Some thoughts that cross my mind about the possibility of MS ditching EdgeHTML in favour of Chromium:
- What happens to Edge’s EPUB support?
- Will Edge keep the same annotation features?
- Web Publications will have lost their likeliest candidate for in-browser implementation
To understand the Yule Cat legend you need historical context: the extreme poverty in Iceland, how people resew clothes to make them feel new and preserve their dignity, and how, in starvation, getting children to understand the priorities of starvation.
“Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser that will replace Edge on Windows 10”
I’ll be really disappointed if this is the case. EdgeHTML is a really nice rendering engine with its own trade offs. A browser monoculture could destroy the web.
That thing where you have a bug that happens all the time but simply can’t reproduce that one time you actually need to reproduce it.
Fun times.
“Survey Results: Fan Platform Use over Time …”
Banning adult content tends to drive fan communities away.
“Knowing how to solve problems is more important than technical skills“
“Richer GitHub integrations come to Netlify thanks to GitHub Apps“
This makes me more likely to test out Netlify for work projects.
“Reluctant Gatekeeping: The Problem With Full Stack“
“…there were dozens of Full Stack Developers and no Frontend Developers. We had a website to build and nobody understood Flexbox, except me.”
“Elsku Stelpur (Dear Girls) - YouTube”
An amazing performance on gender equality by a group of girls from my old high school.
The whole ‘gang of criminal rogues roam space and have adventures’ genre has been done quite a few times (Blake’s 7, Firefly, The Expanse) but my favourite of the type is always going to be Henson’s Farscape.
I seem to have misplaced by favourite fidget spinner 😑
Another fact about Iceland’s manufactured external image: only 3 still-in-effect laws have been translated into a non-Icelandic language, all into English. And Google translate is extremely broken for Icelandic. So, most journalists are working with secondary sources at best.
If you're reading about Iceland, and it isn't in Icelandic, it's probably marketing
Here’s how misleading English-language coverage of Iceland tends to be:
A blog publishes a post ostensibly about Christmas traditions but is actually a list of tourist attractions. Not one mention of an actual traditional Icelandic Christmas activity.
This is normal.
Over the past 15 years one consistent fact about English-language writing about Iceland, esp. the ones by Icelanders, is that you literally cannot trust anything they say. It’s all marketing for the bubble du jour.
15 years ago it was bullshit about Iceland as an economic miracle. 10 years ago it was bullshit about Iceland as a political miracle that ‘saved’ us from the crash. (It didn’t.)
Like a codependent relative of a narcissistic abuser, Icelanders always present a facade of Iceland as perfect outwards. This gets especially bad when we profit from the illusion. In the bubble, it was money from suckers. Then it was about re-building its undeserved public image.
Now it’s bullshit about Iceland as this magical fucking wonderland that tourists can ‘ooh’ , ‘aah’, and throw money at at like it’s fucking Disneyworld.
It’s annoying.
What’s more annoying is watching people who should know better, who should have the media literacy to spot advertising and propaganda, buy into the spiel hook, line, and sinker.
Be a little bit more sceptical. Please.
“Inventor says Google is patenting work he put in the public domain”
And another example of Google patent shenanigans. These are easy to find.
Another example of Google’s patent dishonesty (pun intended).
“Company Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview”
This is dishonest, evil, and apparently not the only time they’ve done this.