Hveragerði in a nutshell
“Few People Get Promoted For Asking Difficult Questions – Paul Taylor”
“Debut - Sonic Symbolism • Mailchimp Presents”
Gonna have to give this a listen. Björk digs into each of her albums
“The Quietus - Features - Anniversary - Into The Pre-Gap: Forty Years Of The CD”
Why are designers obsessed with hiding stuff on web pages? Scrolling works! Just let me scroll the goddamn page. Don’t send me off on a treasure hunt to click buttons and crap just to see what you’re trying to sell.
“Introducing workerd: the Open Source Workers runtime”
While their recent “our CEO regrets not hosting nazis” shenanigans has left me ambivalent about Cloudflare, open-sourcing the workers runtime is good news.
Current operating theory: if your app truly needs to be offline-first then you should go all the way and make it exclusively clientside rendered with dumb servers. In all other cases your app/site should be server-rendered and progressively enhanced
That’s my theory anyway 🤷♂️
How to implement passkey support from scratch. Looking forward to this rolling out.
“Stable Diffusion Based Image Compression”
Interesting application of ML-generative art. Trying to wrap my head around the implications of an image codec whose artifacts are made-up fake details
Nice autumn day.
A rule of thumb of mine that’s absolute certainly completely unfair, but has served me over the years:
Whenever I see a co or startup involving somebody who used to be management at SixApart, my distrust goes up a notch. No more, no less. Just one extra grain of scepticism
This looks interesting
“Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 154 - WebKit”
“Enabled Scroll To Text Fragment by default”
Text fragments becoming a standard means we have a new de facto standard for anchoring annotations to text ranges
“You don’t want to be on Cloudflare’s naughty list - Ctrl blog”