Book: The Innovation Delusion.
“Innovation” is the hottest buzzword in business. But what if our obsession with finding the next big thing has distracted us from the work that matters most?
Text layout is a loose hierarchy of segmentation.
A complete account of text layout would be at least a small book. Since there’s no way I can write that now, this blog post is a small step towards that – in particular, an attempt to describe the “big picture,” using the conceptual framework of a “loose hierarchy.” Essentially, a text layout engine breaks the input into finer and finer grains, then reassembles the results into a text layout object suitable for drawing, measurement, and hit testing.
when-will-web-browsers-be-complete.txt (via news.ycombinator.com).
If we all acted as logical entities, we should have separate "Ungoogled-ChromiumOS" machines (say running on the latest Raspberry Pi) which is our access points to the "Google Era" Web, and on our main computers, use something entirely different which reflects our values. Then as the "Google Era" Web degrades, people catch wind from their technologist friends that there is something better on the horizon that they might want to check out.
The rise of the non-expert expert.
From ones and zeros to millions of frameworks.
Link Previews: How a Simple Feature Can Have Privacy and Security Risks.
Link previews in chat apps can cause serious privacy problems if not done properly. We found several cases of apps with vulnerabilities such as: leaking IP addresses, exposing links sent in end-to-end encrypted chats, and unnecessarily downloading gigabytes of data quietly in the background.
Faster Web App Delivery with PRPL.
PRPL is a pattern for structuring and serving web applications and Progressive Web Apps with an emphasis on improved app delivery and launch performance.
Es wäre leicht, den Ämtern Kontrollverlust vorzuwerfen, aber am Ende ist es einfache Mathematik: In der vergangenen Woche kamen in Neukölln jeden Tag durchschnittlich 115 Infektionen dazu. Pro Tag schaffen die Ermittler hier zwischen vier und sechs Fälle - je nachdem wie viele Kontaktpersonen sie dafür anrufen müssen. An jedem positiv Getesteten hängen zwischen fünf und 20 bekannte weitere Gefährdete, in Extremfällen 40. Dazu kommen die Anrufe bei Infizierten, die bereits in Quarantäne sind. Die Ermittler müssen sich erkundigen, wie es den Betroffenen geht und ob sie Symptome entwickelt haben.
Grätzlrad Wien – Leih dir einfach ein Transportfahrrad in deiner Nähe aus! Kostenlos und praktisch.
“Abandon” and “Mozilla” go together quite well, lately…
The good folks at mouse.org are hosting the fabulous X-Ray Goggles which were abandoned by Mozilla.
For me it’s an essential tool teaching web technology and development I don’t want to miss, anymore. (And fortunately, it’s open source.)
Mouse is a national youth development nonprofit that believes in technology as a force for good.
Bin im Begriff, ein kleines Guthaben aufs Gemeinwohl-Sparkonto beim Umweltcenter Gunskirchen zu transferieren…
Eine Verzinsung, welche die Vorsilbe »Spar« rechtfertigt, gibt’s zwar auch dort nicht, aber wenigstens weiß ich, dass mit den Einlagen mir sinnvoll erscheinende Projekte unterstützt werden.