Idle thought of the day: if you assume that environmental crises, political instability, and authoritarian states are going to become more common over the next couple of decades, how would that change the way you design your websites and apps?
Essay on photography in a weirdo format. If you’re like me and the title leads to you expect a Tanizaki reference, you will not be disappointed.
Life’s too short to debate the absurd opinions of web dev influencers on social media.
“Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety Bill; or, welcome to hell”
Got to hope that this bill will be killed by the UK’s political chaos. Otherwise most of us will have to block UK-based users
So about as infectious as measles. Well fuck.
“How to to Clean Our Indoor Air Properly Against COVID-19 - Time”
‘“Magic links” can end up in Bing search results — rendering them useless.’
This is not good. Esp since Outlook in many cases seems to scan the link before the user gets a chance to interact, breaking the process completely.
“I don’t care how you web dev; I just need more better web apps”
Published this yesterday. We keep talking about frameworks or web components but, personally, I’d just like to see better websites and web apps
“The time horizon outlook: an alternative to technical debt – Dan Slimmon”
“Releasing Color.js: A library that takes color seriously – Lea Verou”
“Pluralistic: 28 Jun 2022 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow”
On the deterioration of web design.
“One Foot Tsunami: The Wonk-Eyed Bonus Pig Shall Not Be Forgotten”
“SPAs: theory versus practice - Read the Tea Leaves”
Nolan consistently writes blog posts that I wish I wrote 🙂
“How we built a $1M ARR open source SaaS - Plausible Analytics”