I had an absolutely amazing time dancing and playing at Frostapalooza — it was pure joy! 💖
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Soundchecking for Frostapolooza!

Soundchecking for Frostapolooza!
Playing tunes and songs with @chriscoyier@front-end.social and @wordridden@sunny.garden

Playing tunes and songs with @chriscoyier@front-end.social and @wordridden@sunny.garden
Reading Europe In Winter by Dave Hutchinson.
Reading Europe In Winter by Dave Hutchinson.
Going to Pittsburg. brb
Going to Pittsburg. brb
Wednesday session in Boston

Wednesday session in Boston
Manicule

Manicule
Checked in at Harvard Yard. Parkin the cah* in the Hahvahd Yahd (* butt) — with Jessica

Checked in at Harvard Yard. Parkin the cah* in the Hahvahd Yahd (* butt) — with Jessica
Checked in at 3 Little Figs. Breakfast — with Jessica

Checked in at 3 Little Figs. Breakfast — with Jessica
Going to Boston. brb
Going to Boston. brb
HTML Web Components Can Have a Little Shadow DOM, As A Treat | Scott Jehl, Web Designer/Developer
This is an interesting thought from Scott: using Shadow DOM in HTML web components but only as a way of providing sort-of user-agent styles:
providing some default, low-specificity styles for our slotted light-dom HTML elements while allowing them to be easily overridden.
Aboard Newsletter: Why So Bad, AI Ads?
The human desire to connect with others is very profound, and the desire of technology companies to interject themselves even more into that desire—either by communicating on behalf of humans, or by pretending to be human—works in the opposite direction. These technologies don’t seem to be encouraging connection as much as commoditizing it.
Back in Brighton

Back in Brighton
Suka and Serena, my mother’s two good doggos.
Suka and Serena, my mother’s two good doggos.
HTML Web Components Make Progressive Enhancement And CSS Encapsulation Easier! | CSS-Tricks
css-tricks.com/html-web-components-make-progressive-enhancement-and-css-encapsulation-easier/
Three great examples of HTML web components:
What I hope is that you now have the same sort of epiphany that I had when reading Jeremy Keith’s post: HTML Web Components are an HTML-first feature.
Dan and Sue travelled from Baltimore, Maryland to Baltimore, West Cork.

Dan and Sue travelled from Baltimore, Maryland to Baltimore, West Cork.
Baltimore beacon
Baltimore beacon
Foliage
Foliage
Woods and water
Woods and water
I met a friendly robin this morning.

I met a friendly robin this morning.
Back in Cork, like

Back in Cork, like
Jessica on Garinish island.

Jessica on Garinish island.
Exploring Glengarriff
Exploring Glengarriff
The Gods of Logic, by BenjamĂn Labatut
harpers.org/archive/2024/07/the-gods-of-logic-benjamin-labatut-ai/
BenjamĂn Labatut draws a line from the Vedas to George Boole and Claude Shannon onward to Geoffrey Hinton and Frank Herbert’s Butlerian Jihad.
In the coming years, as people armed with AI continue making the world faster, stranger, and more chaotic, we should do all we can to prevent these systems from giving more and more power to the few who can build them.
A new path for Privacy Sandbox on the web
This is disgusting, if unsurprising: Google aren’t going to deprecate third-party cookies after all.
Make no mistake, Chrome is not a user agent. It is an agent for the behavioural advertising industry.
The next decade of the web | James’ Coffee Blog
After the last decade, where platforms have emerged as a core constituent of the web on which many rely, it may feel like things cannot change. That the giants are so big that there is no other way. Yet, to give into this feeling – that things can’t change – is not necessary. It is the way it is is not true on the web. We can make change. It’s your web.
Sunday session in Cork

Sunday session in Cork
Going to Cork. brb
Going to Cork. brb
Reading House Of Odysseus by Claire North.
Reading House Of Odysseus by Claire North.
Thursday session

Thursday session