Notes

I’m really, really enjoying @RicMac’s ongoing series on Web Development History—it’s right up my nerdy alley!

https://webdevelopmenthistory.com/

Like, The Beatles are simultaneously actually great, while also feeling like you’re LARPing a specific time period.

Other musical artists give you one or the other, but rarely both.

Dylan feels similar.

I don’t have an answer, but I have a hunch that the appeal of The Beatles is less like other musical artists, and more like the appeal of books like The Great Gatsby or Sherlock Holmes—something evocative of its time and yet timeless.

Here’s what I’ve been reading:

https://adactio.com/notes/reading

American friends, if you plan on shopping today, make it a truly Black Friday:

https://www.rebuildblackbusiness.com/

When JavaScript is the first tool we reach for to solve every problem, we risk restricting access rather than expanding it.

—Jeremy Wagner, Responsible JavaScript

Reading Responsible JavaScript by Jeremy Wagner.

Some more details here: https://adactio.com/journal/7698

And here: https://adactio.com/journal/12606

My flow:

I type into a textarea and then submit the form.

My tool stack:

The backend is my own cobbled together pile of old PHP and MySQL.

I cross post to Medium and Twitter using their APIs.

Put into strict UX terms, some things cannot be designed in a human-centric and empathetic way. And those things should not be built.

—Eva PenzeyMoog, Design For Safety

This NFT-crypto-web3 shite really is the QAnon of the tech world—“Trust in the plan!”, “Wake up, sheeple—the mainstream media is lying to you”, “Do the research!” (except they hate it if you actually do the research).

Not very cunning, but I think you can do that DOM traversal in one go:

input.closest(‘fieldset’).querySelector(‘legend’)

The idea that it’s alright to do whatever unethical thing is currently the industry norm is widespread in tech, and dangerous.

—Eva PenzeyMoog, Design For Safety

Fun times!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/adactio/albums/72157594382982224

I wrote these words on this day in 2013, but they feel very 2021 to me:

https://adactio.com/journal/6564