing in the Twenties” Full of good advice.
2021-06-01: “For a better web, let developers learn - Mike Carter”
2021-06-01: “For a better web, let developers learn - Mike Carter”
2021-06-01: “Adactio: Links—Priorities”
2021-06-01: “Priorities”
2021-05-31: Whenever I see “full stack developer” I read it as “developer who writes JS components that render …
2021-05-31: The worrying React hegemony (I wrote the following as a Twitter/Mastodon thread. Reposted here for posterity. Lightly edited and …
2021-05-31: “The Perils of Rehydration: Understanding how Gatsby/Next manage server-side rendering and …
2021-05-31: “Amazon Prime Is an Economy-Distorting Lie - BIG by Matt Stoller” “Prime, in other words, is …
2021-05-30: Is it just me or have Google’s search results been extra-useless lately? Keeps ignoring the most …
2021-05-29: Seeing web devs start to hype up canvas-rendering as the future of all web apps makes me want to …
2021-05-29: “FANDOM FLAMES: Why women-centered media gets left behind - The Beat”
2021-05-28: “Inclusive Design Principles”
2021-05-28: “I Think You Can Do Better - Viget” “Toxic You Suck Culture has been replaced with a pernicious …
2021-05-28: “How Finance Sharks Destroy Industries: Chicago Tribune Edition - Ian Welsh”
2021-05-27: “The return of fancy tools - macwright.com” Looks like I timed my recent focus on simple tools …
2021-05-27: “A high-resilience org chart – Jessitron”
2021-05-26: I’ve finally uploaded the next episode in the podcast series I and @tomabba recorded last …
2021-05-26: “Surviving IDEO” “But you can’t spell culture without the word cult.” This applies to so so many …
2021-05-26: “CSS Container Queries For Designers - Ahmad Shadeed” Container queries have the potential to …
2021-05-26: “Adactio: Links—No, Utility Classes Aren’t the Same As Inline Styles - frontstuff” “Anyway, if you …
2021-05-25: As an Icelander it’s always been a bit weird to see foreigners extol the virtue of skyr and see it …
2021-05-25: Terrifying realisation: there are a ton of developers out there who think you can’t use an …
2021-05-25: “Pathological culture - Chris Swan’s Weblog”
2021-05-25: “How organisations are changing.. The next “next” generation - by swardley - May, 2021 - Medium”
2021-05-23: Here’s a minimal Makefile for transforming JS with esbuild js_files := $(shell find src -name …
2021-05-23: “The High Bar of Expectations Can Crush Our Creativity - zen habits zen habits”
2021-05-23: “GitHub OCTO - Flat Data” This is clever.
2021-05-22: “Subtext: markup for note-taking - Subconscious”
2021-05-22: Is micro.blog cross-posting down? None of the usual tricks to bump it into cross-posting when its …
2021-05-22: I’m hesitant to express my opinions about web development when I’m reliably employed… …
2021-05-21: I kinda get the feeling sometimes that a lot of people aren’t aware that you can use nunjucks or …
2021-05-21: “Annoy a medievalist Bingo – Going Medieval” “on average modern workers work far more than workers …
2021-05-21: “svg-loader: A Different Way to Work With External SVG - CSS-Tricks” This article claims that …
2021-05-21: I see Basecamp is celebrating their sudden influx of white supremacist customers. (Ultra-nationalist …
2021-05-21: “Classes vs. prototypal inheritance in vanilla JS - Go Make Things” Good overview. I’d only add that …
2021-05-21: The saddest thing about the Basecamp drama is how common it is. Bosses at an SMB mismanage their way …
2021-05-20: “Google revives RSS - TechCrunch” RSS never died and now, in the pop culture that is software, it …
2021-05-20: “Review: Panic’s Nova 2021 – a VS Code and Sublime Text beater? – Ben Frain” The one thing I truly …
2021-05-20: “Age of Invention: Did the Ottomans Ban Print? - Age of Invention, by Anton Howes”
2021-05-19: I don’t know whether JS build configs have just gotten incredibly complicated or whether …
2021-05-19: “Accessibility is hard. It’s also your job. - Go Make Things”
2021-05-19: “Robin Rendle ･ The Cage”
2021-05-18: “The most important thing I learned in art college - by Andrew Coyle - NextUX - Medium”
2021-05-18: “Designing Between the Lines - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2021-05-17: “No Utopias: Gerard O’Neill, Gundam, and the Illusion of Space Colonization – ZIMMERIT – Anime - …
2021-05-17: “Pixels of the Week – May 16, 2021 by Stéphanie Walter - UX designer & Mobile Expert.”
2021-05-16: “Adactio: Journal—The cage”
2021-05-15: The OSS bubble that is and the blogging bubble that was – Baldur Bjarnason “The biggest problem—and …
2021-05-15: “Why Bad CEOs Fear Remote Work - Scott Berkun”
2021-05-15: “Auto-Generated Social Media Images - CSS-Tricks”
2021-05-15: “Doc Searls Weblog · How the cookie poisoned the Web”
2021-05-14: “The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill - WIRED”
2021-05-14: “The tragedy of the commons is a false and dangerous myth - Aeon Essays”
2021-05-14: Was there a rule about posting big blog posts on Fridays? Or was that just about shipping software? …
2021-05-14: “Praise is different from positive feedback (positive feedback is better) - Jacob Kaplan-Moss”
2021-05-14: “Michael Tsai - Blog - What It Was Like to Sell Apps Online in 2003”
2021-05-14: “The Testament of a Furniture Dealer” “Development is not always the same thing as progress. It is …
2021-05-14: “Lessons from IKEA - Silicon Valley Product Group”
2021-05-13: “HTML5 canvas sub DOM” Canvas can be accessible. But accessibility needs a DOM somewhere and Google …
2021-05-13: “Making Your RSS Feeds Automatically Discoverable - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2021-05-13: “The Lost Designer - Scott Berkun”
2021-05-13: “5 steps to faster web fonts /// Iain Bean”
2021-05-12: The past year was the first year in my life where I didn’t get a cold, the flu, or some other …
2021-05-12: “Bruce Lawson’s personal site : CSS Zen Garden turns 18” CSS Zen Garden was a revelation.
2021-05-12: “Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money?” This doesn’t surprise me. The …
2021-05-11: “Stop Obsessing Over Development Velocity, Focus on This Instead - Itamar Gilad Product Management”
2021-05-11: “The Thunderbolt/USB-C ports on M1 Macs don’t work – Ben Frain” Compatibility issues with enclosures
2021-05-11: “Why OpenDoc failed, and then failed 3 more times? - Instadeq Blog”
2021-05-11: “The Mass Email Mistake - Jacob Kaplan-Moss”
2021-05-11: “The Mortifying Ordeal of Pairing All Day”
2021-05-11: “Work Won’t Love You Back - A Working Library”
2021-05-11: “JWT should not be your default for sessions” “Adopting complex systems before the simple option is …
2021-05-11: “Panic Blog » The Future of Code Editor” “we’re discontinuing Code Editor as it doesn’t generate …
2021-05-10: “Diving Deep on S3 Consistency”
2021-05-10: “Design for reading: tips for optimizing content for Reader modes and reading apps”
2021-05-09: “Solve The Problem You’ve Got, Not The One You Want” ‘I strongly encourage developers to solve the …
2021-05-09: “The economics of JavaScript web apps - Mike Carter” Been saying this for a while but tech, …
2021-05-09: “Newfound brain structure explains why some birds are so smart—and maybe even self-aware - Science - …
2021-05-08: “Sexism, Racism, Toxic Positivity, and TailwindCSS” “The criticisms aren’t …
2021-05-08: “Criticism pushes the web forward”
2021-05-08: “inessential: What It Was Like to Sell Apps Online in 2003” I haven’t bought software in a physical …
2021-05-07: “A useful fiction - A Working Library”
2021-05-07: “Understanding Architectural Scale: Tabletops and landscapes - by Sarah R. Barrett - Known Item - …
2021-05-07: “Feedback is a Mirror – Rands in Repose”
2021-05-07: “Why You Should Have Few Meetings 🔋 - Refactoring”
2021-05-06: “Why we hate specifications. Written specifications (user stories or… - by Thorbjørn Sigberg - …
2021-05-06: “Stop wasting time on the backlog! - by Thorbjørn Sigberg - Medium”
2021-05-06: “Mac-Like – Worms and Viruses” The excellent ‘Mac-like’ third party apps are the only reason why I …
2021-05-05: “How to Stop Getting Defensive - Psychology Today UK”
2021-05-05: “The Limitations of Economies of Scale” (PDF) Scale often increases costs but because it also moves …
2021-05-05: “On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules” A classic 25 year old paper.
2021-05-05: “Unicode symbol as text or emoji · mts.io”
2021-05-04: “The State of CSS Cross-Browser Development - Ahmad Shadeed”
2021-05-04: “Efficiency is the Enemy”
2021-05-04: “Shadow DOM and Its Effect on the Unofficial Styling API - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
2021-05-04: “Web History, Chapter 8: CSS - CSS-Tricks”
2021-05-04: “🚨 How Basecamp blew up - Platformer” Wow.
2021-05-03: Idle thought: most Open Source Software, certainly most OSS on npm, shouldn’t be OSS but should …
2021-05-02: “GitHub - justjavac/proxy-www: 学会 Proxy 就可以为所欲为吗？对，学会 Proxy 就可以为所欲为！” This is clever.
2021-05-01: I wonder how many devs who have an atavistic rejection of using eval realise that innerHTML is even …
2021-05-01: Knowledge work requires trust. Basecamp’s new policies was management declaring that staff had …
2021-04-30: “Molly Sanden – Húsavík (live at the Oscars)” I completely unironically love both this song and the …
2021-04-30: “The True Meaning of Technical Debt 💸 - Refactoring”
2021-04-30: “The social contract of open source”
2021-04-29: “Fusion on Apple Silicon: Progress Update - VMware Fusion Blog - VMware Blogs” Virtualisation on the …
2021-04-29: “New WebKit Features in Safari 14.1 - WebKit”
2021-04-29: “How to Create Actions for Selected Text With the Selection API” Caveat: shadow DOM and selection …
2021-04-29: ‘Your Team is Not “Them” - CSS-Tricks’ Good advice.
2021-04-29: “Two charms”
2021-04-28: 136 things every web developer should know before they burn out and turn to landscape painting or …
2021-04-28: 136 facts every web dev should know before they burn out and turn to landscape painting or nude …
2021-04-28: “A Complete Guide to Custom Properties - CSS-Tricks”
2021-04-28: “🚨 What really happened at Basecamp - Platformer”
2021-04-27: “Custom Elements Without JavaScript? - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” I’ve done this quite a bit in the past. …
2021-04-27: “iOS 14.5 brings the new Safari 14.1 to PWAs and the Web Platform － firt.dev”
2021-04-27: “shape-outside - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets - MDN” TIL that shape-outside has decent support in …
2021-04-27: “Exploring color-contrast() for the First Time - CSS-Tricks” This would be really useful.
2021-04-27: “All the Futures that Will Not Happen - Ian Welsh”
2021-04-27: “The Rise of The Four Day Work Week – Paul Taylor” Many managers would become more opposed to a four …
2021-04-27: “HTML Sanitizer API” This is a great idea. Hope it gets implemented. Kind of wonder why Chromers …
2021-04-26: “Cryptocurrency is an abject disaster”
2021-04-26: “The True Meaning of Technical Debt 💸 - Refactoring” “Ward describes debt as the natural result of …
2021-04-26: I wonder if JSX fans would’ve used E4X? If we as a community had been more open to the …
2021-04-26: Compared to Canadian and British banks, Icelandic online banking is far better in every way. Which …
2021-04-26: “Crypto miners are killing free CI” Cryptocurrency is an industry of parasites and con artists.
2021-04-26: “Adactio: Links—A quick look at privacy-focused analytics for small sites”
2021-04-26: “A quick look at privacy-focused analytics for small sites”
2021-04-26: “Design Affordance Controls”
2021-04-24: “Computers and Creativity”
2021-04-24: “Legacy without nostalgia”
2021-04-23: “A Recording of John Seddon’s Book Tour Finale - Vanguard”
2021-04-23: “Getting started with CSS Custom Properties - Tutorial - Piccalilli” Another platform feature I use …
2021-04-23: “Three Feedback Models - Jacob Kaplan-Moss”
2021-04-23: “Custom events in vanilla JS - Go Make Things” Pretty much every project I work on uses Custom …
2021-04-23: “A Guide to Understanding What Makes a Typeface Accessible - by Gareth Ford Williams - The …
2021-04-23: “On women having sex with themselves – Going Medieval” History.
2021-04-23: “Breaking down barriers using the DataTransfer API”
2021-04-22: “Marvel movies have a weird relationship with kissing and romance - Polygon”
2021-04-22: I’m available for work – Baldur Bjarnason Please share if you can 🙂 Also, feedback on the site’s new …
2021-04-22: “Backdoored developer tool that stole credentials escaped notice for 3 months - Ars Technica” This …
2021-04-22: “Still Hoping for Better Native Page Transitions - CSS-Tricks” We’ve been wanting native page …
2021-04-21: “Adactio: Journal—Get the FLoC out”
2021-04-21: “No Wrong Notes · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer”
2021-04-21: “Say Hello To CSS Container Queries” This will be huge.
2021-04-20: Am I right in thinking that by switching to the M1 in the iPad Pro, Apple is giving themselves the …
2021-04-20: I know the stuffy geek crowd will make fun of the colour iMacs but being able to buy a bright yellow …
2021-04-20: On standard themes for web components and the failure that is the Shadow DOM Earlier I linked to this project: GitHub - castastrophe/wc-theming-standards: A naming standards …
2021-04-20: “Adactio: Journal—The State of the Web — the links”
2021-04-20: “Adactio: Links—Home · castastrophe/wc-theming-standards Wiki”
2021-04-20: “GitHub - castastrophe/wc-theming-standards: A naming standards repository for using Custom …
2021-04-20: “Why Do We Do That? - Ian Welsh”
2021-04-20: “The Fundamental Purpose of Middle Management: Context Down, Information Up - Jacob Kaplan-Moss”
2021-04-19: I had completely forgotten about this little project I put together 8 years ago with my sister (who …
2021-04-19: “AI datasets are filled with errors. It’s warping what we know about AI - MIT Technology …
2021-04-19: “Building a Magical 3D button with HTML and CSS” This one’s a lot of fun.
2021-04-19: “Heroics – Lucy Bellwood” “The people I admire are mostly moving in spirals, guided by curiosity, …
2021-04-19: “How (Not) To Change Someone’s Mind – Paul Taylor”
2021-04-19: “Pixels of the Week – April 18, 2021 by Stéphanie Walter - UX designer & Mobile Expert.”
2021-04-18: “F*ck you, pay designers. There is this weird thing with design… - by Dennis Hambeukers - Design …
2021-04-18: I see Anglophones are misrepresenting Denmark’s AstraZeneca decision again. Oh, well.
2021-04-18: “Adactio: Links—trapped in the technologist factory”
2021-04-17: “Platform News: Using :focus-visible” I might be the only one on the planet who actually likes …
2021-04-17: “Are You Stuck On Vision, Strategy, or Tactics? - Jacob Kaplan-Moss”
2021-04-17: “Creating an Editable Textarea That Supports Syntax-Highlighted Code - CSS-Tricks” This was way …
2021-04-17: “Oblivious - Think Different”
2021-04-16: We’re in a world where monolithic SPAs are ‘traditional’ and binding JS to …
2021-04-16: “Am I FLoCed?” “Google is testing FLoC on Chrome users worldwide. Find out if you’re one of …
2021-04-16: “‘Agility Theatre’ Keeps Us Entertained While Our Business Burns – Codemanship’s Blog” The …
2021-04-16: “Websites are not living rooms and other lessons for information architecture - by Sarah R. Barrett …
2021-04-16: “Remotion: A framework for making videos in React - LogRocket Blog” Here’s an interesting idea. It …
2021-04-16: “Working around the viewport-based fluid typography bug in Safari”
2021-04-16: “2021 is the year of modern JavaScript - Go Make Things” Looks useful and interesting.
2021-04-16: “Users of the iOS Discord App Will Be Unable to Access NSFW Channels — Pixel Envy” The problem with …
2021-04-16: “CSS { In Real Life } - Development Budgets”
2021-04-16: “How to fight back against Google FLoC - Plausible Analytics” I hadn’t realised just how goddamn …
2021-04-15: “Distributed Persistent Rendering (DPR) · Discussion #549 · jamstack/jamstack.org · GitHub” Has the …
2021-04-15: “Get Faster Builds for Large Sites on Netlify: On-demand Builders” The snarky response here would be …
2021-04-15: “How to Sign Users In with IndieAuth • Aaron Parecki” I really like IndieAuth as a tech (basically a …
2021-04-15: “TBM 15/52: Stop Hiring Things to Do Too Many Jobs - The Beautiful Mess” This is excellent advice …
2021-04-15: “Robin Rendle ･ How To Be Hopeless” Every Brit I know seems to think that the result of the Brexit …
2021-04-15: “The Trouble With Objects – Codemanship’s Blog” “Millions of people around the world read OO …
2021-04-15: “Declarative Shadow DOM” This could work. Now you just need to fix selection APIs and make it work …
2021-04-14: “The Layers of the Web - Jeremy Keith - YouTube” This is really good
2021-04-14: “CSS is a Strongly Typed Language - CSS-Tricks”
2021-04-14: “Practical accessibility, part 2: Name (almost) everything - Filament Group, Inc.”
2021-04-14: “Coasean Inversion - The Making of Making Sense”
2021-04-14: ‘”It’s Not Cancel Culture — It’s A Platform Failure.” - Galaxy Brain’ …
2021-04-13: “Ketting 7 released” “A generic HATEOAS client for Javascript” Ketting is one of the more …
2021-04-12: Found this gem in a book box I hadn’t opened in over twenty years.
2021-04-12: “Desperate investors, neoliberalism and Keynes: how to increase returns – Attack of the 50 Foot …
2021-04-12: “Pixels of the Week – April 11, 2021 by Stéphanie Walter - UX designer & Mobile Expert.”
2021-04-12: ‘ongoing by Tim Bray · The Sacred “Back” Button’
2021-04-12: “5 ways to prevent code injection in JavaScript and Node.js”
2021-04-12: “This is probably the biggest indictment of modern web design…when you take the web back to …
2021-04-11: ‘JS classes are not “just syntactic sugar” - by Andrea Giammarchi - Apr, 2021 - Medium’
2021-04-11: “Maestro Syndrome - Sam Bleckley”
2021-04-11: “The Creator Economy Needs Fatter Tails - Strange Loop Canon”
2021-04-10: “Why Keyboard Shortcuts don’t work on non-US Layouts and how Devs could fix it · tkainrad” I …
2021-04-09: “The Trouble With Easy Criticism by Ritesh Babu” “Why can’t we criticize creators, and the works of …
2021-04-09: “Adactio: Journal—The state of UX”
2021-04-08: Geek culture is being against digital scarcity when you want somebody’s work for free and for …
2021-04-08: “Embrace the Grind - Jacob Kaplan-Moss”
2021-04-08: “CSS Is, In Fact, Awesome - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” CSS is my favourite part of the web stack. Web devs …
2021-04-08: “inessential: The lack of a price tag seems almost criminal” “I should explain: the app is better — …
2021-04-07: “Adactio: Journal—Of the web” Right chuffed to read this. 😁 Love Jeremy Keith’s writing as well 🙂
2021-04-06: “pencil and paper thinking - daniel g. siegel” Always link to posts that quote Alan Kay.
2021-04-06: “Sortable Table Columns - Adrian Roselli”
2021-04-06: “8 lessons I learned from spending 4 years writing one course — Learn JavaScript - Zell Liew”
2021-04-05: “The window.matchMedia API — Sebastian De Deyne” TIL
2021-04-03: “Go is a great programming language”
2021-04-03: “Collections: Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part IVa: Dyed in the Wool – A Collection of …
2021-04-03: “Accessible front-end components: claims vs reality”
2021-04-01: “Validation is a mirage” “If you want to see if something works, make it. The whole thing. The …
2021-04-01: “No fooling - Seth’s Blog”
2021-04-01: “Adactio: Links—Design as (un)ethical illusion”
2021-03-31: “You Can’t Trust Amazon When It Feels Threatened - Last Week in AWS” “While mistakes can …
2021-03-31: Which type of novelty-seeking web developer are you? www.baldurbjarnason.com/2021/whic… Not …
2021-03-31: “Design as (un)ethical illusion”
2021-03-31: “Management of the Absurd - Scott Berkun” One of my favourite books on management.
2021-03-31: “Some opinionated thoughts on SQL databases - Made of Bugs”
2021-03-31: “Daði Freyr (Daði & Gagnamagnið) – 10 Years (Official Video) - YouTube” 😄
2021-03-30: “The Vast Confusion Of Implicit Assumptions Like Wages And Productivity - Ian Welsh”
2021-03-30: Most Organisations Misunderstand Their Own Culture This image, from Imagine That Things Can Be Different which in turn got it from the book …
2021-03-30: “Dendron - Dendron” A VScode-oriented take on the, now crowded, hypertext-y note-taking genre.
2021-03-29: ‘Thelma Grétars on Instagram: “Pepper challenge with awesome people and freezing cold -12 degrees!’ …
2021-03-29: “A B2B Product Management Story: on discovering problems that customers actually care about …
2021-03-29: “SVG Generators — Smashing Magazine”
2021-03-29: “Pixels of the Week – March 28, 2021 by Stéphanie Walter - UX designer & Mobile Expert.”
2021-03-29: “Under-Engineered Select Menus - Adrian Roselli”
2021-03-28: “Ruby off the Rails: Code library yanked over license blunder, sparks chaos for half a million …
2021-03-28: “Discovery - Excuses - Silicon Valley Product Group”
2021-03-27: “Poker, blacksmithery, and other activities that teach a way to see the world (Interconnected)”
2021-03-27: “Cloud study” Aside from the atrocious UI which is a constant across all of these platforms, what …
2021-03-26: “Five Things: March 25, 2021”
2021-03-26: “Adactio: Links—Web Development History”
2021-03-26: “Web Development History – Internet history for developers and the technically curious”
2021-03-26: “Not Just a New Feature; a New Compact – Jorge Arango” “The upshot is that adding a new ‘feature’ …
2021-03-26: “More on Penguin Random House distributing Marvel Comics - The Beat” This is, no joke, a major …
2021-03-26: This is a clever trick. tantek.com/2021/084/…
2021-03-26: “Au revoir, mon AMPmour? — Ethan Marcotte”
2021-03-25: “Get better at programming by learning how things work”
2021-03-25: “Not all design opinions are created equal – The Haystack”
2021-03-24: “Substack’s UI and 1Password just cost me $2,023 - Timmy O’Mahony” The names of the …
2021-03-24: “Adactio: Journal—Service worker weirdness in Chrome Ran into this exact same thing the other day …
2021-03-23: 10 years ago this one-liner would have blown my mind Object.fromEntries(new URLSearchParams(new …
2021-03-23: “CSS Is, In Fact, Awesome - Jim Nielsen’s Blog” CSS is my favourite part of the web dev stack.
2021-03-23: “A Complete Guide To Accessible Front-End Components — Smashing Magazine” Looks like a page I’ll be …
2021-03-23: “Robin Rendle ･ Every website is a gift”
2021-03-21: “Highlighting columns in HTML tables - Manuel Matuzović”
2021-03-21: “Many subtle channels”
2021-03-20: “Dropping Support For IE11 Is Progressive Enhancement · The Ethically-Trained Programmer”
2021-03-20: “Why We Need To Learn To Unlearn – Paul Taylor”
2021-03-20: “Surfacing Required Knowledge” “You are dependent on a living experience embodied by your team, and …
2021-03-20: “Avoiding Bad Decisions”
2021-03-19: Interesting times. www.facebook.com/watch/
2021-03-19: This continues to be the month where everything happens www.ruv.is/frett/202…
2021-03-19: “Closing on outside click - Kitty Giraudel”
2021-03-19: “prefers-reduced-motion: Taking a no-motion-first approach to animations”
2021-03-18: “HEAD - A free guide to elements Exhaustive and useful
2021-03-18: “Good, Better, Best: Untangling The Complex World Of Accessible Patterns — Smashing Magazine”
2021-03-18: “Closing web browser windows doesn’t close connections” Huh.
2021-03-18: “Design with Strategic Intent – Jorge Arango”
2021-03-18: “Accessible Text Labels For All”
2021-03-18: “Withered or seasoned?”
2021-03-18: “Here’s why Substack’s scam worked so well - The Hypothesis” This feels less surprising …
2021-03-17: “The return of fancy tools - macwright.com”
2021-03-17: “The Importance of Learning CSS”
2021-03-15: “Managing attention with stacks – Dan Slimmon”
2021-03-14: “Mental Leaps — More, Faster, Better, Happier, and Innovative (2nd Edition) - by Erik Schön - Mar, …
2021-03-14: “The End of Silicon Valley as We Know It? – O’Reilly” I might quibble with the details of this but …
2021-03-14: “Large projects have virtually no chance of coming in on time, on budget, and within scope.” This …
2021-03-13: “On the IA-Chess Analogy – Jorge Arango”
2021-03-13: “The Collusion of Mediocrity – background – Paul Levy”
2021-03-13: “Low Priority Issues + Time = Relationship Killer - Stay SaaSy” “A common and tragic pattern exists …
2021-03-13: “Preemptive Pluralization is (Probably) Not Evil” Don’t wait to implement pagination. You’re going …
2021-03-13: On the relativity of great product development strategies This here piece is a good overview of what are current best practices in product development. “What …
2021-03-13: “Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses”
2021-03-13: “Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses”
2021-03-13: “The One Where I Don’t Want To Talk About Substack Just As Much As You Do, And Yet” “This is …
2021-03-12: So, what do you do when somebody writing about product development or management refers to Google or …
2021-03-12: “Use transparent borders and outlines to assist with high contrast mode - Quick Tip - Piccalilli” …
2021-03-12: “Vendor by default - macwright.com” I’ve done this occasionally in a project. It works better than …
2021-03-11: “Fluid typography with CSS clamp - Tutorial - Piccalilli”
2021-03-11: “Adactio: Links—A Short History of Bi-Directional Links”
2021-03-11: “A Short History of Bi-Directional Links”
2021-03-10: “Defending Personas. If you love a design tool, set it free - by Alan Cooper - Mar, 2021 - Medium” …
2021-03-10: “Disabled buttons don’t have to suck - by Justine Win - Mar, 2021 - Justine Win Stories”
2021-03-09: “Adactio: Links—Skipping skip links ⚒ Nerd”
2021-03-09: “Skipping skip links ⚒ Nerd”
2021-03-09: ‘“Why Did You Leave Your Last Job?” - Jacob Kaplan-Moss’
2021-03-08: System fonts don’t have to be ugly, but web fonts aren’t as bad as you think either “System fonts don’t have to be ugly /// Iain Bean” I like this overview of system fonts you can use. …
2021-03-08: “Should I use functional or object-oriented programming? – Chelsea Troy” Know the pros and cons to …
2021-03-07: “UI Design Testing Tools I Use All The Time — Smashing Magazine”
2021-03-07: “Dabble – the future of novel writing? – David Hewson”
2021-03-07: “Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny - Blood Knife” There has been a noticable rise in …
2021-03-06: “Chrome’s IndexedDB— from best in class to the slowest - by David Fahlander - Mar, 2021 - Medium”
2021-03-05: “On the myth of short life expectancy, and COVID complacency – Going Medieval”
2021-03-05: “Daring Fireball: Google’s Search Results Have Gotten Worse” Substantially worse in many cases.
2021-03-04: “To make money in FOSS, build a business first”
2021-03-03: “How to Keep a Long-term Focus – Jorge Arango”
2021-03-03: “Around Paying for (and Charging for) Content - The Making of Making Sense”
2021-03-03: “Forget SOLID. Say Hello To SHOC Principles for Modular Design. – Codemanship’s Blog”
2021-03-02: “Looking Closely is Everything — by Craig Mod”
2021-03-02: “Your Thinking Rate Is Fixed” “Speeding up often results in poor decisions that create future …
2021-03-02: “Bundling for the Web” Goes into way more depth on current state of bundling from a browser …
2021-03-02: “How many people subscribed to your RSS feed?” Including subscriber count this way has been a …
2021-03-02: “How I set up Glyphhanger on macOS for optimizing and converting font files for the Web”
2021-03-01: “Why I close PRs (OSS project maintainer notes) - Jeff Geerling” The comment thread on this post is …
2021-02-28: “A Vision for Software Development: It’s All About Teams – Codemanship’s Blog” “It’s just a …
2021-02-27: “Effective Organizations Value Autonomy - Jacob Kaplan-Moss”
2021-02-26: “TBM 8/52: Avoid Mono-Process (But Embrace Shared Language) - The Beautiful Mess”
2021-02-26: “How to Approach a New Codebase - Amber Wilson”
2021-02-26: “Against Performative Positivity”
2021-02-25: ‘Wisdom From the Forums: “The Gap Between Expectations and Reality” - Jim Nielsen’s Blog’
2021-02-25: “The Beauty Of Tiny Enhancements In CSS”
2021-02-25: “The Online Photographer: The Catastrophic Crash of the Camera Market”
2021-02-25: “Material Design Text Fields Are Badly Designed — Smashing Magazine” I have to use a lot of Google …
2021-02-25: “The mortality of software – Six Colors”
2021-02-24: “Opinion - Britney Spears and I Learned the Same Lesson About Fame - The New York Times”
2021-02-24: “Introducing State Partitioning - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog” I would love to see …
2021-02-24: “technology is not neutral - daniel g. siegel”
2021-02-24: Collaborating with robots “Nothing is real vs everything is real (Interconnected)” “Machine learning is your collaborator” has …
2021-02-24: “The Benefits Of Code Review For The Reviewer - otsukare” Building a better understanding of the …
2021-02-24: ‘Hiding Content Responsibly - Hugo “Kitty” Giraudel’
2021-02-23: “inkle blog - ink version 1.0 release!” Ink by Inkle Studios has been on my list of things to try …
2021-02-22: “Functional vs. OO: The Debate that Imprecise Language Destroyed – Chelsea Troy” I love posts like …
2021-02-21: One thing that does unfortunately have to be said: a lot of the people doing the pushback against …
2021-02-21: “Please don’t make me choose a username”
2021-02-21: “After Minimalism - David Perell” “The problem with minimalism is that it’s boring.” More pushback …
2021-02-21: I’m not the only one who finds app design formalism to be boring “No More Boring Apps - ANDY.WORKS” “Despite being perhaps the largest professional creative field …
2021-02-20: The Layers of Development: Design Engineer, UI Engineer, Full Stack Developer, Server-Side Developer That’s why I was so excited by the term “design engineer,” which I think I first heard from Natalya …
2021-02-20: “Unfortunate things about performance reviews” “If you take nothing else away from this post, take …
2021-02-19: “Ursula K. Le Guin’s translation of the Tao Te Ching - Austin Kleon” This book is one of the …
2021-02-18: “On Design Engineering: I think I might be a design engineer… - Trys Mudford”
2021-02-17: “My build tool boilerplate goes v2 - Go Make Things” Lots of nice little details in this.
2021-02-17: “Choosing between Netlify, Vercel and Digital Ocean - Zell Liew” I’m a huge fan of Netlify’s design …
2021-02-17: “Why I Still Use RSS - atthislink” I use RSS a lot. Over 90% of the links I post (like this one) I …
2021-02-17: “Understanding Z-Index in CSS”
2021-02-17: “Storytelling — Harmon vs. McKee” An interesting meditation on the role of intuition in strategy and …
2021-02-16: “The CADT Model”
2021-02-16: “The linguistics of hyperlinks”
2021-02-16: On the deteriorating quality of Apple’s software “Why reporting bugs to Apple may harm software quality – The Eclectic Light Company” The quality of …
2021-02-15: “Leading your engineering team with ‘experiments’ not ‘processes’ - LeadDev”
2021-02-15: “Systems design explains the world: volume 1 - apenwarr”
2021-02-15: On “The Curious Case of “Are you sure?” – the Usecrime That Just Won’t Die” “The Curious Case of “Are you sure?” – the Usecrime That Just Won’t Die” I’m as guilty as others of …
2021-02-14: “Running a Successful Membership / Subscription Program — by Craig Mod”
2021-02-14: “Two songs from The Muppet Movie / Snarkmarket” Always post links to discussions of Muppet songs.
2021-02-14: “Adactio: Journal—Associative trails”
2021-02-14: Everybody is pussyfooting around the actual problem in front end development Front-End Dissatisfaction (and Backing Off) - CSS-Tricks This blog post by Chris Coyier does a good …
2021-02-14: “A Useful Approach to Problem-Solving — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho” This works more often than …
2021-02-14: “There’s No Such Thing As “Agile”. There’s Just Software Development. – Codemanship’s Blog”
2021-02-13: “Managing focus in the shadow DOM - Read the Tea Leaves” I’ve run into focus issues every single …
2021-02-13: “Anxious feelings about optimisation through complexity (Interconnected)”
2021-02-13: “Fluid & space-aware components - Trys Mudford”
2021-02-13: On “Do Adults Really Not Remember School Sucked? - Ian Welsh” “Do Adults Really Not Remember School Sucked? - Ian Welsh” I will never get this. School was a …
2021-02-12: “Progressive Enhancement reading list, draft 1 - QuirksBlog”
2021-02-12: “The web didn’t change; you did”
2021-02-12: “Inventing Posters — I love Typography (ILT)”
2021-02-11: “Mass function overloading: why and how? – Lea Verou”
2021-02-11: “Stop Obsessing Over Development Velocity, Focus on This Instead - Itamar Gilad Product Management”
2021-02-11: “TBM 6/52: Discontinuous Improvement (and Stored Energy) - The Beautiful Mess”
2021-02-11: “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - Jacob Kaplan-Moss”
2021-02-10: “Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Dozens of Other Companies - by Alex …
2021-02-09: “Peter Naur: Programming As Theory Building” (PDF) No joke, reading this paper is fundamentally …
2021-02-09: “SOCCR: the framework I use for decision briefs - Jacob Kaplan-Moss”
2021-02-09: ‘“Explain a Topic At Multiple Levels…” - Jacob Kaplan-Moss’
2021-02-09: “On weather, winter, and changing climates – Going Medieval” “We are sleepwalking away from the …
2021-02-09: “Meta-IA – Jorge Arango”
2021-02-09: “The new reading stack - macwright.com”
2021-02-08: “Change has become an excuse for lazy design - Gerry McGovern” “We must design things on the basis …
2021-02-08: “The epistemology of software quality – Increment: Teams”
2021-02-08: Ira Glass on the role of taste in creating stories. This is why IMO good software is proportionally …
2021-02-05: “Default to Kindness - Ian Welsh”
2021-02-04: “Thoreau 2.0 - XOXO Conference Talk”
2021-02-04: “Waking up from the dream of UX - Peter Merholz”
2021-02-03: “Adactio: Journal—Authentication”
2021-02-03: “Several Short Sentences About Writing - A Working Library”
2021-02-03: “Creative Good: Why I’m losing faith in UX”
2021-02-02: “9 Takeaways for Product Managers from A Philosophy of Software Design - Viget”
2021-02-02: “The Best-Case Outcomes Are Statistical Outliers”
2021-02-02: “Adactio: Links—How I Build JavaScript Apps In 2021” Seriously. Just subscribe to this blog.
2021-02-02: “How I Build JavaScript Apps In 2021”
2021-02-02: “Adactio: Links—How to Build Good Software” Links like this one are why you should subscribe to …
2021-02-02: “How to Build Good Software” This is the best piece of writing on software dev I’ve read in a long …
2021-02-02: “Golems, smart objects, and the file metaphor (Interconnected)”
2021-02-01: “Technology is part of the problem - Gerry McGovern” “My area is digital, the Internet, the Web. We …
2021-02-01: “Why Generation X will save the web - Hi, I’m Heather Burns.”
2021-01-31: “How To: Very high quality transcripts and captions for under $1.50/minute. - Stacking the Bricks”
2021-01-31: “What you think is boring now may be interesting in the future - Austin Kleon”
2021-01-30: “Bulletproof flag components - Jay Freestone” CSS Grid is slowly transforming everything we know …
2021-01-29: “GitHub - benbjohnson/litestream: Streaming S3 replication for SQLite.” “Open Source not Open …
2021-01-29: “:focus-visible in WebKit - January 2021 - Rego’s Everyday Life”
2021-01-29: “How you can help authors… a plea – David Hewson”
2021-01-28: “Form Validation: You want :not(:focus):invalid, not :invalid – Bram.us”
2021-01-28: “What Is Important About The Reddit Gamestop Short-Squeeze - Ian Welsh”
2021-01-27: “Maximizing Developer Effectiveness” “I often observe that as these technologies are introduced an …
2021-01-27: “The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2021-01-27: “The Only Thing We Have to Fear is a Kirby Vacuum Salesperson – Burningbird” Speaking as an outsider …
2021-01-27: “Oh Joy Sex Toy - The Stress Response Cycle” This isn an excellent overview. Honestly, reading this …
2021-01-27: “Why I’ve Been Merging Microservices Back Into The Monolith At InVision”
2021-01-27: “Telja innflytjendur hafa góð áhrif - RÚV” Important counterpoint to my doom and gloom. In a recent …
2021-01-27: Trying to stay positive and not write anything negative this morning. Usually sticking to the feed …
2021-01-27: “Cory Doctorow: Neofeudalism and the Digital Manor – Locus Online” Related to the last tweet.
2021-01-27: “The Free, Diverse Internet In America Is Coming To An End - Ian Welsh” The first casualty was LGBT …
2021-01-27: “My product management toolkit (42): Integrative Thinking – As I learn …”
2021-01-26: “We’re Hiring! Content Marketing Specialist (Rebus Ink)” Come work for my boss 🙂
2021-01-26: “CSS Frameworks, hype and dogmatism - Post - Piccalilli” IMO the dogmatism you often see online is …
2021-01-25: “The Unreal and the Real - A Working Library” One of my favourite books ever.
2021-01-25: “Elided Branches: Make Boring Plans”
2021-01-23: “You want minmax(10px, 1fr) not 1fr - CSS-Tricks”
2021-01-22: “Adactio: Journal—Letters of exclusion”
2021-01-22: “Reducing Technical Debt – Chelsea Troy”
2021-01-22: “It’s time to drop IE support - Go Make Things”
2021-01-22: “ongoing by Tim Bray · When You Know”
2021-01-22: “What engineering can teach (and learn from) us • Hillel Wayne”
2021-01-21: “Adactio: Journal—Get safe”
2021-01-21: “Open source means surrendering your monopoly over commercial exploitation”
2021-01-20: “Affordances are dead; long live affordances – The Interconnected”
2021-01-19: “A minimum viable experience makes for a resilient, inclusive website or app - Post - Piccalilli”
2021-01-19: “Relations – are about half of IT - Complexity is a Matter of Perspective” Link posted for the …
2021-01-19: “Avoiding Technical Debt – Chelsea Troy”
2021-01-19: “Fixing disinformation won’t save us - Ethan Zuckerman” “I’m less convinced that this is a …
2021-01-19: “When costs are nonlinear, keep it small. – Jessitron”
2021-01-18: “Tech Talk: The Web we Deserve”
2021-01-18: “HR is not your friend, and other things I think you should know”
2021-01-18: “Adactio: Links—React Bias”
2021-01-18: “React Bias” “The juxtaposition of The HTTP Archive’s analysis and The State of JS 2020 Survey …
2021-01-17: “Adactio: Links—Responsible Web Applications”
2021-01-17: “Responsible Web Applications”
2021-01-17: Baldur’s Notes - Hierarchies are just a tool, don’t throw them away just because you don’t …
2021-01-17: Hierarchies are just a tool, don’t throw them away just because you don’t understand how to use them “First, Let’s Fire All the Managers” Pro-flat org hot takes are always interesting but what they …
2021-01-16: Cultural deafness and controversy in tech debates I worry about the effects the US cultural dominance of tech has on web developer discourse. I worry …
2021-01-16: “No, You Don’t Need Social Proof - sharpen.page: A Product Sharpening Service”
2021-01-16: “Rust is a hard way to make a web API - macwright.com”
2021-01-15: “GitHub still won’t explain if it fired someone for saying ‘Nazi,’ and employees are pissed - The …
2021-01-15: “Training Is Expensive. But Not As Expensive As Not Training. – Codemanship’s Blog”
2021-01-14: “Load all focusable elements with JavaScript - Quick Tip - Piccalilli”
2021-01-13: “Server-sent events: a simple way to stream events from a server” Server-sent events/EventSource are …
2021-01-13: “Fixing Smooth Scrolling with Find-on-Page - CSS-Tricks” This is clever.
2021-01-12: “Culture is the Behavior You Reward and Punish - by Jocelyn Goldfein - jocelyngoldfein”
2021-01-11: I didn’t want to like this one but it brought a lot of things I have been thinking about into focus. …
2021-01-11: “Trump Is Fighting Section 230 for the Wrong Reason - The Atlantic” A perspective on the US law …
2021-01-11: “Robin Rendle ･ Preventing the Collapse of Civilization”
2021-01-10: The neighbourhood.
