bkardell

bkardell, 8 days ago to random

I've been sick so my personal/appearance care has been kind of near 0 and I've got like a 50% beard on the rest of my face now - every time it gets to this point I am like "should I try a full on beard, I'm halfway there".

bkardell, 10 days ago to random

Enjoyed the hell out of @mia's recent talk. 👏

https://youtu.be/uaN9kY8lKPU?si=B7sOBI_x33fPY3yZ

bkardell, 13 days ago to 11ty

Thanks to the #11ty Conference speaker who chose to donate part of their honorarium to @servo 🎉

https://opencollective.com/servo/contributions/761781

bkardell, 14 days ago to random

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.

bkardell, 15 days ago to random

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, 19 days ago to random

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

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

bkardell, 20 days ago to random

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 #100, 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, 21 days ago to random

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.

bkardell, 23 days ago to random

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

bkardell, 24 days ago to random

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

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

bkardell, 28 days ago to random

@jenn did you see this? Thought you might enjoy it https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6YTKP-gEhe/?igsh=M2V5b2RvcXo4N2gz

bkardell, 29 days ago to random

Inside every wolf are two wolves.
Recursively.
It's wolves all the way down.

bkardell, 1 month ago to random

The stuff that collects under carpets is terrible. Every time i pull up a carpet I feel sick for a while

bkardell, 1 month ago to random

in 2024 <g:plusone>, which I guess has been pointless since when Google shut down Plus in April 2019, still appears on more sites in the HTTP Archive March crawl than the native <var> element. I wonder if they still try to load the code and draw the buttons and so on. / @tunetheweb ?

https://rainy-periwinkle.glitch.me/permalink/1adde4c95ff246b4b717335a226c00c8475860027b9d51feac6fadc48b756807.html

bkardell, 1 month ago to random

Hmm.. anyone who was a kid in the 80's - do you remember there being some Marlboro commercials - just the cowboy thing? I'm just reading a thing that implies that "The last televised cigarette ad ran on January 1, 1971, at 11:50 PM during The Johnny Carson Show." which is before I was even born so ... Is it just a false memory? I'm mashing up billboard/other advertising with TV maybe? I'd swear I remember it.

bkardell, 1 month ago to random

TIL that the enameling used in the porcelain of clawfoot/iron tubs was invented by the same guy that founded the Buick motor company https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Dunbar_Buick

bkardell, 1 month ago to random

What's something newly interesting to you? Doesn't have to be about the web...

bkardell, 1 month ago to random

Random thought I had yesterday...

https://bkardell.com/blog/mirror-effects.html

bkardell, 1 month ago to random

Just realized i missed a dentist appointment yesterday. Whoops. 😔

bkardell, 1 month ago to random

Name a famous person that you think has "aged well"?

bkardell, 1 month ago to random

MathML has over 3k subtests now
https://wpt.fyi/results/mathml?label=master&label=experimental&aligned

But, we also need all of these to pass in each browser... And we still need more.

bkardell, 1 month ago to random

autocomplete just suggesting "of grief" after "tc39 stages"

bkardell, 1 month ago to random

New on the blog: The Blessing of the Strings

@igalia has been working on bringing Trusted Types to Gecko and WebKit... If you know pretty much 0 about what that is then this post is for you!

https://bkardell.com/blog/blessing-strings.html

bkardell, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

My avatar photo was from a CSSWG in 2014 that was snapped by @glazou - I mention it only because I recently found the hoodie I was wearing in it and I am wearing it right now. :-p. For giggles I took an similar-ish photo and layered it quickly (poorly) onto a blown up similar background.

bkardell, 2 months ago to random

The @servo collective has just passed $250/month in individual contributions, most of them recurring. It would be great to see some businesses appearing in here. Developing a novel, memory safe engine is pretty interesting, I think.

https://opencollective.com/servo