This week is a little CSS-heavy. Also we look at Automattic, the owner of Tumblr & Wordpress being problematic, and more.
NASA's Ingenuity Copter has flown its last flight, the EU blocking Amazon's iRobot acquisition, TypeScript in 2024, and more.
The other day in my quest to go through my podcast queue I was listening to an episode of PodRocket,
The state of JS frameworks with Chris Ferdinandi. It was a good discussion on some of the downsides of frameworks like React, Vue, and the like. I would highly recommend listening to it.
This week I read about why analytics are a privacy nightmare and not worth it, NASA seeing what they got back from the asteroid, the FTC going after Amazon and more.
Over the course of the last few weeks I’ve been revising how several of my pages get their data. Instead of having to manually edit a JSON file that’s in my code base, I’ve been pulling from Notion’s API. The benefit of this is that it’ll be easier to update the pages. I figure I’ll show how I did it in hopes of helping others.
I was listening to
ShopTalk Episode 553 and Dave asked a question that made me pause and think, hmmm…
Wow, 30 issues now of my reading log in its current format! This week I read about Instagram joining the fediverse, Google’s AMP disaster, the importance of core functionality working without JavaScript, and more.
You know all those supposedly "good" password rules? Well, they tend not to be so good.
New updates about .NET 8 & TypeScript, JavaScript failures & progressive enhancement, and more.
This week we look at the next version of TypeScript, the new version of EntityFramework, a big acquisition at Netlify and more.
Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter has made for an interesting news week.
Amazon now has Alexa on wheels!
I've been tweaking my site here and there and the one thing I recently did was change how I populate my '
likes' page. Previously I had been doing it manually, but recently after having listened to the founder of
Feedbin on the
Changelog Podcast, I decided to try something different. I wanted to use a nice feature Feedbin has to make the page better.
Due to my trip last week to New York City, this list is a little bit longer.