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Checked in at The Bugle Inn. Session
Reading New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson.
Checked in at Saint Espressō. with Jessica
Oh, that was so cool—right after the ISS fly over, the HTV-7 resupply ship followed!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kounotori_7
The capsule capture happens tomorrow:
https://twitter.com/Space_Station/status/1045037632848367618
Brightonians: it’s a crystal clear evening, and the International Space Station will fly overhead at 8:45pm. Let’s go outside and watch it.
I made a web performance chart to help figure out where to prioritise frontend performance efforts:
https://adactio.com/journal/14355
Hope it’s useful.
Workshopping.
Reading The Power by Naomi Alderman.
Checked in at The Bugle Inn. Sunday afternoon tunes.
Wallflowers.
Got a good haul at the library. 📚
Delicious Filipino pickle made for @Clearleft by @MestizaFilipina!
In meetings, in Slack, in emails, and any other discussions, I’m making a conscious effort to use the word “tracking” instead of “analytics.”
A small Lakoffian intervention to remind myself of what these scripts mean for the user.
Too many businesses treat analytics and tracking scripts as victimless technologies—they only see the benefits (in data acquisation) without understanding the costs (in performance).
Reading Programmed Inequality by Marie Hicks.
I think I might need to make a doctor’s appointment to treat my neck from all the vigorous nodding I did while reading this brilliant piece by @slightlylate:
https://infrequently.org/2018/09/the-developer-experience-bait-and-switch/
Codebar Assemble! …at State Of The Browser 2018.
Nostalgically listening back to a panel discussion from 11 years ago, and it’s fascinating to hear the hot topics of the day that we now take for granted (like wishing CSS had multiple background images)…
Conquerers live in dread of the day when they are shown to be, not superior, but simply lucky.
— The Stone Sky
Absorbing the shrapnel from the knowledge bombs that @dhuntrods is dropping in this design system workshop.
Cookin’ up some chili…
Surely William Blake’s Jerusalem is one of the earliest recorded examples of Betteridge’s law of headlines.