2021-01-09: “History will not remember us fondly” This.
2021-01-09: “A Plague is Plague. A Coup is a Coup. And Other Topics Not Up for Debate - Kameron Hurley”
2021-01-08: “Rebus Foundation - We’re Hiring! Assistant Program Manager” The charity I work for is hiring.
2021-01-07: “How I turned my Goodreads data into a self-hosted website with Eleventy”
2021-01-07: “Trump Has Proven The US Is Ripe For A Right Wing Coup” “So what we now know is that when a serious …
2021-01-06: “For Better Products, Start With a Problem Statement - Inside Intercom”
2021-01-06: “Designing Engineering Organizations - Jacob Kaplan-Moss”
2021-01-06: “A template for more deliberate 1:1 meetings (v2) – disambiguity”
2021-01-06: “Should The Web Expose Hardware Capabilities? — Smashing Magazine” “This is a fallacy — the …
2021-01-06: “Should The Web Expose Hardware Capabilities? — Smashing Magazine” “If I can’t trust my browser to …
2021-01-06: “Art Direction for Static Sites - daverupert.com”
2021-01-05: “Do you need build tools? - Go Make Things”
2021-01-05: “Why do people complain so much about CSS? -> Changelog”
2021-01-05: “Robin Rendle › Newsletters” Agree with most of this. Have thoughts tho. For one, am I the only one …
2021-01-04: Setting up the new workspace at the new flat. Still figuring out what size whiteboard to buy and …
2021-01-04: “Multi-Function Button - Adrian Roselli”
2021-01-04: “Options for styling web components - Read the Tea Leaves”
2021-01-02: “A megacorp is not your dream job”
2021-01-02: “The Great Software Stagnation – Alarming Development”
2021-01-02: “On Not Writing in 2020 – The Interconnected”
2020-12-31: The whole “no haircuts during COVID” thing has resulted in a bit of a mad scientist look this New …
2020-12-31: “TBM 52/53: Real Teams (Not Groups of One-Person Teams) - The Beautiful Mess”
2020-12-31: “Ancient remains prove women have been running shit for at least 9000 years” “early big-game …
2020-12-31: “The Brain-Activity of People Coding Is Different”
2020-12-31: “Here Lies Flash » Mike Industries”
2020-12-30: “Programmers are bad at managing state - Read the Tea Leaves” If anything, he understates the issue. …
2020-12-30: “I normally agree with Dan’s essays, but this time I very much disagree. As someo… - …
2020-12-29: “How mRNA went from a scientific backwater to a pandemic crusher - WIRED UK”
2020-12-29: “2021 - BitWorking”
2020-12-29: “Accessible SVG Icons - CSS-Tricks”
2020-12-27: “Today, it looks like developers don’t bother thinking about requirements, they just grab something …
2020-12-26: The question you can use to sift through web dev tooling debates My holiday gift to you all is an simple and amazingly useful tool for cutting through the nonsense …
2020-12-26: “TBM 52/53: Real Teams (Not Groups of One-Person Teams) - The Beautiful Mess”
2020-12-25: “A technical and privacy review of Cloudflare Web Analytics”
2020-12-23: “Adactio: Links—HTML Over The Wire - Hotwire” Hotwire is a neat evolution of the Turbolinks/Stimulus …
2020-12-22: “Lead with Context not Control - Silicon Valley Product Group”
2020-12-19: “Handling Short And Long Content In CSS”
2020-12-18: “I have resigned from the Google AMP Advisory Committee – Terence Eden’s Blog” I don’t think AMP or …
2020-12-18: “Adactio: Articles—npm ruin dev”
2020-12-18: “On treating sex with the utmost reverence – Going Medieval”
2020-12-18: “5 Ways Software Developers Can Improve Their Writing Beyond Blogging”
2020-12-18: “The Credibility Is in the Details”
2020-12-18: “Filtered for… margin notes” Like many, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about marginalia on …
2020-12-18: “Integrated Tests Are A Scam - The Code Whisperer”
2020-12-18: “Adactio: Links—Conditional JavaScript - JavaScript - Dev Tips”
2020-12-18: “Conditional JavaScript - JavaScript - Dev Tips”
2020-12-16: “Sticky CSS Grid Items - Melanie Richards”
2020-12-16: “Adactio: Journal—Cascading Style Sheets”
2020-12-16: “Detecting when focus leaves a group of elements with vanilla JS - Go Make Things”
2020-12-15: “Are your Anchor Links Accessible? - Amber Wilson”
2020-12-13: “Why Senior Engineers Hate Coding Interviews - by Adam Storm - The Startup - Dec, 2020 - Medium”
2020-12-13: “Google’s increasingly dark shadow - Gerry McGovern” “This is what we expect from Google because …
2020-12-13: “Don’t Succumb To Illusions Of Productivity – Codemanship’s Blog”
2020-12-13: “Stop using Material Design text fields! - Matsuko Friedland”
2020-12-12: “How Agile Manages Out Innovation - Liz Keogh, lunivore”
2020-12-12: Good lord. Kevin Kelly hasn’t grown any less annoying since his early Wired days.
2020-12-12: “Make it Personal - CSS-Tricks”
2020-12-11: “TBM 50/53: The Curse of “Success” Metrics - The Beautiful Mess”
2020-12-11: “Death of an Open Source Business Model” Open source is being squeezed on two sides: the cloud …
2020-12-10: “Adactio: Links—The Importance of HTML – Jerry Jones”
2020-12-10: “The Importance of HTML – Jerry Jones”
2020-12-10: Again with the fucking post lag, micro.blog? Why do I have to post an arbitrary post just to get you …
2020-12-10: “How Julia Child Used First Principles Thinking” This glosses over an important fact: she was …
2020-12-10: “Why Development Teams are Slow. Common Software Jams and Solutions - by Eric Elliott - JavaScript …
2020-12-10: “Hyperland, Intermedia, and the Web That Never Was — Are.na”
2020-12-10: “Automated Open Graph images with 11ty and Cloudinary - Blog - Thoughts, Code and more by freelance …
2020-12-10: ‘PM “Responsibilities” ?. There are a bunch of ways to unpack… - by John Cutler - Medium’
2020-12-10: “google - The World Is Yours*” “Google is just a really badly-run company.”
2020-12-10: “UX Without Users Is Not UX” A classic.
2020-12-10: “Doc Searls Weblog · Is Flickr in trouble again?”
2020-12-09: “Why is the Google Cloud UI so slow? - DebugBear” Slow. Confusing. Disorganised. Ugly.
2020-12-09: “Inside the flaming dumpster fire at AT&T/WarnerMedia/HBO Max - The Beat”
2020-12-09: “Alt vs Figcaption”
2020-12-09: “CSS Scroll Snap”
2020-12-09: “Eye of Newt and Stack of Sub — Dorian Taylor”
2020-12-08: “Position Statement for the 2020 W3C TAG Election – Lea Verou”
2020-12-07: “We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says - MIT Technology …
2020-12-07: “Nonlinear increases in complexity make unification excruciating. – Jessitron”
2020-12-07: “The data pollution problem - Gerry McGovern”
2020-12-07: “Metafoundry 17: Twenty-Five Years Later”
2020-12-06: “thought leaders and chicken sexers”
2020-12-06: “There’s very little worse harm you can do to an application on the complexity level than distribute …
2020-12-06: “Inherent complexity in most web applications is the same it ever was. Where we regressed is in …
2020-12-06: “Astrogator’s Logs » Blog Archive » Cultural Pop amidst the Ruins”
2020-12-06: “Why Bookshop.org is not the saviour the book world needs” If you want to support independent …
2020-12-05: “Is your content too long? Not long enough? - Stacking the Bricks”
2020-12-05: ‘Apple’s “EDR” Brings High Dynamic Range to Non-HDR Displays — Prolost’
2020-12-05: “Apple’s ‘EDR’ Brings High Dynamic Range to Non-HDR Displays — Pixel Envy” “By the way, this only …
2020-12-05: “CSS Tips you won’t see in most tutorials” These are all good.
2020-12-04: “Stripe: Platform of Platforms – Stratechery by Ben Thompson” IMO, the biggest thing a small country …
2020-12-04: “Thunderbolt on the M1 Mac mini” Last post via this one
2020-12-04: “Thunderbolt on the M1 Mac mini – When 2 Actually Does Equal 4” Thunderbolt ports on the M1 Macs …
2020-12-03: It’s annoying how, sometimes, when you add two posts to micro.blog, the second one won’t appear in …
2020-12-03: “Adactio: Links—My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?”
2020-12-03: “My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be? – The Creative …
2020-12-01: “Adactio: Journal—Clean advertising”
2020-12-01: “Why is Apple’s M1 Chip So Fast?. Real world experience with the new M1… - by Erik Engheim - Nov, …
2020-12-01: You would never tear out a bridge and replace it just because its design looks ‘dated’ but we …
2020-11-30: “Designing the Smallest Possible Thing - Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)”
2020-11-29: “The Substackerati - Columbia Journalism Review”
2020-11-29: “Your first attempt at making anything accessible will be awful - Sheri Byrne-Haber’s Blog”
2020-11-27: “CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2020-11-27: “Advice for newsletter-ers” Sound advice
2020-11-26: “Write five, then synthesize: good engineering strategy is boring.”
2020-11-26: “Apple Silicon M1: Black. Magic. Fuckery. - Kay’s Blog”
2020-11-26: “Avoiding tab styles for navigation by Adam Silver – Designer, London, UK.”
2020-11-25: “Why it’s good for users that HTML, CSS and JS are separate languages” This.
2020-11-25: “One More Adventure: Thoughts on Star Trek: Picard”
2020-11-24: “Leveraging System Fonts on the Web - Jim Nielsen’s Weblog”
2020-11-24: “The case for alarmism — Crooked Timber”
2020-11-24: “Divided Societies In Decline Use Scapegoats To Re-Unify - Ian Welsh”
2020-11-23: “How do you raise a software bug with a book publisher? – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2020-11-23: “Not so short note on aria-label usage – Big Table Edition – HTML Accessibility”
2020-11-23: “We need to do more about electronic waste - Gerry McGovern”
2020-11-23: “Know Your Enemies - Ian Welsh”
2020-11-23: “It has never been easier to mass-shame politicians, yet never have politicians seemed so shameless: …
2020-11-22: “We need to do more about electronic waste - Gerry McGovern”
2020-11-22: “Adactio: Links—As Antitrust Pressure Mounts, Google to Pull Back Benefit to News Sites That Adopted …
2020-11-22: “As Antitrust Pressure Mounts, Google to Pull Back Benefit to News Sites That Adopted Its Preferred …
2020-11-22: ‘”Yes or No?” — One Checkbox vs Two Radio Buttons.’
2020-11-21: “Browser-level lazy-loading for CMSs”
2020-11-21: “Driving Cultural Change Through Software Choices - by Camille Fournier - Nov, 2020 - Medium”
2020-11-20: “The case for Weak Dependencies in JS – Lea Verou”
2020-11-20: “Product Leadership Is Hard - Silicon Valley Product Group”
2020-11-19: Idle thought of the day: ‘disruptive innovation’ is a Kuhn-style paradigm shift taking place in a …
2020-11-19: In my experience, even smart, well-educated Americans tend to have a hard time understanding how …
2020-11-19: “Day 8: Start with something that works” Gall’s law strikes again. (Always start with something that …
2020-11-18: “Nibble Stew: The Nine Phases of an Open Source Project Maintainer”
2020-11-18: “5 communication best practices for remote teams - Know Your Team - Blog”
2020-11-18: “What are design tokens? - Piccalilli”
2020-11-18: “Under-Engineered Responsive Tables - Adrian Roselli”
2020-11-18: “Feedback: UIs, Mac pains, hardware, teaching and octal”
2020-11-17: “Git is simply too hard -> Changelog” Yes.
2020-11-17: “Application Trust is Hard, but Apple does it Well — Security Embedded”
2020-11-17: “Estimating Cost of Delay – Charles Lambdin”
2020-11-17: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Big Sur Bricking MacBook Pros” Well, that’s that OS upgrade postponed.
2020-11-17: “Tuned for the Mac — Audacious”
2020-11-16: “Playing with Envision Glasses - Tink - Léonie Watson” This sounds kind of amazing.
2020-11-16: “How do you write simple explanations without sounding condescending?”
2020-11-16: “How Do You Know When Society Is About to Fall Apart? - The New York Times”
2020-11-16: “X demographic doesn’t use the web anymore, they use apps”. Computer use is …
2020-11-15: ‘Covid-19: politicisation, “corruption,” and suppression of science - The BMJ’ “Politicisation of …
2020-11-15: “Jacques Corby-Tuech - Marketers are Addicted to Bad Data” Marketers are addicted to data because …
2020-11-15: “Does Apple really log every app you run? A technical look – Jacopo Jannone - blog”
2020-11-15: “MacOS App Security Histrionics — Pixel Envy” “either my research skills are terrible, or Paul …
2020-11-14: Back in late February/Early March I expected that the death toll due to COVID would eventually top …
2020-11-13: “JavaScript Errors in the Wild 2020 - CatchJS” “We rendered a million web pages to learn how the …
2020-11-13: “Dashboards: a design debate - Clearleft”
2020-11-13: “The Business Cost of Slow Site Speed Performance - Viget”
2020-11-13: “Backlinking Is Not Very Useful – Often Even Harmful • Zettelkasten Method” Also a mini case …
2020-11-13: “Super simple start to Firebase functions”
2020-11-13: “Super simple start to Netlify functions”
2020-11-12: “The Cleanest Trick for Autogrowing Textareas - CSS-Tricks” This is clever
2020-11-12: “What Happens When Ed-Tech Forgets? Some Thoughts on Rehabilitating Reputations”
2020-11-12: “On Apple’s SwiftUI Header File Documentation — Conrad Stoll”
2020-11-11: “On Apple’s Piss-Poor Documentation — Liss is More”
2020-11-11: “Adactio: Journal—Upgrades and polyfills”
2020-11-11: “What’s the difference between an Interface and an API? - Zell Liew”
2020-11-11: “Being a responsible subsystem – Jessitron”
2020-11-10: Is there a reason why people in tech only read philosophy when it’s repackaged by a libertarian or …
2020-11-09: “20 Macs for 2020: #7 – iBook – Six Colors” I owned a 1st gen iBook back in the day. Lovely machine.
2020-11-09: “Reducing energy waste in digital - Gerry McGovern”
2020-11-09: Whenever you hear somebody rave about a notetaking app or methodology you should always bear in mind …
2020-11-09: “Thinking in maps: from the Lascaux caves to knowledge graphs”
2020-11-09: “Navigating Organizational Transformation: Let Buildings Be Your Sensei” “The open office …
2020-11-09: “Learning Through Play”
2020-11-08: “Strong Opinions Loosely Held Might be the Worst Idea in Tech - The Glowforge Blog”
2020-11-07: “All Them Switches: Responsive Elements and More”
2020-11-07: “Utility vs usability”
2020-11-07: “Google’s File System Access API is not a standard - Web Platform News” Google keeps shipping APIs …
2020-11-05: “Blogging vs. blog setups” Accurate
2020-11-04: “Entropy, developer experience, and vanilla JS - Go Make Things”
2020-11-04: “GIFS and prefers-reduced-motion - CSS-Tricks”
2020-11-04: “Product Manager Job Description - Silicon Valley Product Group”
2020-11-04: “Lenticular Design - MAGIC: THE GATHERING” About complexity in game design but entirely relevant to …
2020-11-03: “How to Automate Project Versioning and Releases with Continuous Deployment - CSS-Tricks”
2020-11-03: ‘“We Don’t Wan’t the Program”. Jill Lepore and danah boyd discuss how… - by Data & Society - …
2020-11-02: “Adactio: Links—Copying is the way design works – Matthew Ström: designer & developer”
2020-11-02: “Copying is the way design works – Matthew Ström: designer & developer”
2020-11-02: “What is this Gemini thing anyway, and why am I excited about it?”
2020-11-02: “Questionable Advice: The Trap of The Premature Senior”
2020-11-01: “Why Life Can’t Be Simpler” “The first lesson from Tesler’s law of the conservation of complexity …
2020-10-31: “Discovery - Delivery - Silicon Valley Product Group”
2020-10-31: “Mac OS Big Sur logbook (9) - More UI refinements - Riccardo Mori”
2020-10-30: “The Principles Of Visual Communication — Smashing Magazine” Start simple and change one thing at a …
2020-10-30: “To Add Appeal, First Reduce Anxieties - sharpen.page: A Product Sharpening Service”
2020-10-30: “PX, EM or REM Media Queries? - Zell Liew”
2020-10-30: “How to build team morale remotely - Know Your Team - Blog”
2020-10-29: “A few things I’ve learned about email marketing”
2020-10-29: “Software correctness is a lot like flossing” One issue is that most managers don’t actually care …
2020-10-29: “Adactio: Journal—Portals and giant carousels”
2020-10-28: “Adactio: Journal—ARIA in CSS”
2020-10-28: “A Guy Walks Into an Apple Store” Apple is being wasteful
2020-10-28: “Introduction to the Zettelkasten Method • Zettelkasten Method”
2020-10-27: “Text layout is a loose hierarchy of segmentation - Raph Levien’s blog”
2020-10-27: “You Don’t Pick Niches - You Discover Them - DaedTech”
2020-10-26: “Banned on Facebook - Burningbird”
2020-10-26: “An Old Article I Wrote - Sententia cdsmithus” This is a pretty interesting overview of the whole …
2020-10-26: “Web, we have a problem - Gerry McGovern”
2020-10-26: “The over-engineering of everyday tools and apps - Stefan Judis Web Development”
2020-10-25: “How to destructure an object to existing variables in JavaScript” I didn’t realise this was …
2020-10-23: “Make a Worse Product (to Save It) - sharpen.page: A Product Sharpening Service”
2020-10-23: “Giving feedback remotely - Know Your Team - Blog”
2020-10-23: “Removing Friction Isn’t Always Good - Product Solving by Tyler Wince”
2020-10-23: “Firefox: The Jewel^WEmbarassment of Open Source”
2020-10-23: “Don’t ever break a URL if you can help it - Scott Hanselman’s Blog”
2020-10-22: “United States v. Google – Stratechery by Ben Thompson”
2020-10-22: ‘Book Notes: “Demand Side Sales” by Bob Moesta - Jim Nielsen’s Weblog’
2020-10-21: “Software against humanity? – An Illichian perspective on the industrial era of software” (PDF) A …
2020-10-21: “Complexity Has to Live Somewhere”
2020-10-21: “You Reap What You Code” This is a really good exploration on how to design software with software’s …
2020-10-21: “Adactio: Journal—Standards processing” A simple share button would be nice.
2020-10-21: “Robin Rendle ･ Why does this design crit hurt?”
2020-10-20: “Twitter, Responsibility, and Accountability – Stratechery by Ben Thompson”
2020-10-20: “Focus management and inert - CSS-Tricks”
2020-10-20: “Ten Anti-Principles of Good Design - Jim Nielsen’s Weblog”
2020-10-20: “Adactio: Journal—Continuous partial browser support”
2020-10-20: “Meet Face ID and Touch ID for the Web - WebKit”
2020-10-20: “Pure Programming :: // gazzini”
2020-10-19: “Reclaiming our lives from the machine - Gerry McGovern”
2020-10-19: “Adactio: Links—What is the Web? - Web Directions”
2020-10-19: “What is the Web? - Web Directions”
2020-10-18: “Shadow Dom Example - BitWorking” “So please think twice before adopting Shadow DOM.” What he …
2020-10-18: “Say goodbye to resource-caching across sites and domains - Stefan Judis Web Development” This …
2020-10-17: “Why Men Are Bad At Casual Sex - British Vogue”
2020-10-17: “Ego Makes Good Products Fail (Remove Ego to See Reality)”
2020-10-16: “One writing app to rule them all – Bigmouth Strikes Again”
2020-10-16: “Ambient Reassurance – disambiguity”
2020-10-16: “Bullshit Economic Statistics - Ian Welsh”
2020-10-16: “Thoughts on the App Store - Riley Testut”
2020-10-16: “Three Types of Management Problems · Stay SaaSy”
2020-10-16: “We like what we choose - Seth’s Blog”
2020-10-16: “How To Make Publishing Platforms More Accessible (Part 2) - TPG – The Accessibility Experts”
2020-10-16: “City life - Trys Mudford” “I’m not building Gmail, and neither are you.”
2020-10-16: “The (extremely) loud minority - Andy Bell” This. SPA-loving minority in web dev is just that: a …
2020-10-15: “Adactio: Links—How-to: Create accessible forms - The A11Y Project”
2020-10-15: “How-to: Create accessible forms - The A11Y Project”
2020-10-15: “An opinionated guide to accessibility testing /// Iain Bean”
2020-10-14: “Disney and Integrators Versus Aggregators – Stratechery by Ben Thompson”
2020-10-14: “Sidenotes For Web Design · Gwern.net”
2020-10-14: “Making semantic sidenotes without JavaScript - Koos Looijesteijn” I’ve seen this approach on a few …
2020-10-14: “An alternative to single page apps: multi-page apps with service workers - Go Make Things” We, as …
2020-10-14: “This is my message to the western world – your civilisation is killing life on Earth - Amazon …
2020-10-14: “Givers and takers - A Working Library”
2020-10-14: “Givers and takers - A Working Library”
2020-10-14: “Daring Fireball: Revolutionary, Indeed”
2020-10-13: “Adactio: Journal—Owning Clearleft”
2020-10-13: “Modern JS is amazing. Modern JS is trash. - Go Make Things” The problem with Modern JS™ is that we …
2020-10-13: “Adactio: Links—Cheating Entropy with Native Web Technologies - Jim Nielsen’s Weblog”
2020-10-13: “Dialog Focus in Screen Readers - Adrian Roselli”
2020-10-13: “Adactio: Links—5 most annoying website features I face as a blind person every single day by Holly …
2020-10-13: “5 most annoying website features I face as a blind person every single day - The Big Hack”
2020-10-13: “What happened to XPath?. After being revolutionary in 2007 to… - by Andrea Giammarchi - Oct, 2020 - …
2020-10-12: “Cheating Entropy with Native Web Technologies - Jim Nielsen’s Weblog”
2020-10-12: “Clockwork to Complexity: scale in time and software – Jessitron”
2020-10-12: “Noelle Stevenson Shares Her Coming Out Story in an Original Comic”
2020-10-12: “Meet the new owners of Clearleft - Clearleft” Clever move.
2020-10-11: “The case for rereading - A Working Library”
2020-10-11: “Robin Rendle ･ The case for rereading”
2020-10-11: “What I Didn’t Expect to Learn From Running My Side Hustle - DEV”
2020-10-11: “Please stop using CDNs for external Javascript libraries – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2020-10-10: “The Order of Marvel Movies – The Architecture of Information”
2020-10-10: “’The impact is incredible’: Hidden cameras and secret trackers reveal where Amazon …
2020-10-10: “Screens and Models – Jorge Arango”
2020-10-10: “xkcd: Prediction”
2020-10-09: “Your Product Is Going to Fail - sharpen.page: A Product Sharpening Service”
2020-10-09: “The usability of HTML elements – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2020-10-09: “The usability of HTML elements – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2020-10-09: “The usability of HTML elements – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2020-10-09: “Apple made ProtonMail add in-app purchases, even though it had been free for years - The Verge”
2020-10-08: “Behaviorism Won” “Skinner won; Papert lost. Thorndike won; Dewey lost. Behaviorism won.” This is …
2020-10-08: “Nine Lies About Work by Buckingham and Goodall - Ian Welsh” This is really good.
2020-10-08: “The Widening Responsibility for Front-End Developers - CSS-Tricks”
2020-10-08: “HTML templates should solve isomorphic web but don’t” Yeah.
2020-10-07: “Notes on the web, take 1 - QuirksBlog” All footnotes on the web are broken as designed. This is an …
2020-10-07: “How to work with multiselect elements in vanilla JS - Go Make Things”
2020-10-07: “MJD 59,128”
2020-10-07: “Unforced Errors · Stay SaaSy”
2020-10-06: “Work on the Structure – Jorge Arango”
2020-10-04: “Software teams are like Executive Teams – Jessitron”
2020-10-04: “ongoing by Tim Bray · I Hate My MacBook” A looot of people seem disappointed in their macs lately.
2020-10-03: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Another Developer Account Nearly Terminated” Apple continues to try as hard …
2020-10-03: “Walking away from the idée fixe - Seth’s Blog”
2020-10-02: “The dogs won’t eat it - Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design”
2020-10-01: “Adactio: Links—A future owners test // Cennydd Bowles”
2020-10-01: “A future owners test // Cennydd Bowles”
2020-10-01: “Multiple Benefits - Better world by better software”
2020-09-30: “Rust 2021: GUI - Raph Levien’s blog”
2020-09-30: “Will you create React/ Vue / Other-framework Courses? - Zell Liew”
2020-09-30: “Robin Rendle ･ Web Apps Are Not A Thing, Please Stop”
2020-09-29: ‘“Behave” By Robert Sapolsky - Ian Welsh’
2020-09-29: “I Feel Sorry for Americans” This.
2020-09-29: “AppStore Reviews Should be Stricter - Miguel de Icaza” “Yet, the AppStore reviews are too lax and …
2020-09-29: “GitHub - yjs/yjs: Peer-to-peer shared types”
2020-09-29: “I was wrong. CRDTs are the future”
2020-09-29: “Follow the fun - daverupert.com”
2020-09-29: “Demand Side Sales 101, a new book on sales by Bob Moesta. - Signal v. Noise”
2020-09-29: “Adactio: Journal—Unobtrusive feedback” I really like this pattern.
2020-09-28: “‘Real’ Programming Is an Elitist Myth - WIRED”
2020-09-28: “What is emergence, and why should we care about it? – Axis, Praxis”
2020-09-28: “Spatial Interfaces - Dark Blue Heaven”
2020-09-28: “Principles of Digital Earth Experience Design - Gerry McGovern”
2020-09-28: “The case for rereading - A Working Library”
2020-09-27: “Collecting material feels more useful than it usually is”
2020-09-27: “Inventing the Hindu-Arabic numerals requires both design genius and mathematical genius”
2020-09-27: ‘Collaborations between tool-makers and tool-users depend on building effective “armories” of tool …
2020-09-27: “Collaborations between tool-makers and tool-users can best iterate via a sequence of different …
2020-09-27: “Powerful enabling environments focus on expert use”
2020-09-27: “Better note-taking” misses the point; what matters is “better thinking” ‘In terms of technology, …
2020-09-27: “The most effective readers and thinkers I know don’t take notes when reading”
2020-09-27: “3 Visual Models on Quality - Complexity is a Matter of Perspective”
2020-09-27: “Towards principled reactive UI - Raph Levien’s blog” This makes me want to learn Rust.
2020-09-27: “A spoonful of sugar“ “the right time to give any sort of feedback, positive or negative, is as …
2020-09-27: “A spoonful of sugar“ “Secondly, and more seriously, it turns out the praise sandwich isn’t all …
2020-09-26: “Tweaking the Persona – Eleganthack”
2020-09-26: “We write code, not documents - Signal v. Noise” One of those blog posts where the none of the …
2020-09-26: “The Need for Stable Foundations in Software Development - Pointers Gone Wild”
2020-09-25: “Hari Kunzru Explains How Cop Shows Contribute to State Brutality - Electric Literature”
2020-09-25: “People expect technology to suck because it actually sucks” And technology sucks because software …
2020-09-25: “Don’t Compare Averages”
2020-09-25: “The failed promise of Web Components – Lea Verou” Been thinking about this one since I read it …
2020-09-25: “School should be free for everyone”
2020-09-25: “Adactio: Journal—Performance and people”
2020-09-25: “4 Questions for Evaluating Experiments - esther derby associates, inc.”
2020-09-25: “Poor communication is the primary reason systems and relationships fail -> News and podcasts for …
2020-09-24: “The failed promise of Web Components – Lea Verou”
2020-09-24: “Structurally Broken - Think Different” Most software is broken as designed. Even the ones that …
2020-09-23: “There’s a good reason why experienced devs say “it depends” so often -> News …
2020-09-23: “The Command Line Comeback. In consumer, everything old is new… - by Gaby Goldberg - Sep, 2020 - …
2020-09-23: “Build a light and global state system - Piccalilli”
2020-09-22: “Indie Hopes and Dreams - Becky Hansmeyer”
2020-09-22: “Adactio: Journal—Web browsers on iOS”
2020-09-21: “Management Scrutiny · Stay SaaSy” The problem here from the perspective of the employee is that …
2020-09-20: “Focus on the waste: Developing an earth experience culture in digital - Gerry McGovern” “So we …
2020-09-19: “Michael Tsai - Blog - The State of SwiftUI” Like pretty much everything related to Apple software, …
2020-09-19: “The ultimate software taboo – avdi.codes” ‘I have written before about the hidden dangers of …
2020-09-17: “Adactio: Links—Geri Reid - Forms best practice”
2020-09-17: “Geri Reid - Forms best practice”
2020-09-17: ‘Adactio: Journal—A polyfill for button type=”share”’
2020-09-17: “Developer priorities throughout their career – Lea Verou”
2020-09-17: “The Rise and Fall of Digital Book World - On Platforms”
2020-09-17: “Panic - Nova” This mac text editor from Panic looks amazing. Panic always makes great apps and I’d …
2020-09-16: ‘On constructing the “ideal” woman – Going Medieval’
2020-09-16: “Paul Romer” “a few of its members are doing enormous harm”
2020-09-16: “Designing For Attention — Smashing Magazine”
2020-09-16: “Follow the fun - daverupert.com”
2020-09-16: “The slow creep of mediocrity - DESK Magazine”
2020-09-16: “Russell Davies” “That’s who GPT-3 will get to first”
2020-09-16: “The iPad Air further cements the need for iPads to fully support external displays” The answer to …
2020-09-15: “Write fewer media queries with the clamp() CSS function - DEV” I did not know that clamp was so …
2020-09-15: “Interaction Media Features and Their Potential (for Incorrect Assumptions) - CSS-Tricks”
2020-09-15: “PostCSS 8.0: Plugin migration guide — Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog” Looks like I’m …
2020-09-15: “Adactio: Journal—A declarative Web Share API”
2020-09-14: “The compositor is evil - Raph Levien’s blog”
2020-09-14: “The Set-Up-To-Fail Syndrome: a summary · Intense Minimalism”
2020-09-14: “Adactio: Links—Tolerance - Trys Mudford”
2020-09-14: “Tolerance - Trys Mudford”
2020-09-12: “Is Plastic Recycling A Lie? Oil Companies Touted Recycling To Sell More Plastic : NPR”
2020-09-12: “7 Reasons Your Growth Startup Is Hiring Too Junior · Stay SaaSy”
2020-09-12: “Filament Group Modal - A simple, accessible modal dialog web component” I’ve mostly used …
2020-09-12: “5 most annoying website features I face as a blind person every single day - The Big Hack”
2020-09-12: “Beginner’s Mind – Jorge Arango”
2020-09-12: “Remember 9/11, When America Went Mad - Ian Welsh” I was an international student when 9/11 happened …
2020-09-12: “Using the brightness() CSS Filter to generically highlight Content - Rick Strahl’s Web Log” …
2020-09-12: “Options, Not Roadmaps - Signal v. Noise”
2020-09-12: “In-App Purchase Rules – Marco.org” The app store is clearly mismanaged. It isn’t a question anymore …
2020-09-11: “Work on what matters.”
2020-09-11: “Callbacks vs. custom events in vanilla JS - Go Make Things”
2020-09-11: “Ketting v6: Using Hypermedia APIs with React” Ketting is one of the more interesting libraries out …
2020-09-11: “15 rules for blogging, and my current streak (Interconnected)” 🧐
2020-09-11: “Oliver Burkeman’s last column: the eight secrets to a (fairly) fulfilled life - Health & …
2020-09-11: “Why Are Conservatives Obsessed with Pedophilia Right Now? - David M Schell”
2020-09-11: “Discovery - Judgement - Silicon Valley Product Group”
2020-09-11: “There Is No Cure For Burnout – Ella Dawson”
2020-09-10: “Renewing Higher Education’s Covenants - Just Visiting” “If instruction requires literal …
2020-09-10: “8 Cognitive Biases in Software Development” Most software devs think the bandwagon effect is a …
2020-09-10: ‘Michael Tsai - Blog - Epic Barred From “Sign in With Apple”’ Apple has a pretty big developer …
2020-09-09: “Manage Serverless APIs with API Gateway - Google Cloud Blog” Google is only now managing to build …
2020-09-09: “Designing With Reduced Motion For Motion Sensitivities — Smashing Magazine”
2020-09-09: “How to target non-empty but invalid input elements with CSS - Stefan Judis Web Development”
2020-09-09: “Front-end JavaScript performance - DebugBear”
2020-09-09: “Writing even more CSS with Accessibility in Mind,Part 1: Progressive Enhancement - Manuel …
2020-09-08: “Art deco will be the visual language of 2021 - DESK Magazine”
2020-09-08: “The Kawaiization of product design - DESK Magazine”
2020-09-08: “Import non-ESM libraries in ES Modules, with client-side vanilla JS – Lea Verou”
2020-09-08: “Some graphs and comments for LABOR DAY - Ian Welsh”
2020-09-08: “What software teams can learn from music masterclasses - Helen Hou-Sandí”
2020-09-07: “The difference between aria-label and aria-labelledby - Tink - Léonie Watson”
2020-09-07: “Soft Skills for Managers · Stay SaaSy”
2020-09-07: “Parsel: A tiny, permissive CSS selector parser – Lea Verou” CSS selectors are the sonic screwdriver …
2020-09-06: “The verbal clue your business is stuck, and how to get unstuck : startups”
2020-09-06: “A Goddamn Criminal Nightmare – Worms and Viruses” Windows is a mess. It’s not even close to being a …
2020-09-06: “If Management Isn’t A Promotion, Then Engineering Isn’t A Demotion – charity.wtf”
2020-09-05: “Discovery - Problem vs. Solution - Silicon Valley Product Group” “It’s worth noting that if you …
2020-09-05: “Why you should charge more for your app subscriptions – Matt Ronge” There’s a reason why the advice …
2020-09-05: “What is the Value of Browser Diversity? - daverupert.com”
2020-09-04: “Cabin: Creating simple apps for Linux” This is interesting.
2020-09-04: “Why Agile and UX Still Don’t Get Along – Charles Lambdin”
2020-09-04: “Eleventy: RSS Feeds and Front Matter Data – dirtystylus - Mark Llobrera”
2020-09-04: “Stroke Text CSS: The Definitive Guide - CSS-Tricks”
2020-09-04: “Stroke Text CSS: 📕 The Definitive Guide - Coding Dude”
2020-09-04: “Robot Teachers, Racist Algorithms, and Disaster Pedagogy”
2020-09-03: ‘How to Build Good Software’ ‘Projects that set out to be a “one-stop shop” for a particular domain …
2020-09-03: “Robin Rendle ･ Don’t draw the UI, draw the priority”
2020-09-02: “The Online Photographer: Movie Tone”
2020-09-02: “Discovery - Learning vs. Insights - Silicon Valley Product Group”
2020-09-02: “Web Brutalism, Seamfulness, and Notion - Viget”
2020-09-02: “Why is Facebook not Paying the Apple Tax? – iA”
2020-09-02: “Ad Platforms, Like Those From Facebook and Twitter, Avoid Apple’s Thirty Percent Commission — Pixel …
2020-09-01: “YSK that Amazon has a serious problem with counterfeit products, and it’s all because of …
2020-09-01: “Eleventy Leaderboards v2 via Speedlify—zachleat.com” Automatic, self-hosted performance monitoring …
2020-09-01: “Last Week on My Mac: Is macOS becoming unmaintainable?” Apple has a software maintenance problem. …
2020-08-31: “Why Gregory Bateson Matters - Los Angeles Review of Books” I need to reread “Steps to an Ecology of …
2020-08-31: “Milestones of User Interface Design” This sort of study of prior art was the foundation of academic …
2020-08-31: “Why is this interesting? - The 2x2 Edition - Why is this interesting?” It’s obviously more …
2020-08-31: “How the Blog Broke the Web - Stacking the Bricks” The web’s homogeneity is even greater today than …
2020-08-31: “Worth Your Attention – Jorge Arango” About to read the links in this post and they all look …
2020-08-30: “Deploying a (Wannbe) Monorepo in Netlify - Jim Nielsen’s Weblog”
2020-08-30: “It’s time to rethink the App Store”
2020-08-30: “Adactio: Links—The radium craze - Eric Bailey”
2020-08-30: “The radium craze - Eric Bailey”
2020-08-29: “Autonomy Online: A Case For The IndieWeb — Smashing Magazine”
2020-08-29: “Measurements for Freelancers - Part 2: Starting With the End - sharpen.page: A Product Sharpening …
2020-08-29: “Here’s How I Solved a Weird Bug Using Tried and True Debugging Strategies - CSS-Tricks”
2020-08-29: “RSS and the pleasure of not thinking - All this” The magic of RSS’s pervasiveness is that you can …
2020-08-29: “Google Analytics: A luxury your users are paying for /// Iain Bean”
2020-08-29: “Robin Rendle ･ The Thing with Leading in CSS” “Well, it contributes to that future where …
2020-08-28: “Orthographic media”
2020-08-28: “Adactio: Links—The Thing With Leading in CSS · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer”
2020-08-28: “The Thing With Leading in CSS · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer”
2020-08-28: “mnot’s blog: RFC8890: The Internet is for End Users” “So at its heart, The Internet is for End …
2020-08-28: “Adactio: Links—Make Me Think - Jim Nielsen’s Weblog”
2020-08-28: “Make Me Think - Jim Nielsen’s Weblog”
2020-08-27: “On all that fuckery” They should be blocked from GitHub. Make them explain to their employers why …
2020-08-27: “The difference between aria-label and aria-labelledby - Tink - Léonie Watson”
2020-08-27: “Lessons learnt in year three as a software engineer :: ✨Shubheksha Jalan✨”
2020-08-27: “Rethinking the App Store – Stratechery by Ben Thompson”
2020-08-27: “I was wrong about how to create accessible subtitles - Go Make Things”
2020-08-26: “Test Double - Our Blog - The Impact of Language in Tech”
2020-08-26: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Developer Accounts Nearly Terminated” iOS development is too unpredictable to …
2020-08-26: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Potential”
2020-08-26: “Positioning for Newbie Feelancers: The Ugly, The Bad, and the Good - DaedTech”
2020-08-26: “The wrong good solution - Rakhim.org” The vast majority of tech consists of a wrong good solution.
