“Adactio: Links—Start at the beginning: the importance of learning the basics - localghost”
“Start at the beginning: the importance of learning the basics - localghost”
This is the third post I’ve written on micro.blog that hasn’t yet appeared anywhere. It’s getting so that you really can’t count on publishing being a near-immediate thing. More of a ‘post, then maybe after a long coffee break it will appear somewhere.’ Very frustrating
I’m starting to hesitate to post via micro.blog because the publishing delays and the cross-posting delays and weirdness makes it next to impossible to know when the post will actually appear to people
“Nobody reads blogs anymore” = “I don’t read blogs anymore”. One data point is only noise. A data point of you & your friends only shows that social groups form around similarities. Just say that it doesn’t interest you anymore. No need to couch it as inevitable or universal
“Is the Human Impulse to Tell Stories Dangerous? - The New York Times”
If you can get past the paywall, then this scathing review is quite entertaining.
Accidentally open a new window in iOS Safari. Spend 30m trying to figure out how to close the fucking window. Google it to find out that it’s a fucking impossible to discover two-finger gesture. How did this ship? (He asks, knowing that Apple routinely ships crap software)
It’s a constant disappointment for me to see people working on writing, “thought processing” (blegh!), and note-taking apps underestimate pen and paper tools and overestimate the value of complex systems.
“Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to… — programming is terrible”
So, micro.blog just gives up on the whole posting thing sometimes, huh? You had one job, etc. etc.
One defining part of tech discourse (esp. crypto/web3) is the assumption that US needs and problems are universal. That US problems represent global issues. Believe that and you’ll end up believing that forcing US solutions on the globe, by force even, is a moral imperative
So exciting 😁. CSS is easily my favourite part of the web stack.
“A/A Testing: How I increased conversions 300% by doing absolutely nothing”
“Add a Service Worker to Your Site - CSS-Tricks - CSS-Tricks”
Given how fast framework complexity has escalated in the past couple of years, it feels like we’re at the point where not using a framework for web dev could be a strategic advantage for a new startup or company
Definitely having a ‘nothing fucking works’ day.
‘A Response To “Have Single-Page Apps Ruined the Web?“’
“The javascript ecosystem is simply insanely overly-complicated. Comically so, in fact, given the requirements of most web applications.”