Links (8 October 2024)
– Baldur
Bjarnason
- “To define custom elements or not when distributing them – Nathan Knowler”. This uses import.meta and url queries to make the custom element name configurable. Coincidentally, this is something I’ve been experimenting as well, but I then use an import map to give it a nice import specifier.
- “Fighting for our web”. “What used to be expensive and require a great deal of technical expertise is now becoming more and more accessible, both financially and technologically, by the day”
- “The Atlantic Did Me Dirty - Carrie M. Santo-Thomas”. “Rather, my experience is that young readers are eminently capable of critically engaging in long form content, but they’re rightfully demanding a seat at the table where decisions about texts are being made.”
- “The Return” “I’ll be damned if I’ll go quietly and let the techno-libertarian fantasies strip the future from the rest of us.”
- “Pierre Christin, co-creator of Valerian and Laureline, has died”. Aw maaan. One of the best scifi comics series ever, IMO
- “The mysterious supply chain concern of string-width-cjs npm package | Snyk”. “It is my assumption that all of these dependent packages and download boosts are leading to the sole purpose of creating false legitimacy for the 3 *-cjs package.” Fun fun fun.
- “After software eats the world, what comes out the other end?”. “This is something that is hardwired into the technology. The more unusual a cultural feature is, the less likely it is to feature prominently in a large model’s representation of the culture.”
- “‘Nice Guy’ Matt Mullenweg, CEO of WordPress.com Cries Foul and Threatens Me With Legal Action | by Kellie Peterson | Oct, 2024 | Medium”. This is all the yikes 😬
- “Stay in the gap | everything changes”. “The gap between your abilities and your taste is not a gap to be crossed but one to be cultivated.” This is quite possibly the best advice you’re going to get on pretty much anything that can be practiced.
- “Chris’ Corner: Web Combinements – CodePen”
- “VoidZero | Next Generation Tooling for the Web”. Super tempting to just write these tools off immediately instead of waiting for the inevitable VC-induced disaster
- ““Anybody worth interviewing says no at least three times””. “Denis Forman, our mentor at Granada, used to say never overestimate your viewers’ knowledge - but never underestimate their intelligence. You’ve got to tell them what they need to know to understand the story and rely on their good sense to tell the difference between truth and lies.”
- “Web Components are not Framework Components — and That’s Okay • Lea Verou”. “Frameworks already use native HTML elements in their components. Web components extend what native elements can do, and thus make crafting project-specific components easier across all frameworks.” This is a good point (web components work best with frameworks as leaf nodes). I’ve seen people make it a few times. Hopefully this time it’ll sink in