2020-08-25: “‘I was considering quitting’ – Six Colors” “I can’t tell you how many developers I’ve talked to …
2020-08-25: “Alice in Wonderland and the theft of the public domain”
2020-08-25: “How I Built Platforms, and How They Deteriorated Over Time — @glecharles — As in …
2020-08-24: “How to Dig a Billion-Dollar EdTech Hole” “The business model they aspired to was hostage-taking.” …
2020-08-24: “App Store Desire Paths — Pixel Envy” “Surely it more desirable to think less about what is legally …
2020-08-24: “Apple apologizes for botched WordPress rejection – Six Colors” ‘“Going to the press never helps” …
2020-08-23: “Disincentives are more powerful than incentives – Jessitron”
2020-08-23: “Publish or Vanish – Alarming Development”
2020-08-23: “Manton Reece - Jason Fried on TWiST about Hey vs. Apple” Unlike most others, it seems, I’m mostly …
2020-08-22: “1:1 Foundations: best practices for conversations that count - LeadDev” For most jobs I’ve had, the …
2020-08-22: “Michael Tsai - Blog - WordPress Bug Fixes Blocked Over IAP”
2020-08-22: “inessential: Worrying Effect” Developer fear of iOS app store shenanigans intensifies. It’s almost …
2020-08-20: “radEventListener: a Tale of Client-side Framework Performance - CSS-Tricks”
2020-08-20: “Where to Fix a Problem - esther derby associates, inc.” Fixing the system instead of the employee …
2020-08-20: “The end of Internet Explorer - Go Make Things”
2020-08-20: “Can’t you just right click?” “Some people claim that Mac users can “just right …
2020-08-20: “Bill English: Computer mouse co-creator dies at 91 - BBC News”
2020-08-20: “Don’t Take Freelancing Advice from Freelancers - DaedTech”
2020-08-19: “Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Identify and fix AMP Signed Exchange errors in Search …
2020-08-19: “Fandom, Folksonomies, and Tagging Things Right - The History of the Web”
2020-08-19: ‘DC’s Jim Lee on the Company’s Future: “We Are Still in the Business of Publishing …
2020-08-19: “DC, the fate of the floppy, Hollywood and the Great Reckoning - The Beat” There’s a chance that …
2020-08-19: “How to update a service worker - Go Make Things”
2020-08-19: “Design Debt · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer”
2020-08-18: “Future Shocked - On my Om”
2020-08-18: “Robin Rendle ･ Oh! What a Joyous Thing”
2020-08-18: “The 3 Minute Guide to One-on-Ones · Stay SaaSy”
2020-08-18: “Adactio: Links—The Just in Case Mindset in CSS”
2020-08-18: “The Just in Case Mindset in CSS”
2020-08-18: “Lost Colony of Roanoke: Researchers say the ‘mystery is over’ - The Virginian-Pilot”
2020-08-17: [“Adactio: Links—Web Technologies and Syntax - Jim Nielsen’s …
2020-08-17: “Web Technologies and Syntax - Jim Nielsen’s Weblog”
2020-08-16: “Be Wary of doc-subtitle - Adrian Roselli”
2020-08-16: “I Love MDN, or the cult of the free in action - QuirksBlog”
2020-08-16: “inessential: Desktop Means Web”
2020-08-16: I keep hitting posting bugs here on micro.blog. It might be time to figure out something else for my …
2020-08-16: “Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy is Killing You” We use GC at work because some bits of …
2020-08-14: “Zooming In and Out of UX Design Resolutions — UX Articles by UIE”
2020-08-14: “Discouraging Your Clients (for more Antifragility) - sharpen.page: A Product Sharpening Service”
2020-08-14: “The Clearleft podcast and the decline of design · Paul Robert Lloyd”
2020-08-13: “Preventing FOIT with web fonts using the vanilla JS fonts.load() method - Go Make Things”
2020-08-13: “Web browsers need to stop - Drew DeVault’s Blog”
2020-08-13: “tech brain - pycnocline”
2020-08-13: “A Problem With RSS Is That It Needs Explaining — Pixel Envy” “Not everything needs to be dominant …
2020-08-13: “Package managers need a permission model like mobile”
2020-08-13: “Adactio: Journal—BetrayURL”
2020-08-12: “Introducing aboutfeeds.com, a Getting Started guide for web feeds and RSS (Interconnected)”
2020-08-12: “The cult of the free must die - QuirksBlog”
2020-08-12: “Tripping over the potholes in too many libraries · The Ethically-Trained Programmer” My view? Most …
2020-08-12: “The Online Photographer: The Trouble with Negative Criticism”
2020-08-11: “The Kindle, Kobo and iPad are killing jars for words, denying their electronic existence to offer …
2020-08-11: “Don’t Mind Digital” “If I’m right, then a model of the universe that sees the BOOK as an object …
2020-08-11: ‘DC layoffs reportedly a “bloodbath” - The Beat’ The beginning of the end for superhero …
2020-08-09: “PDF: Still Unfit for Human Consumption, 20 Years Later” We’re still going to be dealing with PDFs …
2020-08-08: “If I got made king of web browsers, here’s what I’d do (Interconnected)”
2020-08-08: “Plague Police round up, or, I am tired, and you people give me no peace – Going Medieval”
2020-08-08: “Every Website is an Essay - CSS-Tricks”
2020-08-07: “Here’s Exactly How Inefficient Wireless Charging Is - OneZero”
2020-08-07: “JavaScript Fatigue - CSS-Tricks”
2020-08-06: “The Architecture of Information – Intriguing information structures from the web and beyond” …
2020-08-06: “How to self-host Google fonts - Go Make Things”
2020-08-06: “TypeScript, Minus TypeScript - CSS-Tricks” This is an approach I’d really like to try out in a …
2020-08-06: “Slow Tests Kill Businesses – Codemanship’s Blog”
2020-08-06: ‘“I could build that in five minutes!” – Terence Eden’s Blog’
2020-08-06: “Adapting to Change - esther derby associates, inc.” Never giving up and constantly banging your …
2020-08-06: “Adactio: Links—In a Land Before Dev Tools - Amber’s Website”
2020-08-06: “In a Land Before Dev Tools - Amber’s Website” Damn, I remember how much of a revolution …
2020-08-06: “Chapter 1: Birth - CSS-Tricks” Birth of the web.
2020-08-06: “Some Custom Elements Update. Times are different, and so should be… - by Andrea Giammarchi - Aug, …
2020-08-05: “tinykeys – A tiny and modern library for keybindings – Bram.us”
2020-08-05: “The UX of LEGO Interface Panels – George Cave” I love this.
2020-08-05: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Apple Remote-Kills Long-time Developer’s Apps” This is pretty worrying, TBH, …
2020-08-05: “Product Vision vs. Mission - Silicon Valley Product Group”
2020-08-05: You gotta build “If your team isn’t able to make meaningful progress without outsourcing its …
2020-08-05: “How to learn JavaScript - Derek Sivers” Decent advice.
2020-08-04: Google Docs is garbage but what’s astonishing is that it’s of a specific species of …
2020-08-04: “Writing your first service worker with vanilla JS - Go Make Things”
2020-08-04: “Tailwind CSS: From Side-Project Byproduct to Multi-Million Dollar Business – Adam Wathan” This is …
2020-08-04: “Grow to where we’re going – Jessitron”
2020-08-04: “Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth (Part 4) - Riccardo Mori”
2020-08-04: “Human-scale digital spaces. Bringing agency, humanism, and… - by Alexis Lloyd - Jul, 2020 - Medium”
2020-08-04: “The nature of change - Clearleft”
2020-08-03: “Print culture is holding organizations back - Gerry McGovern”
2020-08-03: “Some common hiring manager mistakes.”
2020-08-03: “Grow Skills With Work, Not Extracurriculars · Stay SaaSy” I don’t think I’ve ever worked for a …
2020-08-02: “Don’t Create Chaos · Stay SaaSy”
2020-08-02: “pkg.go.dev is more concerned with Google’s interests than good engineering - Drew DeVault’s Blog”
2020-08-02: “Why It’s Easier to Manage 4 People Than It Is to Manage 1 Person · Stay SaaSy” “Avoid at all …
2020-08-02: Rain
2020-08-02: Park
2020-08-02: Beach.
2020-08-01: “Gall’s Law · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer” Always retweet Gall’s Law.
2020-08-01: “Generate JWTs with Django” James Bennet’s entry in this thread outlines many of the reasons why …
2020-08-01: “Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech - Knight First Amendment …
2020-08-01: “Adactio: Links—The things of everyday design – Matthew Ström: designer & developer”
2020-08-01: “The things of everyday design – Matthew Ström: designer & developer”
2020-07-31: “Adactio: Links—On the origin of cascades”
2020-07-31: “On the origin of cascades”
2020-07-31: “Adactio: Links—Why Medium is Not the Home for Your Ideas – The Hulry”
2020-07-31: “Why Medium is Not the Home for Your Ideas – The Hulry”
2020-07-31: “inessential: The Overdog Lovers” Many in tech love power and the powerful (and have a dislike of …
2020-07-31: “Elderblog Sutra: 11”
2020-07-30: “The amazing power of service workers - Go Make Things”
2020-07-30: “How would I improve RSS? Three ideas (Interconnected)”
2020-07-29: “Range · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer” “Being a generalist is not a sign of weakness – …
2020-07-29: “The service you build doesn’t do a thing. It participates in a thing. – Jessitron”
2020-07-29: “inessential: I Got Teed Off and Went on a Long Rant About This Opinion Piece on the App Store”
2020-07-28: “GitHub - felixrieseberg/macintosh.js: A virtual Apple Macintosh with System 8, running in Electron. …
2020-07-28: “Smashing Podcast Episode 21 With Chris Ferdinandi: Are Modern Best Practices Bad For The Web? — …
2020-07-27: “Usability of Footnotes – Terence Eden’s Blog” Footnotes, like drop caps, are one of those things …
2020-07-27: “The Online Photographer: Reminder!”
2020-07-27: “Remove Friction? No. Help Make Progress - sharpen.page: A Product Sharpening Service”
2020-07-25: “Why you should hire a frontend developer - Technology in government”
2020-07-24: “How to pay your rent with your open source project - Plausible Analytics”
2020-07-24: “More Effective Remote Brainstorming – Jorge Arango”
2020-07-24: “Masculinity isn’t effectiveness”
2020-07-23: ‘Adactio: Links—4 Design Patterns That Violate “Back” Button Expectations – 59% of Sites Get It …
2020-07-23: “4 Design Patterns That Violate “Back” Button Expectations – 59% of Sites Get It Wrong - Articles - …
2020-07-23: “Stacking the Bricks: Why an Unknowable Future is So Hard”
2020-07-23: “inessential: Apple’s Thirty Percent Cut”
2020-07-22: “Death by numbers – Carrie Marshall: Bigmouth Strikes Again”
2020-07-22: “Svelte <3 TypeScript” Not a typescript user but this shows how Svelte is maturing into a pretty …
2020-07-22: “Progressive · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer”
2020-07-22: “An Introduction to Profitable Business Models for Recovering Hours Peddlers - DaedTech”
2020-07-21: “Revisting aria-label versus a visually hidden class - Go Make Things”
2020-07-21: “The new A11Y Project - Go Make Things”
2020-07-21: “Lab Notebooks - Sam Bleckley” Always interesting when you stumble upon a methodology that’s shared …
2020-07-21: “Building Anti-Surveillance Ed-Tech”
2020-07-20: “Worth Your Attention – Jorge Arango”
2020-07-20: “Make me think! – Ralph Ammer”
2020-07-20: “Why Figma Wins - kwokchain”
2020-07-18: “Bruce Lawson’s personal site : Live Regions resources”
2020-07-18: “When should you use ARIA? - Go Make Things” Don’t always reach for the visually-hidden class.
2020-07-18: “Evaluating a Product Opportunity - sharpen.page: A Product Sharpening Service”
2020-07-18: “All your Frais are problematic – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2020-07-18: “The company isn’t a family - Signal v. Noise”
2020-07-17: “On dependency - RobWeychert.com V7”
2020-07-17: “Adactio: Links—Why you should have a blog (and write in it) - Leticia Portella”
2020-07-17: “Why you should have a blog (and write in it) - Leticia Portella”
2020-07-16: “How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner - DaedTech” Posted this a while back. …
2020-07-16: “Google’s Abuse of Its Dominant Position Isn’t Only Maybe Illegal, It Also Makes for Worse Products …
2020-07-16: “Adactio: Links—The Shape Of The Machine « blarg?”
2020-07-16: “The Shape Of The Machine « blarg?” “Google has managed to structure this …
2020-07-16: “The Shape Of The Machine « blarg?” “But when you put all the parts of that machine together under …
2020-07-16: “My triple screen set-up for effective online presentations – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2020-07-16: ‘Markets, discrimination, and “lowering the bar”’ “the excuses for the gender disparity …
2020-07-16: “roguelazer’s website: Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad” “For 99.9% of people out …
2020-07-15: “Some Web Components Hint. Another day on the Web, another library” Good advice on web components, …
2020-07-15: “Structure Changes More Slowly Than Look-and-feel – Jorge Arango”
2020-07-15: “Icon accessibility and aria label - Go Make Things”
2020-07-15: “Adactio: Journal—Accessibility” What he said.
2020-07-15: “The State Of Pixel Perfection”
2020-07-15: “Manton Reece” “I’ve rolled the Quotebacks experiment out to more places in Micro.blog on the web” …
2020-07-15: “Scrolling Elements Into View · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer”
2020-07-14: “Debouncing vs. throttling with vanilla JS - Go Make Things”
2020-07-14: “App Review Rejects Information Superhighway — Pixel Envy” The iOS app store continues to excel at …
2020-07-14: “The illusion of improving social media platforms – On my Om”
2020-07-14: “The trouble with mailto email links and what to do instead by Adam Silver - Designer, London, UK.”
2020-07-14: “Warren Ellis: 20 Years of the Bastard - The Beat”
2020-07-13: “Getting Covid-19 twice: Why I think my patient was reinfected - Vox” Well, fuck.
2020-07-12: “Inside the Comic Book Industry’s Sexual Misconduct Crisis—and the Ugly, Exploitative History That …
2020-07-12: “Stacking the Bricks: Why an Unknowable Future is So Hard”
2020-07-12: “Grids Part 1: To grid or not to grid - Sarah Higley”
2020-07-12: “Software development is like geriatrics – Jessitron”
2020-07-12: “ongoing by Tim Bray · Just Too Efficient” A little bit of efficiency is fine. But too much of it …
2020-07-09: “How we achieve “simple design” for Basecamp and HEY - Signal v. Noise”
2020-07-09: “The Bullshit Web’s Ubiquity — Pixel Envy”
2020-07-09: “Adactio: Journal—Implementors”
2020-07-08: “Ten modern layouts in one line of CSS”
2020-07-08: “Why Browser Security UI Isn’t Specified - Infrequently Noted” Alex Russell’s blog posts are …
2020-07-06: “Always bet on HTML – being misunderstood - Christian Heilmann”
2020-07-04: “The Goal Fits the Team – Eleganthack” “But traditional OKRs only work if there is a strategy in …
2020-07-03: “Using SVGs in asset catalogs” In native apps that is.
2020-07-03: “inessential: I Had Been Worried About the Mac” Same, tbh.
2020-07-03: “Adactio: Links—Uncommon CSS Properties”
2020-07-03: “Uncommon CSS Properties”
2020-07-03: “Share the knowledge for free” “Free is not the default” What they said.
2020-07-03: What the web needs “Platform Adjacency Theory - Infrequently Noted” I agree with everything in this post by Alex …
2020-07-02: “If you’re going to talk about the Dark Ages, you had better be right. – Going Medieval”
2020-07-02: “The Security Value of Inefficiency - Schneier on Security” Efficiency is almost always brittle.
2020-07-02: “No, vanilla JS doesn’t mean hand-writing every single line of code - Go Make Things”
2020-07-02: “Fundamental Attribution of Ability Error — Computable Multiverse”
2020-07-02: “Building an accessible emoji picker - Read the Tea Leaves” This is lovely work by Nolan.
2020-07-02: “A curious usage of commas in JavaScript”
2020-07-02: “The Comeback of Fun in Visual Design”
2020-07-01: “How to reset a form”
2020-07-01: “Quick Guide to the Disruptive Design Method - Disruptive Design - Medium”
2020-07-01: “Understanding Template Literals in JavaScript - Tania Rascia”
2020-07-01: “Stolen ideas - Seth’s Blog”
2020-06-30: “The nullish coalescing operator in vanilla JS (sorry, the what now?) - Go Make Things”
2020-06-29: “On Tools and Developers ～ take” “This bed is of Apple’s own making.”
2020-06-29: “Milton Glaser – Ten Things I Have Learned · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer”
2020-06-29: “Introducing emoji-picker-element: a memory-efficient emoji picker for the web - Read the Tea …
2020-06-29: “Avoid PDF for On-Screen Reading” Try not to use PDFs if you can.
2020-06-29: “ongoing by Tim Bray · Break Up Google” What he said.
2020-06-29: “Custom errors in JavaScript”
2020-06-29: “Optional chaining in vanilla JS - Go Make Things”
2020-06-29: “accessiBe Will Get You Sued - Adrian Roselli”
2020-06-28: “It’s all just fashion shows — Computable Multiverse” Software is a fashion industry …
2020-06-28: “Testing your animations for “prefers-reduced-motion” support - Christian Heilmann”
2020-06-28: “Custom events in JavaScript”
2020-06-28: “Image Inconsistencies: How and When Browsers Download Images – CSS Wizardry – Web Performance …
2020-06-25: “Adactio: Links—On dependency - RobWeychert.com V7”
2020-06-25: “On dependency - RobWeychert.com V7”
2020-06-25: “Google blew a ten-year lead. - Second Breakfast”
2020-06-24: “The End of OS X – Stratechery by Ben Thompson”
2020-06-24: “The Online Photographer: Olympus to Sell Its Imaging Business” Big news in photography.
2020-06-23: “They Need to Change (But Might Not Know It) - esther derby associates, inc.”
2020-06-23: “How to be happy – On my Om”
2020-06-22: “Michael Tsai - Blog - The App Store Doesn’t Make Apps Safe”
2020-06-22: “Using Custom Property “Stacks” to Tame the Cascade - CSS-Tricks”
2020-06-22: “Always bet on HTML - Go Make Things”
2020-06-22: “The Ed-Tech Imaginary”
2020-06-22: “Manton Reece - Fixing the App Store for developers” I agree wholeheartedly with everything Manson …
2020-06-21: “Getting Purchase ～ take”
2020-06-21: “inessential: The iOS App Store Brings Users Only Because It’s the Only Choice”
2020-06-21: “inessential: The App Store Doesn’t Make Apps Safe”
2020-06-21: “New manager training: The 4 concepts to teach - Know Your Team - Blog”
2020-06-20: “Hypercritical: The Art of the Possible”
2020-06-20: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Highway Robbery”
2020-06-20: “Michael Tsai - Blog - It Doesn’t Work”
2020-06-20: “Hey, Wait, I’ve Got a New Complaint — Pixel Envy”
2020-06-20: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Have You Contributed Any Revenue?” That moment when devs begin to realise …
2020-06-20: “30% didn’t kill the App Store model. SaaS did. - Capiche”
2020-06-20: “Michael Tsai - Blog - App Store for the Past”
2020-06-20: “Daring Fireball: Kara Swisher: ‘Is It Finally Hammer Time for Apple and Its App …
2020-06-20: “All We Want ～ take”
2020-06-19: “Crap Store ～ take”
2020-06-19: “Dynamic shortcuts questions - Aaron Gustafson”
2020-06-19: “When You Have to Find Buyers for Your Product - sharpen.page: A Product Sharpening Service”
2020-06-19: “Release · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer”
2020-06-19: “Web Excursions for June 19, 2020 - BrettTerpstra.com”
2020-06-19: “GitHub - jakedeichert/mask: 🎭 A CLI task runner defined by a simple markdown file” Oh, I like this. …
2020-06-18: “Personal software vs factory-produced software (Interconnected)”
2020-06-18: “Refactoring optional chaining into a large codebase: lessons learned – Lea Verou”
2020-06-18: “Dropbox is a total mess – On my Om”
2020-06-18: “The Return of the 90s Web - Max Böck”
2020-06-18: “the ai will break you - The World Is Yours*”
2020-06-18: “Trapped in a Values Oasis.”
2020-06-18: “How to replace an element and its content using vanilla JS - Go Make Things” On sites with …
2020-06-17: “Manton Reece - Embedding microblog posts with Quotebacks” This is exactly what I meant the other …
2020-06-17: “On Coding, Ego and Attention”
2020-06-17: “Do Not Follow JavaScript Trends - Pragmatic Pineapple 🍍”
2020-06-17: “Eleventy: Paired Shortcodes and Markdown Rendering – dirtystylus - Mark Llobrera”
2020-06-17: The discussion surrounding Apple’s rejection of the Hey Email app I’ve seen all centres …
2020-06-17: “Hey, Nah — Pixel Envy” Between the poor software quality and horrible support for indie developers, …
2020-06-17: “Time to upgrade your monitor”
2020-06-16: “The Importance of Nesting when Remote Working and Quarantine Working - Scott Hanselman”
2020-06-16: “A Small Insight About Power, Markets, and Post-capitalism - Ian Welsh” “But all three systems have …
2020-06-16: “Quotebacks and hypertexts (Interconnected)” I really like how people are responding to Quotebacks: …
2020-06-16: “Getting values from a URL with vanilla JS - Go Make Things” I use this API so so much. Both in the …
2020-06-15: “How and why to learn command line as a front end developer - Go Make Things”
2020-06-15: “Inclusively Hiding & Styling Checkboxes and Radio Buttons — Sara Soueidan – Freelance-Front-End …
2020-06-14: “Your Responsibility For Insight, Understanding and Creative Work - Ian Welsh”
2020-06-14: “The best new products introduce only one new thing. - Capiche”
2020-06-14: “Brighton Ruby, why’s (Poignant) Guide, and justsimply.dev - Consonance”
2020-06-14: “Mike Pondsmith: Cops and Racists” The author of the Cyberpunk roleplaying game has a …
2020-06-13: “RIP Denny O’Neil: legendary writer and mentor passes away at age 81 - The Beat” Denny O’Neil …
2020-06-13: “Not so fast: Diamond will still distribute DC Comics - in the UK - The Beat” Oooh, a twist. This …
2020-06-12: “UX Design is More Than Visual Design”
2020-06-12: “Brilliant Hardware in the Valley of the Software Slump — by Craig Mod”
2020-06-12: “Admiring the Quotebacks Strategy”
2020-06-12: “Adactio: Journal—CSS custom properties and the cascade”
2020-06-12: “Make images that spark the imagination — aows”
2020-06-12: “Fawlty reporting – Carrie Marshall: Bigmouth Strikes Again” You should always take what you see in …
2020-06-11: “Midtown Comics is hiring a Shipping Specialist for their warehouse”
2020-06-11: “Inside the DC/Diamond split - The Beat” Basically, selling US-published comics pamplets outside of …
2020-06-10: “Optimizing keyboard navigation using tabindex and ARIA — Sara Soueidan – Freelance-Front-End UI/UX …
2020-06-09: “Introducing: Quotebacks” I like the design. For those of you who have a desktop Chrome workflow, …
2020-06-09: “Revisiting Array.reduce() - Go Make Things”
2020-06-09: “5 Myths About Jamstack - CSS-Tricks”
2020-06-08: “Stop mocking fetch”
2020-06-08: “All tech is political - Go Make Things”
2020-06-08: “How to Get All Custom Properties on a Page in JavaScript - CSS-Tricks”
2020-06-08: “How to Build a Task Flow Part 2: Combining Modules — Users Know”
2020-06-07: “There’s a voice inside your head that prevents you from sharing ideas—punch it in the face. - …
2020-06-07: “The dangers of exceptionalism - Gerry McGovern”
2020-06-07: “21st Century Design (In 6 minutes)”
2020-06-06: “The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes - Attack of the 50 Foot …
2020-06-06: “How to Build a Task Flow — Users Know” I love this. Anybody have suggestions for tools to make …
2020-06-06: “The Copyright Law of Embedding Just Got a Lot More Interesting”
2020-06-06: “Acorn 6.6 is out with new Shape Processors and more” Acorn is an amazing workhorse of an app. So …
2020-06-06: “Add a “contrib” directory to your projects - Drew DeVault’s Blog”
2020-06-06: “Hybrid positioning with CSS variables and max() – Lea Verou”
2020-06-06: “We’ve built a towering pile of shite – Terence Eden’s Blog” This applies to pretty much every …
2020-06-06: “End of an Era: The comics industry reacts to the DC Diamond split” The direct market distributor …
2020-06-04: “My Journey To Ghost”
2020-06-03: “event.stopPropagation vs event.preventDefault() vs. return false in DOM events”
2020-06-03: “The Rise and Fall of Commercial Smalltalk”
2020-06-03: “A Long Hot Summer - Ian Welsh”
2020-05-31: “marcus.io · Making RSS more visible again with a /feeds page”
2020-05-29: “Adactio: Links—Increment: Frontend”
2020-05-29: “On Odious Debt – Going Medieval”
2020-05-29: “Web Typography News #47: On the nature of ‘book’-ishness”
2020-05-29: “Responsive design: seams & edges. — Ethan Marcotte”
2020-05-29: “Deno is a Browser for Code”
2020-05-29: “Deno is a Browser for Code :: kitsonkelly.com — A recovering 7ft tall cactus”
2020-05-28: “’All Watched over by Machines of Loving Grace’: Care and the Cybernetic University”
2020-05-28: “The Expanding Gamut of Color on the Web - CSS-Tricks”
2020-05-28: “Interview with Scott Berkun, Author of “How Design Makes the World” + Subtraction.com”
2020-05-28: “COVID antibody testing and conditional probability - All this”
2020-05-28: “Organizing Your Documentation - Variance”
2020-05-28: “Context over control: the future of remote work - Pulse”
2020-05-28: “LF03 - Language is a Problem”
2020-05-28: “Filtered for… writing inside organizations”
2020-05-27: “Intentional Career Building”
2020-05-27: “CUBE CSS: A CSS methodology oriented towards simplicity and consistency with a heavy dosage …
2020-05-26: “David Attenborough, the voice of Netflix’s Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse “ - Vox”
2020-05-26: “Platforms in an Aggregator World – Stratechery by Ben Thompson”
2020-05-26: “Weave: part three ～ take”
2020-05-26: “The Half of It – dirtystylus - Mark Llobrera” “Nitpicking about the plot aside, though — I loved …
2020-05-26: “Web Engine Diversity and Ecosystem Health” Is there a full-featured open source PrinceXML …
2020-05-26: “as days pass by — Browsers are not rendering engines” “The ability to make, or to refuse, …
2020-05-26: “Can junior developers ask too many questions? - Go Make Things”
2020-05-25: “Week 8, inky”
2020-05-25: “How to Choose a Fulfilling Career - The Atlantic”
2020-05-25: “Deric’s MindBlog: Rules for identifying your life’s work.”
2020-05-25: “When no good could be done in the world, one returned to one’s private life to write poetry, drink …
2020-05-25: “Responsive web design turns ten. — Ethan Marcotte”
2020-05-25: “How to Convert a Date String into a Human-Readable Format - CSS-Tricks”
2020-05-24: “Weave: part two ～ take”
2020-05-23: “Weave: part one ～ take”
2020-05-23: “Prioritizing Visual Stability on the Web”
2020-05-23: “Michael Tsai - Blog - macOS 10.15: Slow by Design” Ugh.
2020-05-23: “An integration loop”
2020-05-23: “Adactio: Journal—Integration” “Listening to it, I found it incredibly moving, haunting, and …
2020-05-23: “Highlighting with Highlights and LiquidText - All this”
2020-05-22: “Neumorphism in user interfaces - UX Collective” I definitely don’t know what to make of this new …
2020-05-22: “Going slow to go fast”
2020-05-22: “How to store passwords in the database” “You don’t. You don’t store passwords in the database. You …
2020-05-21: “fantasai 70: Thoughts on the W3C’s May 2020 Advisory Board Election”
2020-05-21: “Herd Immunity Isn’t Happening AND This Crisis Has A Long Way To Go - Ian Welsh”
2020-05-21: “Google Classroom and How Spaces Value People + Subtraction.com”
2020-05-20: “Astrogator’s Logs » Blog Archive » The Wrenching and Unavoidable Choices of the Pandemic”
2020-05-20: “Picking dependencies”
2020-05-20: “Semantic Dates in Wagtail Blog Posts – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2020-05-20: “Disclosure Widgets - Adrian Roselli”
2020-05-19: “To Listen Better, Ask Better Questions – Charles Lambdin”
2020-05-19: “Design for Fingers, Touch and People, Part 3 :: UXmatters”
2020-05-19: “Design for Fingers, Touch, and People, Part 2 :: UXmatters”
2020-05-19: “Design for Fingers, Touch, and People, Part 1 :: UXmatters”
2020-05-19: “AddyOsmani.com - Modern Touch-Friendly Design”
2020-05-19: “It’s Time to Get Back Into RSS - Daniel Miessler” I highly recommend RSS and feeds in …
2020-05-18: “Science confirms it: Websites really do all look the same”
2020-05-18: “Adactio: Journal—Hard to break”
2020-05-18: “Complexity Has to Live Somewhere — Sebastian De Deyne”
2020-05-18: “Complexity Has to Live Somewhere”
2020-05-18: “Silicon Valley style Stoicism”
2020-05-18: “Bottom Line Up Front: write to make decisions faster – Matthew Ström: designer & …
2020-05-17: “Week 7, paused” Reminds me that I keep meaning to check out inkle
2020-05-15: “Serializing form data with the vanilla JS FormData() object - Go Make Things”
2020-05-15: “CSS-Only Resizable Elements – Bram.us” Huh! I did not know this.
2020-05-15: “How to Tame Line Height in CSS - CSS-Tricks” A really interesting approach to managing leading in …
2020-05-15: “Meaningful Transformation - Silicon Valley Product Group”
2020-05-15: “Mind-reading: Conducting Deep Research Using Multiple Passes - sharpen.page: A Product Sharpening …
2020-05-15: “AddyOsmani.com - What (not) to Prefetch/Prerender”
2020-05-15: “For every discipline-with-depth that I care about (software/Internet, politics, energy economics, …
2020-05-14: “Progressively enhancing radio buttons with SVG whilst staying accessible - Christian Heilmann”
2020-05-14: “Equal Width Columns in CSS Grid are Kinda Weird - CSS-Tricks”
2020-05-14: “JavaScript Weekly Issue 487: May 8, 2020” Last two links were from here.
2020-05-14: “GitHub - nikersify/pico: Take browser screenshots in Javascript 📸” This is also quite neat.
2020-05-14: “GitHub - daybrush/selecto: Selecto.js is a component that allows you to select elements in the drag …
2020-05-14: “Writing technical articles: Defining your ideal reader”
2020-05-14: “Better (more accessible) active link styling - Go Make Things”
2020-05-13: “Everything is terrible, especially software – Jessitron”
2020-05-13: “Encouraging a Culture of Written Communication – mcls”
2020-05-13: “Bolt-on Accessibility – 5 gears in reverse - TPG – The Accessibility Experts”
2020-05-12: “Why does writing matter in remote work? - CSS-Tricks”
2020-05-12: “Why does writing matter in remote work? — Tim Casasola”
2020-05-12: “21st century democracy requires an open web”
2020-05-12: “How I Put the Scroll Percentage in the Browser Title Bar - CSS-Tricks”
2020-05-12: “Micro-Typography: How To Space And Kern Punctuation Marks And Other Symbols — Smashing Magazine”
2020-05-12: Notion is really growing on me. It’s one of those weird apps where I don’t actually like …
2020-05-12: “The Streaming Model for Music Doesn’t Work for Artists When They Do Not Earn Live Performance …
2020-05-12: “What is the value of exposure when exposure is all there is? - Music Industry Blog”
2020-05-12: “Linux on the desktop as a web developer” Desktop Linux works really well for web dev and, at this …
2020-05-12: “Dithering and Open Versus Free – Stratechery by Ben Thompson” Specialised subscription web sites …
2020-05-12: “Dithering and Open Versus Free – Stratechery by Ben Thompson”
2020-05-12: “Fundamentals of Layout in Interface Design (UI) - Muzli - Design Inspiration”
2020-05-12: “Work on the System - esther derby associates, inc.”
2020-05-12: “Own your platform - Go Make Things”
2020-05-12: “Infinite Comics: A look back at the made-for-digital format - The Beat”
2020-05-12: “as days pass by — Hammer and nails”
2020-05-12: “The Automation of Note-Taking and the Just-In-Time Future of Work - Forte Labs”
2020-05-11: “Why we at $FAMOUS_COMPANY Switched to $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY”
2020-05-11: “The Myth of Metaphor” “Most of what we know we learn without …
2020-05-11: “The Myth of Metaphor” “They’d much rather be successful than be knowledgeable, a …
2020-05-11: “Hammer and Nails” This post frames the SPA problem in a way that makes a lot of sense.
2020-05-10: “Second-guessing the modern web - macwright.org” This makes some good points.
2020-05-10: ‘“Too Much Text”: What to Do About that Feedback - sharpen.page: A Product Sharpening Service’
2020-05-08: “ongoing by Tim Bray · Responses” “If you want to go live with this story you should do it with the …
2020-05-08: “Inclusive inputs - Go Make Things”
2020-05-08: “Inclusive Inputs « Texte - ovl – code & design” Love the design here.
2020-05-07: “Productivity: what is it good for? – On my Om” “What is the big deal about being productive and …
2020-05-07: “Do Software Developers Hate Marketing?”
2020-05-07: “The Unpaid Labor That Drives Tech Forward”
2020-05-07: “Educational Crises and Ed-Tech: A History”
2020-05-07: “Reducing Design Risk — Smashing Magazine”
2020-05-07: “On “alpha” men, sexual contagion, and poorly disguised misogyny – Going Medieval” An added …
2020-05-07: .Education Outrage: Please don’t try to put your course online….” A decent list of dos and don’ts …
2020-05-07: “How Neoliberalism Destroyed Capitalism - Ian Welsh”
2020-05-07: “Book Covers of Note, April 2020 - The Casual Optimist”
2020-05-06: “Why Reheated Coffee Tastes So Bad, And What To Do Instead - HuffPost Canada Food & Drink”
2020-05-06: “JAMstack is fast only if you make it so - Nicolas Hoizey” “That’s also something I …
2020-05-05: “Web Typography News #44: Adding web fonts; giving voice to our words”
2020-05-05: “Literata Font - Try, Buy and Download - TypeTogether” Looks good.
2020-05-05: “Visitors, Developers, or Machines – Dan Q”
2020-05-05: “We are complicit in our employer’s deeds - Drew DeVault’s Blog”
2020-05-05: ‘The rush to “show value.“’
2020-05-05: “Does masonry belong in the CSS Grid specification?”
2020-05-04: “Adactio: Links—CSS Tips for New Devs - Amber’s Website”
2020-05-04: “CSS Tips for New Devs - Amber’s Website”
2020-05-04: “The U.S. Is Not Headed Toward a New Great Depression” That the writers of this article don’t even …
2020-05-04: “Weekend Reading — 🍞 Existential Bread” Found the last link in this excellent weekly list of links.
2020-05-04: “GitHub - ksindi/managers-playbook: Heuristics for effective management” This is really good. And …
2020-05-04: “Creating clear menus and links - Gerry McGovern - Customer experience keynote speaker; user …
2020-05-04: “10 Things Every Good Software Development Method Does – Codemanship’s Blog”
2020-05-02: “The Coronavirus Journal: The Death of the Direct Market - The Beat” The transformation of the US …
2020-05-02: “To put it more bluntly, everyone should be spending 1 day a week not on immediate customer …
2020-05-02: “Phuoc Nguyen’s One Page Wonders - CSS-Tricks”
2020-05-02: “Progressive Enhancement Just Works”
2020-05-02: It shouldn’t come as a surprise that I loved The Half Of It. A queer Cyrano de Bergerac-style …
2020-05-01: “School Work and Surveillance”
2020-05-01: “Google Chat Nearly Got Me Fired – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2020-05-01: “Adactio: Links—The beauty of progressive enhancement - Manuel Matuzović”
2020-05-01: “The beauty of progressive enhancement - Manuel Matuzović”
2020-05-01: “Me on COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps - Schneier on Security” Basically, apps can help robust …
2020-05-01: “How vanilla JS Proxies work - Go Make Things”
2020-04-30: “To Microservices and Back Again - Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith”
2020-04-30: “How to build complex layouts with CSS grid - Go Make Things”
2020-04-29: “Creating an Accessible Range Slider with CSS - a11y with Lindsey”
2020-04-29: The iOS GitHub app is completely useless. Instead of being the iPadOS equivalent to GitHub’s …
2020-04-29: “Unsolved Zoom Mysteries: Why We Have to Say “You’re Muted” So Much - Viget”
2020-04-28: Unpopular opinion: I’ve never understood the popularity of JSX. I find it to be the most …
2020-04-28: “Static or Not? - CSS-Tricks”
2020-04-28: “The first modern pandemic - Bill Gates” Actually a pretty good overview of the situation: where we …
2020-04-28: “Bill Gates explains his plan to end the coronavirus pandemic - Vox” “If you just use Bluetooth, …
2020-04-28: “An introduction to CSS Grid - Go Make Things” I use CSS Grid (or flexbox) pretty much in every …
2020-04-28: “Spotify vs. Fitbit - Silicon Valley Product Group” “There’s a lot of talk today about focusing on …
2020-04-27: “Selection in CSS”
2020-04-27: The core flaw, AFAICT, of every contact tracing app proposal I’ve seen is that there are …
2020-04-27: “How to Make a CSS-Only Carousel - CSS-Tricks”
2020-04-27: “The History of the Future” I needed this today. A great read.
2020-04-27: “Tend and befriend - A Working Library”
2020-04-27: “Gardened. — Ethan Marcotte”
2020-04-27: Had the iOS micro.blog sharing extension crash after writing a decent sized note. Add to that the …
2020-04-27: “You don’t get a free pass on web performance just because you built an app - Go Make Things”
2020-04-27: “Adactio: Journal—Principles and priorities”
2020-04-26: “Internal and External Language – Jorge Arango”
2020-04-25: “It’s Time To Learn - Scott Berkun” “This was not a building problem. It was a priorities problem. …
2020-04-24: “Adactio: Journal—Lightweight”
2020-04-24: “Empowered Engineers FAQ - Silicon Valley Product Group”
2020-04-24: “Visual Studio Code “Custom Editors” – Bram.us” This could be interesting
2020-04-24: “How I think about solving problems - Human Who Codes”
2020-04-23: “Time Isn’t Money - It’s Inefficiency and Waste - DaedTech”
2020-04-23: “Things I Wished More Developers Knew About Databases”
2020-04-22: “Cloud Distros: and the Deployment Age of the Cloud” Interesting ideas. I will note, though, that in …
2020-04-22: “CSS { In Real Life } - Tips for Writing for the Web”
2020-04-22: “Cynefin and the Importance of Contexts - Only Dead Fish”
2020-04-22: “If it’s interactive, it needs focus styles - Go Make Things” I’ve found it surprisingly hard …
2020-04-21: “Overlay gap - Clearleft”
2020-04-21: “The Most Important Thing - Silicon Valley Product Group”
2020-04-21: “The Online Photographer: Why Desaturation Doesn’t Work: Tim Soret”
2020-04-21: “The Cost of Javascript Frameworks”
2020-04-21: “An update on a pre-registered result about the coronavirus - Kalzumeus Software” This is a …
2020-04-21: “Why I am giving up on GraphQL (kinda)” I haven’t done real testing of GraphQL but …
2020-04-20: “Hubris isn’t helpful” Great post. Unfortunately it’s likely to be perennially relevant.
2020-04-20: “Graphic Design for Game Designers - Game Design Fundamentals - Medium”
2020-04-19: “How (some) good corporate engineering blogs are written”
2020-04-19: “The problem with snackbars and toast messages by Adam Silver - Designer, London, UK.”
2020-04-19: “Blogging is one of the best ways of learning - Manuel Matuzović”
2020-04-19: “Spacing in CSS” Nicely comprehensive
2020-04-18: Kári Stefánsson interviewed by CNBC www.youtube.com/watch
2020-04-17: “The world we return to - Zeldman on Web & Interaction Design”
2020-04-17: “Introduction - Vime” Built using Svelte. Delivered as vanilla JS. Interesting.
2020-04-17: “Making Things Better” “Don’t assume that because CSS doesn’t work like that now it can never work …
2020-04-17: “Making Things Better” This post is a must-read for anybody working with CSS. It goes over, in …
2020-04-17: “Making Things Better” “I believe that the way many people see the web is still hobbled by the …
2020-04-17: “Performance During a Pandemic - Calibre”
2020-04-17: “Web performance during a pandemic - Go Make Things”
2020-04-16: “The third wave of open source migration”
2020-04-16: “Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Feynman – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2020-04-15: “Teens Are Addicted to Socializing, Not Screens - OneZero” Everything danah boyd writes is a …
2020-04-15: “Measuring effort gets you effort – Jessitron” This post makes an interesting point many managers …
2020-04-15: “How The Way We Measure “Productivity” Makes Us Take Bad Bets – Codemanship’s Blog” ‘Think of …
2020-04-15: “What is Gestalt and Why You Need To Know It”
2020-04-15: “Ready to run: How Glitch is making it easier to run apps in the cloud”
2020-04-14: “PDF Expert’s New Reading Mode Offers the Best iPhone PDF Experience - MacStories”
2020-04-14: “Our Pandemic Summer - The Atlantic”
2020-04-13: “The Next Problem Will Be Food - Ian Welsh”
2020-04-13: “Favourite Resources - Stevan Popovic”
2020-04-13: “Discovery When Working Remotely - Silicon Valley Product Group”
2020-04-13: “Why you should stop using product roadmaps and try the GIST Framework”
2020-04-13: “When Is a Vetted Pattern No Longer a Vetted Pattern? - Adrian Roselli”
2020-04-13: “The hard way - A Working Library”
2020-04-13: “Android users and an unwillingness to pay for great games”
2020-04-11: “Thinking in Behaviors, Not Screen Sizes - CSS-Tricks”
2020-04-10: “Why we need to rethink how to support music (and creativity) – On my Om” The whole ‘give away your …
2020-04-10: “CSS Tutorial: Create Diagonal Layouts Like It’s 2020”
2020-04-09: “The Government Accountability Office has repeatedly warned about the use of legacy …
2020-04-08: “DC ROUND-UP: How one page from ALL-STAR SUPERMAN saved my life - The Beat”
2020-04-08: “Don’t start with features. Start with a problem. Design the simplest solution you can think of that …
2020-04-08: Why I Abandoned Business Modeling – Codemanship’s Blog Don’t start with features. Start with …
2020-04-08: “My First Month of Locking Down in a Small Town”
2020-04-08: “Why I Abandoned Business Modeling – Codemanship’s Blog”
2020-04-08: “Bruce Lawson’s personal site : Why I won’t clap for Boris”
2020-04-08: “The Musician’s Rule – iterating toward openness”
2020-04-08: “Information Architecture Lenses: Perspectives on Structure” This seems like a good …
2020-04-08: “Tiger King is the TV equivalent of licking the subway pole.”
