I may have finished writing almost 9000 words on software project failure to publish later this week.
There must be something wrong with me. This is almost certainly going to tank.
The next article link I clicked in my feed reader did exactly this, to an uncanny degree. Good job industry!
It feels like every time I come across an interesting-looking series on Netflix made by Netflix, the wikipedia page says something along the lines of “cancelled after one season, ends on a cliffhanger.”
Every time micro.blog gets the character count wrong on a post and cross-posts a truncated version that I could have easily fixed, I get this strong strong urge to just dump it and switch to something self-hosted. It’s a small issue but it’s constant.
It’s so so frustrating.
“Is Safari the new Internet Explorer?”
They detail how the biggest Safari issues are a result of Apple’s overall software strategy, which is detrimental to all of Apple’s software. (Semi-annual marketing releases. Culture of secrecy. Allergic to criticism.)
Is there something in the employee handbook at Google that mandates that they be condescending and arrogant when discussing web standards?
Feels like a daily pattern.
Got a booster shot Monday. Icelandic authorities feel there’s preliminary data indicating that the Janssen vaccine might not be particularly effective against Delta so they offered booster shots for those of us who got it.
Took me out of commission for a whole day 😅
This post is an experiment. I had a go at revisiting an almost decade old blog post on the nature of interactive media. It was fun to write and rewrite but I have no idea how it reads 😄
Six years ago I wrote this… “The web has covered the basics — that’s why it’ll get harder from now”
… postulating that future standardisation was going to get more fraught.
That feeling when your best received work in a long while is a screenshot of something you made ten years ago 😅
Looking back at old designs for my weblog, I kind of miss the simpler, more book-like designs I was trying for a decade ago.
Only just now realised that my flickr feed from about 15 years ago is still online www.flickr.com/photos/kv…
“Adactio: Journal—Resigning from the AMP advisory committee”
“Whenever a representative from Google showed up at an advisory committee meeting, it was clear that they viewed AMP as a Google product.”
“Stress systems. — Ethan Marcotte”
“You don’t start by fixing the system. You start by relieving the stress.”
Very broadly applicable.
“If alert is fair game for removal, then so is every API we add to the platform if the web’s future stewards deem it harmful.”
“Google vs. the web - Go Make Things”
Chromers are so argumentative and condescending that they regularly make the right thing sound like the wrong thing. And in this case, the wrong thing sound like the dumbest idea ever.
Odds are that updating an established app, site, or service just to keep its look ‘fresh’ is just going to cost you users in the long run.
“ongoing by Tim Bray · Apps Getting Worse”
This is happening more than it used to. (Possibly because it used to be okay to just not update an app or OS component that was fine as it was.)