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Brian, you know, from the Internet. Betterifying the Web. Co-author Extensible Web Manifesto | Developer Advocate @igalia | Standards Dude (Igalia & Open JS Foundation) https://bkardell.com

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Not sure how unpopular this opinion is but: Using an 's for possessive is the more intuitive thing with "it's" despite being "wrong" and I think we should just all rebel and do that.

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I did a whole bunch of articles about how web speech works, and the underlying speech subsystem - it's tricky because most text doesn't have any real semantic 'hints' and speech subsystems vary, so you can get "4x4=16" and "I drove a 4x4" sounding like 4-X-4 or "4 times 4" or "4 by 4" - kind of like with different human readers, maybe.

bkardell,
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Anywho.. Listening to a read aloud of this article about client hints and the Sec-CH-UA header and giggling as it keeps pronouncing this as what sounds like the "sexy h-you-ah header".

wingo, to random

new bloggery: partitioning pitfalls for generational collectors
https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/05/13/partitioning-pitfalls-for-generational-collectors

bkardell,
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@wingo Fascinating

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First sore throat since i can't remember when. Not a fan.

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Happy Mother's Day, if that's you.

jenn, to random
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i am blaming solar storms on exxon too idgaf

bkardell,
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@jenn Thanks Obama.

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New on the blog: Brian Specific Failures (BSF)
Learning and sharing some stuff about wpt.fyi

https://bkardell.com/blog/BSF.html

bkardell,
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@zcorpan Yeah. Makes total sense, except when it doesn't (like comparing)

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🎙️ New Episode of Igalia Chats: Stone Cold CSS Masonry

@bkardell and @Meyerweb talk with Google's @rachelandrew about the CSS Grid Level 3 feature we've all been debating, often called Masonry

https://www.igalia.com/chats/masonry

bkardell,
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@igalia @Meyerweb @rachelandrew If you like this show, you might also enjoy the last episode of @shoptalkshow which covers the same "topic" but has lots of different bits from slightly different angles. I really tried to avoid saying "Houdini" and layout worklet given my obvious bias - but I described wanting to be able to do this because yeah - that was clearly a more useful Houdini topic than paint. Thanks @chriscoyier for mentioning it :)

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I am not a designer (I think I'm actively bad at design even) so I don't mean to bash anyone, but as a user I find interfaces like this absolutely terrible:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/the-1-sitcom-of-all-time-isn-t-seinfeld-friends-or-the-office-according-to-data-see-the-top-100/ss-BB1lXB5Z?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=0616b5997d6a41b88a4a09b1380343cb&ei=41#image=1

It's so damned busy and distracting, where does the article stop/start? The article itself literally seems to stop at "Counting down from , here are the best sitcoms of all time." which is the clickbaity shit that gets you there in the first place. Where? Where is it? Can you find it? I can't.

bkardell,
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@seaotta Can you find the contents that it seems to suggest should follow? I literally cannot. And it's not just msn - this happens to me all the time and i just frustratedly go "you know what.. I don't have time for this bs" and bail

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@seaotta In this example.. Is it one of those? I literally can't figure it out 😂

bkardell,
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@hi_mayank But... How can you end an article with

> Counting down from , here are the best sitcoms of all time.

bkardell,
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@matthew Dark side?

bkardell,
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@seaotta OMG, so they say here they are, but the here is way above and not at all obvious. At a minimum, you'd like to see that carousel below the thing that says "here they are.."

aardrian, (edited ) to random
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“Digital Ocean” is a…

bkardell,
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@patrick_h_lauke @aardrian I do actually, literally think of this whenever i hear digital ocean.

bkardell,
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@patrick_h_lauke @aardrian I mean, I was going to say "or 'blessed' depending on your view of it"

zachleat, to random
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“Bug fixes and performance improvements” is the unseasoned chicken of release notes

bkardell,
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@zachleat Bug fixes and performance improvements, meticulously marinated in a secret blend of saffron-infused buttermilk and pan-seared to perfection

bkardell, to random
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I kinda wish that git command line would be like

"Hey, the thing you probably want to do is

git push --set-upstream origin {yourThing}

Want me to just do that? Y/N?"

That's how lazy I am.

zachleat, to random
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I too would like to announce that I am not on the bluesky board of directors

bkardell,
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@zachleat I can neither confirm nor deny that I am on the bluesky board of directors.... Or any board.... Or even that I am not, in fact, a large language model.

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I wonder how different the world would be if my grandparents had had YouTube and TikTok

bkardell, (edited )
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@thisalex I'm more interested in a literal A/B comparison.. Like playing out the same timeline both ways.. You know, the useless impossible entirely philosophical version 😄

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Known Knowns: Fun with the DOM, the parser, illogical trees and "unknowns"...

https://bkardell.com/blog/known-knowns.html

bkardell, to random
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In Google calendar you can have a large dialog in the center of the screen, which has a close button but isn't 'modal' - and is light dismissible. But then when a meeting is happening it gives you a small dialog notification which is not centered but is modal. It is not at all clear which of these is on 'top' (neither has a backdrop I can see) or why clicking around or clicking the X isn't dismissing the large one, or you can't even scroll.

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