“macOS 12 Monterey and User Interface Inconsistencies – Corbin’s Treehouse”
Something has gone really, really wrong with software development at Apple.
“Adactio: Articles—The State Of The Web”
“When I talk to people about using the web—especially on mobile—their expectations are that they will have a terrible experience. That websites will be slow to load.”
“s3-credentials: a tool for creating credentials for S3 buckets”
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 NFTs.
That is if you read an essay or blog post that seems interesting, you browse through their other stuff, and if you discover that they are super enthusiastic about cryptocoins (or some variation of “crypto/NFT is the future!”) take everything else they say with a grain of salt.
The reason is simple: those who are vehemently pro-crypto tend to have a mental model of human behaviour, culture, and society that’s simplistic and unrealistic. That kind of mental blinker is almost certainly going to colour all of their opinions, not just those on crypto.
(Also, the reason why I generally distrust the opinions of economists.)
I have no opinion on whether web3, crypto, or the like is ‘the future’ or not. I hope they won’t be but you can’t say for certain either way at the moment.
What I do know is that the fate of these technologies is going to be decided by the human factor (society, culture, law, psychology, power) and not technological merit. And we can’t predict how the human factor is going to go, long term, at this point in time. So, anybody who is all-in on crypto right now has either reached that position by disregarding the human factor or wants to sell you something. Either is reason enough to distrust any of their other opinions.
I also distrust the values and motives of anybody who thinks that walking back the non-rival, non-excludable nature of digital goods is a positive development for human society but that’s more an ideological disagreement than anything else.
“Some Older Macs Reportedly Bricked After Installing macOS Monterey - MacRumors”
Something has gone really, really wrong with software development at Apple.
“DNSServiceNATPortMappingCreate was quietly killed in macOS Monterey”
“But the worst part isn’t the lack of a fix, it’s the total lack of communication from Apple.”
Something has gone really, really wrong with software development at Apple.
The character miscounting bugs on micro.blog are honestly infuriating. Esp. since they are often just off by one character. A single period turns what should have been a cross-post into a microscopic blog post. 😑
“Have Single-Page Apps Ruined the Web? (“Transitional Apps”) - CSS-Tricks”
Chris makes the point that a lot of real-world apps are Transitional Apps™ simply by virtue of being made using a mix of technologies over time. IMO, just another reason why it’s a good label.
“Introducing the layer based SVG engine”
Nikolas Zimmermann goes over the work he’s been doing to modernise SVG rendering in WebKit. Chrome IIRC has a similar project in the works.
“TBM 44/52: Three Teams (Boring, Chaotic, Buffered) - by John Cutler - The Beautiful Mess”
“When you’re a manager, your behavior is under a microscope - Jacob Kaplan-Moss”
“Having an open dialog - scottohara.me”
“I’m just going to say right now that the dialog element and its polyfill are not suitable for use in production.”
Reposting this link now that Safari seems to be working on dialog
“Quickie: The Latest Technology - Think Different”
“I am struck by so many hiring companies claiming to be using “the latest technologies” but that make no mention of their using 100+ year old management technologies.”
This!!!
“Auto Dark Theme - Chrome Developers”
Feels like a bad idea, badly done.
“How to hold employees accountable without micromanaging them - Know Your Team - Blog”
“A Deep Dive Into object-fit And background-size In CSS — Smashing Magazine”
“The Greatest CSS Tricks Vol. I eBook (PDF and EPUB) - CSS-Tricks”
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