“Adactio: Links—Tailwind, and the death of web craftsmanship”
“Tailwind, and the death of web craftsmanship”
I’ve wondered too about the field’s refusal to reevaluate tech, sticking with ideas about CSS, HTML, and JS that haven’t been correct for a while now, and the lack of curiosity about the foundation we’re building on
There should rarely be more than three people involved in delivering feedback from one person to another: the giver, the receiver, and (possibly) a trusted third party. Beyond that, problems arise.
“38TB of data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers | Wiz Blog”
Over the past thirty years Microsoft has been absolutely consistent about one thing: being horrible at software security.
“WebKit Features in Safari 17.0 | WebKit”
Looks like a solid release.
So, Hveragerði is a quiet town and I live next door to the Geothermal Park. This means that if I have the window open in my home office, I regularly hear the sound of a cloud of steam erupting, followed by a host of loud “oohs” and “aahs” from the tourists 😄️
“The JS community on Twitter is dead.”
Yup.
“Sustainability and Tech and Us · Jens Oliver Meiert”
What I find troubling is how in tech, we’re truly exceptionally bad at sustainability
So exceptionally bad that it’s a reliable gauge for what you should do: whatever is the opposite of what we do in tech
“Which Kinds of Tests Should I Write? Revisited - The Code Whisperer”
“Notes from “Weathering Software Winter” by Devine Lu Linvega - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
“The Rules of Margin Collapse”
Honestly, margin collapse in CSS was probably a bad idea and because I’m a lazy person I’ve mostly switched to flex/grid + gap to create this sort of spacing
My dad has a bit of a retro approach to listening to music.
“Ableist interactions | hidde.blog”
I agree with everything in this post but would like to emphasise what I said yesterday: “production-ready” in this context does not mean “up to industry standards”. It means “replaces programmers.”
I have never personally needed shadow DOM. Every time I dig in to assess it, I come away frustrated.
Same.
Black and white photos from said bad weather photography walk.
Went for a short bad weather photography walk
“David Golumbia, 1963–2023 – Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain”
“Adactio: Links—We’re still not innovating with AI-generated UI.”
“We’re still not innovating with AI-generated UI.”
I generally feel like companies with poor leadership who make bad business decisions will view these tools as a cost-cutting opportunity.
This is exactly what these tools are for
However, browsers selling users to search engines to keep the web going is a bit like selling weapons in a war zone to bankroll cancer research. As mentioned, it’s a betrayal of users
Found my dad’s old typewriter.
Might be a bit of a project but it would be fun to get it into proper working order.
