Robin Rendle › Ampersand 2015
A great run-down of this year’s excellent Ampersand conference.
I wish I had known that Robin was there—I’d like to thank him for his kind words about Chloe.
Link archive: November 29th, 2015
Our Generation Ships Will Sink / Boing Boing
Kim Stanley Robinson pours cold water on the premise of generation starships for crewed interstellar travel.
The more I hear about Aurora, the more I think I might enjoy reading it.
Museum of Endangered Sounds
Sounds from our collective technological past.
(I’ll look past the fact that the sound labelled “ZX Spectrum” is using an image of an Amstrad PCP 464)
Blocked! - O’Reilly Radar
Following on from that Wired article I linked to about disabling JavaScript, Simon St. Laurent brings in another factor—content blockers on iOS:
Apple offers its users the power to turn off much of the Web: fonts, styles, scripts, and more.
He rightly points out that the answer to building a robust, resilient web has been here all along:
Turning off web fonts, CSS, and images will frustrate designers and limit user interface possibilities, but turning off JavaScript might mean that we have to reconsider the architecture of our applications. Without JavaScript, the Web returns to its foundations of HTTP requests returning pages, with links and form submissions as the backbone of application structure.