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A nice looking meta tag checker by Robb Knight. Finding a good meta tag checker that’s not riddled with ads is difficult. This might be the one I’ll use going forward. I also liked his blog post on how he built it.
Quite the condemation of React and “frameworkism” in frontend web development. I’m not a frontend guy, but I do poke through the code from time to time, and it’s mindboggling how complicated it is. And for what? Is it for any specific engineering decision that are relevant to us? Or is it just because “Facebook does it?”
Speaking of which, if you read anything from this post, read the “But” section. An excellent set of rebuttals for why React may not be a good default choice.
Oh, and also the first footnote. I had no idea that some of React’s design decisions came about because of IE 6. The ghost of Microsoft’s shitty browser continues to haunt us all.
🔗 How I ship projects at big tech companies
Good post, although a hard one to read while reflecting on my last few weeks at work, and just feeling that I’ve been falling short in what it takes. 😔
Via this post, found on this BlogFlock.
Someone on Micro.blog posted a link to this little web-app years ago, where you can write your thoughts and they float away into the ether, never to be seen again. I didn’t grab a link to it at the time, which I regretted. Well, I’m not making that mistake twice.
Via Anil Dash
This might be a good one for me to return to from time to time.
Also, hat tip to the “postrolls” which led me to the previously linked item. I’ve been enjoying these two over the last few days:
I’ll post any more that I find. 🔗
🔗 Thinking About Recipe Formats More Than Anyone Should
Just looking at the formats in the post, it’s a bit of a shame that they’re little more than lists of ingredients and instructions. But I’m not sure there’s much that can be done about that, given how varied recipes can be.
The one exception, Cooklang, looks interesting. It seems a bit limited in the types of recipes it could be used for. But sometimes the best languages are the ones with a small, yet deep, focus on a problem space.
And of-course there’s an XML version. I opened this post expecting there to be an XML version. 😄
I have my doubts about this future being realised. Or it’s probably more accurate to say I rather that this future isn’t realised.
Some interesting links from linkage.lol that I want to note before accidentally closing my browser tab.
🔗 Blogging Resources Complements of Robert Birming
🔗 For Linkblog Fans
It’s also a site I’ve now subscribed to.
A great post by Annie Mueller. And pretty much spot on, based on my understanding of how to gain confidence.
Found this while browsing Dave Winer’s blog-roll on Scripting News. I enjoyed reading this post so I thought I’d take his advice and be nice by sharing a link to it.
🔗 Chris Arnade Walks the World
I’ve been enjoying this newsletter for the past month now. Chris is a good writer (understandable, given his profession) and gives wonderful descriptions of the places and peoples he visits. Worth looking at if you’re into blogger-travels-the-world style blogs.
Every problem at every company I’ve ever worked at eventually boils down to “please dear god can we just hire people who know how to write HTML and CSS.”
I know bugger all about the world of front-end web development. But seeing how quickly it takes me to get changes made and deployed using just these technologies, verses dealing with the mountain of JavaScript for an SPA, leaves me convinced that those that embrace HTML and CSS have a significant advantage over those that don’t.
🔗 Private blogs on Scribbles
This excites me. One of the features that drew me to look at Scribbles was the possibility of private blogs. It’s great that this has been added now. I will definitely make use of it. Thanks, Vincent.
Real opinions from real people about a project management system which unfortunately is also real.
Love the tag line of this site. Also, spoilers, but Confluence makes a warranted appearance here as well.
I agree with Craig Hockenberry here. The trust of any one site essentially depends on what is published there. And as more big-tech platforms embrace AI slop, the less you can trust those platforms to surface reliable information. It’s like that proverb of someone being only as good as their word. If one was to replace the concept of a person with a domain name, then I reckon you could say the same thing about websites.
🔗 Collective Nouns for Groups of Various Birds
Many of the ones I expected, but there are some interesting ones I’ve never heard of: a dole of doves, a kit of pigeons, a pandemonium of parrots.
🔗 Own Your Web – Issue 15: Home Sweet Home
It’s good to see Own Your Web is still going. I really enjoy reading this newsletter and I was disappointed for a time when issues stopped being published reguarily some months ago. Good thing I kept the RSS feed around.
🔗 AI ‘Friend’ Company Spent $1.8 Million and Most of Its Funds on Domain Name
“It’s real! Premium domains are expensive, but it’s worth it,” Schiffman told me in an email after I reached out to ask if it was true. […] “People just don’t get consumer, I view this as saving money. Much less money needs to be spent on marketing, it’s a one time thing,” Schiffmann said.
Is the marketing in the domain name, or in the word of mouth about how much they spent on the domain name? Well, I guess they got me to talk about it. 😀
I wonder if M.G. Siegler had anyone in mind when he wrote this.