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Tuesday, 16. January 12024
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What PWA Can Do Today.

A showcase of what is possible with Progressive Web Apps today.

Relevant: The Website vs. Web App Dichotomy Doesn't Exist.

Sunday, 7. January 12024
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Oh, the agony.

I wish the directors of Yellowjackets and Killers of the Flower Moon watched my Peleton training video.

Friday, 5. January 12024
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Kemistry & Storm.

Relevant: Valerie Olukemi A. "Kemi" Olusanya (13 October 1963 – 25 April 1999) introduced Goldie to Hardcore/Jungle.

Greg is a good software developer. Be like Greg.

Questionable Advice: “My boss says we don’t need any engineering managers. Is he right?”

Engineering labor takes concentration and focus. Context switching is expensive, and too many interrupts can be fatal. Management labor consists of context switching every hour or so, and being available for interruptions throughout the day. These are two very different modes of being, headspaces, and calendar schedules, and do not coexist well.

The Implied Web.

The implied web is based on the idea that people read interfaces through the glasses of their needs combined with previous web platform experiences. Driven by tasks, they are open to clues about solutions and need clear communication to comprehend and actively move through the interface. In short, people must recognise elements so they can act accordingly.

The witch-cult hypothesis is a discredited theory that the witch trials of the Early Modern period were an attempt to suppress a pagan religion that had survived the Christianization of Europe.

Relevant: Wicca.

“what do you think is the best vaporwave album of all time?”

Beautiful but might be the Betamax of the web…?

Amber Smalltalk – A new language and live environment made for the web.

The Amber language is deeply inspired by Smalltalk. It is designed to make client-side development faster and easier. Amber includes a live development environment with a class browser, workspace, unit test runner, transcript, object inspector and debugger. Amber is written in itself, including the compiler, and compiles into efficient JavaScript, mapping one-to-one with the JS equivalent.

Not sure what it does exactly but it sometimes looks beautiful.

Ghostsurn tiles.

This app lays out tiles based on an underlying square or hexagonal tiling pattern.