“One weird trick to improve your website’s performance - Read the Tea Leaves”
Good commentary on this genre of web dev blogging.
‘Book Notes: “An Essay on Typography” by Eric Gill - Jim Nielsen’s Blog’
Eric Gill is the perfect example of a person’s actions completely changing how you read their works. The Woody Allen of design and typography.
I just published “HTML Sketches: Whither Cards?” on The Making of Colophon Cards site.
For better or for worse, a bit of insight into how my mind works when working on these sorts of projects 🙂
You know Christmas is approaching once your neighbour puts Christmas decorations on his tractor.
It’s impressive just how much worse word processing is today than it used to be even just a few years ago. Google Docs is consistently awful but the decline of MS Word over the past decade is awe-inspiring. Between the two of them, it’s amazing the written word is still a thing
micro.blog’s cross-posting seems to be misbehaving again.
D*h is racking up the logical fallacies in his blog posts of late, isn’t he? This time it’s the good old “we have a warning sign but nobody has fallen into the pit so it clearly isn’t necessary”. But people keep sharing his posts for some reason 🤷🏻♂️
I’m suddenly struck by the idea that all Microsoft’s ultra-modernistic Metro UI needed to be great was a bit of postmodernism: textures, drop shadows, visual cues and themes that reference older UI styles, the Windows 2000 style UIs presented with a bit of ironic sarcasm, etc.
“Firefox’s Optimized Zip Format: Reading Zip Files Really Quickly - Perf and other stuff”
This reminds me of the fact that most of the node streaming unzipping libraries don’t actually follow the Zip spec and can break fairly easily.
So, in case you missed it, I announced this on Monday:
It’s a prototyping project that should eventually turn into a bookmarking- and reading-oriented note-taking SaaS.
“Towards a research community for better thinking tools - thesephist.com”
“Wildfires are erasing Western forests. Climate change is making it permanent. - Grist”
“Software development pushes us to get better as people – Jessitron”
“There is an alignment between writing really good software and being good people together.”
Another autumn photo from a few weeks ago
Don’t know what I think about this one, honestly. I both like it and don’t
Reworking a couple of earlier photos from here in Hveragerði.
Reworking a couple of earlier photos from here in Hveragerði.
I’m 43 and my career prospects seem roughly the same as they were five years ago. As in, I’ve never ever been contacted by a recruiter despite having worked on web dev for 25 years, at startups and software cos, on both closed and OSS. 😝
“Reading citations is easier than most people think”
It’s also kind of fun.
“Complexity is killing software developers - InfoWorld”
Related to my Software Crisis 2.0 essay. Dev in general has taken a wrong turn. Possibly several.
“And now it’s… Springtime For Crypto – Terence Eden’s Blog”
Like Terence points out, money transfers aren’t actually a problem for most people in Europe, at least.