2020-04-08: ‘Alan Kay on Hoping That “Simple” is not “Too Simple”’
2020-04-07: “How far away are ‘immunity passports’? - UnHerd”
2020-04-07: “Firefox 75: Ambitions for April - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog”
2020-04-07: “Text Standups · Intense Minimalism”
2020-04-06: “Crafting “Crafting Interpreters”
2020-04-06: “Coronavirus Is Making a Lot of People Anxious and Depressed. But Some Sufferers Actually Feel …
2020-04-05: “Why do we copy and paste so much?”
2020-04-04: These three, which I took in Viðey two years ago, have a little bit of a ‘stockphoto’ feel to them …
2020-04-04: These two were taken in Hvalfjörður, Iceland. This is what remains of the WW2 US military base that …
2020-04-04: A mountain wreathed in clouds and rainbows. Taken two years ago in Kaldidalur in Iceland. My dad …
2020-04-04: Icelandic tourism in a nutshell. Taken about two years ago at Snorralaug. A bunch of tourists huddle …
2020-04-04: This photo, of three kids running around at my friends’ outdoor commitment ceremony in Bristol, is a …
2020-04-04: If you’ve spent any time whatsoever in Clifton, then you know exactly where in Bristol this photo …
2020-04-04: I took this picture, of a couple of golfers playing golf in Bristol, about fifteen years ago, or so. …
2020-04-04: “LCH colors in CSS: what, why, and how? - Lea Verou” Fun stuff.
2020-04-03: “RIP: Metabarons artist Juan Gimenez passes away from COVID-19 - The Beat”
2020-04-03: “Modular Computer: iPad Pro as a Tablet, Laptop, and Desktop Workstation - MacStories”
2020-04-03: “How to get started with web development - Go Make Things”
2020-04-03: “Security and Privacy Implications of Zoom - Schneier on Security”
2020-04-03: “Troubled Times, Episode 2 – Adaptive Capacity Labs”
2020-04-02: “The Frameworks Paradox · Jens Oliver Meiert” “The more complex a website, the bigger the need for …
2020-04-02: “When debugging, your attitude matters - Julia Evans”
2020-04-02: “Justine’s Guide to Increasing the Lifetime of Your Clothes - Justine Larbalestier”
2020-04-02: “Daring Fireball: Amazon and Apple Strike Deal for Prime Video In-App Purchases and Subscriptions” …
2020-04-02: “Worthy Goals - Alan Cooper - Medium”
2020-04-02: “Amazon Prime Video now allows in-app rentals and purchases on the iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV - The …
2020-04-02: “Several grumpy opinions about remote work at Tailscale - apenwarr”
2020-04-01: “The Simplest Way to Spot Coronavirus Misinformation on Social Media - A digital literacy …
2020-04-01: I try to watch the Icelandic Civil Protection Agency briefings every day. Knowing that experts are …
2020-04-01: “Boredom is a pit stop - Austin Kleon”
2020-04-01: “How to build a bad design system - CSS-Tricks” Don’t involve too many people.
2020-03-31: “How to Concentrate When the world is 🔥🔥🔥”
2020-03-31: “How to make the transition from beginner to advanced developer” “Becoming an …
2020-03-31: ‘Authors Push Back Against “National Emergency Library”’
2020-03-31: “RSS Stuff - CSS-Tricks”
2020-03-31: “Unmasking Twitter – Stratechery by Ben Thompson”
2020-03-30: Dipping into the quarantine supply and have managed to translate ‘American canned chili’ …
2020-03-30: “Certainty as blindness – Jessitron”
2020-03-30: “Adactio: Journal—Living Through The Future”
2020-03-30: “The Role of Technology - Silicon Valley Product Group”
2020-03-30: “This Is Not an Experiment” “We are in a period of emergency distance …
2020-03-29: “The iOS and Mac Markets Are the Same Size”
2020-03-26: “Safari and Progressive Web Apps — Pixel Envy” “But I suspect that the real-world impact of this …
2020-03-26: “Marxian Alienation And Web Development: HeydonWorks”
2020-03-26: “Let a website be a worry stone. — Ethan Marcotte”
2020-03-25: “Indicating Scroll Position on a Page With CSS - CSS-Tricks” This is clever.
2020-03-25: “The world’s copyright system is broken ･ Robin Rendle”
2020-03-25: “Pointers (iPadOS) - User Interaction - iOS - Human Interface Guidelines - Apple Developer”
2020-03-24: “Stacking the Bricks: How to Survive in Extraordinary Times, Part One” “First, save lives. Second, …
2020-03-23: “Application state management with Svelte - LogRocket Blog”
2020-03-23: “New Blogging 3 - Blog Patterns”
2020-03-19: “We are the helpers - Go Make Things”
2020-03-19: “Popular iPhone and iPad Apps Snooping on the Pasteboard - Mysk”
2020-03-19: “Curveball - March updates”
2020-03-19: “The reckless, infinite scope of web browsers“ “The number of W3C specifications grows at an …
2020-03-18: Taking WHOs advice to ‘test, test, test’ to heart, Iceland has tested 2% of the …
2020-03-16: “npm is joining GitHub” Microsoft owning the entirety of the node/JS development …
2020-03-16: “Complication for the win – Jessitron” “Don’t be afraid of programs with a lot of parts”
2020-03-16: “Creating predictability and stability in times of rapid change - Lara Hogan”
2020-03-15: “It’s easy, I think — particularly for those who work in, with, and around a lot of technology — to …
2020-03-15: “Weekend Reading — 🏠 Our house is an open office plan” Has a lot of links to good reading on remote …
2020-03-14: “GitHub - feltcoop/why-svelte: Why Svelte is our choice for a large web project in 2020”
2020-03-13: It has come to this. I actually miss having Gordon Brown in UK politics. I honestly wasn’t …
2020-03-13: The official Icelandic COVID-19 information site is well put together and comprehensive. Nicely …
2020-03-13: “Gilli - Web designer and developer - Why designing for open source can be so difficult”
2020-03-13: “How will you collaborate? – Jessitron”
2020-03-13: “Why Development Teams are Slow“ ‘“Developers are too slow” is not a cause. It’s a symptom of these …
2020-03-13: “Online Discussion Tips from The Discussion Project - Google Docs”
2020-03-13: “We Really Could Use Our Institutions Right Now - Just Visiting”
2020-03-12: “inkle blog - inklewriter lives again!”
2020-03-12: “Researcher danah boyd on how to protect the census and fix tech - Protocol”
2020-03-12: “as days pass by — On ethical design, and the Ethical Design Handbook”
2020-03-12: “Horizontally Scrolling Panes with clean HTML, modern CSS and no JS” These sort of designs used to …
2020-03-12: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Reverting From Apple News Format to RSS” Apple News is a shit show.
2020-03-12: “Square Brackets are the Enemy - hueniverse” This is a really tricky (and interesting) JS security …
2020-03-12: “Why the Web Isn’t Working for Women and Girls - OneZero”
2020-03-12: “I don’t know if you’re reading this - Go Make Things”
2020-03-11: “The Luxembourg walls that seem to shelter financial fraud at Sigrún Davíðsdóttir’s Icelog”
2020-03-11: “Creating Secure Password Flows With NodeJS And MySQL — Smashing Magazine”
2020-03-11: Windows does a really bad job of mapping euro keyboard layouts (where the default keyboard layout …
2020-03-10: “Taking Our Eye Off the Ball – iterating toward openness” “Affordability seems to have become the …
2020-03-09: Rebus is conducting a study into the needs and priorities of academic users. We are looking for …
2020-03-09: On those 'the cloud is bad for the environment' comments that keep cropping up The Coronavirus outbreak has led to a renewed drive towards moving everything to the cloud: …
2020-03-09: I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I can put up with all sorts of OS crap (including a …
2020-03-09: “Simple Systems Have Less Downtime - Greg Kogan”
2020-03-09: ‘What we’re poised to see in response to the coronavirus — and not just in education, to be fair — …
2020-03-09: “But that just strikes me as wildly uninformed — although that’s never stopped the tech industry …
2020-03-09: Daylight savings always, always throws me off for several days.
2020-03-09: Given that it seems all but certain that there will be a recession by the summer, this will be the …
2020-03-08: “What makes a dependency dependable? – Jessitron”
2020-03-06: I can get used to almost everything about Windows except the keyboard layouts. You can find great …
2020-03-06: If you need a concise history of what’s has happened with Web Publications, attempts to …
2020-03-06: “Improve Security Awareness · Issue #237 · alpinejs/alpine · GitHub” To make a long story short: …
2020-03-06: Watching Jesse James Garrett’s 11 year old talk and reading Christina Wodtke’s overview …
2020-03-06: “10th Annual IA Summit Closing Plenary - Jesse James Garrett” “The names you know …
2020-03-06: “Towards a New Information Architecture: The Rise and Fall and Rise of a Necessary …
2020-03-05: “Service Worker Development Best Practices”
2020-03-05: “Service Worker Development Best Practices”
2020-03-05: “Introducing Alpine.js: A Tiny JavaScript Framework — Smashing Magazine” Tailwind and Alpine.js are …
2020-03-05: “Reading Newsletters with Feedbin and Reeder - MacStories” A lot of newsletter platforms offer RSS …
2020-03-05: The weird thing about today is that it simultaneously felt like Friday and Wednesday when I woke up. …
2020-03-05: “The Case for Limiting Your Browser Extensions — Krebs on Security”
2020-03-04: “How to animate scrolling to anchor links with one line of CSS - Go Make Things”
2020-03-04: “Mark Bernstein: The New Zettelkasten”
2020-03-04: I could get behind this. (Iceland’s entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020) …
2020-03-03: Noelle Stevenson’s “The Fire Never Goes Out” looks amazing at first glance. …
2020-03-03: “C2E2 ’20: Genndy Tartakovsky gives new insight on his career and teases what’s to come - The …
2020-03-03: “How to prevent anchor links from scrolling behind a sticky header with one line of CSS - Go Make …
2020-03-03: “Adactio: Journal—Insecure” “If you’re using an older iPhone or iPad and you can’t upgrade to a …
2020-03-03: “My productivity app is a single .txt file” Huh? Interesting approach.
2020-03-03: “How to create a stacking cards effect - CodyHouse”
2020-03-03: “Adactio: Journal—Telling the story of performance” “Fortunately there’s an attention-grabbing …
2020-03-02: If you’re working in software, you just have to get used to the fact that people will …
2020-03-02: “Stop Using ‘Drop-down’ - Adrian Roselli” I literally had this conversation at work last week.
2020-02-29: “Visitors, Developers, or Machines” “Only, instead of Ruby’s performance being tied to the CPU …
2020-02-29: “Three Cheers for Socialism - Commonweal Magazine” “Americans are, of course, the most thoroughly …
2020-02-29: “The Experience Paradox – Codemanship’s Blog” “By freezing out inexperienced developers and …
2020-02-28: “Third-party libraries and security issues - Go Make Things” The dependency-of-a-dependency issue is …
2020-02-28: “Focus management still matters - Sarah Higley” This is an excellent, detailed, and well researched …
2020-02-28: “HTML: The Inaccessible Parts - daverupert.com”
2020-02-27: “Currying in CSS? - Trys Mudford” This is cool.
2020-02-27: “Curveball - A typescript microframework” I generally don’t like most of the recent node server side …
2020-02-27: “Cross-Cultural Design” I’m going to have to buy this book aren’t I?
2020-02-27: “3.0 – CouchDB Blog” I have a lot of fondness for CouchDB but I can’t ever imagine using it in this …
2020-02-27: “Michael Tsai - Blog - What You See in the Finder Should Always Be Correct” MacOS continues to …
2020-02-27: “Sound UX, Or Why Our Web Pages Barely Make A Peep”
2020-02-27: “Content Addressed Vocabulary – DustyCloud Brainstorms”
2020-02-27: “Why 543 KB keep me up at night - Manuel Matuzović”
2020-02-27: “Drag–and–Drop: How to Design for Ease of Use”
2020-02-27: “Google’s Abandoned Android Authenticator App – Terence Eden’s Blog” Damn. I need to switch to a …
2020-02-26: “The (almost) unknown art of Miles Davis - Dangerous Minds” I did not know he painted. Some of these …
2020-02-26: “23 rules to run a software startup with minimum hassle - joisig gone awol” These are good …
2020-02-26: “Team Objectives - Overview” “And finally, and really the root of the problem, is that in the vast …
2020-02-26: “Why write vanilla JS when you can just use (insert library or framework here)?” “An alarming …
2020-02-26: “The Bottom Feeder: Getting Sweet Patron Money On the Modern Internet” “It’s not often I …
2020-02-26: “A Modest Proposal for Hourly Billing - DaedTech”
2020-02-26: “Revealing Hero Effect in CSS and JavaScript - CodyHouse” A bit gimmicky but sometimes gimmicks are …
2020-02-25: “On engineering” “When I joined Medium after a few years at a small startup, I was shocked at how …
2020-02-25: “Tech Colonialism Today - Data & Society: Points”
2020-02-25: “GitHub - refactoringui/heroicons: A set of free MIT-licensed high-quality SVG icons for UI …
2020-02-25: “A Text Renaissance” This is an interesting piece. A lot of good points but it overlooks/downplays a …
2020-02-25: “Fair Warning — Real Life” This is the best writing on tech I’ve read in a long while.
2020-02-25: “Fair Warning — Real Life” “In place of fundamental social changes, the computer allows technical …
2020-02-25: “Inspiring high school students with HTML and CSS - Stephanie Stimac’s Blog” “And the …
2020-02-25: “Keeping it simple with CSS that scales - Andy Bell”
2020-02-24: “Crisis on Earth Dan DiDio: How 5G was a crisis too far - The Beat”
2020-02-24: “Photography is not a meritocracy — aows”
2020-02-24: “How to Edit – Rands in Repose”
2020-02-22: “Inconsistent user-experiences with native lazy-loading images - Ctrl blog” “Blink, Gecko, and …
2020-02-22: “Larry Tesler - All this”
2020-02-21: “Narrative Strategy”
2020-02-21: “Product Strategy - Management - Silicon Valley Product Group” “I can tell you from experience that …
2020-02-21: “Go Read This - Pearson warns it is near ‘bottom of valley’ as US downturn takes toll - Eoin …
2020-02-21: “Chrome is ditching third-party cookies because Google wants your data all to itself - Digital …
2020-02-21: “Progress, Postmodernism and the Tech Backlash – alexdanco.com” ‘That’s why the anti-tech backlash …
2020-02-21: “Canada is fake - The Outline” “And Canada has exported that environmental destruction elsewhere as …
2020-02-20: “Product Strategy - Actions - Silicon Valley Product Group” “The difference really boils down to …
2020-02-20: “Christopher Bertram - Who will pick the turnips? · LRB 20 February 2020” “If the UK is going to …
2020-02-20: “ongoing by Tim Bray · On Soaking the Rich”
2020-02-19: “Styling The Good Ol’ Button Element”
2020-02-19: “Understanding Web Accessibility Color Contrast Guidelines and Ratios - CSS-Tricks”
2020-02-19: “Product Strategy - Focus - Silicon Valley Product Group” I don’t think I’ve ever worked for a …
2020-02-19: “Adactio: Journal—Utopia” “If you’re a control freak, you may not like Utopia.” I like it. Will …
2020-02-19: “Finally, a CSS only solution to :hover on touchscreens”
2020-02-19: “Humanoids announces Mark Waid as publisher and new push for classic titles - The Beat” This is …
2020-02-19: “On Niche Audiences, Immersive Media, and Publishers’ Myopia“ “One of corporate publishing’s …
2020-02-19: “Fucking laptops - Drew DeVault’s Blog” “It has since come to my attention that in 2020, every …
2020-02-19: “Fixing memory leaks in web applications - Read the Tea Leaves”
2020-02-18: “#1252: Small Talk Strategies When You’re Depressed And Forgetful - Captain Awkward” This is a …
2020-02-18: “Product Strategy - Overview - Silicon Valley Product Group”
2020-02-18: “Michael Tsai - Blog - The Paywalled Garden: iOS Is Adware” Apple’s design culture is basically …
2020-02-18: “iOS 13 Design Guidelines, Templates, and Downloads – Learn UI Design” This looks pretty darn …
2020-02-18: I love it when I open my feed reader and the first thing that greets me is a new post in an almost …
2020-02-17: “Block Links, Cards, Clickable Regions, Etc. - Adrian Roselli”
2020-02-15: “Things I’ve been wrong about, things I’ve been right about - Read the Tea Leaves” I don’t know how …
2020-02-14: “Resources for building a JAMStack website or web app - Go Make Things”
2020-02-14: “CSS-only fluid modular type scales - Utopia”
2020-02-14: “Fluid custom properties - Utopia”
2020-02-13: It’s feeling very February-like here in Montréal.
2020-02-13: “Why the JAMStack is awesome (and a few reasons why its not) - Go Make Things”
2020-02-13: “A Vacuum of Courage ･ Robin Rendle”
2020-02-13: “Asking good questions – Zaki Warfel“
2020-02-13: “A Walk is a Tool and a Platform“
2020-02-13: “Slow and steady wins the race — aows”
2020-02-12: “Welcome to the Era of Fake Products” This why I don’t buy fountain pens from Amazon. Also, pens on …
2020-02-12: “Survey’s Up! - Mule Design Studio - Medium”
2020-02-11: Y’know, if Microsoft really wanted to court disillusioned Mac users they’d put together …
2020-02-11: “A decade of heading backwards by steve faulkner on CodePen”
2020-02-10: “Engagement is an antimetric – Matthew Ström: designer & developer”
2020-02-10: “Do you work at a tech company?”
2020-02-09: “OU Digital Teaching: LMS, Privacy, and Purpose Limitation: A response to Melissa Loble”
2020-02-09: “Why the Most Important Idea in Behavioral Decision-Making Is a Fallacy - Scientific American Blog …
2020-02-09: “Building an accessible autocomplete control by Adam Silver - Designer, London, UK.”
2020-02-09: “Dropdown Menus 2020: Menus are not menus - Terrill Thompson” When is a menu not a menu? (When it’s …
2020-02-08: “Trust & Agility – Codemanship’s Blog” “I’ve found one simple metric that has tended to …
2020-02-07: “Home - Utopia” This looks useful.
2020-02-07: “Fluid scale and tokens: a match made in heaven - Andy Bell”
2020-02-07: “How accurate data was turned into misleading articles by the government …and the …
2020-02-07: “Link Targets and 3.2.5 - Adrian Roselli”
2020-02-06: “The Laboring Strategist, A Free-Agent Anti-Pattern (And How to Fix) - DaedTech”
2020-02-06: “The worst case is happening — Crooked Timber”
2020-02-06: “The Invisible Lesbian in Young Adult Fiction: A culture of misogyny erases the stories of …
2020-02-06: “Hydration” “The situation we have now is the worst of both worlds: server-side …
2020-02-05: “Honesty is the best policy - Andy Bell”
2020-02-04: ‘”Where did we get lucky?” - Jacob Kaplan-Moss’
2020-02-04: Having a ‘all software sucks’ day. Bluetooth keyboards not connecting. Search not …
2020-02-04: “The laptop: still the ultimate tool for productivity — aows” “Literally every single task I can do …
2020-02-04: “The design systems we swim in. — Ethan Marcotte”
2020-02-04: “The Three Types of Code - CSS-Tricks”
2020-02-04: “Share stories, not advice.” This is one of the things that stories are for
2020-02-03: “Gall’s Law – Jorge Arango”
2020-02-03: “A Model for Teaching (and Learning) – Jorge Arango”
2020-02-03: “Data expands to fill the space available (Part 2) - Gerry McGovern - Customer experience keynote …
2020-02-02: “In praise of imperfect images — aows”
2020-02-01: “On attributes for HTML form elements”
2020-02-01: “Innovation Can’t Keep the Web Fast - CSS-Tricks”
2020-01-31: The music I listen to on my Mac has three separate volume controls: iTunes, global volume, and the …
2020-01-31: “MacBook Pro 16 Has a Fan Problem – On my Om” Apple’s laptops: still not good.
2020-01-31: “Productized Services: From a Variety of Skills to a Value-Ladder - sharpen.page: A Product …
2020-01-31: “Frank Chimero · Redesign: The Raccoon King of Garbage Mountain”
2020-01-30: “Monoliths are the future” As with UI design, software architecture design needs to take …
2020-01-30: The funny thing about ChromeOS is that once you enable both Android apps and Linux apps it becomes …
2020-01-30: “Aperture: Senior QA (2004-2005) – Tech Reflect” Wow. Project from hell.
2020-01-30: “A Programmer’s “Breadboard”? – Codemanship’s Blog”
2020-01-29: “Adactio: Journal—Architects, gardeners, and design systems”
2020-01-29: “Getting keyboard-focusable elements - Zell Liew”
2020-01-29: “ignore the code: The Failure of the iPad” Like he points out, even though the OS is the iPad’s …
2020-01-29: “Code, Meet World #NoBacklogs – Codemanship’s Blog”
2020-01-29: Hardware reviewer: “This machine can handle heavy browser use. I had 20 tabs open for extended …
2020-01-29: “Open Source Licenses and the Ethical Use of Software” In my personal opinion: for …
2020-01-29: “The existence of this setting — and that it is not tucked away under Accessibility — feels …
2020-01-28: “iPad in 2020” “Accomplishing anything other than trivial tasks takes 2-5x longer with 10x more …
2020-01-28: “Use Multitasking on your iPad - Apple Support” Looks like you can turn multitasking off. Trying it …
2020-01-28: Yay. A glitch (I think) in the iPad’s multitasking system caused me to lose all of my open tabs in …
2020-01-28: “Newsrooms, let’s talk about Office 365”
2020-01-28: “I wish I could install the iPhone’s one-app-on-screen-at-a-time, no-drag-and-drop iOS on my iPad …
2020-01-28: “Do We Confuse Work With Value? – Codemanship’s Blog” Yeah. We do that pretty much on every …
2020-01-28: “The Tragic iPad – Stratechery” I use my iPad Pro a lot. A big part of why it remains enjoyable is …
2020-01-28: “The iPad’s original software designer and program lead look back on the device’s first …
2020-01-27: “Why use a form element when submitting fields with JavaScript? - Go Make Things” Good reasons.
2020-01-27: “illusions of commonsense perception – Jessitron”
2020-01-27: “The Value’s Not In Features, It’s In Learning – Codemanship’s Blog” “If you’re genuinely …
2020-01-27: “marcus.io · Improved accessible routing in Vue.js”
2020-01-27: “Diary of an Engine Diversity Absolutist – Dan’s Blog” Daniel Appelquist writes about a …
2020-01-27: “ongoing by Tim Bray · Decarbonization”
2020-01-27: “To fix Climate Change, stop being a techie and start being a human”
2020-01-27: I wish Notes on iOS behaved more like Photos in that it worked as a central repository for notes …
2020-01-26: This is totally babies — intjint: mcgregorswench: estebanwaseaten: … The best live action …
2020-01-24: Using the friendly-words package to implement your mock collection names can be fun. …
2020-01-24: “I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea” I’ve worked for more than one org that made all of the …
2020-01-24: “How we built a GDPR compliant website analytics platform without using cookies” This …
2020-01-24: “Don’t let your camera outlive you — aows” Applies to a lot of tools, not just cameras.
2020-01-23: I’ve defaulted to DuckDuckGo for my search for a while, only dropping down to Google when …
2020-01-23: “Amazon is so highly competent at capitalism that we’ve become a proxy for the whole system; …
2020-01-23: “Open is Cancelled” A well deserved criticism of ‘open’ as a movement, which …
2020-01-23: “22/01/2020, 13:51 – Colin Walker” On blogging, RSS, and email.
2020-01-23: “Bad accessibility equals bad quality - Manuel Matuzović”
2020-01-23: “Ant Colonies, Agile At Scale & The Illusion Of Control – Codemanship’s Blog”
2020-01-23: “microsoft / playwright” Cross-browser puppeteer. Could be useful.
2020-01-22: “Host your Git on Glitch with Gogs” This is cool
2020-01-22: “Frank Chimero · Redesign: Scales and Hierarchy” I’m loving this series.
2020-01-21: “All – Tiny Helpers” Loads of useful tools here.
2020-01-21: “The CSS Cascade” This is a neat, interactive explanation of the CSS Cascade. Looks cool too.
2020-01-20: “The Dashboard Problem ･ Robin Rendle” “My point is that you can see mismanagement down at the UI …
2020-01-20: “Why Software is Slow and Shitty” Actually a different blog post from the last one
2020-01-20: “Why Software is Slow and Shitty ･ Robin Rendle”
2020-01-20: ‘The “amazing” Boskops’ An interesting example of experts in one field …
2020-01-18: “Google Begins Rolling Out New Search Results Page Design That Makes Ads Look Like Regular Results — …
2020-01-17: “Publishers should be fretting over the illness, not its symptoms”
2020-01-17: “Rogue Amoeba - Under the Microscope » Blog Archive » Designer Notes: Making a Colour Scheme”
2020-01-17: The new Edge browser feels like it’s what Chrome should be but can’t because it’s …
2020-01-17: “Frank Chimero · Redesign: Picking Typefaces” I’m really enjoying this series.
2020-01-17: People are really calling the ending to the Watchmen TV series a cliffhanger? That’s like …
2020-01-16: “Kill your productivity: Stuff’s top 40 free browser games for 2020 - Stuff”
2020-01-16: “Debugging your application for accessibility - LogRocket Blog”
2020-01-16: “Deborah J. Ross: Sexuality in Fantasy”
2020-01-16: “Is TypeScript worth it?” TypeScript is also a poor fit for vanilla JS as its DOM/browser API types …
2020-01-16: “Call for Publishers: Responsible JavaScript — Jeremy Wagner”
2020-01-16: “Practicing the future - A Working Library”
2020-01-16: “The Mythical Mythical Man-Month” This not so much debunks The Mythical Man-Month as it explains the …
2020-01-16: “ChaosLife - Paranoid Personality”
2020-01-15: I’m old enough to remember watching this live www.youtube.com/watch
2020-01-15: “Change is constant - A Working Library”
2020-01-15: “Pushing the future of the platform forward with The Web We Want - Stephanie Stimac’s Blog”
2020-01-15: “Where Product Ideas Come From — Users Know” I really should get this book.
2020-01-15: “Boring by default” Hard to do when your job depends on over-engineering and a certain amount of …
2020-01-15: “Traveling as a way to discover yourself and your art — aows”
2020-01-15: “Digital Scarcity is a Con – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2020-01-15: “The Explicit Coding Discipline”
2020-01-15: “Should media be tax exempt?” Most media VAT ‘discounts’ are specifically …
2020-01-14: “Defining ‘Toast’ Messages - Adrian Roselli”
2020-01-14: “Every age needs a Diogenes - Austin Kleon”
2020-01-14: “Snowpack - CSS-Tricks” I tried an earlier version of this (before the rename) on a prototype. …
2020-01-14: “Frank Chimero · Redesign: Looking at Letters”
2020-01-14: “Tha MERGENCY KNOB! - Wasted Talent”
2020-01-14: “Work is Work - In which returns diminish.” This post is a very interesting take on the …
2020-01-13: “If It Can Be Done Using an HTTP Header, Use an HTTP Header · Jens Oliver Meiert”
2020-01-13: “Why does so much software suck? - Gerry McGovern“
2020-01-13: “All prose is fiction - A Working Library”
2020-01-13: “Achievement is No Substitute for Happiness — Jeremy Wagner”
2020-01-13: “Design’s Unsexy Middle Bits”
2020-01-12: “On Being a Good Newsletterer — by Craig Mod”
2020-01-12: “The GPL License”
2020-01-12: So, the Watchmen tv series was good. It shouldn’t have been that good. I liked it, which is a …
2020-01-11: “The New Rude Masters of Fantasy & Science Fiction – and Romance - The World Remains Mysterious”
2020-01-10: The glory of minimalism in app design when you’re on a slow connection. Also, Apple’s apps can be so …
2020-01-10: “Australia is on Fire - Justine Larbalestier” “I don’t know how Australia will recover.”
2020-01-10: Unless my memory is way off, Canadian trains seem to have way more legroom than the UK ones.
2020-01-09: “Announcement from the RWA Board of Directors” This was bound to happen once the bigger publishers …
2020-01-08: “The hoof and the horse. — Ethan Marcotte”
2020-01-08: “Ironies of automation – the morning paper” “Automated systems need highly skilled operators”
2020-01-08: “The Split Personality Of Brutalist Web Development — Smashing Magazine”
2020-01-07: “<select> your poison part 2: test all the things - 24 Accessibility”
2020-01-07: “A brief appreciation of John Baldessari - Austin Kleon”
2020-01-07: “Why can’t mobile networks stop spoofed calls? – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2020-01-07: “Raina Telgemeier: The Comics Industry Person of the Decade - The Beat” This feels absolutely like …
2020-01-07: So is the format messages with markup feature in Slack broken for everybody or just me?
2020-01-07: Meira helvítis rokið úti.
2020-01-07: “There’s No Substitute for In-Person Lectures - Pacific Standard”
2020-01-07: “Wayne State Word Warriors release 2020 list“ What does it say about me that I thought that at least …
2020-01-06: Here’s a tough question from the rebus.community forum: “I’m wondering if anyone knows …
2020-01-06: This whole blog is really quite good. Found via a Feedly reccommendation. <blog.jessitron.com>
2020-01-06: “Go toward uncertainty – Jessitron” “In software development, our job is making decisions. What we …
2020-01-06: “Hello, I’m Andy and I’m addicted to Twitter - Andy Bell” I really need to follow the advice here
2020-01-06: “Reducing WIP in laundry and code – Jessitron”
2020-01-06: “Poised for Another Decade of Ed-Tech “Debacles” - Just Visiting”
2020-01-06: “Things want to work, not punish errors” “The fact is that by cutting features, having a few …
2020-01-06: “People can read their manager’s mind” “If something is rotten in an org, the root cause is a …
2020-01-06: “PaperWM: tiled window management for GNOME - Julia Evans” This feels like a neat way of structuring …
2020-01-06: “Lindy effect - Wikipedia” Counterpoint to “the web is dying” statements.
2020-01-06: “If you can only hire those people, you are competing for talent with the wealthiest (or most …
2020-01-06: “We only hire the trendiest”
2020-01-06: “Algorithms interviews: theory vs. practice”
2020-01-06: “Instructure’s Proposed Acquisition is a Bad Risk for Everyone”
2020-01-06: “Frank Chimero · Redesign: Wants and Needs”
2020-01-06: “A failure of formats” “there is a serious gap in the capabilities of HTML: the creation and re-use …
2020-01-06: “5 of my favorite hints in the webhint browser extension - Stephanie Stimac’s Blog”
2020-01-05: So, I’ll be spending the 9th of January in Toronto (flight stopover that I figured I might as …
2020-01-05: “ChromeOS” Ian does a good job of covering the argument in favour of ChromeOS. And, as he points …
2020-01-05: “4 Out Of 5 Developers Would Choose To Stay Developers. Is It Time We Let Them? – …
2020-01-05: “Managing a core service so people don’t hate it - Andrew Betts”
2020-01-05: ‘What if anything “good” about ed-tech this past decade was so overwhelmed by all the money funneled …
2020-01-04: “Undervaluing User Research is a Deadly Disease - UX Strategy Playbook with Jared Spool - Medium”
2020-01-04: “Guide to Internal Communication, the Basecamp Way” With this, their handbook, Shape Up and their …
2020-01-04: “Platform Fatigue - waffle” The proliferation of platforms prevents expertise and mastery.
2020-01-04: “Estimating NetNewsWire for iOS Demand” “it would be reasonable to guess that the number of people …
2020-01-03: Really impressed by the selection of comics in Icelandic these days, largely due to one publisher: …
2020-01-03: “Chrome OS has stalled out” I attempted last year to go all in on Chrome OS, bought a fully specced …
2020-01-03: “Putting devs before users: how frameworks destroyed web performance” I’ve mentioned this before but …
2020-01-03: “How Running Your Own Website Is Much Better for You Than You Think · Jens Oliver Meiert” “The …
2020-01-03: “Adactio: Links—A short history of body copy sizes on the Web” “There are some good arguments here …
2020-01-03: “A short history of body copy sizes on the Web”
2020-01-03: My goals for the year: Help people create leaner, more reading-oriented and readable websites …
2020-01-03: “Software Reenchantment – Wandering Coder”
2020-01-03: “Software disenchantment”
2020-01-03: “Create a semantic “breakout” button to make an entire element clickable - Andy Bell”
2020-01-03: “Performance testing HTTP/1.1 vs HTTP/2 vs HTTP/2 + Server Push for REST APIs”
2020-01-03: “The Itch to Create - Part 2: Making Your Idea Inevitable“
2020-01-03: “Progressive Web Apps in 2020 - Maximiliano Firtman - Medium” Good overview of the state of play
2020-01-02: One thing I absolutely love about being back in Iceland over the holidays are the ravens, like this …
2020-01-01: “The future of product is fraud”
2020-01-01: The Neighbour
2020-01-01: “Systems, Mistakes, and the Sea › Robin Rendle”
2019-12-31: “Brett’s Favorites 2019 - BrettTerpstra.com”
2019-12-31: “Time is personal. Your year changes when your life changes. - Derek Sivers” This 👍🏻
2019-12-31: “The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade” Good god. The things we’ve been doing to schools and …
2019-12-30: “It’s Official: Open-Plan Offices Are Now the Dumbest Management Fad of All Time”
2019-12-30: Irrespective of counting systems, narratively speaking the decade has to end December 2020. Mostly …
2019-12-30: “What it means to be a front-end developer in 2020 (and beyond) - Layout”
2019-12-28: “So Many Color Links - CSS-Tricks” These are all good.
2019-12-28: “Noncommercial Doesn’t Compose (and it never will) – DustyCloud Brainstorms”
2019-12-28: “inessential: How We Run the NetNewsWire Open Source Project” “we have to do way better than …
2019-12-27: “Publishers’ Decisions Have Made Electronic Books Less Attractive Than Online Music and Movie Stores …
2019-12-25: “No one’s complaining - Signal v. Noise” ‘“No one” really means “no one has complained to you“. It …
2019-12-25: “What a Year of Learning and Teaching Accessibility Taught Me - 24 Accessibility”
2019-12-24: Gleðileg jól!
2019-12-24: “The browser wars: an abridged history - Go Make Things” “As the dominant browser on the web, …
2019-12-24: “The Wilderness Period - Craft Ventures - Medium”
2019-12-24: “The People’s Web”
2019-12-24: “A Whole Bunch of Places to Consider Contrast in a Single Paragraph - CSS-Tricks”
2019-12-24: “This is what we get, when we don’t fully get HTML: Ep 2”
2019-12-24: “The Stories We Were Told about Education Technology (2019)” “That’s what a decade of ed-tech …
2019-12-23: “A Framework for Making Better Product Decisions — Users Know” I’ve linked to this before but it’s …
2019-12-23: “Worth Your Attention – Jorge Arango” These are all good links.
2019-12-23: “Every move you make, I’ll be watching you: Privacy implications of the Apple U1 chip and …
2019-12-23: “Favourite Resources - Stevan Popovic” Bookmarking this because it looks like a goldmine of good …
2019-12-23: “Pixels vs. Relative Units in CSS: why it’s still a big deal - 24 Accessibility”
2019-12-23: “Web Performance Calendar » Native Image Lazy Loading in Chrome Is Way Too Eager”
2019-12-23: “December 2019 Weblog: I Hope Next Year Goes Better - The History of the Web”
2019-12-22: “Service Worker Development Best Practices”
2019-12-22: “Greed is dead - TLS”
2019-12-22: “All your questions about pronoun deletion and the inexorable death of the universe, answered.” I do …
2019-12-22: “HEWN, No. 335” “how bad ideas in ed-tech spread”
2019-12-22: “Usability and Security; Better Together ◆ 24 ways”
2019-12-22: “This Page is Designed to Last: A Manifesto for Preserving Content on the Web” It’s an interesting …
2019-12-22: “The modern web is becoming an unusable, user-hostile wasteland”
2019-12-21: “A Letter From Gary Larson - TheFarSide.com - TheFarSide.com”
2019-12-21: “I Like Kill Nerds - Thoughts On Svelte. - I Like Kill Nerds” Those that write about Svelte and …
2019-12-21: “Freelance Advice For Women”
2019-12-21: “How Big Tech Manipulates Academia to Avoid Regulation”
2019-12-20: “Our Manifesto - Noko Time Tracking”
2019-12-20: It’s always fun to watch tech pundits talk about how RSS is dead. No, it isn’t dead. Y’all just …
2019-12-20: “Avoiding Marginalization - Alan Cooper - Medium”
2019-12-18: “Where Do Libraries Fit In “A Viable Consumer Marketplace”?“
2019-12-18: “HTML is a living language” It’s weird how some in the Chrome team give the impression …
2019-12-17: “Announcing a Lesson-level Interoperability Standards Effort” I’ve only just started looking into …
2019-12-17: I am in Iceland. Yay! Also groggy and trying to adjust to a new time zone. 😝
2019-12-17: “6 mistakes to avoid during your first 30 days as a new manager - Signal v. Noise” Good advice for …
2019-12-16: Toronto Union Station makes a decent first impression. The fact that I spent less than ten minutes …
2019-12-16: “’It’s pretty staggering’: Returned online purchases often sent to landfill, …
2019-12-16: “Who Has the Right to Be a Writer? - Literary Hub”
2019-12-16: “Audacious Fox: Pyramid of Product Team Needs” I like this.
2019-12-16: “Catalyst and Cohesion – Worms and Viruses”
2019-12-16: “ongoing by Tim Bray · The Oil Patch Up Against the Wall” This is not going to be a peaceful century
2019-12-16: “Group Chat, Group Stress”
2019-12-16: “The Limitations of Data—Updates from Libraryland”
2019-12-15: “Seeing Wide and Deep – Jorge Arango”
2019-12-14: “Adactio: Articles—Building The Web”
2019-12-14: “Lydia Davis: Ten of My Recommendations for Good Writing Habits - Literary Hub”
2019-12-13: Here’s a fun fact: setting up a node server project is usually much simpler and has fewer …
2019-12-13: “Smooth is Fast - Alan Cooper - Medium” “The promise of agile isn’t speed but rather it’s about not …
2019-12-13: “Linea 2.8 and Beyond • The Breakroom” Linea is an amazing app. I use it regularly. It’s vastly …
2019-12-13: “Coders in the Hands of a Missing God: How Newly Minted Freelancers Badly Miss the Point - DaedTech”
2019-12-13: “6 mistakes to avoid during your first 30 days as a new manager - Know Your Team - Blog”
2019-12-13: “How do committees invent? – the morning paper”
2019-12-13: “Make sure that you move back home to Iceland before it starts,” I started hearing from …
2019-12-12: The sun will still rise tomorrow. You got time www.youtube.com/watch
2019-12-11: “What’s the difference between encodeURI() and encodeURIComponent() in vanilla JS? - Go Make …
2019-12-11: “There’s no way phone camera technology is going to get worse” is not a statement …
2019-12-10: “The café in Dalvík has closed its doors due to weather, for the first time ever” The …
2019-12-10: “Z’s Still Not Dead Baby, Z’s Still Not Dead ◆ 24 ways” It makes me so happy to see the amazing …
2019-12-10: “Getting Started with Web Performance - Calibre” “JavaScript is responsible for the vast majority …
2019-12-10: ‘“Link In Bio” is a slow knife’
2019-12-10: “Building an accessible show/hide disclosure component with vanilla JS - Go Make Things”
2019-12-10: “Quoting in HTML: Quotations, Citations, and Blockquotes - CSS-Tricks”
2019-12-10: “De-quantifying my life - ReaderWriterVille”
2019-12-10: “Please don’t buy this: smart doorbells - Malwarebytes Labs - Malwarebytes Labs”
2019-12-09: “Subtract - Derek Sivers” Posting the link to this again (which I found via Brad Frost) because I …
2019-12-09: So, when a coworker posts bad news in a shared Slack channel, what’s the protocol for how long …
2019-12-09: “Continuing Adventures in Ungrading - Just Visiting”
2019-12-09: “It is mind-boggling — MIND-BOGGLING — that folks want to argue that the value of a technology …
2019-12-09: “Basecamp’s chat sucks – HeavyMelon Blog” Despite what the title may imply, this is not a knock on …
2019-12-09: “Julie Pagano - Mid-Career Survival for People Who Don’t Want to be an Attrition Statistic …
2019-12-09: “Subtract - Derek Sivers”
2019-12-08: “The great personalization con - Gerry McGovern”
2019-12-08: “Get out and talk to people” What he said.
2019-12-08: “Asking the Wrong Questions: Notes From the Streamapocalypse” “I can’t understand what so …
2019-12-08: “Responsive Type and Zoom - Adrian Roselli”
2019-12-08: “Color.review - Colors that look and work great for everyone” This looks really useful.
