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New Sep 17, 2024
On Ticket Management
Issue tracking tools like Jira, GitHub Issues, or Bugzilla are essential for managing bugs and tasks (that is, issues). However, not everyone finds ticket management convenient or convincing. A...
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New Sep 14, 2024
The Assessment Paradox
For any individual or group we may think that it can assess itself best because it knows itself best. Yet this is not reliable. We may then think it’s other individuals or groups interacting with that...
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New Sep 11, 2024
2024: 0.5% of the Global Top 200 Websites Use Valid HTML
The annual HTML conformance analysis, validating 200 home pages of the most popular websites. Despite improvements, there is no signal of commitment to valid output as a quality baseline to benefit...
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New Sep 8, 2024
On Disagreement
From discomfort that can lead to shortcuts to challenges that may...
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New Sep 5, 2024
The HTML History and Optimization Cheat Sheet
Compare elements and specifications, check on void elements and...
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New Sep 4, 2024
Notes on Setting Up a Static Website With AWS (Route 53, S3, ACM)
…and whether doing so is worth it. (There are pos and cons, and they all seem...
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New Sep 3, 2024
Notes on Hooking Up a Website With Cloudflare
I played around...
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New Aug 31, 2024
Imposing on Hearing
On the sense that we may be able to defend...
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New Aug 29, 2024
Why I Don’t Block AI Scrapers
“The Tortoise and the Hare,”...
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New Aug 29, 2024
We Always Knew Anyone Could Take Our Content
From “I show your content, but you get the click” to “I show your content” to “here’s other people’s content based on...
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New Aug 21, 2024
Website Optimization Measures, Part XXV
On caching headers, capitalization, social graphics, download priorities, logical properties, Cloudflare, viewport metadata, obsolete markup, and calls...
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New Aug 19, 2024
A Web Development Term a Day…
…on Mastodon, Bluesky, and Twitter/X. (With a queue lasting 10 years...
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New Aug 18, 2024
AI Paradox
Have you outrun your...
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New Aug 14, 2024
Now Available: “Rote Learning HTML & CSS,” the Most Boring Free Ebook Ever
The book you never thought you wanted. The rough and raw skeleton of HTML and CSS. Elements, attributes, selectors, properties. No explanations, no examples, no context. Not a New York Times...
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New Aug 12, 2024
A Node and Command Line Tool to Find Obsolete HTML
Ever wondered if and where you have obsolete HTML in your code base? Of course, there’s a tool...
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New Aug 7, 2024
Feed Sources 2024
My current feed subscriptions. (Because, what would we be without syndication on...
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New Aug 4, 2024
Calling Someone “Too Old” Is Ageist
The “too old” thing needs...
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New Jul 30, 2024
On Mapping the World of Frontend Development
What if we had easy access to many—thousands—of the most useful, interesting, influential frontend development posts from 2000–2019? If you took care of it, how would you go about it, what challenges...
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New Jul 27, 2024
On Title Case
Casual thoughts about my experience with title case, a recent switch from AP-inspired to NYT-governed guidelines, and the respective...
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New Jul 15, 2024
Thoughts on CSS in 2024
What I appreciate, what I don’t need (so far)—light and casual and certainly subjective notes on...
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New Jul 10, 2024
Transitive Optimization Considered—Interesting
Transitive optimization means that if we improve A to optimize B, and optimizations of B also optimize C, then improving A should also lead to an optimization of C. But...
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New Jun 30, 2024
3 Good Reasons for Vegan and Vegetarian “Substitute” Products
On acknowledging forms, maintaining connection, and making it easier to live empathically...
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New Jun 29, 2024
The Essence of Veganism
On not having anyone suffer or die...
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Jun 19, 2024
Know the “search” Element
Let’s talk about...
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Jun 16, 2024
The Price of a Dream
A look at what it costs to travel the world, a...