Firehose

A few notes after voting in an election for the first time:

• The queue is non-existent mid-afternoon.
• The upper-house ballot paper is way bigger than I anticipated.
• You can figure out a lot about a party based on their ‘how to vote’ cards.
• I’m sick of stupid corflute cards.

I just want everyone to know that I’ve got some really awesome stuff coming really soon. Like, maybe next week.

I’ve been putting so much work into it, and I’m very much on the home stretch. It is the biggest-scale thing I’ve ever done, and I’m getting really excited to get to share it with everyone.

If you ever feel useless, just be glad you aren’t the HTML title attribute as handled in accessibility contexts.

You’ve called it rss.xml, but it’s actually an Atom feed. Do you do this just to smite me?

Bing Webmaster Tools just generally suck, yeah? Surely it can’t just be me that finds them super buggy and can rarely get them to index anything.

Does anyone have experience with them working nicely?

My favourite CSS addition in recent years is a toss-up between light-dark and nesting.

Both have been such game changers and vital to how I build for the web.

All right, I’m calling a timeout. Can everyone please stop writing so many good articles, please? I’ve got work to do, and you all keep distracting me.

Given the recent hubbub regarding Firefox, I know a lot of people are looking for another browser.

I want to take this opportunity to remind you that almost everything out there is based on Chromium and that this gives Google a dangerous power over our web. Google has a near-complete monopoly – don’t play into it.

https://vale.rocks/posts/everything-is-chrome

Further on this topic, I see a lot of people switching to Vivaldi, which, as well as being built on Chromium, isn’t fully open source.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-source

I’m currently on an 8mbps connection and it is times like these I am glad I spend hours optimising and refining my websites.

Who is working on porting all the PowerPoint transitions to the browser for use with the View Transition API?

When children express objectionable views, we’re quick to ask, ‘Where did they pick that up from?’, ‘What have they been watching?’, or ‘Who told them this?’.

Perhaps we need to ask the same regarding adults.

I is never me, for me is always us.

Every facet of thought builds on the inspiration and input of others – never forget it.