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bkardell

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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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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

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

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.

bkardell, to random
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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 😄

bkardell, to random
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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.

Edent, to random
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Mastodon is wild.

You can write something like "Imagine you had a cat - and one day it started speaking to you in Spanish. What would you do?"

And fully 75% of the replies will be "I'm allergic to cats so it would never happen."

bkardell,
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@Edent My next actions would depend very heavily on whether this cat speak Spanish in front of other people too, or just to me. 😊 (i know you weren't asking but it's a fun question and I'm not allergic to cats)

200ok, to random
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AI hallucination of the day.

Matched only by AI's attempt at alt text for this image.

For those who actually need alt text: it's an AI mangling the concept of illustrating the broad eras of the web.

bkardell,
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@Meyerweb @200ok @patrick_h_lauke I'm the butterfly on the right that's missing half it's wing

bkardell,
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@patrick_h_lauke @Meyerweb @200ok I float like this butterfly, and sting like a bee

bkardell, to random
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I don't want to link people to the bird site but I'm quite proud of the thing that @Lukew started over there to add MathML-Core support for Svelte 5, which was then picked up and added in the course of a couple of days by others to Angular, Preact and Lit.

That's freakin awesome.

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

wingo, to random

pizzeria has paula abdul on the radio. this is Good

bkardell,
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@wingo Straight up

zachleat, (edited ) to random
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tried to use webpagetest.org this morning and received this whitescreen error page. hmm.

bkardell,
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@zachleat But was it fast?

bkardell,
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@zachleat Everything is ok as long as you fail fast, right?

bkardell, to random
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Inside every wolf are two wolves.
Recursively.
It's wolves all the way down.

davatron5000, to random
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📝 Sunday night, mods asleep, post thoughts on Cosmotechnics.

https://daverupert.com/2024/04/thoughts-on-cosmotechnics/

bkardell,
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@davatron5000 Interesting... I like the topic. So would *cosmotechnics *inform your choice of web browser then? Based on what? Would it change anything about your relationship with open source?

bkardell,
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@davatron5000 Yeah, or maybe also what are the implications... Or how is it funded? There's a lot of potentially interesting questions.

bkardell, to random
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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,
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@tunetheweb Holy cow it's still serving content too? https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js

bkardell,
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@sil I mean, aren't you surprised?

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