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Wheee, just DoS-ed my own servers while working on client changes. Optimizing.

BTW, I hear that Safari now defaults to using HTTPS. Not sure exactly what that means. But if they ever actually stop showing scripting.com, which will always be plain old HTTP, I'll probably ship an Electron product that browse the web, and doesn't care if it's HTTP or whatever new fad Google is promoting these days. I'm going to hold down the fort for the original web, I can't change scripting.com to HTTPS, it would break all the images and probably a lot of other stuff. I fight linkrot, don't bring it on, and fuck Google for thinking they own the freaking web. I use their products, just like I drive a Tesla. Can't help it.

The all-new kickass Democratic Party might use this image for motivation.

[Daniel Appelquist and Yves Lafon at the W3C] These ethical web principles that guide the ongoing development of the platform are great. And this is spot on: "The web is a fundamental part of our lives, shaping how we work, connect, and learn. We understand ...

Autocomplete for GOV.UK Site Search is now live after many years of research and testing

Anselm isn’t talking about becoming a CSS wizard, but simply having an understanding of what CSS can do. I have had similar experiences to this:

In the past years I had various situations where TypeScript developers (they called themselves) approached me and asked whether I could help them out with CSS. I expected to solve a complex problem but for me — knowing CSS very well — it was always a simple, straightforward solution or code snippet.

Let’s face it, “full stack” usually means “JavaScript”—HTML and CSS aren’t considered worthy of consideration. Their loss.

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I miss A Book Apart, and I really miss An Event Apart—I made so many friends and memories through that conference. I admire Jeffrey’s honest account of how much it sucks when something so good comes to an end.

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A complete digital archive of the famous typography from the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps

The lettering really is lovely!

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Went to Lewes Depot this evening to watch a screening of Point Break (1991). Definitely one to file under ‘so bad it’s good’, with plenty of pithy one-liners to share for years to come.

Very short video clip of a new feature rolling out this week, likely tomorrow. This is the Mac app:

This looks to be the latest of the 1C series Corona Standard flattops in the Typewriter Database. Dirty and needs restoration, but looks imminently salvageable. Can’t wait to polish this beauty!

A valued tester of WordLand asked a series of questions, which I answered in some detail, and felt it was a good idea to post the answers here on my blog. Any kind of feedback you want to give is totally welcome. I'd prefer it be in the GitHub issues section so it might ins...

Today’s OpenAI demo is a really good showcase of Apple Intelligence’s ChatGPT integration. It’s better than I remember it being from WWDC.

404 Media quotes Matt Mullenweg, who is very frustrated with the preliminary injunction in favor of WP Engine:

I’m sick and disgusted to be legally compelled to provide free labor to an organization as parasitic and exploitive as WP Engine. I hope you all get what you and WP Engine wanted.

Whatever we might think of Matt’s campaign against WP Engine, I’m skeptical of this legal decision and expect it could be reversed when there’s a trial. It’s certainly great for WordPress.org to be a community resource, but should it be required to be so? Very odd precedent if true.

I have United Healthcare insurance. I got it as part of my Medicare package when I turned 65. I've had good experience with them. I had major surgery in 2002, cost hundreds of thousands, included a one-week hospital stay and lots of followup treatments. I know the hospital did all the work with them, I was shielded from any complications, but as far as I know there were none. Never had a treatment questioned or denied. I had another insurance provider for many years after that, but when given a chance I went back to United. Just want to say, so far -- knock wood -- I am a happy customer.

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[Emma Roth at The Verge] I think this was almost inevitable: "On Tuesday, a California District Court judge ordered Automattic to stop blocking WP Engine’s access to WordPress.org resources and interfering with its plugins." Automattic is going to file a cou...

[Paul Kiel at ProPublica] If we're going to improve on Medicare, we have to fund it - and it turns out that even today's Medicare taxes are being skipped out on by some of the wealthiest citizens in America, thanks to a legal loophole that the IRS has not ad...