“I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back”
One of the crappiest tech trends ever (that isn’t actively evil, y’know, like union busting, surveillance, election rigging, etc.)
“Just use :focus styles, damnit“
This is me. I’m a mouse and keyboard user and find it really helpful to always know where the focus is (and which pages I’ve visited for that matter).
“This is the future of X” posts almost always fail to mention that the current form of X with continue to exist and even grow substantially, it’s just that something else is growing faster and tech journalists have a zero-sum mentality.
“Antitrust, the App Store, and Apple”
I suspect that most people won’t realise how stifling the iOS app store is for iOS software innovation unless something forces Apple to open up their platform
Fog plus spotlight makes this look like something out of X-Files. #dated90sreference
Fog plus spotlight makes this look like something out of X-Files. #dated90sreference
Creepy park tables.
Parc Jarry on a foggy night
“I don’t know what to say. · Issue #116 · dominictarr/event-stream · GitHub”
A popular npm package transferred ownership to what looks like a malicious actor. This is the sort of stuff that keeps me up at night.
I agree with this post.
This makes a very good point.
“Secure Authentication for JavaScript Apps – Insightful Software”
“Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma, and The Quest to Kill eBay – Steve Yegge – Medium”
Icelandic culture is a weird mix of literary and rural sensibilities. My sister just pointed out to me that two books on haymaking are being published in Icelandic this year and a few years ago one of Iceland’s bestselling non-fiction series was a trilogy on tractors.
This family looked like they were posing for a painting, in silhouette and everything.
People seemed to be having fun in the snow in Parc Jarry.
These two snow-covered trees stand by the frozen pond in Parc Jarry.
People don’t let the snow stop them from walking their dog.
People like to crow about how this operating system is more user-friendly than that one but, in my experience, the worst usability and user experience problems people encounter these days is because of the nightmarish cascade of ‘cloud’ thingamabobs that hooks everything together
Electron-based apps have a bunch of baked in flaws:
- a few big accessibility flaws
- security issues from using an outdated Chrome
- don’t feel native
But Electron has also let a few developers make great apps that are available on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Which is not nothing