[SC 2.4.4] I'd pick grimoires every time
I wrote a post for Smashing Magazine about minimum compliant interactive areas. It's nice to have a resource to point to, since I've answered questions related to what the article covers numerous times at work, on social platforms, and on private chat services.
I was also stuck in Florida for longer than I cared to be. If given the chance between visiting Florida and combing over arcane, dusty, obtuse standards grimoires, I'd pick grimoires every time.
How can we return to techno-optimism?
We can let the paperclip – er, profit – maximizers continue to innovate us into the dystopian direction they’ve been taking us for fifteen years, or democratically elected governments can force them into an alignment that serves human values.
2G TRASH PHONES Toilet Seat
And speaking of techno-optimism!
Story Points are Pointless, Measure Queues
"How do we estimate in a way that generates value for the time we put into the process, remains accurate over longer periods of time, allows us to track a rate of progress for purposes of capacity planning, deals with changes in scope from new feedback and avoids breakdowns in estimating patterns across different teams?"
Would LLMs democratizing coding be a pyrrhic victory?
"Is the blasé attitude of AI executives toward the destruction of skilled jobs anything other than an attempt at weakening skilled labor and leaving roughly two levels of society intact, only executives and interchangeable laborers?"
Tabletop game forumite achieves posting godhood, emerging from the void after 100,000 hour 11 year ban to continue the same argument from 2013
I read the Google Doc that was linked to, and it was really touching. I see a lot of myself in it.
The world’s biggest Street Fighter movie fan explains why it’s an accidental masterpiece
Vindicated!
COVID-19 origins: plain speaking is overdue
The Lancet is not mincing words here.
There's a 30-year mystery surrounding Microsoft's Blue Screen of Death
This story is almost a consolation, as someone impacted by Cloudstrike.
2024-07-20 minuteman missile communications
Here are a lot of words about old missile computers.
Human gut bacteria have sex to share vitamin B12
Bodies: weird!
I’d like fewer things to happen. At least for a while. Please and thank you.
Co-signed.
So you think you know box shadows?
Uh, so you can do raytracing with CSS.
Button Stealer
It's things like this that still give me hope for the internet.
Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal
And things like this that kill that hope.
‘Dark Oxygen’ Discovered Coming from Mineral Deposits on Deep Seafloor
Uh, what.
Swear words and profanities from around the world.
"It’s a celebration of swearing. Because swearing is great!"
The moral bankruptcy of Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz
More coverage like this, please.
X Redesigns Water Pistol Emoji Back To A Firearm
It's the banal, unrelenting papercuts inflicted on Twitter that get me. What a waste.
Taylor Swift’s Madrid concert sees thousands catch ‘gift’ of Covid from ‘Mother’
creeps hand closer to the "cult alarm" button
song that plays when you encounter a caterpillar (YouTube)
It's a bop!