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Words I wrote in 2024

People spent a lot of time and energy in 2024 talking about (and on) other people’s websites. Twitter. Bluesky. Mastodon. Even LinkedIn. I observed it all with the dispassionate perspective of Dr. Manhattan on Mars. While I’m happy to see more people abondoning the cesspool...

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Books I read in 2024

I’ve been keeping track of the books I’m reading for about seven years now. I do that here on my own website, as well as on bookshop.org. It has become something of a tradition for me to post an end-of-year summary of the books I’ve read in the previous twelve months. Maybe...

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Don’t Fuck With Scroll

dontfuckwithscroll.com/

  1. Violates User Expectations
  2. Causes Motion Sickness
  3. Reduces Accessibility for Disabled Users
  4. Inconsistent Performance Across Devices
  5. Impairs Usability for Power Users
  6. Increases Page Load Times
  7. Breaks Native Browser Features
  8. Makes Scroll Position Unclear
  9. Adds Maintenance Overhead
  10. Disrespects the User’s Control

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Choosing a geocoding provider

Yesterday when I mentioned my paranoia of third-party dependencies on The Session, I said: I’ve built in the option to switch between multiple geocoding providers. When one of them inevitably starts enshittifying their service, I can quickly move on to another. It’s like...

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Progressively enhancing maps

The Session has been online for over 20 years. When you maintain a site for that long, you don’t want to be relying on third parties—it’s only a matter of time until they’re no longer around. Some third party APIs are unavoidable. The Session has maps for sessions and other...

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Century-Scale Storage

lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scale-storage/

This magnificent piece by Maxwell Neely-Cohen—with some tasteful art-direction—is right up my alley! This piece looks at a single question. If you, right now, had the goal of digitally storing something for 100 years, how should you even begin to think about making that ...

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Knowing CSS is mastery to Frontend Development — Anselm Hannemann

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.

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THE AI CON - How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want

thecon.ai/

A shame that this must-read book won’t be out in time for Christmas—’twould make a great stocking filler for a lot of people I know.

A smart, incisive look at the technologies sold as artificial intelligence, the drawbacks and pitfalls of technology sold under this banner, and why it’s crucial to recognize the many ways in which AI hype covers for a small set of power-hungry actors at work and in the world.

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