the Intersection (2021) - YouTube
A great little sci-fi short film from Superflux—a mockumentary from the near future. It starts dystopian but then gets more solarpunk.
Link tags: ideo
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Have Single-Page Apps Ruined the Web? | Transitional Apps with Rich Harris, NYTimes - YouTube
This is a terrific and nuanced talk that packs a lot into less than twenty minutes.
I heartily concur with Rich’s assessment that most websites aren’t apps or documents but something in between. It’s a continuum. And I really like Rich’s proposed approach: transitional web apps.
(The secret sauce in transitional web apps is progressive enhancement.)
Design for Safari 15 - WWDC 2021 - Videos - Apple Developer
There’s a nice shout-out from Jen for Resilient Web Design right at the 19:20 mark.
It would be nice if the add-to-homescreen option weren’t buried so deep though.
Sci-Fi & Me – Jeremy Keith – Stay Curious Café by beyond tellerrand - YouTube
Here’s the video of the talk I gave on Wednesday evening all about my relationship with reading science fiction. There are handy chapter markers if you want to jump around.
The Internet : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This video is a charming trip down to memory lane to the early days of the public internet:
It wasn’t quite the World Wide Web yet, but everybody started hearing about this thing called “the Internet” in 1993. It was being called the Information Superhighway then.
The Layers of the Web - Jeremy Keith - YouTube
Here’s the video of the talk I gave at the Web Stories conference back in February.
Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters: Advances in Derp Learning
A genuinely interesting (and droll) deep dive into derp learning …for typography!
Content Design Basics by Giles Turnbull - YouTube
This is a great series of short videos all about content design. The one on writing for humans is particularly good.
THE INTERNET — Opte
Visualising the growth of the internet.
A Live Interview With Rachel Andrew and Jeremy Keith on Vimeo
I really enjoyed this 20 minute chat with Eric and Rachel all about web standards, browsers, HTML and CSS.
A History of the Web in 100 Pages - Web Directions
I’m excited by this documentary project from John! The first video installment features three historic “pages”:
- As We May Think,
- Information Management: A Proposal, and
- the first web page.
Why The IndieWeb? (Webbed Briefs)
Heydon keeps on producing more caustically funny videos that are made for me. After the last one about progressive enhancement, this one is about the indie web.
This is the story of the birth of the web, its loss of innocence, its decline, and what we can do to make it a bit less gross.
HTML Video Sources Should Be Responsive | Filament Group, Inc.
Removing
mediasupport from HTML video was a mistake.
Damn right! It was basically Hixie throwing a strop, trying to sabotage responsive images. Considering how hard it is usually to remove a shipped feature from browsers, it’s bizarre that a good working feature was pulled out of production.
Is Progressive Enhancement Dead Yet? (Webbed Briefs)
Heydon’s newest short video is right up my alley.
History of the Web - YouTube
I really enjoyed this trip down memory lane with Chris:
From the Web’s inception, an ancient to contemporary history of the Web.
Why The Web Is Such A Mess - YouTube
Tom gives a succinct history of the ongoing arms race between trackers and end users.
Coded Bias Official Trailer on Vimeo
Coded Bias follows MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s startling discovery that many facial recognition technologies fail more often on darker-skinned faces, and delves into an investigation of widespread bias in artificial intelligence.
Webbed Briefs
Heydon is back on his bullshit, making extremely entertaining and occassionally inappropriate short videos about web stuff.
WEBBED BRIEFS are brief videos about the web, its technologies, and how to make the most of them. They’re packed with information, fun times™, and actual goats. Yes, it’s a vlog, but it isn’t on Youtube. Unthinkable!
The pilot episode is entitled “What Is ARIA Even For?”
SydCSS 7th Birthday with Ethan Marcotte - YouTube
A great talk by Ethan called The Design Systems Between Us.
Chris Ferdinandi: The Lean Web | July 2020 - YouTube
A great presentation on taking a sensible approach to web development. Great advice, as always, from the blogging machine that is Chris Ferdinandi.
The web is a bloated, over-engineered mess. And, according to developer and educator Chris Ferdinandi, many of our modern “best practices” are actually making the web worse. In this talk, Chris explores The Lean Web, a set of principles for a simpler, faster world-wide web.
