Reading The Female Man by Joanna Russ.
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This seems to be the attitude of many of my fellow nerds—designers and developers—when presented with tools based on large language models that produce dubious outputs based on the unethical harvesting of other people’s work and requiring staggering amounts of energy to run:
This is the future! I need to start using these tools now, even if they’re flawed, because otherwise I’ll be left behind. They’ll only get better. It’s inevitable.
Whereas this seems to be the attitude of those same designers and developers when faced with stable browser features that can be safely used today without frameworks or libraries:
I’m sceptical.
Wednesday session
Wednesday session
Liskov’s Gun: The parallel evolution of React and Web Components – Baldur Bjarnason
React has become a bloated carcass of false promises, misleading claims, and unending layers of backwards compatibility – the wrong kind of backwards compatibility, as they still occasionally break your fucking code when updating.
Pretty much anything else is a better tool for pretty much any web development task.
Report: Thinking about using AI? - Green Web Foundation
thegreenwebfoundation.org/publications/report-ai-environmental-impact/
A solid detailed in-depth report.
The sheer amount of resources needed to support the current and forecast demand from AI is colossal and unprecedented.
Tuesday session
Tuesday session
If you gaze for long into an infinite canvas, the infinite canvas gazes also into you.
If you gaze for long into an infinite canvas, the infinite canvas gazes also into you.
Sunday session
Sunday session
Today I am the man in seat 61 on the Eurostar from Paris to London.
Today I am the man in seat 61 on the Eurostar from Paris to London.
Circles
Circles
Checked in at La Corde à Linge. Spätzle
Checked in at La Corde à Linge. Spätzle
Checked in at Royal 26. Pairing a good book with a glass of Pinot Gris
Checked in at Royal 26. Pairing a good book with a glass of Pinot Gris
Angels in the architecture
Angels in the architecture
Strolling around Strasbourg
Strolling around Strasbourg
Checked in at Chez Yvonne. Choucroute garní — with Jessica
Checked in at Chez Yvonne. Choucroute garní — with Jessica
Reading Ariadne by Jennifer Saint.
Reading Ariadne by Jennifer Saint.
Going to Strasbourg. brb
Going to Strasbourg. brb
I wasted a day on CSS selector performance to make a website load 2ms faster | Trys Mudford
trysmudford.com/blog/i-spent-a-day-making-the-website-go-2ms-faster/
Picture me holding Trys back and telling him, “Leave it alone, mate, it’s not worth it!”
Monday session
Monday session
Preventing automated sign-ups
The Session goes through periods of getting spammed with automated sign-ups. I’m not sure why. It’s not like they do anything with the accounts. They’re just created and then they sit there (until I delete them).
In the past I’ve dealt with them in an ad-hoc way. If the sig...
The secret power of a blog – Tracy Durnell’s Mind Garden
If you only write when you’re sure you’ll produce brilliance, you’ll never write.
Comparing web components to React is like comparing a good bicycle with a cybertruck. They do very different things, and they’re used by different people with very, very different mindsets.
Comparing web components to React is like comparing a good bicycle with a cybertruck.
They do very different things, and they’re used by different people with very, very different mindsets.
OpenFreeMap
This project, based on OpenStreetMap, looks great:
OpenFreeMap lets you display custom maps on your website and apps for free.
You can either self-host or use our public instance.
I’m going to try it out on The Session once there’s documentation for using this with Leaflet.
The Unraveling of Space-Time | Quanta Magazine
This special in-depth edition of Quanta is fascinating and very nicely put together.
Building a robust frontend using progressive enhancement - Service Manual - GOV.UK
gov.uk/service-manual/technology/using-progressive-enhancement
Oh, how I wish that every team building for the web would use this sensible approach!
Sunday session
Sunday session
> Websites have always been tiny mutinies, perfectly designed for rebellion! — Robin Rendle, Coming home https://robinrendle.com/notes/coming-home/
Websites have always been tiny mutinies, perfectly designed for rebellion!
— Robin Rendle, Coming home
POSSE: Reclaiming social media in a fragmented world
This rhymes nicely with Mandy’s recent piece on POSSE:
Despite its challenges, POSSE is extremely empowering for those of us who wish to cultivate our own corners of the web outside of the walled gardens of the major tech platforms, without necessarily eschewing them entirely. I can maintain a presence on the platforms I enjoy and the connections I value with the people there, while still retaining primary control over the things that I write and freedom from those platforms’ limitations.
Hire HTML and CSS people
Every problem at every company I’ve ever worked at eventually boils down to “please dear god can we just hire people who know how to write HTML and CSS.”
Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (Part One, 1982) - YouTube
Wow! Grace Hopper has always been a hero to me, but I had no idea she was such a fantastic presenter. She’s completely engaging, with the timing and deadpan delivery of a stand-up comedian at times.
