Found this gem in a book box I hadn’t opened in over twenty years.
“Pixels of the Week – April 11, 2021 by Stéphanie Walter - UX designer & Mobile Expert.”
“5 ways to prevent code injection in JavaScript and Node.js”
‘JS classes are not “just syntactic sugar” - by Andrea Giammarchi - Apr, 2021 - Medium’
“The Creator Economy Needs Fatter Tails - Strange Loop Canon”
“Why Keyboard Shortcuts don’t work on non-US Layouts and how Devs could fix it · tkainrad”
I run into this all the time, esp. with Electron apps. I’ve never used the US keyboard layout in my life and not going to start now. I’d rather switch apps.
“The Trouble With Easy Criticism by Ritesh Babu”
“Why can’t we criticize creators, and the works of creators, without these terribly reductive, deeply shitty value judgments? At what point did what art you consumed define your morality and worth as a human being?”
Geek culture is being against digital scarcity when you want somebody’s work for free and for digital scarcity when it helps you sell gifs for thousands in a tulipmania-style bubble.
Bonus points for harassing or sending death threats to anybody who even vaguely annoys you
“CSS Is, In Fact, Awesome - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
CSS is my favourite part of the web stack. Web devs love to complain about it all the while publishers all over the world keep adopting it for design and typesetting.
“inessential: The lack of a price tag seems almost criminal”
“I should explain: the app is better — much better — than it would be if it were a for-pay app.”
Right chuffed to read this. 😁 Love Jeremy Keith’s writing as well 🙂
“pencil and paper thinking - daniel g. siegel”
Always link to posts that quote Alan Kay.
“8 lessons I learned from spending 4 years writing one course — Learn JavaScript - Zell Liew”
“The window.matchMedia API — Sebastian De Deyne”
TIL
“If you want to see if something works, make it. The whole thing. The simplest version of the whole thing – that’s what version 1.0 is supposed to be.”