2019-12-08: “Homepage - Contract for the Web” That so many big tech cos support TBL’s effort to fix the web is …
2019-12-08: “The Data Aren’t Worth Anything But We’ll Keep Them Forever Anyways. You’re …
2019-12-07: My inner nerd is much more psyched about Crisis On Infinite Earths getting the live action treatment …
2019-12-07: “Doing It Right - Brad Frost” A bit sad to look back and realise that I’ve rarely had the …
2019-12-06: “Qualities That Keep You in a Sick System - Issendai’s Superhero Training Journal — …
2019-12-06: “Report: Organizations remain vulnerable to increasing insider threats - Malwarebytes Labs” It isn’t …
2019-12-06: “A Medium dilemma” A contrary take on Medium. Contrary as in positive. I don’t find it to be a …
2019-12-06: Employees of ad/surveillance companies keep pushing for standards/features that invade privacy and …
2019-12-06: “Deric’s MindBlog: Same-Sex behavior in animals - a new view.”
2019-12-06: “Do’s and Don’ts of implementing a hamburger menu”
2019-12-06: “Resilience Is About How You Recharge, Not How You Endure”
2019-12-06: “Pedagogical Intent and Designing for Inquiry” Interesting article on the absence of intent from …
2019-12-05: “Former Away employees describe a toxic work environment at the luggage company - The Verge” Avoid …
2019-12-05: “Intro to Opportunity Sizing - Related Works - Medium” I miss working for a org that has a …
2019-12-04: Pretty much every time a techie says that something esoteric and hard to use will ‘inevitably’ …
2019-12-04: “Kitten report #10: The evolving disability consciousness of Charlie and George - Nicola Griffith”
2019-12-04: “Why am I seeing so many bugs on the iPad all of a sudden?” “Ah, it updated itself …
2019-12-04: “The Pitfalls of EventSource over HTTP/1.1 - text/plain”
2019-12-04: “James Williamson and a web for everyone - Go Make Things”
2019-12-04: “Marketing for Energy”
2019-12-04: “inessential: Why I Listen to Podcasts at 1x Speed” “We’re in danger, I think, of treating …
2019-12-04: “Get Started With UI Design With These Tips To Speed Up Your Workflow — Smashing Magazine”
2019-12-03: Because this is something I needed to hear today www.youtube.com/watch
2019-12-03: “Why trains run slower now than they did in the 1920s.” This is depressing.
2019-12-03: “Some Very Bad News about the UNESCO OER Recommendation” Nothing about this is inexplicable, tbh. …
2019-12-03: “Buttons shouldn’t have a hand cursor - Simple = Human - Medium”
2019-12-03: “Behind the One-Way Mirror: A Deep Dive Into the Technology of Corporate Surveillance - Electronic …
2019-12-02: “How to Run a Meeting – Rands in Repose”
2019-12-02: “A Distributed Meeting Primer – Rands in Repose”
2019-12-02: “I <3 the cascade! - Go Make Things” The cascade is absolutely one of the most useful features of …
2019-12-02: Idle question of the day: if browser vendors had invested in better MathML support ~2012 instead of …
2019-12-02: “Semantic sidenotes for the web - Koos Looijesteijn”
2019-12-02: “Why AI will never replace human picture descriptions – Marco’s Accessibility Blog”
2019-12-01: “Another Blue Beanie Day - Zeldman” “Blue Beanie Day also gets smaller each year because web design …
2019-11-30: “My 1am Conference Organizer Playbook - Alex Hillman”
2019-11-30: “Product Fail - Silicon Valley Product Group” “Likewise, we have no idea what it will cost to …
2019-11-29: “Reinventing the wheel when encoding links in JSON”
2019-11-29: “Ed-Tech Agitprop” I’ve been mulling over this post since I read it yesterday. One …
2019-11-27: I can’t be the only one who finds it extremely worrying how eager people are to hand a US …
2019-11-27: “My thoughts on Gutenberg Accessibility – Marco’s Accessibility Blog”
2019-11-27: “Adactio: Journal—Accessibility on The Session revisited” Often less is more.
2019-11-26: “Ignorance is Bliss”
2019-11-26: “Examples are the best documentation - Rakhim.org”
2019-11-26: “No, Huawei MatePad Pro isn’t an iPad Pro killer - Revert to Saved: A blog about design, gaming and …
2019-11-26: “Software developers should avoid traumatic changes - Drew DeVault’s Blog”
2019-11-25: “Making Work Less Stressful and More Engaging for Your Employees”
2019-11-25: A benefit of having gotten into web dev via the art, media, and design route is the realisation that …
2019-11-25: “The epistemology of software quality” “Studies show that human factors most …
2019-11-22: “Eddie Izzard- Death Star Canteen - YouTube”
2019-11-22: I mean, I get why Slack rolled out rich text support. I’ve lost that argument at work several …
2019-11-22: Also, is it just me or has Slack just broken a host of functionality and behaviours with their …
2019-11-22: I’ve been experimenting with using typescript just to type check JSDoc-style comment …
2019-11-22: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Full Steam Ahead, But With Feature Flags” “It sounds like they are still in …
2019-11-22: People keep criticising Safari but... …it should be noted here that the Safari team is easily the least dysfunctional and most …
2019-11-22: “Embrace the Political - CSS-Tricks”
2019-11-22: “A quote from Hyrum’s Law”
2019-11-22: “What the Web Still Is - CSS-Tricks”
2019-11-22: “5 Things I’ve Learned in 20 Years of Programming - DaedTech”
2019-11-22: “Ketting v5 released” You can probably tell a lot about a developer based on which library excites …
2019-11-22: “Five packages - daverupert.com”
2019-11-21: “Modest JS Works - Go Make Things” I fully agree with this recommendation. Both for Modest JS Works …
2019-11-21: “How Does the Pain-Dream-Fix Page Structure Fit with Jobs-To-Be-Done? - sharpen.page: A Product …
2019-11-21: “Running a trust-based business - Go Make Things”
2019-11-21: “Multiple-column Layout and column-span in Firefox 71 - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog”
2019-11-21: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Guilherme Rambo Locked Out of Apple Developer Account” sighs. Apple, we want …
2019-11-21: “Pocket App fails silently - Rakhim.org” I’ve noticed similar behaviour when testing various …
2019-11-21: “Teaching and Decision Fatigue - Just Visiting”
2019-11-21: “Menial publishing jobs are destroying our future - Consonance” This may have originally been …
2019-11-21: “Request with Intent: Caching Strategies in the Age of PWAs – A List Apart”
2019-11-20: “Modest Business, Modest JS - Modest JS Works” “Whatever you’re building, two things are …
2019-11-20: “Upgrading (the idea of) dependencies - Modest JS Works” “Interdependence (us): When I use tools …
2019-11-20: “Abstraction and Implementation – Jorge Arango” “But for the interface to be any good, designers …
2019-11-20: “Adactio: Journal—Mental models”
2019-11-20: “The Web We Want”
2019-11-20: “No, Absolutely Not - CSS-Tricks”
2019-11-20: “Undervaluing User Research is a Deadly Disease — UX Articles by UIE”
2019-11-20: I’ve been maintaining this list of RSS/Atom feeds for around 15 years. Kind of impressed that …
2019-11-20: “The Test Pyramid – The Key To True Agility – Codemanship’s Blog”
2019-11-20: “Focus on Learning Rather than Perfection”
2019-11-19: Even though I use and enjoy Visual Studio Code every day, when it comes to random, edge case, text …
2019-11-19: “Teaching CSS”
2019-11-19: “Sorry Computer, You’re Not a Teapot - The History of the Web”
2019-11-19: “Shifting perceptions of vanilla JS - Go Make Things”
2019-11-18: “7 leadership lessons over 2.5 years - Signal v. Noise” These all seem pretty good
2019-11-18: “Guido van Rossum on “Cryptic Code” – dirtystylus”
2019-11-18: “Meaning is in the eyes of the beholder — aows” Love that photo.
2019-11-18: “Integration and Monopoly – Stratechery by Ben Thompson”
2019-11-17: “The enemy” “I’ve noticed a concerning trend lately: small business owners who sell anything are …
2019-11-17: “Static or database? Our love of complexity“ “Because a database is more ‘advanced’ than a static …
2019-11-17: “Escape from Google”
2019-11-17: “My Culture is Not Your Toy: A Gay Japanese Man’s Perspective on Queer Eye Japan” Wow. This series …
2019-11-15: Social Media Platforms are a liability to the businesses that run them I was reading Thomas Baekdal’s latest newsletter… “Publishers dealing with a …
2019-11-14: The Mandalorian underscores just how much of an achievement Darth Vader was in the original series: …
2019-11-14: “RIP Tom Spurgeon - The Beat” Damn. I’ve been reading Tom Spurgeon’s writing on comics since his …
2019-11-14: “Test the Interface · Chris Krycho”
2019-11-13: “The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising” via @walkley’s …
2019-11-13: “The Web We’ve Made”
2019-11-13: “Adactio: Journal—Third party” “I go to performance-related conferences and you know who I’ve never …
2019-11-13: “A Big, Warm Welcome to Pressbooks’ Newest team members: Carlos, Ho Man, and Başak - Pressbooks” …
2019-11-13: “Some Thoughts about OER Research” “It matters far less which materials students are using than …
2019-11-13: “Bibliography - Selected Books on Design, User eXperience, Mobile, Accessibility & more, by …
2019-11-13: “Swimming Upstream Less”
2019-11-13: “React Hooks vs. Svelte” “Svelte makes our web components as simple as possible, but no simpler.”
2019-11-13: “The most surprising principle of good leadership? Don’t be busy. - Know Your Team - Blog” “If …
2019-11-13: “Basics 7: Daily - Nicholas Bate”
2019-11-13: “Top 9 Remote Work Lessons from AMA with Sara Sutton, CEO and Founder of FlexJobs - Know Your Team - …
2019-11-12: “The Micromobility Mirage - Monday Note”
2019-11-12: Eight years ago Ted Nelson demonstrated his usual foresight in deconstructing modern computing Parts of it are intentionally silly. Many other parts are just true. The safest prediction anywhere …
2019-11-11: “8 Unbelievable Things You Never Knew About Tracking” It strikes me that our web dev stacks as …
2019-11-11: “In Silicon Valley, Hypocrisy is the new normal – On my Om”
2019-11-11: “Your REAL Job - Think Different”
2019-11-11: “Information Foraging: A Theory of How People Navigate on the Web”
2019-11-11: “Do This Now: 8 Ways to Focus your Product Team on Impact, Not Features”
2019-11-11: “JavaScript - 2019 - The Web Almanac by HTTP Archive”
2019-11-10: “Do Publishers Suddenly Hate Libraries?” “Amazon reps have been showing publishers data to portray …
2019-11-09: Apple’s web app for Apple TV has got to be the buggiest initial web app exp. I’ve seen …
2019-11-09: “Teach your tongue to say I don’t know - Austin Kleon”
2019-11-08: “5 essential expectations of a good manager that you should have of yourself - Know Your Team - …
2019-11-08: “They Might Never Tell You It’s Broken - Pointers Gone Wild”
2019-11-08: “Apple Notes and iCloud Syncing: Breaking a Good Thing Badly” Apple should adopt a new motto: “great …
2019-11-08: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Limits to Apple’s Butterfly Keyboard Repair Program” I think it’s pretty …
2019-11-08: “The 2 Most Critical Feedback Loops in Software Development – Codemanship’s Blog”
2019-11-08: The insistence of many in open source that a monopoly/monoculture is okay as long as it’s an …
2019-11-07: I honestly do not recommend trying to migrate to Quebec/Montréal. It’s a nightmare at the …
2019-11-07: “Thoughts on DNS-over-HTTPS - text/plain”
2019-11-07: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Don’t Interrupt the Installation” Ugh.
2019-11-07: “What is a Zettelkasten? · Chris Krycho”
2019-11-07: “England’s ruling pathology; Boarding School Syndrome — Crooked Timber.”
2019-11-07: “Stab a Book, the Book Won’t Die — by Craig Mod” Much better title.
2019-11-07: “aria-label Does Not Translate - Adrian Roselli”
2019-11-07: “Meet “Inclusive Components”, A New Printed Book By Heydon Pickering — Smashing Magazine”
2019-11-06: I’ve updated “The Web Falls Apart” with a note about how I really did mean it when …
2019-11-06: Many don’t seem to have gotten the huge distinction between the web dying (which I don’t think is …
2019-11-06: “What’s The Important Thing, that is powerful enough to override all your deficiencies?”
2019-11-06: “Putting in the Work on Personal Sites – dirtystylus”
2019-11-05: “Apps Built With Electron 6 and 7 Are Currently Being Rejected From the Mac App Store — Pixel Envy” …
2019-11-05: “Different Goals, Different Strategies” ‘As we each become more focused on executing the strategies …
2019-11-05: “Start before you think you’re ready - Austin Kleon”
2019-11-05: “Tech and Liberty – Stratechery by Ben Thompson” Makes the point that the problem with political ads …
2019-11-05: “How to stay motivated in photography — aows” Applies to more than just photography.
2019-11-05: “Compounding time - Signal v. Noise”
2019-11-05: “Author, Audit Thyself!—Marketing Advice from Kilby Blades”
2019-11-05: “Principles for professional front end development - Go Make Things”
2019-11-05: “Media Accounting 101: Books, Appholes & Publications — by Craig Mod” This is a far better …
2019-11-05: “4-Day Workweek Boosted Workers’ Productivity By 40%, Microsoft Japan Says” …
2019-11-05: “What I’ve learned about accessibility in SPAs - Read the Tea Leaves” This is good.
2019-11-05: “No one’s coming. It’s up to us.”
2019-11-05: “AirPods Are a Tragedy - VICE”
2019-11-04: Is it just me or is Safari in iOS 13 extremely buggy? Especially if you have a service worker?
2019-11-04: That feeling when a bug that’s been occupying your day actually turns out to have been a bug …
2019-11-04: The fact that the macOS app store seems to think that half of the apps I use aren’t installed …
2019-11-04: If web dev were a rational job env we’d be seeing much more specialisation—CSS-only …
2019-11-04: This seems interesting: “Announcing Visual Studio Online Public Preview”
2019-11-04: “JavaScript isn’t always available and it’s not the user’s fault by Adam Silver - Designer, London, …
2019-11-04: “What nobody tells you about documentation - Blog - Divio”
2019-11-04: “ongoing by Tim Bray · Subscription Friction” Yet another micropayments proposal. Tech people: the …
2019-11-03: “iOS vs. Android App UI Design: The Complete Guide – Learn UI Design”
2019-11-03: “Are your Web metrics reliable? - Gerry McGovern“
2019-11-03: If I had to pick one book that I think is the most relevant one for our times it would be Joseph …
2019-11-03: “Being Open to Unsettling Changes – Jorge Arango”
2019-11-02: John Cleese has made a few very good videos on management theory over the years, through his company …
2019-11-02: “Fast Path to a Great UX – Increased Exposure Hours” IIRC, a variation on this tactic …
2019-11-01: “The Crumbling of the OpenEd Coalition”
2019-11-01: “Walking Away and the Ethos of Open Source - MOR10”
2019-11-01: That thing where you look at old blog posts and despair. “Why can’t I write like that …
2019-10-31: Shadow DOM is now marginally less unusable than before---still unusable “Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 95” Safari finally has …
2019-10-30: I always get a bit sad when a nice website, full of good writing, doesn’t have an RSS feed. …
2019-10-30: “Nicole Fenton - Words as Material” “Conflicting ideas are one thing—but it’s even harder to talk …
2019-10-30: “Michael Tsai - Blog - No ETAs”
2019-10-30: “inessential: You Choose” Blogging is only as dead as you want it to be.
2019-10-29: “Text Editing Hates You Too – Lord i/o” Text editing is complicated.
2019-10-29: “inessential: No ETAs” “ETAs are very hard to estimate with any amount of accuracy. Even if you …
2019-10-29: “Building awaitable and fluent interfaces in Javascript”
2019-10-29: “Who says Ruby on Rails is dead? - Fiona Voss”
2019-10-29: “CSS Grid”
2019-10-28: “Tether: The Story So Far - Kalzumeus Software” Fascinating story. And it’s extremely worrying how …
2019-10-28: “A Business Case for Dropping Internet Explorer - CSS-Tricks”
2019-10-28: “Everything is Amazing, But Nothing is Ours”
2019-10-28: “Apple, Your Developer Documentation is Garbage · Chris Krycho”
2019-10-27: Here’s another photo from Parc Jarry yesterday that I’m not sure about even though it is …
2019-10-26: The parks here in Montréal are always quite picturesque.
2019-10-26: These both have a bit of a autumn ‘squirrelly’ vibe. I like both but can’t decide which …
2019-10-26: Experimenting a bit with the processing on these. I usually try not to be this heavy-handed.
2019-10-26: “Changes to iOS 13’s Mail Toolbar – Jorge Arango”
2019-10-25: “Q&A with Sam Missingham, The Empowered Author - whitefox”
2019-10-25: “Last impressions first – a flipped approach to web design - Axess Lab” Using the peak-end theory to …
2019-10-25: “The Online Photographer: That Magic Lens”
2019-10-24: “The Quantum Computing Breakthrough + Other Nonsense – On my Om”
2019-10-24: “Enthused about UVA’s New Approach to Gen Ed - Just Visiting” “up against a world where being …
2019-10-23: Unpopular opinion (maybe?): the best soundtrack album for a comics movie is the one Prince did for …
2019-10-23: “What I Like About Writing Styles with Svelte - CSS-Tricks” I’m a huge fan of Svelte.
2019-10-23: “The Horizon of Inquiry - Mule Design Studio - Medium”
2019-10-23: “Infinite Scrolling & Role=Feed Accessibility Issues - Deque”
2019-10-23: “marcus.io · Fata Morganas in Accessibility”
2019-10-23: “Six Reasons Why iOS 13 and Catalina Are So Buggy”
2019-10-22: There aren’t many books that are so good that I have no hesitation in buying the second …
2019-10-22: “Shut Down the Parent Portals: The Dangers of Real-Time Data - Just Visiting”
2019-10-22: “GitHub - evert/ketting: Ketting is a Hypermedia client for javascript” This is very very clever.
2019-10-22: “Using the Platform - Web Performance Consulting - TimKadlec.com”
2019-10-22: “Breaking barriers with your CMS”
2019-10-22: “Why Richard Stallman doesn’t matter” “Folks closest to the FSF community were so myopic about …
2019-10-22: “inessential: SwiftUI Is Still the Future” So many of the things Apple has been shipping lately is …
2019-10-22: “Run End-to-end Tests from Markdown Files - Better world by better software” Basically a way to use …
2019-10-22: “Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center Letting You Track the Trackers - The …
2019-10-22: “Firefox 70 — a bountiful release for all - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog”
2019-10-21: “Zimmermann’s Law: PGP inventor and Silent Circle co-founder Phil Zimmermann on the …
2019-10-21: “Asynchronous Communication: The Real Reason Remote Workers Are More Productive” I honestly miss …
2019-10-21: “Skip level meetings: What they are, and exactly how to run them - Signal v. Noise” If you don’t …
2019-10-20: “How we handle Kiwi.com’s design system with Figma • rojcyk.com”
2019-10-20: “CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE, Part 2 - Charlie’s Diary” “This is like having a skunk cross the road …
2019-10-20: “Best practices for community engagement – Raph’s Website”
2019-10-19: Why most software is only accidentally useful “What is Value? - Think Different” “In summary, if you are a software supplier, software house, or …
2019-10-19: “What is a Customer? - Think Different”
2019-10-18: “HR policy and performance improvement: are systems to blame? - Personnel Today”
2019-10-18: “How we can make open education more feminist (REPOST) – Zoe Wake Hyde”
2019-10-18: “Other Authors Are Not Your Competition—Marketing Advice from #WDC19”
2019-10-17: “SUPERMAN SMASHES THE KLAN might be DC’s best comic this year - The Beat” This honestly looks …
2019-10-17: “Why Open Must be Feminist (REPOST) – Zoe Wake Hyde”
2019-10-17: GraphQL, fads, and tech fanboyism “What Do You Need to Know About GraphQL? — Postlight — Digital Product Studio” A fair, if a tad too …
2019-10-17: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Catalina Vista” Windows Vista feels like the correct analogy here, except …
2019-10-17: “Fixing a complex system - Alan Cooper - Medium”
2019-10-16: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Catalina System Issues” Hold off on updating to Catalina if you can.
2019-10-16: “Inspiration addiction - DESK Magazine”
2019-10-16: “Style hover, focus, and active states differently - Zell Liew”
2019-10-16: “The WHATWG Blog — Focusing on focus”
2019-10-16: ‘When People Say Students Should Do “More” - Just Visiting’ ‘It has not led to an …
2019-10-16: “Adactio: Journal—The Web Share API in Safari on iOS”
2019-10-16: Both ‘open’ systems I’ve seen so far, open source and open education, are mostly …
2019-10-16: “Designing accessible color systems” This is very clever.
2019-10-15: “The ‘Glass Floor’ Is Keeping America’s Richest Idiots At The Top - HuffPost …
2019-10-15: “Keeping it simple with CSS that scales - Andy Bell”
2019-10-15: “Bear Tips: Note Links are live now, here’s how to use them” I’d like to see more apps offer linking …
2019-10-15: “Cut out everything that’s not surprising - Derek Sivers” Not a hard and fast law but certainly a …
2019-10-15: “Choosing a philosophy for dealing with beggars may be called wisdom, but it could also be …
2019-10-15: “(MacOS) Catalina Crisis – On my Om” Don’t upgrade to Catalina until it’s seen at least one bug fix …
2019-10-15: The file metaphor is fading into the background “Computer Files Are Going Extinct - Technology services are changing our internet …
2019-10-15: ‘Steve Blank Why Companies and Government Do “Innovation Theater” Instead of Actual Innovation’
2019-10-14: “Stability & Speed”
2019-10-14: “SEC blocks the Telegram ICO — what this means, and what happens now - Attack of the 50 Foot …
2019-10-14: “The iPad is an ergonomic disaster for traditional computing work, and needs full pointer support …
2019-10-14: “The World-Wide Work. — Ethan Marcotte”
2019-10-14: “The 5 mistakes you’re likely making in your one-on-one meetings with direct reports - Signal v. …
2019-10-14: It may be autumn but these birds were still around, though.
2019-10-14: I think I may have found my desktop wallpaper image for the season. Leaves, leaves, leaves.
2019-10-14: Montréal was quite picturesque yesterday with a few nice ‘autumn-y’ moments.
2019-10-13: “The wondrous world of CSS counters”
2019-10-13: “Sometimes Things Get Better - Colleen Doran on Patreon”
2019-10-13: “mnot’s blog: How Multiplexing Changes Your HTTP APIs”
2019-10-12: Google tries to pull a fast one on an ad blocker, before back-tracking after complaints As an organisation Google continues to pull stunts on partners and other vendors that undermine the …
2019-10-12: “How DWP used the easy read format to make its content more accessible - Accessibility in …
2019-10-12: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Mail Data Loss in macOS 10.15” Hold off on upgrading
2019-10-12: “Canadian cellular plans are among the highest in the world by an obscene margin” The situation is …
2019-10-11: “Social media and depression” It’s bad.
2019-10-11: Modern Operating systems macOS: We break everything for a few weeks once a year. Just take your summer holiday in the autumn! …
2019-10-11: “The 5 mistakes you’re likely making in your one-on-one meetings with direct reports - Know …
2019-10-11: “The W3C At Twenty-Five — Smashing Magazine”
2019-10-10: “Content as Infrastructure Archives – e-Literate” Thought-provoking series of blog posts on content …
2019-10-10: “Time for a MOOC reckoning - HESA” The punditry got it “massively” wrong, as usual.
2019-10-10: “Our Collective Chinese Conundrum – On my Om” “Huawei isn’t a recent problem. It was a problem a …
2019-10-10: ‘The “P” in Progressive Enhancement stands for “Pragmatism” - Andy Bell’
2019-10-10: “Product Team Mistakes, Part 2: Selecting, Estimating, and Prioritizing Features — Users Know” Boy, …
2019-10-10: “Patterns for Practical CSS Custom Properties Use - CSS-Tricks”
2019-10-10: “Drive Innovative Designs Using Experience Visions - Jared M. Spool - Medium”
2019-10-10: “CSS Circles - Cloud Four” Everything you need to know about circles in CSS.
2019-10-10: “Burnout - a long recovery - Andy Bell” I know from personal experience that recovery from burnout …
2019-10-08: “Mark Bernstein: Hypertext And The Age Of Trump” Starting to look more and more like I’ll have to …
2019-10-08: ‘Capturing Luck with “or” instead of “and”’ “The general rule is optionality is strength. When …
2019-10-08: “The China Cultural Clash – Stratechery by Ben Thompson”
2019-10-08: “Tech issues: The myth of inevitable technological progress - Vox” “But the “natural evolution of …
2019-10-08: When the right hand shoots the foot, the left hand blames the opposition It’s really odd to see people on the Chrome team come out so hard against Apple’s WebKit policies …
2019-10-08: “Why I Decided to Revise Just Enough Research - Mule Design Studio - Medium” The first edition was …
2019-10-08: “Practitioners in Businessland - Alan Cooper - Medium”
2019-10-07: “Getting formatted months with vanilla JS - Go Make Things” This is clever.
2019-10-07: “The Intuitive and the Unlearnable - Christina Wodtke - Medium” “Design something that is …
2019-10-07: “Dynamic CSS Components Without JavaScript: Every Layout”
2019-10-07: “3 Keys to Effective Product Roadmapping :: UXmatters”
2019-10-07: “Content Moderation for End-to-End Encrypted Messaging”
2019-10-06: “On Google Reader – Jorge Arango” “So I’m mostly not lamenting the loss of Google Reader’s …
2019-10-06: “Sample Size and the Challenge of Trivial Problems - Blog”
2019-10-06: “Major usability problems require less people to identify - Gerry McGovern - Customer experience …
2019-10-06: “Smoother & sharper shadows with layered box-shadows - Tobias Ahlin”
2019-10-04: Clayton Christensen’s Disruption Theory is being re-evaluated again (which is good) “Disruption Theory is Real, but Wrong – alexdanco.com” This is a decent overview of Clay …
2019-10-04: “Skip level meetings: What they are, and exactly how to run them - Know Your Team - Blog” These are …
2019-10-04: “Code Craft : Part III – Unit Tests are an Early Warning System for Programmers – …
2019-10-04: “Designing a focus style - Zell Liew” (Via @adactio)
2019-10-04: “Editorial Design Patterns With CSS Grid And Named Columns — Smashing Magazine” The CSS grid has …
2019-10-03: Today has felt so much like a Friday. Why isn’t it Friday?
2019-10-03: Feature-oriented development leads to bad products “Gaining a Competitive Advantage with a Solid Experience Vision” “It’s impossible to avoid: …
2019-10-03: “Authentication relation types” This seems like a good idea that solves a pretty common problem.
2019-10-03: “Inspired Design Decisions: Bea Feitler, An Unstoppable Creative Force — Smashing Magazine” This is …
2019-10-03: The most important question to ask after a project “A Framework for Making Better Product Decisions — Users Know” “If you were off on anything - …
2019-10-02: “Where to find the hours to make it happen - Derek Sivers” “It takes many hours to make what you …
2019-10-02: “Bullying – The Red Queen Coder”
2019-10-02: “Code Craft : Part II – Version Control is Seat Belts for Programmers – Codemanship’s Blog”
2019-10-02: “Same-Site Cookies By Default - text/plain” This will make the web more secure but it will break a …
2019-10-01: “Enhancing The Clickable Area Size” I hadn’t seen the ::after trick before.
2019-10-01: “How to be a more productive developer - Go Make Things” All good. The “plan your scripts out on …
2019-10-01: “A Modern CSS Reset - Andy Bell” Sensible, with nice explanations and context.
2019-10-01: “Software as Business and the Passion Project” “From a business perspective, the customer lifetime …
2019-10-01: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Decreasing iOS Information Density” This is one of the many very unfortunate …
2019-10-01: “Five dysfunctions of ‘democratised’ research. Part 4 – Quantitative fallacies – disambiguity”
2019-09-30: “swyx Writing - Why JavaScript Tooling Sucks” This is much more nuanced than the title would …
2019-09-30: “The Online Photographer: ‘Sharp’ Is Subjective”
2019-09-30: “Don’t quote. Make it yours and say it yourself. - Derek Sivers”
2019-09-29: “Testing in Production: the hard parts - Cindy Sridharan - Medium”
2019-09-28: “Apple’s abysmal Mail toolbar design in iOS 13 - Revert to Saved” Why? Why did they do this?
2019-09-28: “How to Begin to Shape Up - Shape Up” Shape Up is probably the most important book on software …
2019-09-28: “Art in the Age of Digital Subscription — Pixel Envy”
2019-09-27: “The ethics of the tools we use - Go Make Things” Tricky questions that I have no answer to but like …
2019-09-27: “My Repo, My House, My Rules - hueniverse” I know people find Eran Hammer abrasive and hard to deal …
2019-09-27: Ugh. I see that I’m back in the land of the crap electric kettles.
2019-09-26: “This simple math hack lets you create an image carousel without any if statements - DEV Community …
2019-09-26: “Libraries no longer guard patron privacy. – Dorothea Salo”
2019-09-26: An Icelandic beer at the airport has become a bit of a departure ritual for me.
2019-09-26: “Into the web multiverse - Christian Heilmann” A very interesting read.
2019-09-26: I see that Google’s browser devs are back at presenting, Apple’s iOS browser policies, the one thing …
2019-09-26: “You Pay (Or Maybe You Don’t): Every Layout” I like this.
2019-09-25: “An Explanation of How the Intersection Observer Watches - CSS-Tricks”
2019-09-25: “My kindergarten story – Daniel Lemire’s blog”
2019-09-25: “Gladwell’s catchphrase factory has shut down – On my Om” “This won’t be the first time Gladwell …
2019-09-25: “Looking back at the Snowden revelations – A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering”
2019-09-25: “Writing Is Socializing - Just Visiting”
2019-09-25: “Code Craft’s Value Proposition: More Throws Of The Dice – Codemanship’s Blog” “Evolutionary …
2019-09-24: “Workshops as Portals” This seems clever.
2019-09-24: “Elementary, my dear Watson! or, why secure DNS is a good thing – Dorothea Salo”
2019-09-24: “Why Do Some People Love Reading? - The Atlantic” IMO the best way to get kids to read is to get …
2019-09-24: “iOS 13 - NSHipster” This highlight of the lesser known new API features in iOS hammers home how far …
2019-09-24: “Media Accounting 101: Appholes and Contracts — Roden Explorers Archive” Read this if you’re in …
2019-09-24: “Investigate animation performance with DevTools”
2019-09-24: ‘“Stateless” – You Keep Using That Word… – Codemanship’s Blog’
2019-09-23: “The Tyranny of Hourly”
2019-09-23: “ongoing by Tim Bray · The Cloud and Open Source”
2019-09-23: “The joy and challenge of developing for KaiOS - Read the Tea Leaves”
2019-09-23: “Secrets about People: A Short and Dangerous Introduction to René Girard – alexdanco.com”
2019-09-23: “Billy Joel: American Kayfabe Master – alexdanco.com”
2019-09-23: “WeWTF, Part Deux - No Mercy / No Malice” “We’ve witnessed a halving of journalists since …
2019-09-22: “My father was IBM’s first black software engineer. The racism he fought persists in the …
2019-09-22: “Adactio: Journal—Going offline with microformats”
2019-09-21: “Thinking vs Choosing – The Haystack” via @adactio
2019-09-20: “A Taxonomy of Moats - Reaction Wheel”
2019-09-20: “iPhone 11, iPadOS and iOS 13 for PWAs and web development” iOS support for progressive web apps is …
2019-09-19: “iPhone 11 Pro Camera Review — Austin Mann”
2019-09-19: “Don’t Let Anyone Tell You that You’re Not a ‘Real’ Programmer - DaedTech” …
2019-09-19: I honestly did not realise that mentions on micro.blog would translate over in the Twitter …
2019-09-19: “At Dynamicland, The Building Is The Computer — Carl Tashian” via @adactio
2019-09-19: “A Final Nail in the Coffin for Turnitin? - Just Visiting”
2019-09-19: “When Your Boss Doesn’t Care About Doing the Right Thing”
2019-09-19: “On proposals affecting the privacy of web architecture”
2019-09-18: “A reflection on the departure of RMS - Thomas Bushnell, BSG - Medium”
2019-09-18: “Denial”
2019-09-18: “The Problem With Sugar-Daddy Science - The Atlantic”
2019-09-18: “Where to put buttons on forms by Adam Silver, designer based in London, UK.”
2019-09-18: “Using OAuth with fetch() in vanilla JS - Go Make Things”
2019-09-18: “Don’t sacrifice the right ideas to win the right words - Drew DeVault’s Blog”
2019-09-17: “What is Nonviolence? - Think Different”
2019-09-17: “Beyond Browser Vendors”
2019-09-17: “Poachers turned gamekeepers — Cennydd Bowles”
2019-09-16: “The Consumerism Curse – On my Om”
2019-09-16: The thing I love about svelte is that this Just Works™ This automatically binds a class on a label …
2019-09-16: “Pixels of the Week – September 15, 2019, by Stéphanie Walter - UX designer & Mobile Expert.”
2019-09-16: “The psychology of cheap - Gerry McGovern - Customer experience keynote speaker; user experience …
2019-09-16: “Let’s Stop Killing Students’ Spirits - Just Visiting”
2019-09-15: “Code like you’re writing for… - Simon’s Random Thoughts” Thoughts on the role …
2019-09-15: “A Helpful Guide to Reading Better” This is great.
2019-09-15: “Preference falsification - Wikipedia”
2019-09-15: “Explicit Learning - Stevan Popovic”
2019-09-14: “Laura Klein’s 20/80 feedback: When the design is 20% done, you can tell people they are climbing …
2019-09-14: “Five dysfunctions of ‘democratised’ research. Part 3 – Research as a weapon – disambiguity” So many …
2019-09-14: “Five Habits of Design Thinking – Eleganthack” This is the sort of useful and practical blog post …
2019-09-14: “WebGPU and WSL in Safari - WebKit” Not my wheelhouse but interesting nonetheless.
2019-09-14: “Simplicity (II)”
2019-09-14: “Taking a year to explain computer things - Julia Evans” Exciting. This is going to be interesting …
2019-09-14: “Let the Right One In – Eleganthack”
2019-09-14: “Facing the Great Reckoning Head-On - danah boyd - Medium” “We must hold accountable all who …
2019-09-14: “31 New Features in Camera & Photos in iOS 13 « iOS & iPhone :: Gadget Hacks”
2019-09-14: “xkcd: Earth-Like Exoplanet”
2019-09-13: Netflix in Iceland has a tonne of British TV both new and classic. This makes it officially better …
2019-09-13: “Remove Richard Stallman - Selam G. - Medium” Stallman is and has always been sleaze.
2019-09-12: “No More Alarms · Chris Krycho”
2019-09-12: “How long will Apple’s mad science edge last? – On my Om”
2019-09-12: “Two Browsers Walked Into a Scrollbar” One issue I have with current design trends is that obtrusive …
2019-09-12: “On Unacceptable Rooms - Just Visiting”
2019-09-11: The new three lens iPhones are the final nail in the coffin for for interchangeable lens cameras. …
2019-09-10: “The Secret Power of Menopause - The Atlantic” “Menopause is a key to our success as a species.”
2019-09-10: “Digital is garbage” Not wrong
2019-09-10: “Where did the web’s personality go? - Inside Design Blog”
2019-09-09: “Caniuse and MDN compatibility data collaboration - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog” This is …
2019-09-09: “Don’t get locked up into avoiding lock-in” With this final installment I’m pretty sure this …
2019-09-09: “What we get wrong about meetings – and how to make them worth attending” “For subordinates, …
2019-09-09: “Marketing Memos: Content, Commerce, and… Libraries?”
2019-09-09: “AI in Education Hype: Feel Like I’ve Seen This Play Before - Just Visiting”
2019-09-09: “O whatever God or whatever ancestor that wins in the next life”
2019-09-09: “Organic Product Development and Authentic Design :: UXmatters”
2019-09-09: “Why You Need a Dedicated CSS Developer - Toptal”
2019-09-09: “Lambdascam: Income Share Agreements are just predatory loans - Christof Rindlisbacher”
2019-09-09: “On Joi and MIT - Lessig - Medium” If there’s one thing Lessig unwittingly proves with his post, …
2019-09-08: “Writing and survivorship bias”
2019-09-08: “Why you shouldn’t trust people who support sexual predators – Valerie Aurora’s blog”
2019-09-08: “New App Prototype: Prompts - daverupert.com”
2019-09-08: “Facebook’s Open Source Community Is Reckoning With Toxicity and Harassment - VICE”
2019-09-08: “Pixels of the Week – September 8, 2019, by Stéphanie Walter - UX designer & Mobile Expert.” …
2019-09-08: “6 reasons polished concrete is the worst kind of office flooring - Alex Hillman” Tired of polished …
2019-09-08: “Should a CEO write code? – Berkshire Publishing”
2019-09-08: “The Epstein scandal at MIT shows the moral bankruptcy of techno-elites - Jeffrey Epstein - The …
2019-09-07: “Kickshitter – On my Om”
2019-09-07: “E.T.: Why it was a victim of its own schedule — Wireframe”
2019-09-07: “How to motivate employees? Don’t. - Know Your Team - Blog”
2019-09-07: “How to put an HTML page on the internet - Julia Evans”
2019-09-07: “How An Élite University Research Center Concealed Its Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein - The New …
2019-09-07: “Evgeny Morozov, Digital Socialism?, NLR 116/117, March–June 2019”
2019-09-06: “Why I Have a Website and You Should Too · Jamie Tanna - Software (Quality) Engineer”
2019-09-06: “Bear 1.7 Brings Note Locking, New Themes, Emoji Auto-Complete, and More - MacStories” I’m a huge …
2019-09-06: “The Online Photographer: Dont’ Worry, You’ll Be All Right” “camera and lens sales are …
2019-09-06: “An Apple Developer for 10 years”
2019-09-06: “Mechanics who hate cars - Austin Kleon”
2019-09-06: “the bullet hole misconception - daniel g. siegel”
2019-09-05: Back in Iceland. Feels like I’ve only been away a month. Oh, wait. I have only been away a …
2019-09-05: “Are Plastic Bag Bans Garbage? : Planet Money : NPR”
2019-09-05: “inessential: On the Many NetNewsWire Feature Requests to Show Full Web Pages” I really like the way …
2019-09-04: “Adam Tinworth - A walk through the blogging graveyard”
2019-09-04: “Hiring UX Professionals: 3 Critical Mistakes to Avoid” Many of these points apply to hiring for …
2019-09-04: “iCloud Clusterfuck • furbo.org”
2019-09-04: “Networked Communities 2 - Blogging as a Social Act”
2019-09-04: “How to Flip an App for Profit - Becky Hansmeyer”
2019-09-04: An interesting presentation by Rich Harris explaining to a React crowd why Svelte fits his brain …
2019-09-04: “Manton Reece - Mastodon remote follow”
2019-09-04: “Mark Bernstein: Gamergate” “Meanwhile, Wikipedia’s coverage drift’s further and further to …
2019-09-04: “A Year of Working Remotely » Mike Industries”
2019-09-04: “Don’t get locked up into avoiding lock-in” Part 3
2019-09-04: “Another Network is Possible”
2019-09-04: “Our Industry Needs to Invest in Childcare, Especially for Conferences - Features - Source: An …
2019-09-04: “UX Metrics: Identify Trackable Footprints and Avoid the Woozles — UX Articles by UIE”
2019-09-04: “Why the Future of the Global Economy is About Climate Change”
2019-09-04: “Your mental health for sale - Privacy International”
2019-09-03: “Should a website work without JavaScript? - CSS-Tricks”
2019-09-03: “Under-Engineered Text Boxen - Adrian Roselli”
2019-09-03: “From Monolithic to Distributed Architectures – Jorge Arango”
2019-09-03: “inessential: On My Funny Ideas About What Beta Means” I kinda like these definitions of dev, alpha …
2019-09-03: “Weaving a public web, or, why don’t I blog more? – Brendan Schlagel”
2019-09-03: “Standards & Gatekeepers & Fitted Bathrooms – Codemanship’s Blog”
2019-09-03: “Mark Zuckerberg Is a Slumlord”
2019-09-03: “swissmiss - How To Write by Elizabeth Gilbert”
2019-09-03: “People were using payment systems long before cryptographic systems were developed. Payments are a …
2019-09-03: “Don’t get locked up into avoiding lock-in” Part 2
2019-09-03: “Technology is helping employers constantly surveil workers.”
