People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Cosmic’s building was originally the Texaco Depot, built around 1911. It’s the only surviving building from the old rail yard in Austin. 🚂
I saw a pundit suggest people harass people who drive Teslas.
When I bought mine, it cost $70K, a large sum of money that I will not throw away just so a pundit can make a point.
Here's my rebuttal. I'd like to see you get on without buying Exxon products. We all agree they suck, but evil companies have a way of building dependence, that's how the stay in business while openly doing despicable things.
When I put down $70K for what is, btw, a fantastic car, no one knew how evil Elon Musk was going to turn out to be, how little he would care what you and I think.
And I don't believe anyone can live a pure life and extract all evil from it, and still participate in civilization.
PS: I wrote this initially as a post on Bluesky.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.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Autocomplete for GOV.UK Site Search is now live after many years of research and testing
helloanselm.com/writings/knowing-css-is-mastery-to-frontend-development
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.
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.
A complete digital archive of the famous typography from the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
The lettering really is lovely!
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
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:
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
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.
