“All kinds of online marketplaces are creaking under scams (Interconnected)”
—Reads a dev.to post about the evolution of Web 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 which states outright that the entire web was read-only until Web 2.0 came along and that the term API was invented in 2004.
—Hyperventilates. Checks self for signs of stroke. Whyyyyy?
“Amazon’s Staggering HR Failures - Amazon Chronicles”
“This is all awfully close to The Way Things Are Done Now.”
“mnot’s blog: How the Next Layer of the Internet is Going to be Standardised”
“Pixels of the Week – June 20, 2021 by Stéphanie Walter - UX designer & Mobile Expert.”
Today’s must-read.
Any time I see somebody use the word ‘rational’ to describe themselves in a social media profile I assume that they actually mean “will fight tooth and nail to preserve all my biases, preconceptions, and superstitions”.
“The COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory Is Short on Evidence and Long on Guesswork”
Whenever you read reviews of any kind of Icelandic content (TV, movies, novels) you need to dial it down at least five notches. Everything Icelandic gets a massive review bump because people absolutely adore the setting. So crap plot, dialogue, story, etc. gets a pass.
Gleðilega þjóðhátíð!
Happy Independence Day! (In Iceland.)
I don’t know which is worse, the idea that the Chrome team thinks that nobody wants to use modern (i.e. module-based) JS in SVG (or XHTML) or the possibility that they may be true.
“content-visibility: the new CSS property that boosts your rendering performance”