WriteFreely
I hadn’t come across this before: a barebones blogging tool with built-in fediverse support—neat!
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The computer built to last 50 years | ploum.net
A fascinating look at what it might take to create a truly sunstainable long-term computer.
New PDF Preview, Better Web Publishing, Improved Editing - iA Writer: The Focused Writing App
I think this one single feature is going to get me to switch to iA Writer:
For starters, we added Micropub support. This means you can publish to Micro.blog and other IndieWeb tools.
WWW: Where’s the Writable Web?
Prompted by our time at CERN, Remy ponders why web browsers (quite quickly) diverged from the original vision of being read/write software.
“Designer + Developer Workflow,” an article by Dan Mall
Dan compares the relationship between a designer and developer in the web world to the relationship between an art director and a copywriter in the ad world. He and Brad made a video to demonstrate how they collaborate.
The World According to Stanisław Lem - Los Angeles Review of Books
A profile of Stanisław Lem and his work, much of which is still untranslated.
Typewriters in the Technical Museum in Figueres | Flickr
If you enjoyed reading Marcin’s serendipitous story on Twitter, here are the pictures to accompany it.
Intervening against document.write() | Web Updates - Google Developers
Chrome is going to refuse to parse document.write for users on a slow connection. On the one hand, I feel that Google intervening in this way is a bit icky, but I on the other hand, I totally support this move.
This keeps happening. Google announce a change (usually related to search) where I think “Ooh, that could be interpreted as an abuse of a monopoly position …but it’s for ver good reason so I’ll keep quiet.”
Anyway, this should serve as a good kick in the pants for bad actors (that’s you, advertisers) to update their scripts to be asynchronous.
Brian Aldiss: ‘These days I don’t read any science fiction. I only read Tolstoy’ | Books | The Guardian
A profile of Brian Aldiss in The Guardian.
I still can’t quite believe I managed to get him for last year’s Brighton SF.
If Hemingway wrote JavaScript by fat xxx
This is a rather lovely way to show that in JavaScript, as in Perl, there’s always more than one way to skin a cat (in whatever idiom you prefer).
Simon Wiffen - Acoustic Singer Songwriter from Leeds
Just for the record, this is a superb example of a bulletproof liquid layout: Simon Wiffen, solo acoustic singer-songwriter from Leeds.
Last.fm – the Blog · Various Positions
Last.fm are hiring. If you're London-based and in the job market, I can think of a lot worse places to work.