“Age of Invention: Did the Ottomans Ban Print? - Age of Invention, by Anton Howes”
I don’t know whether JS build configs have just gotten incredibly complicated or whether I’m finding unixisms easier to understand in my middle age, but all of a sudden Makefiles seem like a sensible and manageable option.
“Accessibility is hard. It’s also your job. - Go Make Things”
“The most important thing I learned in art college - by Andrew Coyle - NextUX - Medium”
“Pixels of the Week – May 16, 2021 by Stéphanie Walter - UX designer & Mobile Expert.”
The OSS bubble that is and the blogging bubble that was – Baldur Bjarnason
“The biggest problem—and this isn’t limited to web development—is how it has baked exploitation into the core worldview of so many people.”
Me, on the OSS bubble in web dev
“The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill - WIRED”
“The tragedy of the commons is a false and dangerous myth - Aeon Essays”
Was there a rule about posting big blog posts on Fridays? Or was that just about shipping software? 😄
“Praise is different from positive feedback (positive feedback is better) - Jacob Kaplan-Moss”
“Michael Tsai - Blog - What It Was Like to Sell Apps Online in 2003”
“The Testament of a Furniture Dealer”
“Development is not always the same thing as progress. It is often up to you, as the leader and bearer of responsibility, to make development progressive”
PDF from the founder of Ikea.
Canvas can be accessible.
But accessibility needs a DOM somewhere and Google seems to be avoiding the DOM, even a hidden one, with the new GDoc.
“Making Your RSS Feeds Automatically Discoverable - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
The past year was the first year in my life where I didn’t get a cold, the flu, or some other winter lurgy.
So you can absolutely count on me continuing to use masks in public, especially during flu season.