“What you think is boring now may be interesting in the future - Austin Kleon”
... works as a web developer in Hveragerði, Iceland, and writes about the web, digital publishing, and web/product development
These are his notes
“What you think is boring now may be interesting in the future - Austin Kleon”
“Bulletproof flag components - Jay Freestone”
CSS Grid is slowly transforming everything we know about web design.
“GitHub - benbjohnson/litestream: Streaming S3 replication for SQLite.”
“Open Source not Open Contribution”
To paraphrase Sartre: hell is other contributors.
“:focus-visible in WebKit - January 2021 - Rego’s Everyday Life”
“Form Validation: You want :not(:focus):invalid, not :invalid – Bram.us”
“What Is Important About The Reddit Gamestop Short-Squeeze - Ian Welsh”
“Maximizing Developer Effectiveness”
“I often observe that as these technologies are introduced an organization’s productivity instead of improving has reduced.”
“The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML – Terence Eden’s Blog”
“The Only Thing We Have to Fear is a Kirby Vacuum Salesperson – Burningbird”
Speaking as an outsider in a different country, there seems to be an increasing background radiation of fear running throughout US society.
“Oh Joy Sex Toy - The Stress Response Cycle”
This isn an excellent overview. Honestly, reading this will probably give you the tools improve your physical and emotional health.
“Why I’ve Been Merging Microservices Back Into The Monolith At InVision”
“Telja innflytjendur hafa góð áhrif - RÚV”
Important counterpoint to my doom and gloom. In a recent study 75% of Icelanders agreed with the statement that immigrants had had a positive effect on Icelandic society.
Trying to stay positive and not write anything negative this morning. Usually sticking to the feed reader and blogs makes that easy. Not this morning. 😐
“Cory Doctorow: Neofeudalism and the Digital Manor – Locus Online”
Related to the last tweet.
“The Free, Diverse Internet In America Is Coming To An End - Ian Welsh”
The first casualty was LGBT content which has been hard hit in almost every algorithm and moderation change at YouTube, for example.
“My product management toolkit (42): Integrative Thinking – As I learn …”
“We’re Hiring! Content Marketing Specialist (Rebus Ink)”
Come work for my boss 🙂
“CSS Frameworks, hype and dogmatism - Post - Piccalilli”
IMO the dogmatism you often see online is an expression of authoritarian culture: right or wrong gets decided by authorities in your community, practice and experience be damned.
“The Unreal and the Real - A Working Library”
One of my favourite books ever.