- "Should links open in a new tab?“. “You are taking a piece of self-determination from your visitors and forcing something on them.”
- "Web components for (mathematical) writing, continued"
- "Nicer Text Wrapping with CSS text-wrap / Coder’s Block". One of the nice things about CSS is you can start to use properties like these, where implementation variation is likely to be low, well before full cross-browser support has been rolled out.
- "New GitHub Copilot Research Finds ‘Downward Pressure on Code Quality’ – Visual Studio Magazine". No shit. I’m so surprised /s
- "A unified theory of fucks | A Working Library". Yes.
- "The Fucks and How We Give Them (A Manifesto) – Rhoneisms". These kinds of posts are a bit of a genre. 🙂 (Not in a bad way)
- "The LLM Misinformation Problem I Was Not Expecting | RIPE Labs". 😬
- "Google doesn’t actually care about AI generated articles and that you will not be penalized for using AI to generate articles en masse, a position the company probably feels comfortable noting because that is basically what Google itself told us"
- "Big, beautiful, beefy focus states with :focus-visible | daverupert.com"
- "iPad users will miss out on third-party app stores, browser engines, and more - 9to5Mac". For fuck’s sake! And Apple wonders why nobody wants to make apps for their VR watchamathingy? Why commit to a platform hellbent on preventing experimentation and invention?
- "Nuberodesign > Blog > In Praise of Buttons – Part One"
- "One World, One Web, One Love :: Aaron Gustafson"
- "Low-tech Eleventy Categories - Piccalilli"
- So, looks like the built-in test runner, testing and mocking tools in the latest Node LTS release tick all the right boxes, huh?
- "Five Things: January 25, 2024 — As in guillotine…“ 😁
- "Deciphering Glyph :: Unsigned Commits". “It is not merely decorative; the words in the document being signed have some specific meaning and can be enforced against you.”
- "Concatenating text". “My wish for 2024 is that everyone gets the epiphany that React is legacy tech from 2013 when browsers didn’t have template strings or a BFCache.”
- "The myth of technological inevitability - by Dave Karpf". “The broader lesson is that inevitability was never more than a framing device.”
- "Echoing Wirth’s plea for lean software"
- "The Open Source Sustainability Crisis ❧ Open Path by Chad Whitacre". Not convinced by the proposed solution, but the problem description is accurate.
- "The time to unmaintainable is very low | daverupert.com"
- "93% of Paint Splatters are Valid Perl Programs | Colin McMillen". 😄