2019-09-03: “If I could only teach my non-technical friends two things about technology, I would encourage them …
2019-09-01: “Why you’ve got UX and UI all mixed up - The Startup - Medium”
2019-09-01: “Progress - Blair Reeves”
2019-09-01: “Digital Is A Process, Not A Project – Codemanship’s Blog” “We’re never really done. We’re …
2019-09-01: “Inclusive Design Checklist – Design.blog”
2019-09-01: “Why Ethical Responsibility For Tech Should Extend to Non-Users - You The Data”
2019-09-01: “The Business Case for Digital Accessibility - Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) - W3C”
2019-09-01: “Be an Elegant Simplifier - Behavioral Scientist”
2019-09-01: “Color Tools For Designers 2019 - Muzli - Design Inspiration”
2019-09-01: “Pixels of the Week – September 1, 2019, by Stéphanie Walter - UX designer & Mobile Expert.” All …
2019-08-31: “Product Fail - Silicon Valley Product Group”
2019-08-31: “Product vs. Feature Teams - Silicon Valley Product Group”
2019-08-31: That thing where an organisation somehow manages to play out a single OODA loop over an entire year.
2019-08-30: “7 ways of giving feedback that encourage change - Know Your Team - Blog” ‘Avoid the “shit …
2019-08-30: “License Zero // But You Said I Could”
2019-08-30: “License Zero // Process of Elimination”
2019-08-30: “Recap of the funding experiment » Feross.org”
2019-08-30: “The Lean Web Ebook - Go Make Things”
2019-08-30: “What publishers need to know about git (distributed version control system) - BookMachine” Version …
2019-08-29: “Jim Ratcliffe and his feudal hold of Icelandic salmon rivers and farming communities at Sigrún …
2019-08-29: “Old doesnt mean obsolete - Go Make Things”
2019-08-29: “The Powerful Ritual of Daily Design Reviews - Jared M. Spool - Medium”
2019-08-29: “Marking the end of pixel trackers in Basecamp emails - Signal v. Noise”
2019-08-29: “Bottom Navigation Pattern On Mobile Web Pages: A Better Alternative? — Smashing Magazine”
2019-08-29: “How Shift Happens in Our Lives : zen habits”
2019-08-29: “Don’t get locked up into avoiding lock-in”
2019-08-29: “Modern applications at AWS” One of the things that worries me in my FLOSS work is that, …
2019-08-29: “Facial recognition in schools leads to Sweden’s first GDPR fine”
2019-08-29: “After Bears Kept Coming To This Man’s Bee Farm To Steal Honey, He Decided To Turn Them Into Honey …
2019-08-29: “Sharing the Data: How Technical Women Navigate Their Career - Developer Resources”
2019-08-28: “The tools we use: Challenging dogma in the design process - Inside Intercom”
2019-08-28: “Back to HTML: Introducing Trimmings — Postlight — Digital Product Studio”
2019-08-28: “Overcoming Solution Bias – Codemanship’s Blog” ☝️
2019-08-28: “Lottery logic - Seth’s Blog” I see this kind of logic all too often.
2019-08-28: “CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE - Charlie’s Diary” The situation in the UK looks pretty scary at the …
2019-08-28: “The Browser Monopoly - Blair Reeves”
2019-08-27: “On ‘relatability’ - Sarah Moss”
2019-08-27: ‘Blogs are “thought spaces” – On my Om’
2019-08-27: “Some Changes – On my Om” A hopeful take on blogging.
2019-08-27: “How Web Content Can Affect Power Usage - WebKit”
2019-08-27: “curl exercises - Julia Evans”
2019-08-27: “To Find a Niche, Learn Why Your Company Pays Your Salary - DaedTech”
2019-08-27: “Publication Manifest” So, one thing we did get out of the W3C web publication effort is …
2019-08-27: “Capability – Think Different”
2019-08-27: “RA for All: How We Can and Must Fight The Publishers on Ebook Access in Libraries”
2019-08-27: “React” “Why I have a problem with React the library and spend a lot of time talking to my …
2019-08-27: “The Bottom Feeder: I Am the Cheapest Bastard In Indie Games” This is about indie games dev but …
2019-08-26: “The best camera is the one you master — aows”
2019-08-26: “Adactio: Journal—Opening up the AMP cache” Interesting proposal. One issue not covered (which AMP …
2019-08-26: “It’s Easy to be Tricked by a Climate Denier - Willard MacDonald - Medium”
2019-08-25: “Pixels of the Week – August 25, 2019, by Stéphanie Walter - UX designer & Mobile Expert.”
2019-08-24: “The Four Categories Of Asshole”
2019-08-24: “Book publishers sue Audible to stop new speech-to-text feature” Suing to prevent …
2019-08-24: “Why I don’t take photos with my phone anymore — aows”
2019-08-24: “Plaidophile: So about that AMP-script thing” “It’s pretty clear to me that it’s less about …
2019-08-24: “ApplicationBoundary” “applications are social constructions”
2019-08-23: “How to avoid supporting sexual predators – Valerie Aurora’s blog”
2019-08-23: “Adactio: Links—4 Rules for Intuitive UX – Learn UI Design”
2019-08-23: “The 3 Laws of Locality – Learn UI Design”
2019-08-23: “4 Rules for Intuitive UX – Learn UI Design”
2019-08-23: “Taking shortcuts ･ Robin Rendle”
2019-08-23: “The Planet Needs a New Internet”
2019-08-23: “On proposals affecting the privacy of web architecture”
2019-08-23: “Intentional and Emergent Design Systems“
2019-08-23: “Clearbit’s approach to management” “Ultimately, people don’t leave companies; they …
2019-08-23: “The change management mind-set: Getting personal - McKinsey”
2019-08-23: “If You Want Engaged Employees, Offer Them Stability”
2019-08-23: “We Know How to Teach Writing - Just Visiting”
2019-08-23: “Put down the pitchforks.”
2019-08-23: “This is part of why Keith hates OKRs; setting your goal to just 3x your revenue over the …
2019-08-22: “Long hours are BS: Squaring tech’s penchant for long hours with elite athletic …
2019-08-22: “Stay in your lane and outlast your competition - Nathan Barry”
2019-08-22: “Your Team Size Don’t Impress Me Much”
2019-08-22: “Visual Thinking: Jessica Helfand on Invention, the Studio as Sanctuary, and Being a Collector — …
2019-08-22: “The Company You Keep – On my Om”
2019-08-22: “How to collaborate effectively in a remote team - Know Your Team - Blog”
2019-08-22: “On me, and the Media Lab”
2019-08-22: “Rejecting a Sex Offender’s Contributions: Two MIT researchers resign from the Media Lab …
2019-08-22: “Ownership is resistance”
2019-08-22: “Is Impossible Burger healthy?” Short version: highly processed food is rarely good for …
2019-08-22: “The Bottom Feeder: Why All Of Our Games Look Like Crap” If you want to be profitable you have to …
2019-08-22: “Linear Interpolation Functions - Trys Mudford”
2019-08-22: “How We Migrated To Turbolinks Without Breaking Javascript - Honeybadger Developer Blog”
2019-08-22: “Other Ways to SPAs - CSS-Tricks”
2019-08-22: “The Native File System API: Simplifying access to local files - Web - Google Developers” …
2019-08-22: “WebAssembly Interface Types: Interoperate with All the Things! - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer …
2019-08-22: “Iceland’s Prime Minister To Skip Meeting With VP Mike Pence” I voted for her, …
2019-08-21: “Be a closer — aows” The quantity vs quality question in art is well covered. See “Art & Fear” …
2019-08-21: “Bringing A Better Design Process To Your Organization — Smashing Magazine”
2019-08-21: “How to be a good manager of a self-improving team — Quartz at Work”
2019-08-20: This one has showed up for work
2019-08-20: “Our Leaders Kill For Their Own Benefit - Ian Welsh”
2019-08-20: “The WeWork IPO – Stratechery by Ben Thompson”
2019-08-20: “Digital sweatshops then and now – Jon Udell”
2019-08-20: “Collections is now available to test in the Canary channel - Microsoft Edge Blog” This is a great …
2019-08-20: “Why Archive Of Our Own’s Hugo win is so important for fandom - The Beat”
2019-08-20: “Celebrating Software as a Tactic, Not a Profession - DaedTech”
2019-08-20: “Six FAQs – Think Different” Five years old but always relevant (unfortunately).
2019-08-19: “Dom diffing with vanilla JS: part 1 - Go Make Things”
2019-08-19: “The birth of Inter”
2019-08-19: “Best moment of the academic year — Crooked Timber”
2019-08-18: “What’s The Point of Code Craft? – Codemanship’s Blog”
2019-08-17: “Touchscreens and the Loss of Nuanced Control – Jorge Arango” Easily the main reason why I take most …
2019-08-17: “New Things In New Ways, or Same Old Things In Old Ways?”
2019-08-17: “Backlogs make you feel guilty.” This podcast episode where Jason Fried talks about …
2019-08-16: “Art Spiegelman’s Marvel essay ‘refused publication for Orange Skull Trump dig’ - …
2019-08-16: “The Purview Model of Organization - Boris Anthony”
2019-08-16: “Accessibility and web performance are not features, they’re the baseline - CSS-Tricks”
2019-08-16: “ReaderWriterLinks: How To Read a Book edition - ReaderWriterVille”
2019-08-16: “Why the hell am I building a product with a tiny market?”
2019-08-16: “Serge Toarca Offers Three Reasons To Bootstrap In a Small Market”
2019-08-16: “Mark Bernstein: Plot” Mark Bernstein unintentionally explains why I find Michael Joyce, his work …
2019-08-16: “On Guilt-Free Open Source - hueniverse”
2019-08-16: “I consider Twitter to be a very effective sewage system — you put stuff in and it floats away, but …
2019-08-16: “What Happened When Our Team Switched to Only Asynchronous Meetings”
2019-08-16: “Welcome to the New Blog - Why we left Medium, and how!” The usual reasons: Medium has …
2019-08-14: “UX Strategy is a Long Game, But Worth Every Moment - Jared M. Spool - Medium”
2019-08-14: “What happens to your iTunes account when Apple says you’ve committed fraud — Quartz”
2019-08-14: “Browsers, input events, and frame throttling - Read the Tea Leaves” Research. Research is good 🙂
2019-08-14: How you can tell that Web Publications are dead: Amazon is has joined the W3C with an eye towards …
2019-08-13: Out of Iceland, UK and Quebec, by far the worst healthcare system I’ve encountered is the one …
2019-08-13: “Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech - WIRED” Google honestly sounds …
2019-08-13: Both of today’s major app paradigms (native and web) have major inherent flaws. The web …
2019-08-13: “Emma Vieceli’s BREAKS webcomic censored by Apple for ‘overtly sexual’ content - …
2019-08-13: “Basic Custom Control Requirements - Adrian Roselli”
2019-08-13: “Do Your Unit Tests Know Too Much? – Codemanship’s Blog”
2019-08-12: “Miniver Cheevy: Bruce Sterling on startups and disruption”
2019-08-12: “Our humanity needs to develop at the same speed as our technology”
2019-08-12: “This is what a moral panic looks like – Carrie Marshall: Bigmouth Strikes Again”
2019-08-12: “In Search of a Stack That Monitors the Quality and Complexity of CSS - CSS-Tricks”
2019-08-12: “Unexpected accessibility tips – Chris Cid”
2019-08-12: As a comp. lit. degree holder who has spent dealt with too many narcissists, I feel ready to call …
2019-08-12: “The 3-Click Rule for Navigation Is False”
2019-08-12: “All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people”
2019-08-12: ‘Higher Ed Innovation Already Happened It just wasn’t the good kind. You can stop …
2019-08-11: “High-performance input handling on the web - Read the Tea Leaves” This sort of research is so so …
2019-08-11: “Check, m8. Tech, h8.”
2019-08-10: Can’t get this in Iceland
2019-08-10: “Networks Of Trust: Dismantling And Preventing Harassment – Chris’s Design & Development”
2019-08-10: Watching one of the 80s comedies I know I enjoyed as a kid. People back in the 80s really thought …
2019-08-09: “Amphora. — Ethan Marcotte”
2019-08-09: “The end times are here, and I am at Target - The Outline” I’ve been having this very same thought a …
2019-08-08: “Does talent matter? — Crooked Timber” The answer, at least as far as workplaces go, is a solid no, …
2019-08-08: “OPP (Other People’s Problems) - Camille Fournier - Medium”
2019-08-07: As a slight counterpoint to my web dev gloom lately: I’m testing building one component in a …
2019-08-07: “A Mindful Approach to Technology – The Sweet Setup”
2019-08-07: I don’t know what this says about the state of web development, but it says something. (alt: …
2019-08-07: “Let’s write more blog posts: an experiment by Amy Hupe, content designer.” I really like this idea, …
2019-08-07: “Revamping Firefox’s Reader Mode this Summer - monotonous.org”
2019-08-07: This sort of structure is hard to pull off in a short entry. It probably would have worked better in …
2019-08-07: Posted this yesterday evening. Probably the blog post with the oddest structure I’ve written …
2019-08-06: “You’re Not an Imposter if You Have a Dayjob and Write”
2019-08-06: “We Don’t Do That Here”
2019-08-06: I wonder if publishers who sell the ebook edition of a $40 book for $39 end up being surprised at …
2019-08-06: Finally back in Montréal after a month in Iceland. Still on Iceland time 😝
2019-08-05: “Without theory there is no learning - Vanguard”
2019-08-05: “Motivation? - Vanguard”
2019-08-05: “Test of a good measure - Vanguard”
2019-08-05: “Experience alone, without theory, teaches management nothing about what to do to improve quality …
2019-08-05: “Eliminate numerical goals for management - Vanguard” “Internal goals set in the management of a …
2019-08-05: “95% of performance is governed by the system - Vanguard”
2019-08-05: “Local services are human, receptive, engaging and productive. Counterintuitively, they are also …
2019-08-05: “Psst. Turns out 80% of books published in 1924-1963 are secretly in the public domain.”
2019-08-05: “The simplest Svelte component is an empty file » Jesse Skinner » Web Development with JavaScript, …
2019-08-05: “The Flawed Reasoning Behind the Replication Crisis - Issue 74: Networks - Nautilus”
2019-08-04: Sandwich cake. This used to be an Icelandic staple (and Danish, I think?) but thankfully less …
2019-08-04: “Fallible data - Gerry McGovern - Customer experience keynote speaker; user experience keynote …
2019-08-03: Took these three pigeon photos around 13 years ago in Bristol
2019-08-03: Yum.
2019-08-03: “Shooting Great Silhouettes - Dylan Goldby - Photographer” I should take more silhouette photos.
2019-08-02: Another three year old photo from the peak of the Snæfellsjökull mountain/volcano/glacier.
2019-08-02: This one is from the peak of the Snæfellsjökull mountain/volcano/glacier. Taken three years ago.
2019-08-02: This here is a four year old photo taken somewhere in Reykjanes here in Iceland. iPhone 6 Plus.
2019-08-02: I took this photo almost exactly 13 years ago up by Clifton Down in Bristol.
2019-08-02: “How mindfulness privatised a social problem”
2019-08-02: Just heard that the average temperature in Reykjavík for this July was the highest ever recorded. …
2019-08-02: “Adactio: Journal—Navigation preloads in service workers”
2019-08-01: “Adactio: Links—The web without the web - DEV Community 👩💻👨💻” Jeremy Keith’s comments on the last …
2019-08-01: “The web without the web - DEV Community 👩💻👨💻” I fully agree with and endorse everything in this …
2019-08-01: “There Goes Hurricane Florence; Here Come the Disaster Myths”
2019-08-01: “Ooops, I guess we’re full-stack developers now.”
2019-08-01: “Meljean, why aren’t you on Twitter? - Meljean Brook”
2019-08-01: “Social Media Downsizing - ReaderWriterVille” This reminds me that I really need to quit Twitter. …
2019-08-01: “Bits or pieces?: What culture is right for you?”
2019-08-01: “Are We Watching the Arctic Pass a Tipping Point This Summer?”
2019-07-31: The view from my grandmother’s living room window
2019-07-31: “PWAs on iOS 13 beta: Here Comes Good News” Looks like PWAs on iOS 13 will finally be …
2019-07-31: I’m not sure that Americans appreciate just how pathological and toxic it is to require people …
2019-07-31: “Humans Will Never Colonize Mars”
2019-07-31: “Why you should buy your staff a copy of Every Layout: Every Layout”
2019-07-31: “Mark Bernstein: The Need For Speed: a partial dissent”
2019-07-31: “Truths about digital accessibility - Eric Bailey”
2019-07-31: “The Real Dark Web”
2019-07-31: “Talking about CSS Containment at CSSconf EU 2019 - Rego’s Everyday Life”
2019-07-31: “Paul Tyma on “The Old Man’s Business Model” - SKMurphy, Inc.”
2019-07-30: “British trophy hunters paying to shoot 100 puffins at a time during trips to Iceland - The …
2019-07-30: “Create custom keyboard accessible radio buttons - a11y with Lindsey”
2019-07-29: “How to onboard a new hire - Signal v. Noise”
2019-07-29: “Cutting Through Indecision & Overthinking : zen habits”
2019-07-29: “But he wasn’t happy with the code. He felt the team had done a good job, but now they …
2019-07-29: “Agile is Dead (Long Live Agility)” “When faced with two or more alternatives …
2019-07-29: “How we can make open education more feminist?”
2019-07-29: Pressbooks is looking for a senior PHP developer in the Montréal area. Nice people. Nice office …
2019-07-29: “FOSS contributor tracks - Drew DeVault’s Blog”
2019-07-29: “FOSS contributor tracks - Drew DeVault’s Blog”
2019-07-29: “Looking back on five years of web components”
2019-07-29: “In era of instant experts, only time will tell how good you are – On my Om”
2019-07-29: “We’ve made the GOV.UK Design System more accessible - Design in government”
2019-07-29: “Rethinking Software Testing: Perspectives from the world of Hardware – Software the Hard way”
2019-07-29: “Hiring is Broken And Yours Is Too – Software the Hard way”
2019-07-29: “The One Page Strategy Canvas”
2019-07-29: “Every Layout Is Released: Some Facts - HeydonWorks”
2019-07-28: “Neurosexism: the myth that men and women have different brains – The hunt for male and female …
2019-07-27: It’s always a little bit weird to see creative types tie themselves into logic knots trying to …
2019-07-27: “How to test vanilla JS performance - Go Make Things”
2019-07-27: “Macmillan’s Library Ebook Embargo is a Call to Action”
2019-07-27: “On Switching from iPad to Chromebook in School — Fraser Speirs” Lots of interesting observations …
2019-07-27: “Designing in t’browser - Website and blog of Flintshire, North Wales based Front-end developer and …
2019-07-27: “We’re getting dangerously close to a climate death spiral, new study warns – ThinkProgress”
2019-07-27: “Scientists Unveil Memorial to Iceland’s ‘First’ Dead Glacier Lost to …
2019-07-26: Brúarhlöð. A very impressive looking place.
2019-07-26: These tourists seemed to be enjoying their short walk near Dyradalur.
2019-07-26: I don’t remember exactly where this mountanous view was but it was not far from Nesjavellir.
2019-07-26: I’m going to miss the Icelandic weather when I’m back in Montréal.
2019-07-25: Contemplative tourists taking in the view by Stafnesviti
2019-07-25: My sister taking a photo of my dad by the very orange Stafnesviti
2019-07-25: Another photo from the area around Garðsviti: people were clearly enjoying the beach.
2019-07-25: “’No doubt left’ about scientific consensus on global warming, say experts - Climate …
2019-07-25: “Jon Aizlewood · Agile and design — How to avoid Frankensteining your product”
2019-07-25: “Progressive Enhancement”
2019-07-25: “Fast Software, the Best Software — by Craig Mod”
2019-07-25: “Adding, not echoing” This is something I’ve been pretty bad at over the past few years but want to …
2019-07-25: “Learn Svelte 3 by building a Todo List App”
2019-07-25: “Software Development is a Business Tactic, Not a Profession - DaedTech” “In a commercial context, …
2019-07-25: “Software Development is a Business Tactic, Not a Profession - DaedTech” “I think we, as an …
2019-07-24: I also discovered that my iPad Pro is faster for photographic work than my 2015 MacBook Pro. …
2019-07-24: I’ve changed my approach to photo processing a bit. Decided to be less wary of going …
2019-07-24: Most beaches in Iceland don’t have this kind of white sand but Reykjanes and Snæfellsnes have …
2019-07-24: It’s always weird to see the artifacts of tourism in isolation.
2019-07-24: Garðsviti with Snæfellsjökull in the distant background.
2019-07-24: Been seeing a bit of the countryside during my visit home to Iceland
2019-07-24: “Meaning without markup: Accessibility Object Model”
2019-07-24: “What great managers do: Prune - Signal v. Noise”
2019-07-24: Am I the only one who relied on desktop Slack having less support for multiple workspaces to …
2019-07-24: ‘“It’s not your fault, mom.” – Jon Udell’
2019-07-24: “Why Are So Many Scholarly Communication Infrastructure Providers Running a Red Queen’s Race? - …
2019-07-24: “CSS Animation Libraries - CSS-Tricks”
2019-07-23: “Scrolling is easier than clicking”
2019-07-23: “The story of Recycling is the Story of Intentional Misdirection”
2019-07-22: “Form design: from zero to hero all in one blog post by Adam Silver, designer based in London, UK.” …
2019-07-21: “Satellite Images Show Vast Swaths of the Arctic On Fire”
2019-07-21: “#NoSoftware - Think Different”
2019-07-21: “Are your customers low or high information? - Gerry McGovern - Customer experience keynote speaker; …
2019-07-21: “Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation – Dan Slimmon”
2019-07-21: “The Paradox of Tolerance In Online Spaces – Chris’s Design & Development”
2019-07-19: “mikepennisi.com - The Web Can’t Survive a Monoculture”
2019-07-19: “Ralph Lavelle: On resilience”
2019-07-19: “rwot9-prague/ap-unwanted-messages.md at master · WebOfTrustInfo/rwot9-prague · GitHub”
2019-07-19: “README.org · master · spritely / OcapPub · GitLab”
2019-07-18: “JavaScript frameworks are better for accessibility (and other myths) - Go Make Things”
2019-07-18: “The Bottom Feeder: The Glorious, Profitable, Inescapable Art of Addiction”
2019-07-18: “Dropbox Widely Distributed Their New Shittier Desktop App Today — Pixel Envy”
2019-07-18: “WTF are you doing to Harlequin and Carina, HarperCollins? - ReaderWriterVille”
2019-07-18: “Frontend Design, React, and a Bridge over the Great Divide”
2019-07-17: “Drive-by Redesigns – Jorge Arango”
2019-07-17: “Modern CSS win - Andy Bell”
2019-07-17: “Scapegoating Libraries for Declining Sales. Again.” “Let’s be honest. With few exceptions, …
2019-07-16: “Tobias S. Buckell: Author, Speaker, and Futurist”
2019-07-16: “Cognitive Maps, Mind Maps, and Concept Maps: Definitions”
2019-07-16: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Shape Up” Bookmarking in case there’s a discussion later. I’m a huge fan of …
2019-07-16: “Facebook As Your Debt Collector, and the Prospects for Libra”
2019-07-16: “How to Kill IE11 - What the Deaths of IE6 and IE8 Tell Us About Killing IE - Mike Sherov”
2019-07-16: “Initial thoughts on standardizing form controls - Greg Whitworth”
2019-07-15: “Show Progress - SHAPE UP” I am so loving this book.
2019-07-15: “We’re told that too much screen time hurts our kids. Where’s the evidence? - Andrew Przybylski and …
2019-07-14: You can tell that I’m in Iceland from the fact that my caffeine intake increases by an order of …
2019-07-14: “Wrapping Algorithms in Empathy - Becky Hansmeyer”
2019-07-14: “Mental strain of delivering excellent service - Gerry McGovern - Customer experience keynote …
2019-07-14: Wow, Dropbox really did completely ruin their desktop app, didn’t they? It’s now such a …
2019-07-14: A day late for caturday but here are a few photos of my sister’s cat Flækja …
2019-07-14: “The Single Best Way to Take Notes · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer”
2019-07-14: “Pixels of the Week – July 14, 2019, by Stéphanie Walter - UX designer & Mobile Expert.”
2019-07-14: “How to Design an E-Commerce Website (with Examples) - Snipcart”
2019-07-14: “Margaret Hamilton: ‘They worried that the men might rebel. They didn’t’ - Technology - The …
2019-07-12: “The last thing your business needs is more metrics”
2019-07-12: ”…measurement of productivity does not improve productivity.” W Edwards Deming, …
2019-07-12: “The Decline of Historical Perspective”
2019-07-12: “Developers don’t understand CORS - Chris Foster” “It’s not just Zoom. Anecdotally, lots of …
2019-07-12: “Content or design first? - DESK Magazine”
2019-07-12: “What we learned from user testing of accessible client-side routing techniques with Fable Tech Labs …
2019-07-12: Haunted now supports lit-html, lighterhtml, and hyperHTML for rendering. Use Haunted for hooks, and …
2019-07-12: “A worrying change in Open Source perception - Christian Heilmann”
2019-07-11: “Google should auto-delete aging user data by default - Ctrl blog”
2019-07-11: “Get out! GET OUT! – Dorothea Salo”
2019-07-11: “Dear Google, I’m Blocking You From My Website · Bradley Taunt”
2019-07-11: “MathJax: Now Available on PressbooksEDU - Pressbooks”
2019-07-11: “Types or Tests: Why Not Both? - CSS-Tricks”
2019-07-11: “Three Things Authors Should Know About Their Publishers’ Platforms”
2019-07-11: “Functional JavaScript: What are higher-order functions, and why should anyone care?”
2019-07-11: “Inspired Design Decisions: Pressing Matters — Smashing Magazine”
2019-07-10: “output: HTML’s native live region element - scottohara.me”
2019-07-10: “Bristol celebrates ‘wonderful diversity’ at St Paul’s carnival – in pictures - …
2019-07-10: Glad to be back in comfortable weather, if only for a few weeks.
2019-07-10: “Write It Down · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer” This. Either get into the habit of noting …
2019-07-10: “Add Webmention support to your website in ten minutes - Ctrl blog”
2019-07-10: “Zoom Will Fix the Flaw That Let Hackers Hijack Webcams - WIRED” Only doing the right thing after …
2019-07-09: “The importance of representation”
2019-07-09: “Zoom Zero Day: 4+ Million Webcams & maybe an RCE? Just get them to visit your website!” This is …
2019-07-08: “The State of Fluid Web Typography - Better Web Type”
2019-07-07: Cubicles got a bad rap among the intelligentsia because they became a symbol of the soulless …
2019-07-07: “Poor office design continues to hamper productivity - Workplace Insight” I deal with at least half …
2019-07-07: “Buying Computers Properly”
2019-07-07: “Snyk research team discovers severe prototype pollution security vulnerabilities affecting all …
2019-07-07: “Bon Appétit’s Gourmet Makes is a great way to learn how to be productive at work” I …
2019-07-07: “Yes world, there were horses in Native culture before the settlers came”
2019-07-07: “Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer”
2019-07-06: “Don’t disable buttons while submitting forms with ajax - Go Make Things”
2019-07-06: “Accessible Custom Focus Indicators – UX Collective”
2019-07-05: “Why Is Sunscreen ‘Better’ in Europe?” After ~30 months here in Canada my impression is that your …
2019-07-05: “Nobody talks about the real reason to use Tabs over Spaces” This is a pretty compelling …
2019-07-05: “Maybe You Don’t Need a Date Picker”
2019-07-05: “Civic honesty around the globe - Science” “In contrast to what rationalist theories of economics …
2019-07-04: “Emoji input on macOS - BrettTerpstra.com”
2019-07-04: “A lengthy ramble through many responses to that FaceTime Attention Correction tweet (4 Jul., 2019, …
2019-07-04: “User Inyerface - A worst-practice UI experiment”
2019-07-04: “Breaking Up With Social Media · Chris Krycho”
2019-07-04: “Tinderbox: SummerFest 2019” A lot of really good Mac software on sale here.
2019-07-03: “Eva Design System: Deep learning color generator”
2019-07-03: “Restricting a (pseudo) element to its parent’s border-box - CSS-Tricks” I love this. Very …
2019-07-03: “Haunted: Hooks for Web Components - CSS-Tricks” I’ve been using haunted and it works really really …
2019-07-03: “Why Are Octopuses So Smart? - The Atlantic”
2019-07-03: “Some (More) Personal News: Independence Day — @glecharles — As in guillotine…”
2019-07-03: This guy clearly aspires to become a member of the prestigious ‘top ten most disastrous tech …
2019-07-02: “The Petrie Multiplier” “The amount of sexism experienced by women compared to …
2019-07-02: “Superhuman is Spying on You » Mike Industries” Yet more evidence that the tech/software industry is …
2019-07-02: “We Need to Slow Down Communication – OneZero”
2019-07-02: “Manifesto for Public Philosophy (guest post by C. Thi Nguyen) - Daily Nous”
2019-07-01: “Why Did I Have Difficulty Learning React? - Snook.ca”
2019-07-01: “rsync, GUIs, power, control, design, and decisions · BLOG Progress Process”
2019-06-30: Fiiiinally got around to watching Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse and: It’s easily as good …
2019-06-29: “Jony Ive’s Fragmented Legacy: Unreliable, Unrepairable, Beautiful Gadgets - iFixit”
2019-06-29: Idle weekend thought wouldn’t <dialog> have been more successful as a CSS feature …
2019-06-29: “Stonewall’s CEO Reveals Why She Decided To Fight For Transgender Rights”
2019-06-28: “The Gutenberg Crisis”
2019-06-27: “Reinventing Firefox for Android: a Preview - Future Releases”
2019-06-27: “GeckoView in 2019 - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog” This is interesting.
2019-06-27: I regularly think about Childish Gambino’s ‘This is America’ whenever I hear news …
2019-06-27: “On scripting runtimes and macOS - BrettTerpstra.com”
2019-06-27: “How accessibility trees inform assistive tech”
2019-06-26: “Noelle Stevenson announces graphic memoir THE FIRE NEVER GOES OUT - The Beat” Very much looking …
2019-06-26: “We need to calm our technology down” There’s something pervasively broken as …
2019-06-26: “Adding another permission? A guide from Nick Doty on 2018-10-01”
2019-06-26: “How Google is building a browser monopoly” www.youtube.com/watch This is a systemic …
2019-06-26: “Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll · Bradley Taunt”
2019-06-26: “Tricky Sites - Tricky Sites” ‘Discover e-commerce sites that manipulate shoppers with “dark …
2019-06-26: “Patrons schooling librarians on privacy – Dorothea Salo”
2019-06-26: “Beginner’s Guide to Variable Fonts: Part 2 - Viget”
2019-06-26: “The Theory That Justified Anti-Gay Crime - The New Yorker”
2019-06-26: “How accessibility trees inform assistive tech - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog”
2019-06-25: “451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons”
2019-06-25: “3 Key Insights from Vue’s new functional API RFC”
2019-06-25: “The Secret of Good Electron Apps”
2019-06-25: “What I Learned Co-Founding Dribbble - Dan Cederholm - Medium”
2019-06-25: “The magical thinking of guys who love logic”
2019-06-25: “W3C Workshop on Permissions and User Consent” “It may not be sufficient to ask permission - some …
2019-06-25: “I Put Words on this Webpage so You Have to Listen to Me Now - Christine Dodrill” Made me laugh out …
2019-06-25: “Render blocking CSS - How to fix it”
2019-06-25: “Google warns its employees that Pride protests are against the company’s code of conduct - The …
2019-06-25: “In defence of graceful degradation and where progressive enhancement comes in by Adam Silver”
2019-06-25: “Design Is Not Neutral - Veerle’s Blog 4.0”
2019-06-24: “The Popularity of the 4.7″ iPhone - David Smith, Independent iOS Developer”
2019-06-24: “A wee problem – Carrie Marshall: Bigmouth Strikes Again”
2019-06-24: “You Pay (Or Maybe You Don’t): Every Layout” “Always charge. If not for yourself, then for the next …
2019-06-24: “Catalyst Can Rescue the Mac and Grow the iPad – MacStories”
2019-06-24: “Why books don’t work - Andy Matuschak” Dude has an agenda, mostly mentions shitty story-science …
2019-06-23: I’m going to enthusiastically point everybody again at the excellent “Every …
2019-06-21: “Communicating inclusively beyond our products, services and users by Amy Hupe, content designer.”
2019-06-21: “So, Gutenberg Didn’t Actually Invent the Printing Press - On the Unsung Chinese and Korean …
2019-06-21: “Fake News and Pandemics - Schneier on Security”
2019-06-21: While blog posts along the lines of “I don’t use X for development for Y reasons” …
2019-06-20: ‘Iceland Passes Major Gender Identity Law: “The Fight Is Far From Over” - The Reykjavik …
2019-06-20: “Accountability, Equity, and Flat Teams in Tech - The Bias”
2019-06-19: “Algorithmic Design” “The layout of web content is innately algorithmic”
2019-06-19: “EasyGit” “Private Git Repositories on iCloud” This is very clever.
2019-06-19: “It’s finally possible to code web apps on an iPad Pro”
2019-06-18: “Send Outgoing Webmentions”
2019-06-18: “CSS Day 2019: some things I learned”
2019-06-17: ‘The Problem With “Content” – On my Om’
2019-06-17: Hæ hó jibbí jei og jibbí jei, það er kominn 17. júní www.youtube.com/watch
2019-06-15: “The reduce ({…spread}) anti-pattern - RichSnapp.com”
2019-06-15: “Hello my name is St�phanie - a talk on special characters and UX”
2019-06-15: “How to Support NetNewsWire”
2019-06-14: “You saw me covered in blood on a bus. But do you get outraged about all homophobia? - Chris - …
2019-06-14: “When should you be using Web Workers?”
2019-06-14: “Sex isn’t binary, and we should stop acting like it is”
2019-06-14: “Google engineers have proposed a new HTML element” “Anybody at Google that does …
2019-06-14: “Dropbox Debuts New Client, Increases Plan Prices — Pixel Envy”
2019-06-13: Googlers/Chrome devs: when you respond to complaints that Googlers don’t listen to or work well with …
2019-06-13: “How to de-Google your Android phone - Read the Tea Leaves”
2019-06-13: “The Three Evils of Society - daverupert.com”
2019-06-13: “André Staltz - Software below the poverty line” Donations don’t work well as an OSS revenue stream.
2019-06-13: “Are Web Standards Toast?” “Google is seeking feedback on a solution, not on how …
2019-06-13: “WWDC 2019 - NSHipster” “I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that Apple’s announcements of …
2019-06-13: “The New Wilderness (Idle Words)” “That is not the conversation Facebook or Google want us to …
2019-06-13: “Introducing the new HTML element – welcome clippy!” If Googlers are surprised at the pushback this …
2019-06-12: “I Wrote This on a 30-Year-Old Computer. And it was awesome.”
2019-06-12: “Privacy Anti-Patterns in Standards - W3C Blog”
2019-06-11: “ADHD Brain: Unraveling Secrets of Your ADD Nervous System”
2019-06-11: “Resilient Management - A Working Library”
2019-06-11: “Address Bar Install for Progressive Web Apps on the Desktop - Web - Google Developers” This feels …
2019-06-11: “Fans Are Better Than Tech at Organizing Information Online - WIRED” I love AO3.
2019-06-11: “Green new deals and natural resources — Crooked Timber”
2019-06-10: “Apple is Listening – Marco.org” “But I’m optimistic for the first time in years.” Same
2019-06-10: “The Medium is the Massage - Austin Kleon”
2019-06-10: “Tech and Antitrust – Stratechery by Ben Thompson”
2019-06-10: “(Open) source of anxiety – Increment: Open Source”
2019-06-10: “Preventing the second Big Deal – Dorothea Salo”
2019-06-10: “Touch interfaces aren’t just bad on phones”
2019-06-10: Re-watching Hellraiser. Such a fan of Clive Barker’s movies.
2019-06-10: The plan was to try to work this weekend. Instead I seem to have accidentally written the first …
2019-06-09: “German Naming Convention”
2019-06-09: “The Future of Interaction, Part II • furbo.org”
2019-06-08: “The ADHD nervous system is interest-based, rather than importance- or priority-based.” …
2019-06-08: “‘I’ve paid a huge personal cost:’ Google walkout organizer resigns over alleged retaliation - …
2019-06-07: “Talent Is Abundant” “Yes, it’s hard to write a 10,000 word magazine piece, …
2019-06-06: “Indicating focus to improve accessibility”
2019-06-06: “Vanilla JS is just a framework without docs - Go Make Things” The opposite of what you’d expect …
2019-06-06: “The Whole System is Bankrupt — As in guillotine…”
2019-06-06: “An oral history of the hamburger icon (from the people who were there) - Inside Design Blog”
2019-06-06: “Amusing Ourselves to Death – James Book Blog”
2019-06-06: As a few Googlers have already pointed out, Sign In with Apple doesn’t protect your log in …
2019-06-05: “The Canadian government has released the surprisingly sensible results of its extensive, year-long …
2019-06-05: “Audits in Web Inspector - WebKit” This sounds like an interesting idea.
2019-06-05: “Safari Technology Preview 84, with Safari 13 Features, is Now Available - WebKit”
2019-06-05: “Indicating focus to improve accessibility - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog”
2019-06-05: “Let’s Clarify some Misunderstandings around Sign In with Apple • Aaron Parecki”
2019-06-04: It’s starting to look like iOS/iPadOS 13 addresses a lot of my concerns about iPads: text …
2019-06-04: “The Automation Charade ─ The rise of the robots has been greatly exaggerated. Whose interests …
2019-06-04: “Plausible Deniability and Gaslighting in Fighting Ad Blockers” Best analysis I’ve …
2019-06-04: “Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default Plus Updates to Facebook …
2019-06-04: Is it just me or does SwiftUI look like a substantial step towards Alan Kay’s vision for …
2019-06-03: Looks like Sign In with Apple is going to be mandatory for many apps. That’s one way to get …
2019-06-03: “Visual Viewport API” This API is also coming in Safari 13 this autumn.
2019-06-03: “To send email messages through the relay service to the users’ personal inboxes, you will …
2019-06-03: “Use Sign In with Apple to let your users sign in to your app’s accompanying website …
2019-06-03: “Safari 13 Beta Release Notes” Very promising: pointer events, desktop class browser on …
2019-06-03: The Mac Pro is well beyond what I’ll ever afford or need but it’ll be useful to a lot of …
2019-06-03: Apple seems to be going all-in on privacy at #WWDC19. I may be hesitant about their design and …
2019-06-03: ‘Stop Calling It “Casual Sex” – Ella Dawson’
2019-06-03: “You Say Security, I Say Privacy…”
2019-06-03: “Except in extraordinary situations, Dark Mode is not easy on the eyes, in any way” …
2019-06-03: “The economics of package management” Possibly the most important piece on JS/web dev …
2019-06-02: “Behavioral Ad Targeting Not Paying Off for Publishers, Study Suggests”
2019-06-02: “Poor customer experience is not an accident - Gerry McGovern - Customer experience keynote speaker; …
2019-06-01: “Tech veganism - Read the Tea Leaves”
2019-06-01: “Functional JavaScript: How to use array reduce for more than just numbers”
2019-06-01: “Wrapping long words with CSS or HTML – Chris Cid ∣ CJCid”
2019-06-01: “GitHub - Simonwep/pickr: 🍭 Flat, simple, responsive and hackable Color-Picker library. No …
2019-06-01: “Daily Ethical Design – A List Apart”
2019-05-31: “Michael Tsai - Blog - App Store Competition”
2019-05-31: “The W3C Needs You: Please Vote For Change In The W3CAB Election - Tantek”
2019-05-30: “Does it [still] spark joy? On Mallory, #ComicsDNA and book publishing.”
2019-05-29: “Get off of Twitter - Read the Tea Leaves”
2019-05-29: “Why call it vanilla JS when its just JavaScript? - Go Make Things”
2019-05-28: The TAG review of <portal> seems pretty damning at the moment: github.com/w3ctag/de…
2019-05-28: “Mozilla’s Position on Web Packaging” I used to be in favour of Web Packaging but the …
2019-05-28: “Cake or death: AMP and the worrying power dynamics of the web” “Akin to a street …
2019-05-28: “If only we’d known, say the people who knew – Carrie Marshall: Bigmouth Strikes Again”
2019-05-27: “The difference between keyboard and screen reader navigation – Tink”
2019-05-24: “Some Accessibility Resources - scottohara.me”
2019-05-23: “Github Sponsors” Like Patreon but for open source dev. GitHub integration is an obvious …
2019-05-23: “When is vanilla JS vanilla? - Go Make Things”
2019-05-23: “inessential: Still Fearing the Reaper” “Because bringing UIKit brings no new power.”
2019-05-23: “Panic Blog » Announcing the Playdate® handheld video game system.” Sounds like a fun little device.
2019-05-23: “Putting the Soul in Console”
2019-05-22: “Internship Opening at Pressbooks - Pressbooks” Paid and in Montréal.
2019-05-22: “ReaderWriterLinks - ReaderWriterVille” “The upside is that a lot more authors can break through. …
2019-05-22: “My views on this are centrist” Buh-byyyyeeeeee.
