> We often choose the comfort of importing solutions over the discomfort of understanding problems. I loved this beautifully disarming insight. Read Loren’s excellent manifesto if you care about the Web

Bought a road bike for my son’s 18th birthday. Hit a great deal on a second hand full carbon Giant kept maniacally well. My son is chill and shy, you’d almost mistake it for being grumpy, definitely silent about emotions. I could see sparkles in his eyes. It really made my day.

A path forward (really good read!)

My previous role as CEO (of my own company) was as much technical as business. I have shifted into an exclusive managerial role that I enjoy, but I still crave for code, despite having very little time to devote to it. Finding balance is difficult, when Frontend is well rooted in your heart

Someone higher up the corporate chain might not know what implications blind requests to dev have. Make sure they understand the consequences and act accordingly. Put your ethics and privacy laws first (in EU, the GDPR umbrella most likely provides you with a reason for your questioning)

The Internet was a good place. I miss it

Turns out he could see the future.

Oh the irony

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

I still get a kick from writing complex regex redirects for Apache on domain/site migrations and then watch a massive curl test validate them all. sweet

Sunday’s’ treks for body and spirit

It’s been a long day, but in short, bullies ain’t shit! I don’t care what title you hold! This isn’t some long gone reality tv show or failed casino; it is war! How dare a draft dodging dumb dupe humiliate an ally & berate a brave man who has actually been on a battlefield for his people?!

Arianna Ciccone says it like it is

All except the fascist coward of Italy, Giorgia Meloni. Always count on a fascist for cowardice and avoiding to take the right side in history. It’s a defining principle.

Fascism always fails. It is destructive and it is awful and not everyone lives to see the other side, but it always, always fails. It takes work. It takes fighting back.[…] And through it all, it feels impossible that we will win. But we will.

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Wisdom.

@speedcurve.com is on Bluesky! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

You can chronicle them without giving them visibility (and let our eyes rest as an added bonus)

This post has +8.5K retorts and +22.5K likes and yet I think it does not get enough attention. This has the power to shut down any academic voice and research. FoS never extended to its economic grants: they found the loophole, effectively silencing those that can demonstrate their wrongness.

Mountains were beautiful this morning. Covered in snow, blushing in pink and yellow.

When you remove public data, you remove much more than information. You remove accountability.

It’s a coup

It’s a coup

Trump ordered data from the CDC website be scrubbed. The DataHoarder community at Reddit picked up early warnings from internal sources. Some stellar volunteer has archived all data and is publishing it to the Internet Archive. See www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarde... Not all heroes wear capes

A paper that understands its responsibility, in a country that knows it when it sees it. Impressive from Die Zeit. Refuses to show the salute, but calls it out for what it so obviously was. Headline: “A Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute”

TIL there’s a spec for MIME sniffing in browsers

My personal Advent of Code is making sense of a badly structured dataset, including non continuous datapoints that need gaps filled, over different stata granularity (hours, days, months, …) and where time zones considerations are an afterthought. It’s the grinch of code and I’m getting greener…

Interesting AI rabbit hole. This raises many longer-term questions re regulating output (similar to DMCA or GDPR delisting) and ensuring it stays (aside from the curiosity, you can only verify the effectiveness of a block by trying to actively jailbreaking it with creative attempts. See thread 👇🏽)

The morning reading list for December is getting to be awesome!

Been doing some webperf work and encountered zstd content compression from @cloudflare.social (I had missed the post announcing support for it). If you're curious, there's a great read from @paulcalvano.bsky.social zstd is supported by Chrome (123) and Firefox (126)

The Web Almanac goes Love* December 10 at 7pm (CET) for those in Europe like me. Tons of data and insight on the current state of the web. * lovely autocorrect that I had to keep. See the Web Almanac presented Live ✨ in 10 days!

I’m super excited to announce I'm part of an amazing team (<3 @williambrady.bsky.social @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social @mjcrockett.bsky.social) that just published a paper in @science.org on the role of outrage in spread of misinformation Link here: science.org/doi/10.1126/... Summary in🧵🔽 1/

Everything Harry does is top notch, from investigating Google fonts loading to how small can a LQIP get to still reach LCP scoring. Long read that I’m saving for later this week, but it already looks he dropped a bomb

When you step on sh*it you should realize it well ahead of people telling you they scent a disgusting smell

The backslash worked, but the damage was already done. The poster has removed the dataset from the repository, leaving the repo up to host discussions. We should not tolerate the assumption that data is free to use to train AI models. We need a default protection, it cannot be opt-out only.

An employee of Huggingface, a site of AI training datasets, made a dataset of a million Bluesky posts scraped simply because they could. It’s currently trending: www.404media.co/someone-made...

I am a Columbo diehard and I read this in Peter Falk’s voice in my head. It’s perfect.

We’ve been praising the value of links on this platform for a reason. Because links are expressive. For content creators the value is in the curation. Google is hijacking links for profit. The length at which capitalism squeezes you for profit is depressing.

This looks like a defining piece of visual research on the intersection of technology, documentarism and contemporary society (as much as The Hustwit Trilogy – Helvetica, Urbanized, Objectified – is on design and contemporary spaces). Very curious (if you can attend, go in person!)

Italiani! (no, non con quella cadenza…) I cugini francesi ci battono 139 a 15. Spagnoli e olandesi davanti, seguiti da svizzeri, austriaci, danesi, svedesi e belgi. Basta un niente per passare davanti a cechi e irlandesi. Contiamo su di voi.

With AI we’ll recover some of the more prosaic meaning of “script“: we’re effectively telling what to perform and how, a play that recites code, up to the point the actual outcome is the only thing we’ll value (code being a mere “script”). #promptEngineering is more about Shakeaspere than bits

This keeps making rounds and it’s absolutely hilarious. It’s the Everest of embroidery tips and web design.

The open web ha superpowers! It’s amazing to see how @atproto.com works as a building platform for ideas and connections. Great work @coryzue.com @emilyliu.me

We need better instrumentation and metrics to measure the impact of web performance gaps a11y, but we also need more performance engineering in the a11y field from browser vendors.I think issues like this can be effective trojan horses to get there. Make sure to read the GitHub issue in the comment

A little trick I don't see often and would like to see more of: cleaning up multiple event listeners with AbortController

I was blown away by Anselm Kiefer’s The Seven Heavenly Palaces. Pictures fail to convey the size of these mastodontic precarious concrete towers, up to 19m tall and 90t heavy. #PirelliHangarBicocca

📣 It's live! Here's the full write up of how I show Bluesky likes on my blog posts, after I've shared them to Bluesky. Like this post to be featured on this blog post (until there are more than 59 likes, in which case, you'll bumped off)!

Yay for #i18n

Front row to Public Service Brodcasting Milan show