That feeling when neat but way too complex project ideas stick in your head for days like persistent intrusive thoughts.
“The easiest way to get and set CSS Variables in JavaScript | Zell Liew”
“The Largest Money-Printing UI Element Ever Made - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
Nice to see this properly written up.
Seeing Mark Millar go all ComicsGate makes me glad that I’d mentally filed him away as a talentless asshole back in 1999.
Also funny to see friends who made fun of my dislike of Gervais and Millar twenty years ago finally cotton onto them
… the thing I call TDD might not quite be TDD. Also some speculation, and some other speculation.
‘Adactio: Journal—button invoketarget=”share”’
Considering that basic support for using invokers to drive popups and custom events is already on its way in all three major browser engines, this has a better than usual chance of happening
Has Mozilla lost interest in maintaining a browser? Every announcement I see from them these days is for some “AI” thing. Who in Mozilla’s management is the “AI” fanatic?
This is good news.
You know Christmas is drawing near when my neighbour has put the light-up Santa in the driver’s seat of his tractor.
“One YouTube Embed weighs almost 1.2 MB—zachleat.com”
Yikes.
You can tell that I’m a dev because my project ideas go from “that is nicely scoped and doable” to “I’m going to invent cold fusion with silly string, mustard, a beach ball, and 999 red light bulbs” in ten seconds flat
Irrational scope creep seems baked into the dev mindset 😅️
Finally got around to wiping my makeshift blackboard clear post-launch.
Yesterday’s newsletter broke my recent streak of, roughly, losing one subscriber a day for the past twenty days or so. Only four unsubscribes on a weekly newsletter! 🥳️🥂️🎉️
“Not-so-random pandemic thoughts on Author Platforms — As in guillotine…”
It’s an unfortunate truth about books that it’s never simply been about being a good writer
“WebKit Features in Safari 17.2 | WebKit”
Big fan of the custom highlights API as it would have saved me so much time in past projects. Too late to help those projects but good to know it’s there for future ones.
“Can we please talk about the user experience of this years reddit recap? : UXDesign”
This sort of bullshit is the norm for the software industry.
I have to say that I’ve been quite enjoying the new Doctor Who specials after having lost interest several years ago. RTD seems to have a handle on what makes the character and the world they inhabit interesting.
This week I’m thinking out loud about the itch to make something. And a few links.
“Television: one of the most audacious pranks in history was hidden in a hit TV show for years.”
I genuinely love this.
“Dear anonymous internet user asking for help.. - Bert Hubert’s writings”
The frosty weather makes the steam rising from the geothermal park next door quite a bit more visible.