2019-05-22: “Accessible Icon Buttons — Sara Soueidan – Freelance-Front-End UI/UX Developer”
2019-05-22: “Contextually Marking up accessible images and SVGs - scottohara.me”
2019-05-22: “Understanding the Kano Model — A Tool for Sophisticated Designers”
2019-05-22: “Go is Google’s language, not ours” This is Google standard operating procedure …
2019-05-21: “Money on the Table: Opportunities Missed in the eBook Supply Chain” What he said.
2019-05-21: “The Modern Trap of Feeling Obligated to Turn Hobbies Into Hustles”
2019-05-21: “Short note on prefers-reduced-motion and puzzled (Windows) users - TPG – Digital Accessibility …
2019-05-20: Going from Raskin’s Humane Interface to Bolter’s Writing Space is jarring. …
2019-05-20: A day off. Good coffee. Reading books. Pretty good so far.
2019-05-19: Been spending re-reading a couple of interactivity design/UX classics: Raph Koster’s A Theory …
2019-05-19: “24 Hours with TypeScript – hueniverse” “I was constantly surprised just how immature the …
2019-05-19: “Foundations of Correct Code – Codemanship’s Blog”
2019-05-19: “East Iceland Village Pleads With Tourists To Behave Themselves” This sort of tourist …
2019-05-19: For some reason unknown to me, Davíð Stefánsson’s poem Abba Labba Lá just pops into my head …
2019-05-19: “737 Max 8” “We, programmers, are killing people. Our errors cause loss, injury, and death.”
2019-05-19: “The Real Reason Fans Hate the Last Season of Game of Thrones - Scientific American Blog Network” …
2019-05-17: I kinda miss Escape Velocity. Used to be one of my favourite games back in the day. …
2019-05-17: “The Hidden Cost of “Dependency Drag” – Codemanship’s Blog”
2019-05-17: “Why Are Cryptographers Being Denied Entry into the US? - Schneier on Security”
2019-05-16: It’s starting to feel like proper spring here in Montréal. About time :-)
2019-05-16: “A Complete Guide to useEffect — Overreacted”
2019-05-16: Meanwhile in Iceland: “Abortion Bill Passed in Icelandic Parliament”
2019-05-16: It may sound a bit petty of me but I’m regularly annoyed by the stupid paper sizes used here …
2019-05-15: “Humans Don’t Hyperscale. Sorry, Silicon Valley” “When will we wake up to …
2019-05-15: “The blessing and the curse of JavaScript frameworks - Go Make Things”
2019-05-15: “Integrating Third-Party Animation Libraries to a Project - CSS-Tricks”
2019-05-15: “Senate Testimony”
2019-05-14: “Thoughts on the W3C’s May 2019 Advisory Board Election” Agree 100% with everything in …
2019-05-14: I wonder if there are any web-based open source/free software projects out there that are all-in on …
2019-05-14: “A report from the AMP Advisory Committee Meeting – Terence Eden’s Blog” Pretty sure the advisory …
2019-05-14: “JavaScript and the mobile-only user - Go Make Things”
2019-05-14: ‘“A level sufficient to qualify as a vendetta” – Carrie Marshall: Bigmouth Strikes Again’
2019-05-13: “Deric’s MindBlog: Ready to pounce - Cat smarts get some attention”
2019-05-12: “App Store Pricing - Becky Hansmeyer”
2019-05-12: “Digital contributing to climate crisis - Gerry McGovern - Customer experience keynote speaker; user …
2019-05-12: “Split Buttons: Definition”
2019-05-11: Casual weekend though: the ‘web as media’ and ‘web as apps’ are two …
2019-05-10: “Strong Opinions Loosely Held Might be the Worst Idea in Tech”
2019-05-10: “How to take better photos – A Whole Lotta Nothing”
2019-05-10: “(Value ÷ Effort) x Confidence = Priority – Jared M. Spool – Medium”
2019-05-09: “Avengers: The Legal Endgame - The Beat”
2019-05-09: “Google Thought My Phone Number Was Facebook’s and it Ruined My Life - VICE”
2019-05-09: “The Potential Advantages of a JavaScript Whitelist — Pixel Envy”
2019-05-09: “Some Amazon Sellers Are Paying $10,000 A Month To Trick Their Way To The Top Of The Marketplace”
2019-05-09: “What to Expect From Marzipan • The Breakroom”
2019-05-08: “The McDonaldization of UX – UX Collective”
2019-05-08: “Some Accessibility Resources - scottohara.me”
2019-05-08: “Chromium Blog: Improving privacy and security on the web” This looks interesting
2019-05-08: “inessential: The Feature I Most Want in Web Browsers”
2019-05-08: “The Google Wave Heuristic – Baldur Bjarnason” “What dooms software projects?” Another old blog …
2019-05-08: “Bling it up for education – Baldur Bjarnason” I wrote this over five years ago when I was much …
2019-05-07: “Physical-equivalent privacy – Dorothea Salo”
2019-05-07: “The next wave of startups: smaller, scrappier, and making money”
2019-05-07: ‘“Margin” as Part of Your Decision-Making Process — The Focus Course’
2019-05-06: “Building games that can be understood at a glance”
2019-05-06: “Utility: Convert SVG path to all-relative or all-absolute commands - Lea Verou”
2019-05-05: “Illegible - A Working Library” “No amount of literacy can counter a system colonized by bots and …
2019-05-05: Here’s another example of how colour changes the emotions of a photo: all four pictures are of …
2019-05-05: Another colour experiment: the sun sets behind a hedge of reeds/straws in Parc Jarry
2019-05-05: Colour experiment: silhouetted couple chatting last autumn in Parc Jarry
2019-05-05: “The Fall, and Rise, of Reading - The Chronicle of Higher Education” “To him, trends in English …
2019-05-05: “ReaderWriterLinks - ReaderWriterVille” “Reading is just not that popular an activity anymore, even …
2019-05-05: “The Kui People of Odisha, India – Dylan Goldby – Photographer”
2019-05-04: ‘WPCampus’ Gutenberg Accessibility Audit Finds “Significant and Pervasive Accessibility …
2019-05-03: “Comics and Graphic Novel sales had their best year ever in 2018” If you’re …
2019-05-03: “Adobe tests doubling the price of its Lightroom and Photoshop plan” So glad I’m …
2019-05-03: “Same-sex marriage legalization associated with reduced implicit and explicit antigay bias - PNAS” …
2019-05-03: “Create a responsive grid layout with no media queries, using CSS Grid - Andy Bell”
2019-05-02: “Adactio: Links—AMP as your web framework” “And yet, the article goes on to try convince you to …
2019-05-02: “The Elements of Content Strategy — A Book Apart” Read for free online.
2019-05-01: Going with the May Day theme, Ellen sings Halldór Laxness’s Maístjarnan (The May Star) to the …
2019-05-01: “Details / Summary Are Not [insert control here] - Adrian Roselli”
2019-05-01: “No, But Seriously… – Codemanship’s Blog”
2019-05-01: “Digging Into The Display Property: Box Generation — Smashing Magazine”
2019-05-01: “Ulysses, Bear, or Apple Notes? A Comparison of the Best Note-Taking, Writing, and Research Apps – …
2019-05-01: “Google Docs Says Chromium-Based Microsoft Edge Is Not Supported”
2019-05-01: “Trading Off Freedom for Convenience – Jorge Arango”
2019-04-30: “Revisiting prefers-reduced-motion, the reduced motion media query - CSS-Tricks”
2019-04-30: “Yet Another Entry in the Canon of Wishful Pieces About Microsoft’s Design Team — Pixel Envy” …
2019-04-30: ‘What ordinary people think a “blockchain” is — and the weasel term “Blockchain Technology” - Attack …
2019-04-30: “Defending Democracies Against Information Attacks - Schneier on Security”
2019-04-29: “Scholarly reputation - Speaker Deck”
2019-04-29: “Social architecture and the house of tomorrow - Charlie’s Diary”
2019-04-29: “Naming things to improve accessibility”
2019-04-28: I particularly like this one. Very ‘park life’.
2019-04-28: Another picture from Mont Royal Park last year. Reading outdoors is a thing when the weather is …
2019-04-28: A few more reworked photos from last year. These are from the Mont Royal Park Tam-Tams about a year …
2019-04-28: This picture, also from last summer, of a man on the docks in Reykjavík taking photos also just has …
2019-04-28: This photo, from last summer in Parc Jarry, works much better in colour.
2019-04-27: “Clip sharing with Overcast”
2019-04-27: “Silvio Rizzi Releases Reeder 4 for Mac and iOS — Tools and Toys” My favourite RSS reader has been …
2019-04-27: “Synchronous Text” “IRC is an ongoing source of abuse and harassment for many of our colleagues and …
2019-04-27: “Agnotology and Epistemological Fragmentation“ “After all, most of Silicon Valley in the late 90s …
2019-04-26: ‘Astrogator’s Logs » Blog Archive » “Nen lókdwenzish, Michael”: Sister-Brother Love in Science …
2019-04-26: “ChaosLife - Service Savvy”
2019-04-26: “Thinking through RA21 – Dorothea Salo”
2019-04-25: “Pedagogy and the Logic of Platforms - EDUCAUSE”
2019-04-24: “Scapegoating User Experience Design + Subtraction.com”
2019-04-24: “The Fragmentation of Truth” Truth is fragmenting. It will continue to be so until we realize that …
2019-04-24: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Collision Course” “If the majority of apps end up being designed for touch …
2019-04-24: “inessential: Freedom” “Maybe because I lived through this — maybe because I’m a certain age — I …
2019-04-23: “Once I wasted 1,152 hours being productive”
2019-04-22: I hate to say this, but this gives me the impression that OER is going to have the same fate in …
2019-04-21: I guess this is what spring looks like in Montréal.
2019-04-20: “London-born baby with British-resident parents denied UK status - The Independent” I don’t think …
2019-04-20: “CSS masonry with flexbox, :nth-child(), and order - Tobias Ahlin”
2019-04-20: “How to Get a Progressive Web App into the Google Play Store - CSS-Tricks”
2019-04-20: “Inclusively Hidden - scottohara.me”
2019-04-20: “fyi: [hidden] is a lie”
2019-04-18: So, today’s present from me to myself is the first new pen I’ve bought in over a year: …
2019-04-18: “Nobody talks about the fear”
2019-04-18: “Enforcing Accessibility Best Practices with Automatically-Generated IDs”
2019-04-18: “GitHub - verlok/lazyload: LazyLoad is a fast, lightweight and flexible script that speeds up your …
2019-04-17: “Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 80 - WebKit” Initial ResizeObserver implementation. …
2019-04-17: “Digital dehumanizes work”
2019-04-17: “How capitalism captured the mindfulness industry - Life and style - The Guardian”
2019-04-17: “Obduracy - Think Different”
2019-04-17: “Interactions and complexity”
2019-04-17: “The 9 mistakes you don’t know you’re making as a new manager - Signal v. Noise” Pretty sure every …
2019-04-17: “One year in still no visa - daniel.haxx.se”
2019-04-17: “Embracing Change in Software — Postlight — Digital product studio”
2019-04-17: “Stop Trying to Vote with Your Fork ─ Why We Can’t Consume Our Way to a Better Food …
2019-04-16: “Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years”
2019-04-16: “Teaching adversarial thinking – Dorothea Salo”
2019-04-16: “TFW you learn your titty art was found on the walls of a murder scene. Buckle up for this ride!!” …
2019-04-16: “Integrating the future: An Editoria Community perspective on creating books with Paged Media & …
2019-04-16: “GitHub - WebReflection/lazytag: Lazy loading Custom Elements and their styles without even thinking …
2019-04-16: “Work harder or the communists will win! - Signal v. Noise”
2019-04-15: “Code caching for JavaScript developers · V8”
2019-04-15: “How We Measure Standards (and why it’s sort of a problem)” This is good. (Via …
2019-04-15: “Fixing the financial dilemma at the heart of our broken tech industry”
2019-04-15: “Modes in User Interfaces: When They Help and When They Hurt Users”
2019-04-14: ”(Why) America is the Canary in the Coal Mine of Global Collapse What Global Collapse Means — …
2019-04-14: “The billionaire’s typewriter - Butterick’s Practical Typography” “Mr. Williams’s claim that Medium …
2019-04-14: “The long, complicated, and extremely frustrating history of Medium, 2012–present » Nieman …
2019-04-14: “The hidden dangers of spreadsheets - Consonance”
2019-04-13: “GitHub - francoischalifour/medium-zoom: 🔎🖼 A JavaScript library for zooming images like Medium”
2019-04-12: “GitHub - lukeed/dimport: Run ES Module syntax (import, import(), and export) in any browser – even …
2019-04-12: “Google AMP lowered our page speed, and there’s no choice but to use it - unlike kinds”
2019-04-12: “Link Click Analytics and Privacy - WebKit” Actually seems quite well thought out TBH.
2019-04-11: “Official EU Agencies Falsely Report More Than 550 Archive.org URLs as Terrorist Content - Internet …
2019-04-11: “Teenager’s UX: Designing for Teens” “Teens are (over)confident in their web abilities, but they …
2019-04-11: “Libraries no longer guard patron privacy. – Dorothea Salo”
2019-04-11: ‘Using “box shadows” and clip-path together - CSS-Tricks’
2019-04-11: “Art Direction For The Web Using CSS Shapes — Smashing Magazine”
2019-04-11: “Adactio: Journal—Design perception”
2019-04-11: “Nothing Fails Like Success – A List Apart”
2019-04-10: “Some (Belated) Personal News: Writer’s Digest”
2019-04-10: “100 Years of Writer’s Digest (#WritersDigest100): Some Thoughts”
2019-04-10: “Code-it Notes: Create Your Own! 📝 - DEV Community 👩💻👨💻”
2019-04-10: “Adactio: Journal—Split”
2019-04-10: “The ‘Future Book’ Is Here, but It’s Not What We Expected - WIRED” Interactive …
2019-04-10: “Don’t trust the locals: investigating the prevalence of persistent client-side cross-site scripting …
2019-04-10: “Educating Your Clients is a Vital Project Management Skill - Viget”
2019-04-09: “A Regulatory Framework for the Internet – Stratechery by Ben Thompson” ‘“Free as in puppy” means …
2019-04-09: “Defining Productivity — Jeremy Wagner”
2019-04-09: “Color accessibility: tools and resources to help you design inclusive products, by Stéphanie Walter …
2019-04-09: “Animation Performance 101: Measuring with Dev Tools - Viget”
2019-04-09: “Common accessibility issue: moving to a page section without shifting keyboard focus - Christian …
2019-04-08: “There Are No Snow Days When You Work Remote - Jennifer Wadella”
2019-04-08: “There Are No Snow Days When You Work Remote - Jennifer Wadella”
2019-04-08: “Tracking users with rogue Progressive Web Applications”
2019-04-08: “Weeknote 2 – ReaderWriterVille” I really like how Weeknotes are bringing back a certain style of …
2019-04-08: “Adactio: Journal—Drag’n’drop revisited”
2019-04-08: “Mistakes, we’ve drawn a few – The Economist”
2019-04-08: “Accessibility is Innovation”
2019-04-08: “Break out of the echo chamber - Andy Bell”
2019-04-08: “User interfaces: hiding stuff should be a last resort“
2019-04-07: “The Cult of Homework” The more I read about the North American education systems the …
2019-04-07: I keep forgetting that only comic book nerds like myself know that Shazam was originally known as …
2019-04-07: “Alphabets and Ideographs – Christina Wodtke – Medium”
2019-04-07: “88% increase in application library vulnerabilities over two years - Snyk”
2019-04-07: “78% of vulnerabilities are found in indirect dependencies, making remediation complex - Snyk”
2019-04-06: “Have fun asking yourself why on earth a learning-management system needs to know all …
2019-04-06: “Managing Z-Index In A Component-Based Web Application — Smashing Magazine”
2019-04-06: “ReaderWriterLinks: TGIF edition – ReaderWriterVille”
2019-04-06: “Since the very moment Google came on the scene, links moved from being the defining characteristic …
2019-04-06: “New WebKit Features in Safari 12.1 - WebKit” Intersection observers! Web share! Datalists! Good …
2019-04-05: This post is perennially relevant: “No matter how much you try, you can’t stop people from …
2019-04-05: “Animation Performance 101: Browser Under the Hood - Viget”
2019-04-05: “No One Should Have to Travel in Fear” “NBC recently reported that CBP maintains dossiers of U.S. …
2019-04-05: “Former Mozilla CTO was detained at US border and told he had no right to a lawyer / Boing Boing”
2019-04-05: “Daring Fireball: Bad UI: MacOS 10.14’s Software Update Release Notes”
2019-04-05: “Animation Performance 101: Optimizing Javascript - Viget”
2019-04-04: “Stanford Mendeley Institutional subscription will be cancelled on June 30th, 2019 - Stanford …
2019-04-04: “Accessibility for Vestibular Disorders: How My Temporary Disability Changed My Perspective · An A …
2019-04-04: “How I failed the <a>”
2019-04-04: “Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System - The Donella Meadows Project” “Insistence on a …
2019-04-04: “A Change of Mindset – Jorge Arango”
2019-04-04: “Three Prologues to Language – Anna Gát – Medium” “Mostly because adults had no clear idea what was …
2019-04-04: Yeah, season 3 of The Expanse was definitely an improvement on an already interesting series.
2019-04-03: “Why open?”
2019-04-03: “Software Career Anti-Patterns: Career Development by Coincidence - DaedTech”
2019-04-03: “Make it hard to screw up driven development - CSS-Tricks”
2019-04-03: “Facebook Demands Passwords to Some New Users’ Email Accounts for ‘Verification’ — Pixel Envy” What …
2019-04-03: “Nobody Gives a Hoot About Profit « The W. Edwards Deming Institute Blog”
2019-04-02: I’ve been really enjoying The Expanse season 3. Only halfway through but so far I’d even …
2019-04-02: Switched one file over to Typescript as an experiment and run into this problem. This is the sort of …
2019-04-02: “Microsoft is Closing Its eBookstore (Again) - The Digital Reader”
2019-04-02: “Next to the competition - Seth’s Blog” “Books sell better in bookstores than they sell in …
2019-04-02: “Adactio: Journal—Dev perception” This matches with my exp.: most of the work being done on the web …
2019-04-01: ‘Apple keep insisting that only a “small number of customers have problems” with the MacBook …
2019-04-01: “Could a gaming app steal your bank PIN? - Light Blue Touchpaper” Oh lovely.
2019-04-01: “This is totally babies, Unrealistic Floating”
2019-04-01: Really enjoyed watching Armando Iannucci’s Death of Stalin. …
2019-03-31: “Humane by Design” This was better than I expected.
2019-03-31: “ReDoS vulnerabilities in npm spikes by 143% and XSS continues to grow - Snyk”
2019-03-31: “Jeremy Mikkola - Rules for Autocomplete”
2019-03-30: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Software Before the App Store”
2019-03-28: “Businessman detained at Gatwick over anti-Brexit badge - BBC News” Sheesh.
2019-03-28: “Making books, building community. - Rebus Community” “Build books to to build communities; build …
2019-03-28: “Competing by mimicking - Andy Bell”
2019-03-28: “See No Evil: Hidden Content and Accessibility - Cloud Four”
2019-03-28: “In a Statement to Joanna Stern, Apple Acknowledges Persistent Problems With MacBook Keyboards — …
2019-03-27: “While you weren’t looking, tech companies helped themselves to your photos to power a …
2019-03-27: “working for a startup makes increasingly less sense” “That startup sold for 200 …
2019-03-27: “What’s new on iOS 12.2 for Progressive Web Apps – Maximiliano Firtman – Medium” Better than before …
2019-03-27: “inessential: NetNewsWire on Mac App Store or not?”
2019-03-27: “ChaosLife - Chiding Chaperone”
2019-03-27: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Apps That Benefit and Threaten Apple” If you wanted specifically to create PR …
2019-03-27: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Goodbye, QuickTime 7 and JPEG 2000” Losing support for these formats means …
2019-03-27: “Programmers Who Don’t Understand Security Are Poor at Security - Schneier on Security”
2019-03-26: “Mozilla statement on the adoption of the EU Copyright directive - Open Policy & Advocacy”
2019-03-26: “Designers as Advocates of Respect – Jorge Arango”
2019-03-26: “Always Go Upstream” “Downstream we can make quick fixes. Band aid the problem. …
2019-03-26: “Apple News Plus does nothing for the biggest problem in journalism: the rapid decline of …
2019-03-26: “Vint Cerf is Wrong. Privacy Is Not An Anomaly”
2019-03-25: “The long, complicated, and extremely frustrating history of Medium, 2012–present » Nieman …
2019-03-25: “Privacy’s not an abstraction” “The act of surveillance alone should be considered a harm”
2019-03-25: “Readability is more important than brevity - Go Make Things”
2019-03-25: “Under-Engineered Toggles - Adrian Roselli”
2019-03-25: “Stuffing the Front End”
2019-03-25: “Simple & Boring - CSS-Tricks”
2019-03-25: “Wow Air: Icelandic airline cancels flights amid fears of possible collapse” Hope none …
2019-03-24: “Weeknote 2 - Web Development Mistakes, Mary Sues, and Icy Spring” The big project at …
2019-03-24: “Everything you need to know about Loading Animations”
2019-03-24: “Pixels of the Week – March 24, 2019, by Stéphanie Walter - UX designer & Mobile Expert.” I’m …
2019-03-23: Why wasn’t this ‘petition’ mentioned at all when we learned about French …
2019-03-23: Grapevine explains my favourite Icelandic word jæja Some meanings it missed: That’s …
2019-03-23: Renewing my warning about Wow Air: they’re basically bankrupt and their hail Mary play just …
2019-03-22: “Using details for Menus and Dialogs is an Interesting Idea - CSS-Tricks” In my testing details …
2019-03-22: “All you need to know about hyphenation in CSS - Clagnut by Richard Rutter”
2019-03-21: “Your Accessibility Toolbar Doesn’t Help - Joe Dolson Web Accessibility”
2019-03-21: “Pika - A Future Without Webpack” This looks like a nice starting point for new projects. You can …
2019-03-21: “Web Businesses — Why using Wix and GoDaddy Increases your Lawsuit Risk”
2019-03-21: “Invisible Labor and Digital Utopias” “If digital utopia doesn’t see our bodies, …
2019-03-21: “Building accessible websites and apps is a moral obligation - Go Make Things”
2019-03-21: “Adactio: Journal—CSS custom properties in generated content”
2019-03-21: “Creating A Universal Image Crop/Scale Animation for the Web” This is pretty interesting.
2019-03-21: “Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 78 - WebKit” “Enabled support for Pointer Events by …
2019-03-21: “Competing by mimicking - Andy Bell”
2019-03-20: “The Online Photographer: Killing Themselves Softly With Complexification-Saturation “I still …
2019-03-20: “The reading/reviewing/ranking rat race – ReaderWriterVille”
2019-03-20: “’Three criticisms of sex education – and why they’re wrong’ - Tes News”
2019-03-19: “Canary in a Coal Mine: How Tech Provides Platforms for Hate · An A List Apart Article”
2019-03-19: “Colourise your black and white photos” If I wanted a textbook example of how engineers …
2019-03-19: Isn’t March supposed to be warmer than this?
2019-03-18: “The Cloud and Open Source Powder Keg – tecosystems”
2019-03-18: “MySpace lost all music uploaded from 2003 to 2015 - technology” Yowza.
2019-03-18: Trying out this ‘weeknote’ thing. ‘Weeknote 1’: …
2019-03-17: “How to automate NPM deployment with GitHub action hooks - Go Make Things”
2019-03-17: “We Need a More Ethical Web – Samsung Internet Developers – Medium”
2019-03-17: “Death of the calorie - 1843”
2019-03-16: “QQ - Quantity Queries Builder”
2019-03-16: “Sophisticated Partitioning with CSS Grid - Rob Weychert”
2019-03-16: “Micromodal.js - Tiny javascript library for creating accessible modal dialogs” Haven’t tested this …
2019-03-15: “Slack removes hate groups - The Official Slack Blog”
2019-03-15: “Against Wireframes – Jorge Arango”
2019-03-15: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Sketch Takes Venture Capital” This does not make me feel optimistic
2019-03-15: “5 Tools For Automated Accessibility Audits”
2019-03-15: “AddyOsmani.com - JavaScript Loading Priorities in Chrome”
2019-03-14: “Some More RSS-y Things” “This category of software is not going away, and no one needs to be meek …
2019-03-13: “The Online Photographer: Index Prints”
2019-03-13: “Application Holotypes - CSS-Tricks”
2019-03-12: Whenever the teacher of my French class asks about what movies we’ve seen in French, my first …
2019-03-12: “The web we broke. — Ethan Marcotte”
2019-03-12: “The State of Mac Hardware — Early 2019 - Infinite Diaries” Pretty sad state tbh
2019-03-12: “Move Ya! Or maybe, don’t, if the user prefers-reduced-motion! - Web - Google Developers” …
2019-03-12: “Web Turns 30, Seems Popular - Adrian Roselli”
2019-03-12: “KV Storage, the Web’s First Built-in Module - Web - Google Developers”
2019-03-12: “Introducing Firefox Send, Providing Free File Transfers while Keeping your Personal Information …
2019-03-11: “/dev/lawyer Deprecation Notice: MIT and BSD”
2019-03-10: “Cookie walls don’t comply with GDPR, says Dutch DPA - TechCrunch”
2019-03-10: “Cache-Control for Civilians – CSS Wizardry – CSS Architecture, Web Performance Optimisation, and …
2019-03-10: “User interfaces: hiding stuff should be a last resort by Adam Silver, designer based in London, …
2019-03-09: “How listening to music ‘significantly impairs’ creativity – ScienceDaily”
2019-03-09: “Too big to ignore - Inside Story”
2019-03-09: “Homework I Gave Web Designers - Cloud Four”
2019-03-08: “Supposedly ‘Fair’ Algorithms Can Perpetuate Discrimination - Joi Ito’s Web”
2019-03-08: “Stop telling women to fix sexist workplaces – UX Collective”
2019-03-08: “Caffeine and hangover effects in conversion funnels”
2019-03-07: “Prioritizing the MacBook Hierarchy of Needs - Six Colors”
2019-03-07: “Imagine if the iPhone or iPad shipped with a display that didn’t accurately register touches after …
2019-03-07: “Fighting uphill - Eric Bailey”
2019-03-07: ‘The “Backendification” of Frontend Development – Hacker Noon’
2019-03-06: “Having an open dialog - scottohara.me”
2019-03-06: “The Bottleneck of the Web - CSS-Tricks”
2019-03-06: “State of Remote Work 2019 - Buffer”
2019-03-06: “Book review: The age of surveillance capitalism”
2019-03-06: “Concentrated corporate power as a threat to democracy”
2019-03-05: “The Firefox Experiments I Would Have Liked To Try” So so many nice and interesting ideas in this …
2019-03-05: “Cache-Control for Civilians – CSS Wizardry – CSS Architecture, Web Performance Optimisation, and …
2019-03-05: “This isn’t an Apple which has any concern over the quality of its products, or for its users. It’s …
2019-03-05: “Many of things Rachel has shown—grid, exclusions, regions—were implemented by Microsoft. With Edge …
2019-03-05: “Adactio: Journal—Making Things Better: Redefining the Technical Possibilities of CSS by Rachel …
2019-03-05: “An exercise in progressive enhancement” I really need to try glitch one of these days.
2019-03-05: “Adactio: Journal—Designing Intrinsic Layouts by Jen Simmons”
2019-03-04: “UI Copy: UX Guidelines for Command Names and Keyboard Shortcuts”
2019-03-04: “Unbridged Knowledge Gaps Hurt UX”
2019-03-04: “The Importance of Writing For Software Developers - benmccormick.org”
2019-03-04: ‘“We meet all Federal regulations” - Seth’s Blog’ “Why does any organization actively fight …
2019-03-04: “The MBA Myth and the Cult of the CEO - Institutional Investor” “MBA programs simply do not produce …
2019-03-03: “Following Olympia’s Great Escape Route — Loretta Chase”
2019-03-03: “’Moment of reckoning’: US cities burn recyclables after China bans imports“ “Until …
2019-03-03: “Top ten most popular docker images each contain at least 30 vulnerabilities - Snyk”
2019-03-03: “Shields Down – Rands in Repose”
2019-03-02: “Should I Use Source Maps in Production? - CSS-Tricks” Basically, yes.
2019-03-02: “Tobias S. Buckell: Author, Speaker, and Futurist” “Whole New Site, Whole New Look”
2019-03-01: “Why Facebook Still Seems to Spy on You - WSJ” Facebook is evil.
2019-03-01: “Ditching the Gender Data - American Libraries Magazine” ‘Why “male” and “female” are vanishing …
2019-03-01: “Reda Lemeden - We Need Chrome No More” “Google have proven, on several occasions, that they have …
2019-03-01: “The incredible nature of Abstract Art and how it can change the way you think about everything.”
2019-03-01: “Component frameworks and web standards”
2019-02-28: “Retailer Brian Hibbs has a 10-point plan for the comics industry - The Beat” His criticisms of …
2019-02-28: “Text Wrapping & Inline Pseudo Elements - Jay Freestone”
2019-02-28: “What it Was Like to Go a Month with No Social Media on My iPhone” If you haven’t Turned off all …
2019-02-28: “Implications of Rewriting a Browser Component in Rust - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog”
2019-02-27: “Six tips for better web typography - CSS-Tricks”
2019-02-27: We were warned that the office might be without internet today but I risked coming in anyway because …
2019-02-27: “Standard Work and Collaboration - Think Different”
2019-02-27: “Look Ma, No Media Queries! Responsive Layouts Using CSS Grid - CSS-Tricks”
2019-02-27: “Young people should have a genuine ability to opt out.” “A 12-year old …
2019-02-27: “Review of Igalia’s Web Platform activities (H2 2018) - Frédéric Wang” Igalia’s work on …
2019-02-27: “Breaking Boxes With CSS Fragmentation — Smashing Magazine”
2019-02-27: “7 Ways to make your Tweets more Accessible - a11y with Lindsey”
2019-02-26: “How to Draw a Startup That Looks Different from Other Startups + Subtraction.com” Love this idea. …
2019-02-26: “The CSS mental model - QuirksBlog” This is an interesting way of framing CSS. Not the only way, …
2019-02-26: “this sucks - Go Make Things” On JS’s ‘this’.
2019-02-26: “Saturday Morning Cartoons: Baopu #15 - Autostraddle” This is one of those cases where a cartoon is …
2019-02-26: ‘Accessibility is not a “React Problem” - Netlify’ Loads of useful pointers.
2019-02-26: “ICONSVG - Quick customizable SVG icons for your project” These look really nice to use.
2019-02-26: “I Ditched Chrome for Safari and You Can Too” In my day-to-day I’ve also switched to either Firefox …
2019-02-26: ‘“If you care about your thoughts, keep them.” – Shawn Blanc’
2019-02-25: “A Bit of Performance”
2019-02-24: Somewhere, in an alternate universe, Apple’s rebirth came from an acquisition of BeOS and …
2019-02-24: “How to Respond to Skepticism of Testing Small Groups of Users”
2019-02-23: “Not a Rant, but a promise - Fall Into The Story”
2019-02-23: “Fuse.js - JavaScript fuzzy-search library”
2019-02-23: “GitHub - lagmoellertim/cryption: In-Browser AES File Encryption with Data Integrity Check”
2019-02-22: “Announcing npm Enterprise and why it matters to the community! - 📣 announcements - npm forum”
2019-02-22: “Timeline — WorldWideWeb NeXT Application”
2019-02-22: “Accessibility: Layout” “Verdana, Helvetica, and Times New Roman all do well in tests, and usually …
2019-02-22: “Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2.1 - WebKit”
2019-02-21: “What if JavaScript wins? – Anil Dash – Medium”
2019-02-21: “When it’s OK if a browser doesn’t support a feature - Go Make Things”
2019-02-21: Am wondering what those with more expertise in search think about this: “Postgres full-text …
2019-02-21: “You probably don’t need a single-page application” “Even if your app needs some real-time …
2019-02-21: “Michael Tsai - Blog - T2 Macs Have a Serious Audio Glitching Bug” Discussion.
2019-02-21: “Apple’s latest Macs have a serious audio glitching bug - CDM Create Digital Music” “Apple …
2019-02-21: “Apple’s latest Macs have a serious audio glitching bug - CDM Create Digital Music” This is …
2019-02-21: “JavaScript-free accordions - Go Make Things” I love the details/summary elements. They are …
2019-02-21: “Enhanced Tracking Protection Testing: Protecting users’ privacy by default - Future Releases”
2019-02-20: Is there a specific reason why web devs these days generally don’t use the …
2019-02-19: “Trolling isn’t outlier behavior, and we can stop it - Community Manager Musings”
2019-02-19: “Using CSS Grid the right way - hey it’s violet” Good advice
2019-02-19: “Our Search for the Best OCR Tool, and What We Found - Features - Source: An OpenNews project”
2019-02-18: “Application Holotypes: A Guide to Architecture Decisions” I really like this framework for thinking …
2019-02-18: “Principles For Designing Better Products – UX Planet”
2019-02-18: “Web Standards are dead, long life Web Standards!“ “Accordingly, use what works for you, just …
2019-02-18: “Top 10 Application-Design Mistakes”
2019-02-18: “The Vanilla JS Toolkit” A lot of interesting stuff in there.
2019-02-18: “How at-supports Works - CSS-Tricks” Love CSS at-supports.
2019-02-18: “Strategic Coding - benmccormick.org”
2019-02-18: “GitHub - KidkArolis/healthier: 🧘♀️ Healthier is an opinionated style agnostic code linter – a …
2019-02-18: “New Year, New Samsung Internet – Samsung Internet Developers – Medium”
2019-02-17: Basically Google legit tried to leverage their control over Chrome to kill off ad blockers. Do …
2019-02-16: I’ve been enjoying Counterpart much more than I expected. It uses of the conventions of a cold …
2019-02-16: Does it still spark joy? On Mallory, ComicsDNA and book publishing Guy captures my own feelings …
2019-02-15: “Web Accessibility Overlays Don’t Work – Tenon.io”
2019-02-15: “Dan Mallory Is the Oldest Story in Publishing”
2019-02-15: “Uncanny A11y - Adrian Roselli” “Maybe Code Less”
2019-02-15: “Michael Tsai - Blog - iTunes U and iBooks Author Are Suffering From Software Rot” I’m shocked, …
2019-02-15: “Trusted Types help prevent Cross-Site Scripting - Web - Google Developers”
2019-02-14: “Large companies aren’t good homes for beloved services – Colin Devroe”
2019-02-14: “Red Sweater Blog – The Future of Blogger and MarsEdit” I’m amazed that blogger is still around …
2019-02-14: “Mozilla statement on the conclusion of EU copyright directive ‘trialogue’ negotiations …
2019-02-13: It’s actually relatively nice out, considering the snow. (Alt: cars covered with snow, bridge …
2019-02-13: “Dimensions.Guide - Database of Dimensioned Drawings” This is all kinds of awesome.
2019-02-13: This is a really interesting paper that argues that the replicability problem in psychology …
2019-02-13: “lit-html vs hyperHTML vs lighterhtml – Andrea Giammarchi – Medium” All of these libraries are, …
2019-02-13: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Apple Retail Employees Aggressively Pushing iPhone Upgrades” Ugh.
2019-02-13: “Ariel Waldman » Twitter refuses to uphold Terms of Service” This was written 11 years ago.
2019-02-12: “Make it Boring — Jeremy Wagner”
2019-02-12: “Transparency - All this” MacOS is getting less and less baked with every release.
2019-02-12: “The trap of early feedback - Seth’s Blog” This. Related is the issue where everybody can see …
2019-02-12: “Blockchain and Trust - Schneier on Security” A version with less Wired.
2019-02-11: “Using persona profiles to test accessibility - Accessibility in government” This is an interesting …
2019-02-11: “Building a modern carousel with CSS scroll snap, smooth scrolling, and pinch-zoom - Read the Tea …
2019-02-11: “A Simpler Web: I Concur”
2019-02-11: “The Machine Stops - The New Yorker”
2019-02-10: “Proper UI hierarchy · accssible”
2019-02-10: “Interface Copy Impacts Decision Making”
2019-02-09: “Patreon’s problems and the state of subscription crowdfunding - The Beat”
2019-02-09: “#DeathToAutoPlay—No More Audio and Video That Plays Automatically! - TidBITS”
2019-02-09: “GitHub - mozdevs/cssremedy: Start your project with a remedy for the technical debt of CSS.”
2019-02-08: “German Regulators Just Outlawed Facebook’s Whole Ad Business” 😄
2019-02-08: “Some Popular iPhone Apps Secretly Record Your Screen for Analytics Purposes - MacRumors”
2019-02-08: “Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company” Enjoyed this more than I …
2019-02-08: “There’s No Good Reason to Trust Blockchain Technology” We come here, not to praise the …
2019-02-07: “Rendering on the Web - Web - Google Developers” Informative but so diplomatic that most will ignore …
2019-02-07: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Amazon and Fake Books and Filtered Reviews” Amazon’s usefulness to me as a …
2019-02-07: “Thanks for requiring JS & 3rd party cookies on your site”
2019-02-07: “This is what bias looks like – Carrie Marshall: Bigmouth Strikes Again” Eeek.
2019-02-07: “Creating Accessible Text – Mandy Michael – Medium”
2019-02-07: “Oh God, It’s Raining Newsletters — by Craig Mod”
2019-02-07: “Embracing silence - Julian Summerhayes”
2019-02-07: “Paint the Picture, Not the Frame: How Browsers Provide Everything Users Need · An A List Apart …
2019-02-07: “The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy” By Tim …
2019-02-06: “Reimagining Open Science Through a Feminist Lens – Denisse Alejandra – Medium” This is really good.
2019-02-06: “Using the Little-Known CSS element() Function to Create a Minimap Navigator - CSS-Tricks” I wish …
2019-02-06: “Questions for a new technology. - Kellan Elliott-McCrea”
2019-02-06: “Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 2/6/19: I have seen the Snappening and it is an RSS feed - The Beat” …
2019-02-06: “Mercury Goes Open Source! — Postlight — Digital product studio” This is really interesting news
2019-02-05: “The Evidence on Kids, Sleep, and School Start Times - Psychology Today” This would have helped me …
2019-02-05: “It’s Official: Open-Plan Offices Are Now the Dumbest Management Fad of All Time - Inc.com” …
2019-02-05: Tech journalists misread the room; think that the absolute bare minimum act of privacy preservation …
2019-02-05: “Links that don’t go anywhere should be buttons - Christian Heilmann”
2019-02-05: “Deutsche Bank, Kaupthing and alleged market manipulation at Sigrún Davíðsdóttir’s Icelog”
2019-02-05: “The ineffectiveness of lonely… - Matt Wilcox, Web Developer & Tinkerer”
2019-02-05: “Patreon CEO: business model is not sustainable, company seeing growth” If I were a creator on …
2019-02-04: “Why I Just Unsubscribed 400 of You — CJ Chilvers”
2019-02-04: “Platforms, identity, and the future of due process”
2019-02-03: “The History of Women in Sci-Fi Isn’t What You Think - WIRED”
2019-02-03: “Forget privacy: you’re terrible at targeting anyway - apenwarr”
2019-02-02: “Adactio: Journal—Ch-ch-ch-changes”
2019-02-02: “GitHub - nextapps-de/flexsearch: Next-Generation full text search library for Browser and Node.js”
2019-02-01: “Decentralization is Not Enough - A conversation with Nolan Lawson”
2019-02-01: “Limiting JavaScript? - TimKadlec.com” “If Webkit pursues the idea further, they wouldn’t be …
2019-02-01: “Ending our Medium integration — write.as blog” “Sometime in the past few weeks, Medium abruptly …
2019-01-31: “Openness and Longevity”
2019-01-31: “Google Play Store now open for Progressive Web Apps 😱” Very interesting.
2019-01-31: “World Poverty is NOT Decreasing - Ian Welsh”
2019-01-31: Reading, Dyslexia, and Typefaces The following is prompted by seeing Adrian Roselli’s blog posts (see below) on this topic crop …
2019-01-31: “194028 – Add limits to the amount of JavaScript that can be loaded by a website” JS people, in …
2019-01-31: “HTML, CSS and our vanishing industry entry points” Pretty sure I already linked to this. Doing it …
2019-01-31: “Manton Reece - Custom templates, categories, new theme, and more” Very nice. 👍🏻
2019-01-31: “Using ES modules as a modern baseline for progressive enhancement – Alex Gibson”
2019-01-31: ‘”Never-Slow Mode” (I113b0dc6) · Gerrit Code Review’ I find the various proposals for …
2019-01-31: “HTML, CSS and our vanishing industry entry points”
2019-01-30: “Bodoni*” This looks really nice.
