Firehose

I’ve been very disappointed with DuckDuckGo results recently. Seems there was a sharp drop in quality ~3 weeks ago.

Kagi gives the best results I’ve found, but at a financial premium. I’m kinda just jumping around search engines looking for a home.

I really appreciate that people in my feeds engage in nuanced AI discussion. Yes, there are negatives. Yes, there are positives. No, flame wars don’t get us anywhere.

Thanks for all being so awesome and eloquent with your words.

For anyone wondering, you absolutely can enrol your toe as a fingerprint on a Google Pixel 7a.

I usually steer clear of political posts, but I can’t stress enough how important it is for every American to get out and vote. The world will be a little better for it.

Switched over to using the vertical sidebar in Firefox today. It’s lovely!

People seem to come unstuck at the ‘cascading’ bit of ‘cascading style sheet’.

Embrace the cascade!

‘Username’ is so boring. When can we go back to using handles? Or screennames? Or even gamertags?

Blimey, I’m lovin’ <dialog> and the Popover API. JavaScript free* menus without the need for any hacks.

I used to use some trickery involving CSS’s :target to implement menus…

This is only gonna get cooler when anchor positioning gets more comprehensive support. Top layer elements and anchor positioning go together like butter and toast.

The gap between ‘works in development’ and ‘works in production’ is where dreams go to die.

Remember kids, if it’s written in Java then avoid it like lava.

‘Brittle web technology’ is one of the most perfect phrases I’ve ever encountered. It just perfectly sums up the shattering characteristic of so many dev tools.

It’s the web! It should be the wild west! Chaotic, unstoppable madness! Bodge everything and take no hostages!

Micro-blogging platforms like Bluesky and Fedi are built around following people, not topics. This is good in that I can create meaningful connections with familiar faces, but bad in that I pass up great content because I can’t just follow the parts of people’s feeds that interest me.

Sometimes I wish I could follow someone’s tech posts without their politics, or their design without their hot takes. If you’re wondering why I don’t follow you, it’s probably because of this. I still love ya!

(I’ve come to find this is somewhat doable via word filtering, although it is a bit finicky, not comprehensive, and introduces potential for false positives. I’ll trial it and see how it goes.)

I barely find myself needing CSS ‘hacks’ anymore. Most stuff I need to do is kinda just a thing now.

Thanks to all the many people who’ve made this a reality!

Were I omnipotent ruler of this world, I’d probably delete glitter as my first action.

I found it interesting that WebKit maintains a collection of ‘quirks’ – hardcoded, website-specific fixes and tweaks.

https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/WebCore/page/Quirks.cpp

I’ve spent the past several years thinking Vite is pronounced ‘vite’ rather than ‘veet’. I’ve gotta start watching more dev videos or something…

While fundamentally a flawed format, there is something beautiful about the crunchiness of a .gif.

The fact that you can use touchscreens with the back of your fingernails really bothers me.

Mullenweg just keeps adding fuel to the fire that’s actively cremating him.

Sorry for being MIA these past few days. Russia and Turkey both banned Discord, so I’ve been tied up with Revolt. We’ve had some 250K users join in the past 4 days, bringing us to over 450K users total!

If you aren’t aware, Revolt is a FOSS chat platform and decent alternative to Discord that I work on.

You can check it out at https://revolt.chat if you’re interested.

Are people implementing lightboxes with <dialog>, custom implementations, or something different? Would love to hear!

The lack of jokes connecting ‘GitHub’ and ‘hub for gits’ is deeply disappointing.

Does it bother anyone else that it is top not inset-top, like margin-top?

I hope you all remembered that tonight is the 21^st night of September.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #3,150,897! I would have jumped in earlier was it not for the invite system. I got access just before they opened it up.

Messed around with some fun HTML colour values. ‘sonic’ outputs blue.

https://codepen.io/OuterVale/pen/wvLbjpZ

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