I’m less than a week into using Arc on the Mac, and already I’m so used to it that when I hop into Safari, everything is a little off.
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Gruber gave me an idea when he put his NYY logo on his blog. I thought that was both interesting and weird. I don't get how anyone I know can be a fan of the that team. An American League team in a National League city. Kind of like rooting for Staten Island. Anyway, the Yankees may win the ALCS, but what does it mean? It's not going to make New York love them. But then Gruber is in Philadelphia so why isn't he thinking about the Phillies, who btw, the Mets beat soundly in the division series, earlier this month. In any case, I have made the team picture of the 1969 world champion Mets as the banner image on Scripting News for now and into the forseeable future.
BTW, I've been too busy to keep up with the Podcast0 feed. Not sure when I'll be able to pick it up again.
The new color Kindle looks really nice. I don’t read comics on the Kindle or make highlights much, so the only advantage for color would be book covers… Almost worth it. I bet those look great.
Threads just added an online status feature, where it'll show your icon to others with a green dot if you're online. I turned it off. I don't see this as a social network, I see it as a two-way publishing medium. Big fundamental difference. My words speak for me here and on Threads. It's a strong argument in favor of "Follows" being the default algorithm, btw.
content-visibility in Safari
Earlier this year I wrote about some performance improvements to The Session using the content-visibility property in CSS.
If you say content-visibility: auto you’re telling the browser not to bother calculating the layout and paint for an element until it needs to. But you...
Docks and home screens
Back in June I documented a bug on macOS in how Spaces (or whatever they call they’re desktop management thingy now) works with websites added to the dock.
I’m happy to report that after upgrading to Sequoia, the latest version of macOS, the bug has been fixed! Excellent!
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I missed the beginning of the Texas debate but from what I saw in the second half, Colin Allred did really well. Ted Cruz is so obnoxious. Always a tough race here, though. 🇺🇸
I recorded a quick video demo of the new theme preview in Micro.blog. This is such an obvious feature but it was sort of tricky to do before because of how Micro.blog is architected with static-site generation. Working pretty well so far!
Good glass-half-full analysis from Jason Snell about the new iPad mini with A17 Pro:
…this model feels more like a holding action that gets the iPad mini onto Apple Intelligence… while also using up some amount of chip excess. If I had to predict when we’ll see a next-next-generation iPad mini, I think I’d guess that it will probably be sooner than three years from now.
More thoughts on WordPress
Things have accelerated since my post about Automattic and WP Engine a couple weeks ago. I’m writing this follow-up post not to pick sides, but because it feels right to blog about something this significant happening in the website hosting world.
Banning WP Engine from Word...
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Is Matt Mullenweg defending WordPress or sabotaging it?
[Mathew Ingram]
Mathew Ingram's overview of the WordPress drama continues to be updated with new information. The hole just seems to be getting deeper and deeper. As he says: it's a mess.
"It's pretty clear that Matt sees what he is doing as protecting WordP...
Everybody's maxing out on Wordle today. I stopped with one step left. Stumped. I may lose my streak today. A lot of people are.
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It feels like 2004 again.
[Anil Dash]
Anil Dash makes a pertinent observation about the current state of the web:
"At the start of this year, I wrote The Internet Is About To Get Weird Again, which began by calling back to the Internet of 2000. In thinking more about it, though, we m...
What's up with WordPress?
A long time ago I ran a free service called weblogs.com. It was the early days of blogs. RSS didn't exist yet, so there was no way to find out which blogs had new stuff other than going through your blogroll and clicking links.
So I built a simple server, running in Frontie...
Firefox users: are you able to reproduce this doozy of a bug I’ve found in the latest version? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1924798
Firefox users: are you able to reproduce this doozy of a bug I’ve found in the latest version?
A few more notes about the new theme preview feature at the help site.
New iPad Mini with the A17 Pro and AI looks good. At first I was surprised by the $500 price, thought for sure the previous model was less expensive, but no. I’m still enjoying the iPhone Pro Max as a mini mini iPad, but I’m already used to the iPhone size, so it no longer feels very big.
New way to preview themes, from the news blog:
Added new Preview button for themes in the plug-in directory. This will create a special preview version of your blog to try out the theme. Also improved the tab bar and navigation around plug-ins.
Micro.blog News https://news.micro.blog/2024/10/15/added-new-preview.html
I’m going to try to record a video demo of this later. It’s a big change.
Wondering if this is the responsible way to enable view transitions on websites: @media (prefers-reduced-motion: no-preference) { @view-transition { navigation: auto; } }
Wondering if this is the responsible way to enable view transitions on websites:
@media (prefers-reduced-motion: no-preference) {
@view-transition {
navigation: auto;
}
}