2019-01-30: “Accessible Page Navigation in Single Page Apps - daverupert.com”
2019-01-29: “How do you figure? - scottohara.me”
2019-01-29: ‘PWAs on iOS 12.2 beta: the good, the bad, and the “not sure yet if good”’
2019-01-28: “The Slow and Steady Refactor - CSS-Tricks”
2019-01-28: “Progressive Web App Progress in iOS 12.2 Beta 1 (Build 16E5181f)”
2019-01-28: “A look at CSS hyphenation in 2019 - justmarkup” I wouldn’t describe support for CSS hyphenation as …
2019-01-28: “HTML is and always was a compilation target – can we deal with that? - Christian Heilmann” I don’t …
2019-01-28: “The Legacy of Firefox OS – Ben Francis“ “the legacy of Firefox OS is currently tens of millions of …
2019-01-28: “Benefits of a daily diary and topic journals - Derek Sivers”
2019-01-27: It was pretty snowy outside today.
2019-01-27: “Make Your ARIA Labels Sing on Key — Knowbility”
2019-01-27: “A Wicked Custom Elements Alternative – ITNEXT”
2019-01-27: “Designing for the web ought to mean making HTML and CSS - Signal v. Noise”
2019-01-26: “Smooth scrolling links with only CSS - Go Make Things”
2019-01-26: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Malicious Shortcuts”
2019-01-26: “Underlines Are Beautiful - Adrian Roselli”
2019-01-26: “Mette Harrison On Revising The Right Way - K. Tempest Bradford”
2019-01-24: “Beyond the interface — Thomas Byttebier” This week’s must-read.
2019-01-24: 0Progressive enhancement doesn’t have to be more work - Go Make Things”
2019-01-24: “193764 – Template Literal GC’ed Against Specs” Ugh.
2019-01-24: “The Rules Won’t Save You, So Stop Looking For Them - K. Tempest Bradford”
2019-01-23: “What White, Western Audiences Don’t Understand About Marie Kondo’s ‘Tidying …
2019-01-23: “Everything is terrible (but more so inside a keypress event handler)”
2019-01-23: Here’s a possibly unpopular opinion: scrolling text with space between paragraphs has become …
2019-01-23: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Flexgate: Display Issues With 2016 and Newer MacBook Pro’s” “This is just …
2019-01-23: “Nuance Has Abandoned Mac Speech Recognition. Will Apple Fill the Void? - TidBITS” The comment from …
2019-01-23: “Michael Tsai - Blog - iPhone XS Fails After Quick Drop in Water”
2019-01-23: “The TypeScript Tax – JavaScript Scene – Medium”
2019-01-23: “WebExtensions v3 considered harmful - Glazblog” “The Browser Extension ecosystem is in jail, …
2019-01-22: Think this must be a back entrance to the building next door because it’s still covered in …
2019-01-22: “Fairness and management - Lara Hogan”
2019-01-22: “The Great Escapist: 1900 - Shorpy Old Photos - Vintage Photography” Totally posing a link to this …
2019-01-22: “The Great Divide - CSS-Tricks”
2019-01-22: “I’m a Web Designer - Andy Bell” I’ve already forgotten what my official job title at Rebus is.
2019-01-22: “Building Better Forms™ by not taking away affordances – Bram.us”
2019-01-21: “Designing Front End Apps For Reliability - benmccormick.org”
2019-01-21: “I Should Have Written a JOMO Book.”
2019-01-21: “Accessibility Reviews” Of tools and apps
2019-01-21: There’s a bit of snow…
2019-01-20: My mom has started to watch Doctor Who regularly. She hasn’t been a regular viewer since the 80s …
2019-01-18: I still do a lot of the same sort of writing as the kind that I used to post on my blog. Now they …
2019-01-18: “Make Your ARIA Labels Sing on Key — Knowbility”
2019-01-18: “The details and summary elements - scottohara.me”
2019-01-18: “Accessible accordions part 2 – using detail and summary”
2019-01-17: “Daring Fireball: Pentagram’s ‘Range of Possibilities’ for Slack” As I’ve said in the past, whenever …
2019-01-17: “Anyone an Information Architect – Jorge Arango”
2019-01-17: “Turning Type Sideways - News, Notes & Observations - Hoefler & Co.”
2019-01-17: “Not Everyone Can Skip That Missing Stair - K. Tempest Bradford”
2019-01-16: For work web dev I’ve switched from the Pixelbook back to the four(ish) year old, slightly …
2019-01-16: “Passwords Evolved: Authentication Guidance for the Modern Era” Lots of good advice.
2019-01-16: “The Online Photographer: The Biggest Flaw I See in Pictures*” My entire history as an amateur …
2019-01-16: “HTML5 Input Types: Where Are They Now? — Smashing Magazine”
2019-01-16: ‘Asking the Wrong Questions: The Illusion of Free Will: On “Bandersnatch” and …
2019-01-16: “Getting Unstuck By Switching Environments – Jorge Arango”
2019-01-16: “Creating distraction-free reading experiences — Adrian Zumbrunnen”
2019-01-16: “nuberodesign > blog > Save changes before quitting?”
2019-01-16: “Use the :lang pseudo-class over the lang attribute selector for language-specific styles”
2019-01-16: “The kids are alright – Carrie Marshall: Bigmouth Strikes Again”
2019-01-16: “I want to learn how to maintain software”
2019-01-16: “Automatic preview image based on screenshot – Terence Eden’s Blog”
2019-01-15: I’ve been using a Google Pixelbook (with Linux apps) as my main work device for a few weeks …
2019-01-15: “The lost art of legendary Apple UX” …it’s simply UX from hell
2019-01-15: “Towards a general method for accessible content trees or: deep aria-labels for equations revisited”
2019-01-15: “You pay me, but I don’t work for you – UX Collective”
2019-01-15: “Building links - Clearleft” That’s a good reading list.
2019-01-15: “Build for failure - Go Make Things” CSS also tends not to be blocked by ad blockers and, in most …
2019-01-15: “A more complicated web - Christian Heilmann” Sounds pretty accurate to me.
2019-01-14: How are folks who support Web Mentions handling spam mentions? (I’m assuming there’s …
2019-01-14: “The Flexbox Holy Albatross Reincarnated - HeydonWorks” These “Albatross” series of articles on …
2019-01-14: “Understanding the Albatross - Snook.ca”
2019-01-14: “AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source – Stratechery by Ben Thompson”
2019-01-14: “Web Standards:: The What, The Why, And The How — Smashing Magazine” Comprehensive, actually.
2019-01-13: I can’t be the only one who thinks that hyperviolent superheroes, especially in live action …
2019-01-13: “Much Ado About No Lists” “Websites don’t need to sound the same in every screen …
2019-01-13: “The Flexbox Holy Albatross - HeydonWorks” This is very clever.
2019-01-12: “A suspicion I’ve long harboured is that the bad actors in the tech industry make it much harder to …
2019-01-12: “Re: Pleasing Color Palettes - CSS-Tricks”
2019-01-12: “Yubico announces the first Lightning security key for iPhones - The Verge” This is good news.
2019-01-11: If I am to be honest, the thing that scares me the most about the web dev community today is that so …
2019-01-11: “It’s What You Make, Not How You Make It.”
2019-01-11: “Kindness - Go Make Things”
2019-01-11: “Creative arts and investing in systems — Crooked Timber”
2019-01-11: “When And How To Use CSS Multi-Column Layout — Smashing Magazine”
2019-01-10: “Does progressive enhancement still matter? - Go Make Things”
2019-01-10: “The Perfect iPad Keyboard (Has Not Been Invented Yet) + Subtraction.com”
2019-01-10: Random thought: a. software dev lies at the intersection of tech and arts & humanities. b. the …
2019-01-10: “Detailing the iOS Menu – Codea & Shade” Part two
2019-01-10: “The iOS Menu – Codea & Shade” The lack of a standard menu control is an issue for complex iOS …
2019-01-10: “Top JavaScript Frameworks and Topics to Learn in 2019” ‘TypeScript bills itself as “JavaScript …
2019-01-10: “The Ethics of Performance - TimKadlec.com”
2019-01-10: “Michael Tsai - Blog - No NVIDIA Drivers for Mojave”
2019-01-10: “New – Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB Compatibility): Fast, Scalable, and Highly Available - AWS …
2019-01-09: “CSS doesn’t suck - Andy Bell” “For some reason, amazing features of CSS like this are often seen …
2019-01-09: So I just got these 😊
2019-01-09: Over the past 2-3 years, CSS has become the least bad part of the web, occasionally being actually …
2019-01-09: “Managing reputation in the age of infinity - Seth’s Blog”
2019-01-09: “Examining ‘squishiness’ in Intrinsic Web Design”
2019-01-09: “Harold Crick and the Web Platform” On MathML.
2019-01-09: “AGPL Policy – opensource.google.com” In case people were wondering if the differences between the …
2019-01-09: “Punisher creator Gerry Conway: Cops using the skull logo are like people using the Confederate flag …
2019-01-08: “CSS for JavaScripters 1 - QuirksBlog”
2019-01-08: “Using the iPad Pro as my main computer - Hicks Journal” A counterpoint to my semi regular griping …
2019-01-08: “Reader Mode: The Button to Beat - CSS-Tricks”
2019-01-08: “CSS-only multiple choice quizzing - Matthew Somerville” This is very clever.
2019-01-07: Note to the software world: using a single, commonly used word as your company or product name is …
2019-01-07: “Dressing and Undressing My Characters — Loretta Chase”
2019-01-07: “On the importance of testing with content blockers”
2019-01-07: “The State Of Software Security In 2019”
2019-01-07: “A declarative router for service workers - JakeArchibald.com” I haven’t worked enough with service …
2019-01-06: “GitHub - usefathom/fathom: Fathom. Simple, trustworthy website analytics. Built with Golang & …
2019-01-06: If I had to succinctly describe my view on all modern software it’d be: the software industry …
2019-01-06: “Trying a New Book-Reading Strategy · Chris Krycho” I really like this strategy and plan on stealing …
2019-01-06: “Common CSS Issues For Front-End Projects — Smashing Magazine” This list contained one solution I …
2019-01-06: “My Wish List for Progressive Web Apps in 2019 – Maximiliano Firtman – Medium” We’re reaching …
2019-01-06: “Audacious Fox: ‘Nobody Reads’” A lot of ‘nobody does/uses X’ actually just means …
2019-01-06: “On code reuse and abstraction - Go Make Things”
2019-01-06: “Four Types of Prototypes – Jorge Arango”
2019-01-06: “Throwing Storage At The Problem – Andy Ihnatko’s Celestial Waste of Bandwidth” Always have a …
2019-01-06: “GitHub - aceakash/string-similarity: Finds degree of similarity between two strings, based on …
2019-01-05: Watching the Great British Bake-Off for the first time and it has got to be the most British tv show …
2019-01-05: “The 100 Year Web (In Praise of XML)” “One of the problems with using programming as the basis of …
2019-01-04: “The power of progressive enhancement”
2019-01-04: “Structuring the Problem – Jorge Arango”
2019-01-04: “R.I.P.C. — Postlight — Digital product studio” “Every operating system is a batch-card processing …
2019-01-04: “The Case Against Marzipan” The economics of mixing the touch and pointer app paradigms are too …
2019-01-03: “Baseline Rules for Scrollbar Usability”
2019-01-03: “Responsive design and the role of development in design”
2019-01-03: “feed discovery in firefox, redux” Note to self: add visible links to feeds on my blog.
2019-01-03: “I Heart Glitch” Glitch is another thing that’s on my ‘very very interesting …
2019-01-01: “I’ve maintained my Mac project for 20 years for free (despite paying $99/year these days) and …
2019-01-01: “tink FAQ: a Package Unwinder for JavaScript” If you work with Node at all, the …
2019-01-01: If you want to get a sense for how utterly fucked up Apple has become in terms of usability, try …
2019-01-01: “The Cult of the Complex”
2019-01-01: “Some thoughts on Social Networking and Usenet” This reminds me, I should finish writing …
2018-12-31: “So to reiterate: current data indicates that self driving vehicles are somewhere between 100x …
2018-12-31: “Autonomous Vehicle Safety Myths And Facts, 2018 Update” “First the progress …
2018-12-31: “The Boring Company? More like The Infeasible Company”
2018-12-31: “At this point, I can pretty much say with confidence that 90% of his stuff is utter BS” …
2018-12-31: “Do Not Mess with the Happy Ever After: defining the romance novel “ “What romance …
2018-12-29: “Contempt Culture”
2018-12-28: “It’s awkward, after all, to be an open-source non-profit software company whose product is …
2018-12-27: “The Ad Contrarian: Agencies Profiting From Online Ad Fraud”
2018-12-27: People constantly forget (or are too young to know) that IE6 was loved by developers because …
2018-12-27: How much of the ‘Electron sucks’ sentiment comes from Electron apps in general being …
2018-12-27: “Consistency in Design is the Wrong Approach” I love posts like this: it is helpful, …
2018-12-26: 2018 Accomplishments The biggest thing I’ve accomplished in 2018 actually makes me a tad nervous. Just before the …
2018-12-26: “YouTube let a contentID scammer steal a popular video” Just another case were the law …
2018-12-24: “What We Wished For — Smashing Magazine”
2018-12-24: “The Earth is in a death spiral. It will take radical action to save us - George Monbiot - Opinion - …
2018-12-23: “YouTube’s search results for “abortion” show exactly what anti-abortion activists want women to …
2018-12-23: “Unions Did Great Things for the Working Class”
2018-12-22: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Apple Says Bent iPad Pros Are Not Defective” “A premium product that is bent …
2018-12-22: “Michael Tsai - Blog - The Case Against Marzipan” Discussion. I don’t know yet what I think about …
2018-12-22: “Accessible HTML Content Patterns” For future reference.
2018-12-21: Most of the debate surrounding Wordpress’s Gutenberg was centred on the idea that most users …
2018-12-20: Where to buy fountain pens Since I mentioned earlier that I don’t buy fountain pens from Amazon anymore, I figured I …
2018-12-20: “Amazon’s judgments are so severe that its own rules have become the ultimate weapon in the …
2018-12-20: “Once were gardeners, lovers, poets… and warriors”
2018-12-20: “Ambient Cruelty — Real Life”
2018-12-20: “Why Gutenberg Was The Last Straw - Paul Craig”
2018-12-20: “Der Spiegel journalist messed with the wrong small town”
2018-12-20: “They’re the Huffington Post of 2008 with a paywall.” “Medium has developed …
2018-12-19: “Recalibrating Our Approach to Misinformation - EdSurge News”
2018-12-19: “as days pass by — Why isn’t it their job” “The secret is: if you use semantic HTML, then they do …
2018-12-19: “SpeedCurve - JavaScript growth and third parties”
2018-12-19: “The Mere Wife - A Working Library” “This is a take on Beowulf, and it’s masterful.”
2018-12-19: “Styling a Select Like It’s 2019” I had no idea that natively styling select elements …
2018-12-19: “Big ol’ Ball o’ JavaScript - Brad Frost”
2018-12-19: “The web is not a Google product. We ought to do everything we can to spoil their attempts to make …
2018-12-18: “I don’t believe Google would conspire to push Chrome and punish competing …
2018-12-18: “Google isn’t the company that we should have handed the Web over to” “Google has …
2018-12-18: “one of the reasons we decided to end EdgeHTML was because Google kept making changes to its …
2018-12-18: “Remove Background from Image – remove.bg”
2018-12-16: “Adactio: Journal—Browsers”
2018-12-15: Finishing a major project milestone and then immediately going on a two week (ish) break feels very …
2018-12-15: “SQLite bug impacts thousands of apps, including all Chromium-based browsers - ZDNet” Ouch
2018-12-15: “Using aria-live”
2018-12-15: “GitHub - GoogleChromeLabs/quicklink: ⚡️Faster subsequent page-loads by prefetching in-viewport …
2018-12-14: “xkcd: arXiv”
2018-12-14: “ongoing by Tim Bray · SF-1: What Is Serverless?” “If you can’t see the servers in the service, then …
2018-12-14: “ongoing by Tim Bray · SF-2: Why Serverless?”
2018-12-14: “Using aria-live”
2018-12-14: “What happens when packages go bad? - JakeArchibald.com” The sort of thing that keeps you up at …
2018-12-13: “Protecting Your Site With Feature Policy — Smashing Magazine”
2018-12-13: 1988 remake of The Blob was actually a bit better than I expected. Not as gloriously ridiculous as …
2018-12-13: “Is there a cold war between Android and Chrome because of PWAs?” I don’t know if the Cold War angle …
2018-12-12: “Make the iPad more like the Mac – Radu Dutzan – Medium”
2018-12-12: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Make the iPad More Like the Mac” I have serious doubts that Apple will ever …
2018-12-12: “Consistency in Design is the Wrong Approach — UX Articles by UIE”
2018-12-12: “UI Design for the Graphic Designer – Insightful Software” “Functionality is the chasm between …
2018-12-12: “A Touch of Touch — Pixel Envy” “3D Touch is far from ideal. It is horribly inconsistent and …
2018-12-12: “The visibility property isn’t just about visibility”
2018-12-12: “Expanding the AWS Cloud – Introducing the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region - All Things Distributed”
2018-12-11: “Two Nerdy History Girls: A Few of My Favorite Nerdy History Books” This is a very dangerous blog …
2018-12-11: “Stepping Back from the Edge - Adrian Roselli”
2018-12-11: “Examining the degrees of Fortune 500 tech CEOs” The ‘college dropout CEO’ turns out to be the …
2018-12-11: “Even self-driving leader Waymo is struggling to reach full autonomy - Ars Technica”
2018-12-10: “Free code of conduct enforcement book available now – Frame Shift Consulting”
2018-12-10: “An Introduction and Guide to the CSS Object Model (CSSOM) - CSS-Tricks”
2018-12-10: “Apple Books files gone missing – Lorem Ipsum” Cloud services are nearly universally a usability …
2018-12-10: “How Ableism Leads to Inaccessibility - 24 Accessibility”
2018-12-10: “What Can Be Learned From The Gutenberg Accessibility Situation? — Smashing Magazine”
2018-12-10: “Lessons from Gutenberg - Adrian Roselli”
2018-12-10: “Why is British media so transphobic?”
2018-12-08: “The great internet sex war“ “Here’s an example from a few weeks back in Sweden: a government-run …
2018-12-08: “The State of UX in 2019”
2018-12-08: “Daring Fireball: Electron and the Decline of Native Apps” While I don’t share his loathing of all …
2018-12-07: Sounds like I picked a good couple of weeks to be too busy to follow W3C discussions or emails.
2018-12-07: “Browser diversity starts with us. - Zeldman on Web & Interaction Design” “Test all your sites …
2018-12-07: “What is almost certainly happening with Tumblr’s image classifier is that they’ve deployed the bot …
2018-12-07: “puppeteer/experimental/puppeteer-firefox at master · GoogleChrome/puppeteer · GitHub” This looks …
2018-12-07: “mnot’s blog: Eight #aabill Predictions”
2018-12-07: “How to get the value of an object from a specific path with vanilla JS - Go Make Things”
2018-12-07: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Mac App Notarization and Customer Privacy” All modern tech is at least …
2018-12-07: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Proof That iOS Still Hasn’t Gotten Undo Right” Both undo and text selection, …
2018-12-07: “Big ol’ Ball o’ JavaScript - Brad Frost”
2018-12-07: I’m still a bit unclear as to whether the built-in webviews provided by Windows will continue …
2018-12-06: Starting to suspect that the resentment many web devs seem to have towards non-Chrome browsers stems …
2018-12-06: “What the Marriott Breach Says About Security — Krebs on Security” “Assume you are compromised”
2018-12-06: “More Tech Will Not Save Us from Disinformation - Features - Source: An OpenNews project”
2018-12-06: “Magic numbers” Important points on taking unexamined old research as gospel.
2018-12-05: “Facebook Gave Some Companies Special Access to Users’ Data, Documents Show - The New York Times” …
2018-12-05: “Facebook’s developers worked to remove the part where the app has to ask for users’ permission to …
2018-12-05: “Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 71“
2018-12-05: “While we Blink, we lose the Web”
2018-12-05: “Why You Should Never, Ever Use Quora – Waxy.org”
2018-12-05: “Risking a Homogeneous Web - TimKadlec.com”
2018-12-05: “Performance Calendar » QUIC and HTTP/3 : Too big to fail?!”
2018-12-05: “Half of all Phishing Sites Now Have the Padlock — Krebs on Security” Https everywhere! All the …
2018-12-05: “No Cure for Entitlement – hueniverse”
2018-12-05: “Asking someone to speak JS in order to write CSS is like asking someone to learn French in order to …
2018-12-05: “javascript - How to minify Lit-HTML (including comments) - Stack Overflow” Library dev defends …
2018-12-04: “Blockchain study finds 0.00% success rate and vendors don’t call back when asked for …
2018-12-04: “Adactio: Journal—Programming CSS” ☝️
2018-12-04: “It chops you into pieces”
2018-12-04: “Windows Lite is Microsoft’s long-awaited answer to Chrome OS” There’s a good …
2018-12-04: “Michael Tsai - Blog - On Switching From an iPad Pro and a MacBook to a Pixelbook” Michael Tsai …
2018-12-04: “Too Much Accessibility”
2018-12-04: “Remote debugging web apps running locally (in Chrome OS)”
2018-12-04: “How to abandon a FLOSS project”
2018-12-04: Some thoughts that cross my mind about the possibility of MS ditching EdgeHTML in favour of …
2018-12-04: “Who gets to invent the future? — Chocolate and Vodka”
2018-12-04: To understand the Yule Cat legend you need historical context: the extreme poverty in Iceland, how …
2018-12-04: “Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser that will replace Edge on Windows 10” I’ll be …
2018-12-03: That thing where you have a bug that happens all the time but simply can’t reproduce that one …
2018-12-03: “Survey Results: Fan Platform Use over Time …” Banning adult content tends to drive fan …
2018-12-03: “Knowing how to solve problems is more important than technical skills“
2018-12-03: “Richer GitHub integrations come to Netlify thanks to GitHub Apps“ This makes me more likely to test …
2018-12-03: “Reluctant Gatekeeping: The Problem With Full Stack“ “…there were dozens of Full Stack …
2018-12-03: “Astrogator’s Logs » Blog Archive » Naming Names”
2018-12-03: “Aliette de Bodard on Motherhood and Erasure”
2018-12-03: “Elsku Stelpur (Dear Girls) - YouTube” An amazing performance on gender equality by a group of girls …
2018-12-03: “Two Nerdy History Girls: Fashions for December 1922”
2018-12-03: “All the good words are taken“
2018-12-03: “Standards Crisis on Earth-1”
2018-12-03: “A CSS Venn Diagram“
2018-12-03: The whole ‘gang of criminal rogues roam space and have adventures’ genre has been done …
2018-12-02: I seem to have misplaced by favourite fidget spinner 😑
2018-12-02: Another fact about Iceland’s manufactured external image: only 3 still-in-effect laws have …
2018-12-02: If you're reading about Iceland, and it isn't in Icelandic, it's probably marketing Here’s how misleading English-language coverage of Iceland tends to be: A blog publishes a …
2018-12-02: “Inventor says Google is patenting work he put in the public domain” And another example …
2018-12-02: ‘Other companies, he said, were nicer to deal with. “Google was the worst,” he …
2018-12-02: “Company Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview” This is dishonest, evil, and …
2018-12-02: “Make sense of rounded corners on buttons – UX Collective”
2018-12-02: “Stories from the Trenches: What I’ve learned from Working as a Blind Developer for a Sighted …
2018-12-02: “Toggling Animations On and Off, a Variation”
2018-12-01: An autumn photo from Parc Jarry that I forgot to post the other day
2018-12-01: “On Switching from an iPad Pro and a Macbook to a Pixelbook — Fraser Speirs” “Should people really …
2018-12-01: “Words have consequences“ “These publications aren’t just reporting hate crime. They’re fostering …
2018-12-01: So people at home seem to be celebrating the hundred year anniversary of Iceland’s self-rule …
2018-11-30: “Something crazy happened in parliament last night, and no one is talking about it”
2018-11-30: “Potential Changes to UC’s Relationship with Elsevier in January 2019” This is interesting.
2018-11-30: “WPCampus Seeks to Raise $30K for Gutenberg Accessibility Audit – WordPress Tavern”
2018-11-30: “Publishing As an Act, Not an Industry – Zoe Wake Hyde”
2018-11-30: “Should I Use JavaScript to Load My Web Fonts?”
2018-11-29: “Google Pixel Slate review: slapdash software ruins good hardware - The Verge” If ChromeOS ever …
2018-11-29: “But back in the day, indies helped indies and the hardware discounts were transferable, and I did …
2018-11-29: “ I think the days of using Medium as an online home for your identity and writing are stone cold …
2018-11-29: “David Barnard - Blog - How to Game the App Store”
2018-11-29: “The Digital Maginot Line”
2018-11-29: “A Note on Robert Silverberg“
2018-11-29: “Major sites running unauthenticated JavaScript on their payment pages – Terence Eden’s Blog” …
2018-11-29: “Let’s prove tech companies wrong on regulation – Doteveryone – Medium”
2018-11-28: “40 Years After Assassinations, Assessing the Legacies of Harvey Milk and George Moscone“
2018-11-28: “How to Survive the Next Era of Tech (Slow Down and Be Mindful) - The New York Times”
2018-11-28: Here’s an accessiblity benefit to Electron apps: they all provide fairly granular full UI zoom …
2018-11-28: “FOSS is free as in toilet” Author compares FOSS to public infrastructure (e.g. public …
2018-11-28: “Animation at Work #5 State Machines”
2018-11-28: “Why You Should Consider hapi – hueniverse”
2018-11-28: “I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back” One of the crappiest tech trends …
2018-11-27: “Front-end development is not a problem to be solved”
2018-11-27: “Exploiting developer infrastructure is insanely easy”
2018-11-27: “Just use :focus styles, damnit“ This is me. I’m a mouse and keyboard user and find it really …
2018-11-27: “This is the future of X” posts almost always fail to mention that the current form of X …
2018-11-27: “Antitrust, the App Store, and Apple” I suspect that most people won’t realise how …
2018-11-27: Fog plus spotlight makes this look like something out of X-Files. #dated90sreference
2018-11-27: Fog plus spotlight makes this look like something out of X-Files. #dated90sreference
2018-11-27: Creepy park tables.
2018-11-27: Parc Jarry on a foggy night
2018-11-26: “I don’t know what to say. · Issue #116 · dominictarr/event-stream · GitHub” A popular npm …
2018-11-26: “How Warren Buffett Won His Multi-Million Dollar Long Bet”
2018-11-26: “What, exactly, is the DOM?”
2018-11-26: “Thank you, Ursula” I agree with this post.
2018-11-26: “Modern JS is gatekeeping“ This makes a very good point.
2018-11-26: “Secure Authentication for JavaScript Apps – Insightful Software”
2018-11-26: “Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma, and The Quest to Kill eBay – Steve Yegge – Medium”
2018-11-25: Icelandic culture is a weird mix of literary and rural sensibilities. My sister just pointed out to …
2018-11-25: “Parliament seizes cache of Facebook internal papers”
2018-11-24: This family looked like they were posing for a painting, in silhouette and everything.
2018-11-24: People seemed to be having fun in the snow in Parc Jarry.
2018-11-24: These two snow-covered trees stand by the frozen pond in Parc Jarry.
2018-11-24: People don’t let the snow stop them from walking their dog.
2018-11-23: People like to crow about how this operating system is more user-friendly than that one but, in my …
2018-11-23: Electron-based apps have a bunch of baked in flaws: a few big accessibility flaws security issues …
2018-11-23: “It Is Unethical To Teach Evolution Without Confronting Racism And Sexism – The Evolution Institute” …
2018-11-23: After watching trade publishing for too long, it’s obvious by now that many in publishing …
2018-11-23: “Handling Errors in JavaScript: The Definitive Guide”
2018-11-23: Seeing all of these discussions on ethics in software development, I’m reminded of a rule of …
2018-11-23: “Brutalism’s comeback: web design and the art movement” “I would rather have bad design on the …
2018-11-23: “ungap” A bunch of lightweight but useful polyfills covering important parts of the JS stack
2018-11-23: “Redesigning your product and website for dark mode — Stuff & Nonsense”
2018-11-23: “Implementing a variable font with fallback web fonts – Zeichenschatz”
2018-11-22: An interesting side effect of not cross-posting to Mastodon anymore and instead relying just on …
2018-11-22: “Michael Tsai - Blog - Amazement at iOS Cursor Movement Shortcut Says a Lot About Discoverability” …
2018-11-22: “Amazon’s Website Has Tons Of Errors. Somehow It Doesn’t Matter.” Amazon is a mess and …
2018-11-22: “Ethics won’t make software engineering better – Doteveryone – Medium”
2018-11-21: Straight people’s interpretations of George Michael’s ‘Father Figure’ are quite …
2018-11-21: Current office temperature is 16 degrees C, because the roof above us has no insulation, because the …
2018-11-21: “Brazilian Termite Mounds Are Visible From Space“
2018-11-21: “Understanding Hawai’i“
2018-11-21: “SHE-RA’s Queer Rep Might Be Too Subtle — The Beat” I may have said before that I’m a huge fan of …
2018-11-21: “Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’“
2018-11-21: “Regret-stergram – DHH – Medium” I stopped posting to instagram a while back as well. All I felt was …
2018-11-20: I’d rather not work on ‘hard, meaningful problems’. I’d much prefer to work …
2018-11-20: “How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet“
2018-11-20: “Decentralizing Social Interactions with ActivityPub - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog”
2018-11-19: It’s always ‘fun’ to read through the State of JS survey results each year and feel insecure …
2018-11-19: “Palm oil: It’s all a bit more complicated than Iceland/Greenpeace would have you think — Chocolate …
2018-11-19: “A Wicked Custom Elements Alternative – Andrea Giammarchi – Medium” Very interesting as it covers …
2018-11-19: “Faint Signal – blarg?”
2018-11-19: One theory I have of why modern web development has become a bit dysfunctional: Most of the time, a …
2018-11-19: “Showing Your Work – Melissa Dollman“
2018-11-19: “Addy Osmani’s 18-Point Web Performance Checklist - DEV Community”
2018-11-19: “On Switching from iOS to Android — Fraser Speirs”
2018-11-18: If the first couple of Short Treks are any indication, the next season of Star Trek Discovery should …
2018-11-18: Idle thought: the widening acceptance and use of terms like ‘problematic fav’ represents …
2018-11-18: Any discussion of #jolabokaflod that doesn’t mention how Icelandic is a small language with …
2018-11-18: “Scrolling the main document is better for performance, accessibility, and usability”
2018-11-18: “Peeking under the hood of redesigned Gmail – Boris – Medium”
2018-11-18: “The Rule of Least Power”
2018-11-18: “The biggest mistake Postgres ever made - Craig Kerstiens” Naming things is hard
2018-11-18: “What surprises me is that Facebook employees are still at their desks after finding that their …
2018-11-18: “How Google is slowing innovation | The JotForm Blog”
2018-11-18: I see people are still making up bullshit about Icelandic Christmas traditions (Icelanders …
2018-11-18: A decade in review So over the past decade I’ve: Lived in Reykjavík, Bristol, Bath, and Montréal Worked mostly …
2018-11-17: So replying to ActivityPub accounts from micro.blog works as advertised but at-ing them does not. 😕
2018-11-17: “The Never-Ending Now — David Perell” Via @nolan@toot.cafe
2018-11-17: Going to try and follow a few mastodon folks from my micro.blog account to see how it works.
2018-11-17: “Scream, Scream, Scream” A good overview of the blind spots in the Scream franchise which get more …
2018-11-16: “Scaling CSS: Two Sides of a Spectrum”
2018-11-16: “Braces to Pixels · An A List Apart Article”
2018-11-16: “Add a Custom Domain to Your Glitch project – Glitch – Medium” If there’s one service I want to try …
2018-11-15: iOS is awesome. It automatically makes the keyboard disappear when it thinks you shouldn’t be …
2018-11-15: “I fundamentally believe that my time at Reddit made the world a worse place”
2018-11-15: “Research Reference Notes” It’ll probably take me years to go through this list of references on …
2018-11-15: “How Did Larry Nassar Deceive So Many for So Long?” This is an utterly horrifying read.
2018-11-15: “The Real World of Technology - TimKadlec.com”
2018-11-15: “RIP XProtect and MRT? – The Eclectic Light Company”
2018-11-15: “Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis” “Facebook employed a …
2018-11-14: More from my last photo walk in Parc Jarry #blackandwhite #MastoArt #art #photography #photo …
2018-11-14: “Burned to death because of a rumour on WhatsApp - BBC News”
2018-11-14: “Private by Design: How we built Firefox Sync - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog”
2018-11-14: “Goodbye Electron, Hello Desktop PWAs – DailyJS – Medium”
2018-11-13: Last days of autumn in Parc Jarry. #blackandwhite #MastoArt #art #photography #photo #montreal
2018-11-12: “web.dev” Not entirely sure what this does but posting it here so I remember to look into it later.
2018-11-12: “HTTP/3“
2018-11-12: “Developers Are The New Mainframes – blarg?”
2018-11-12: “software licenses and cryptography have as much to do with real digital rights and freedoms as your …
2018-11-12: “The Evolution Of Open – blarg?”
2018-11-12: “Deric’s MindBlog: Even a 10 minute walk can boost your brain”
2018-11-11: This tree in Parcy Jarry has a nice shape to it. #blackandwhite #MastoArt #art #photography #photo …
2018-11-11: “In remembrance of JÓHANN JÓHANNSSON: ‘VIRÐULEGU FORSETAR’” This concert is amazing. A …
2018-11-11: “The facts are that the books and the show are racist, misogynist, and violent because people …
2018-11-11: People haven’t realised Apple didn’t update the MacBook Air They kept the Air that keeps …
2018-11-11: “With the MacBook Air, Apple repeats the mistakes it made on the MacBook” “Apple’s corporate …
2018-11-10: “Adactio: Journal—Webmentions at Indie Web Camp Berlin”
2018-11-09: “Apple’s new MacBook Air faces strong Windows and iPad competition - The Verge” ‘It’s been clear for …
2018-11-09: “React Native Accessibility Is Pretty Bad” A common reason for using frameworks in native and web …
2018-11-09: “Editorial Layouts, Exclusions, and CSS Grid”
2018-11-09: “CSS and Network Performance – CSS Wizardry – CSS Architecture, Web Performance Optimisation, and …
2018-11-08: A question for those who have both micro.blog and Mastodon accounts: How are you planning to juggle …
2018-11-08: “Google, After Employee Walkout, Overhauls Sexual Misconduct Policy - The New York Times”
2018-11-08: “The Commons: The Past Is 100% Part of Our Future | Flickr Blog”
2018-11-08: “Designing, laws, and attitudes. — Ethan Marcotte”
2018-11-08: “Getting the iPad to Pro — by Craig Mod” He’s much more optimistic than I am. “On a gut level, …
2018-11-08: The spread of ActivityPub (or, how am I going to handle cross-posting now?) So, due to the magic of ‘open standards’ I now find myself with two ActivityPub accounts instead of …
2018-11-07: “CSS isn’t broken, your developers just suck at it“ Or, as likely, their dismissive attitude …
2018-11-07: “The Online Photographer: Is Apple Showing Overt Hostility to…Us?!?” Apple is great for …
2018-11-06: She stood there in the park and waited for quite a while. #blackandwhite #MastoArt #art #photography …
2018-11-06: “New iPad Pro review: can it replace your laptop?” This feels like broadly the right …
2018-11-06: “Pressbooks and Gutenberg” Pressbooks (Rebus’s sister company) on …
2018-11-06: “Neverland: the hyperHTML’s Hook – Andrea Giammarchi – Medium”
2018-11-06: “Five years of PostCSS: State of the Union — Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog”
2018-11-05: This couple was having a spirited conversation in the park yesterday. #blackandwhite #MastoArt #art …
2018-11-05: “Harlequin reminds us we don’t own our purchased ebooks“ “My pessimistic guess is that reading is …
2018-11-05: “Troy Hunt: Here’s Why [Insert Thing Here] Is Not a Password Killer”
2018-11-05: “Language Server Protocol - NSHipster”
2018-11-05: “A Netflix Web Performance Case Study – Addy Osmani – Medium”
2018-11-05: “Icelandair Group Buys Out WOW Air” Hooooly crap. Huge news. Now one company controls 80% of air …
2018-11-05: For the crowd that only browses the web on weekdays: I wrote a bit over the weekend about the …
2018-11-05: “Security issues on ArtChain – Terence Eden’s Blog” The blockchain scene sure does attract …
2018-11-05: Watching the autumn sunset.
2018-11-05: Turns out having next to no latency in the previews when you’re working on a photograph in …
2018-11-05: “Grids in cards”
2018-11-04: “How I Went From Writing 2,000 Words a Day to 10,000 Words a Day - SFWA”
2018-11-04: “Why crowdsourcing will die” Kind of aimed more at common uses of machine learning than at …
2018-11-04: “Working Memory and External Memory”
2018-11-04: “Wishlist or shopping cart? Saving products for later in ecommerce”
2018-11-04: “Brexit: UK government’s battle with Apple over EU citizens app” Brexit is such an incompetent …
2018-11-04: I just wrote 3000 words about why I bought a Window/Linux computer and why I’m worried about …
2018-11-03: “The Riddler Post”
2018-11-03: “Even The Guardian reckons The Guardian is scaremongering – Carrie Marshall: Bigmouth Strikes Again”
2018-11-03: Well, Bojack Horseman is better than it has any right to be.
2018-11-02: It’s this sort of season here in Montréal.
2018-11-02: “How To Kill Your Tech Industry” This article is amazing
2018-11-02: “No Haunted Forests”
2018-11-02: “document-register-element” The ubiquitous document-register-element has been updated with fixes for …
2018-11-02: Gmail is so so much slower for me now that they’ve rolled out the new UI.
2018-11-02: “Bruce Lawson’s personal site : Screenreader support for text-level semantics”
2018-11-02: “We’re the Organizers of the Google Walkout. Here Are Our Demands” Their demands are quite sensible …
2018-11-02: “On V8 Optimizing Destructuring – Andrea Giammarchi – Medium”
2018-11-02: “New MacBook Air Is a Compelling Upgrade in a Confusing Laptop Lineup - TidBITS”
2018-11-02: “The stakes are higher for the MacBook because it has been several years since Apple could …
2018-11-01: “Michael Tsai - Blog - October 2018 Apple Event” “Why does the mass-market Mac have to be more …
2018-11-01: “What is an expert? – swardley – Medium”
2018-11-01: “The Forgotten History of OOP – JavaScript Scene – Medium”
2018-11-01: “Tags to DOM · An A List Apart Article”
2018-11-01: “Does USB-C Turn iPad Pros Into “Real” Computers? – Jorge Arango” “they still won’t be able to use …
2018-11-01: “Apple’s launch confirms one thing: It’s determined to kill off the laptop for iPads” …
2018-11-01: “How we made Carousell’s mobile web experience 3x faster”
2018-10-31: “This is a truly sustainable model: make OER part of the academic practice of the institution. …
2018-10-31: “Stop building websites with infinite scroll!”
2018-10-31: “Dark Horse’s majority owner is now a Chinese company — The Beat”
2018-10-31: “How to be an open source gardener”
2018-10-31: “Create your own dysfunctional single-page app in five easy steps” Everything in this post 👍🏻
2018-10-30: “Accessibility in Gutenberg is not a one-more feature”
2018-10-30: ‘WordPress Accessibility Team Delivers Sobering Assessment of Gutenberg: “We have to draw a line.”’
2018-10-30: “Report on the Accessibility Status of Gutenberg – Make WordPress Accessible”
2018-10-30: Fandom and critics are united in at least one hypocrisy. They both demand powerful female characters …
2018-10-30: I wish, I wish, I wish for a better iOS I wish iOS on iPad wasn’t as locked down as it is. I wish the iOS appstore were more conducive …
2018-10-30: 👇🏻 twitter.com/nocontext…
2018-10-30: “Google Engineers Are Organizing A Walkout To Protest The Company’s Protection Of An Alleged Sexual …
2018-10-30: “Guidelines for creating web platform compatible components”
2018-10-29: “Our CMS, Ourselves — Postlight — Digital product studio”
2018-10-29: “Rosalarian, hekatontarch: Relatable content”
2018-10-29: “Shared Docs as Places for Collaboration – Jorge Arango”
2018-10-29: “Technology Myths and Urban Legends”
2018-10-29: “Innovation and the Test of Time – Jorge Arango” Any post that uses the awesome Lamy 2000 as an …
2018-10-29: “So yes, not only does Disney know there will be porn, have the porn, but they have official porn”
2018-10-29: “This Is How We Radicalized The World”
2018-10-29: “Ignoreland” “Another day, another horrific right-wing despot is elected to office”
2018-10-29: “Programming Sucks”
2018-10-29: “Google’s smart city dream is turning into a privacy nightmare” Yet another entry in the …
2018-10-28: “LGBTQ Manga: My Brother’s Husband, Volume 2 (English)“
2018-10-28: “The Vortex: Why Users Feel Trapped in Their Devices”
2018-10-27: First hint of winter here in Montréal #blackandwhite #MastoArt #art #photography #photo #montreal
2018-10-27: “Why Kodak Died and Fujifilm Thrived: A Tale of Two Film Companies”
2018-10-27: “Adactio: Journal—Service workers and videos in Safari”