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Interop 2024 Votes

According to the timeline, the period to submit proposals for what Interop 2024 should do just ended, and now it’s in the refinement phase. Interop, remember, is short for “interoperability” between major browsers. They get together and agree on what web platform features should be prioritized in getting worked on and working exactly the same […]

Seth Godin on Password Stupidity

Length requirements, character requirements, uppercase, lowercase, yadda yadda. This is not just security theatre. It’s a waste of time, the math makes no sense and it leads people to create worse passwords, not better ones. Password stupidity is no longer viable I don’t know that it makes for worse passwords at the individual password level, […]

Luke Plant on Simplicity

… we all claim to hate complexity, but it’s actually just complexity added by other people that we hate β€” our own bugbears are always exempted, and for things we understand we quickly become unable to even see there is a potential problem for other people. No one actually wants simplicity Woof.