April 2022

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Maybe personal sites aren’t a real social media alternative for most people. I take Mia’s point: But I’m a nerd and have nerd friends with personal websites so we can simulate a social network with personal sites. At least a little bit. In a slower, more considered, more long-form kinda way. I still think the […]

Worker Editor

Props to Cloudflare for their Worker Playground/Editor thing: Sorry for the giant desktop screenshot there, but I’m sure that’s how it’s meant to be used. It’s an information and interactivity dense experience. I bet not even that many people use it, because it’s kinda “cowboy coding” when you do. Serious usage of Workers is surely […]

Dick Avoidance

There is a bit of a silver lining to someone being a dick to you: you never have to deal with them again! Farewell, hoss. I don’t have to listen to you. I don’t have to work with you. I don’t have to look at you. But with a bit of self-reflection there, that’s awfully […]

Trust

Jeremy: I would love it if someone could explain why they’re avoid native browser features but use third-party code. I can’t speak for the industry, but I have a guess. Third-party code (like the referenced Bootstrap and React) have a history of smoothing over significant cross-browser issues and providing better-than-browser ergonomic APIs. jQuery was created […]