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Design in the Browser!

I nearly missed this article by Matthias Ott - The New CSS: Hear hear! Using graphic design / layout tools to 'design' user interfaces is a misconception. Those tools are wonderful to create artifacts to get into the discussion how a website may 'look', and to a lesser extend how it 'behaves'. But often those…


The dangers of Google's .zip TLD - Bobbyr@medium

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Ouch. What could possibly go wrong? Who in his right mind thought that a .zip Top Level Domain would be a good idea? What's next, .ppt and .xls?


Oops?

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Source: washingtonpost.com


btconf-ed, again

Cozy lamp on table, Btconf screen in the background

Wow. The last two days flew by in a breeze. I resurfaced at an in-person event after missing out for three years, and boy, how good this feels.


So long, Twitter API, and thanks for all the fish - snarfed.org

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Without brid.gy, I would never had my blog / twitter POSSE setup working. From time to time I did a quick check to see if the brid.gy / twitter API thing still works after their announcement and following rescheduling of the free API's end, and to my surprise I found brid.gy humming along nicely. I,…


ChatGPT on what would happen if Zork (of 5th element) buys Twitter

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Q: "What would happen if Zork of 5th element buys twitter?" A: "I'm sorry to inform you that Zork is a fictional character from the video game series of the same name and does not exist in real life. Therefore, it is impossible for Zork to buy Twitter. However, if we were to imagine a…


I made a thing: corduroy.rocks Setlist Generator

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Because I was tired of the endless iterations about the set list in case of an upcoming gig of my acoustic band, this week I made a set list generator for myself and my band mates on our web site. The initial song list is rendered from our @getkirby cms, then sortable.js is thrown at…


100DaysOfMoreOrLessModernCSS - Manuel Matuzovic

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Manuel has completed his self-assigned challenge to post every day for 100 days something about "modern css", and today closes the series with a re-cap. Congrats, and thanks for doing this, Manuel. :-) There is so much I learned, new and old, and damn, look how far the "this is only for styling" thing has…


The Market for Lemons - Alex Russell

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Ha! This article just put me in a strong XKCD 386 vibe, only with a "right" in there.


Almost Everything - Mudhoney

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hui, wow, zum 35. schenken MUDHONEY sich und Sub Pop und uns ein neues Album! "Plastic Eternity" kommt am 7. April - und kann hier vorbestellt werden \m/


Tiktok's enshittification - Cory Doctorow

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RIP Terry Hall

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Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think Enjoy yourself, while you're still in the pink The years go by, as quickly as you wink Die Specials haben auf ewig einen Platz im Musikzimmer in meinem Herzen, und dass der ewig junge Terry nun mit nur 63 gestorben ist, trifft mich gerade unerwartet heftig. The curtain…