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Coming home | A Working Library

While one of the reasons oft declared for using POSSE is the ability toownyour content, I’m less interested in ownership than I am incontext.Writing on my own site has very different affordances: I’m not typing into a little box, but writing in a text file. I’m not surrounded by other people’s thinking, but located within my own body of work. As I played with setting this up, I could immediately feel how that would change the kinds of things I would say, and it feltgood.Reallygood. Like putting on a favorite t-shirt, or coming home to my solid, quiet house after a long time away.

Mandy’s writing positively soars and sings in this beautiful piece!

Living In A Lucid Dream

I love the way that Claire L. Evans writes.

You should go to conferences - localghost

Obviously I’m biased, but I very much agree with Sophie.

Request for developer feedback: customizable select | Blog | Chrome for Developers

I’m very glad to see that work has moved away from a separateselectmenuelement to instead enhancing the existingselectelement—I could never see an upgrade path forselectmenu,but now there are plenty of opportunities for progressive enhancement.

Kardashev Street

Matthas made a new website for tracking our collective progress levelling up the Kardashev scale:

Maximising energy generation, distribution and usage at street level, for as many people as possible, everyday.

Frostapalooza – Chris Coyier

The show itself was an unbelievable outpouring of energy and love. I couldn’t help but imagine if anyone in the audience had decided to go on a lark, not knowing anything about it. I would think they would have been pretty damn impressed. This wasn’t just a couple of nerds poking around at instruments (except me), these were some serious musicians giving it their all.

There are two kinds of advertising – Chris Coyier

Contextual advertising works. Targeted advertising? Who knows!

Let’s see all that proof that 400+ requests for thirsty ass always-running JavaScript is just what we have to do to make advertising good.

Frostapalooza in photos and videos | Brad Frost

These are great!!!

Adactio: Journal—Frostapalooza | Brad Frost

Aw, man, this gets me in the feels!

Just over here sobbing while readingJeremy’s recount of Frostapalooza.

Bohemian Rhapsody finale @ Frostapalooza - YouTube

I love how into it everyone is here, both on stage and in the audience—just look at Jina rocking out!

Will Browar | Photographing Frostapalooza

Wow! The photos that Will took at Frostapalooza (and in the run-up) are absolutely fantastic!

He also shares the technical details for all you camera nerds.

On The Ground At Frostapalooza | CSS-Tricks

I can’t say I would have ever expected to seeJeremy Keithperforming the Yeah Yeah Yeahs song“Maps”,but then again, I don’t know what I expected to happen atFrostapalooza.

Aboard Newsletter: Why So Bad, AI Ads?

The human desire to connect with others is very profound, and the desire of technology companies to interject themselves even more into that desire—either by communicating on behalf of humans, or by pretending to be human—works in the opposite direction. These technologies don’t seem to be encouraging connection as much as commoditizing it.

Config 2024: In defense of an old pixel (Marcin Wichary, Director of Design, Figma) - YouTube

Everyone’s raving about this great talk by Marcin, and rightly so!

AI took their jobs. Now they get paid to make it sound human - BBC Future

Well, this is depressing.

With great power, comes great creativity: thoughts from CSS Day 2024 · Paul Robert Lloyd

Here’s Paul’s take on this year’s CSS Day. He’s not an easy man to please, but the event managed to impress even him.

As CSS Day celebrates its milestone anniversary, I was reminded how lucky we are to have events that bring together two constituent parties of the web: implementors and authors (with Sara Soueidan’s talk about the relationship between CSS and accessibility reminding us of the users we ultimately build for). My only complaint is that there are not more events like this; single track, tight subject focus (and amazing catering).

The deskilling of web dev is harming the product but, more importantly, it’s damaging our health – this is why burnout happens – Baldur Bjarnason

A depressing but accurate description of the economics of web development.

IndieWeb principles · Paul Robert Lloyd

I really, really like Paul’s idea of splitting upthe indie web principlesinto one opinionated nerdy list of dev principles, and a separate shorter list of core principles for everyone:

1. Own your identityAn independent web presence starts with an online identity you own and control. The most reliable way to do this today is by having your own domain name.
2. Own your contentYou should retain control of the things you make, and not be subject to third-parties preventing access to it, deleting it or disappearing entirely. The best way to do this is by publishing content on your own website.
3. Have fun!When the web took off in the 90’s people began designing personal sites with garish backgrounds and animated GIFs. It may have been ugly but it was fun. Let’s keep the web weird and interesting.

The 11ty International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good - YouTube

I wasn’t able to tune into this live ( “tune in?” what century is this?) but I’ve enjoyed catching up with the great talks like:

• Hints & Suggestions (First, Do No Harm)by Miriam Suzanne
• Digital Frontiers, IndieWeb Cowboys, and A Place Online To Call Your Ownby Henry Desroches
• Come to the light side: HTML Web Componentsby Chris Ferdinandi

Custom Element Naming | BitWorking

More thoughts on naming web components.