Most of those who are writing about the web and media these days haven’t read Amusing Ourselves to Death and it shows
“Apple’s photo scanning and our state of forced collective paranoia (Interconnected)”
One recurring issue that keeps popping up in the years I’ve been on the web, acerbated by social media, is that most people do not seem capable of anything more than quick surface reading of a text
They won’t do any sort of deeper reading or research, even on things that matter
“See Xena stars Lucy Lawless, Renee O’Connor reunion on My Life Is Murder”
Lucy Lawless and Renee O’Connor are the absolute greatest. (I was so obsessed with Xena back in the day.)
Decent overview of the history and current state of things.
“Handling properties in custom element upgrades - Read the Tea Leaves”
“Adactio: Journal—A Few Notes on A Few Notes on The Culture”
‘Deming: “Cease Dependence on Inspection” - Think Different’
“Exploring the SameSite cookie attribute for preventing CSRF”
In every project where I’ve set the SameSite setting to anything other than “none” Oauth-style logins have broken in at least one browser. 😑
I keep wondering how big the ‘hidden’ podcasting ecosystem is; the podcasts not listed on or followed via any of the centralised podcast registries. Where somebody has just thrown a url in a podcast app or feed reader.
It’s definitely not zero.
“Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine”
Genuinely think that whoever okayed this change in behaviour should be fired. And then whoever hired them should be fired as well. Infuriating change www.howtogeek.com/696775/ho…
“Why it’s okay for web components to use frameworks - Read the Tea Leaves”
The whole “automation increases employment in the long run” example of ATMs not reducing teller jobs didn’t look at a long enough time scale.
Namely, post-2010 you do indeed see a massive reduction in teller jobs in many countries. (40% decline here in Iceland).
“Pixels of the Week – August 1, 2021 by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer.”
So glad that I left the UK on the eve of the Brexit vote. And I’m also glad that I left Quebec to return home.
The more I hear from musicians who have essentially quit the business because of how little it pays after streaming took over…
…the more I’m starting to think that publishing initially “nope”-ing out of VC-funded subscription sites might have been a good idea
Another SVG experiment.
