Note archive: January, 2021

I arrive at the bus station and immediately long to get away so I can miss the place again from the safety of some distance.

—Colin Walsh

The regular bookmarklet does it.

Yes! Just the other day I said:

I feel sorry for anyone trying to get into the field of web performance … there’s a veritable alphabet soup of initialisms to memorise.

https://adactio.com/journal/17770

Reading The Stinging Fly Issue 43/Volume Two Winter 2020-21 — The Galway 2020 Edition edited by Lisa McInerney and Elaine Feeney.

For your consideration:

https://resilientwebdesign.com/chapter5/ https://resilientwebdesign.com/chapter6/

The Marvel movies in timeline order.

And if you change your mind about Star Wars… https://adactio.com/journal/16826

Cool URIs don’t change.

The list was at http://www.google.com/corporate/tenthings.html

I’ll update my collection: https://principles.adactio.com/#google

Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

Working out of my living room means anyone on a video call with me can see that the Christmas tree is still up.

If someone mentions it, I ask if they’re with the Christmas Police (because if they are, they have to tell me—that’s the law).

Cynicism is a theory of everything.

—Rutger Bregman

You need skin. Take good care of it. Don’t harm a hair of it. What would you do without it? Keep it clean. Soapy water every day will wash the dirt and smells away ’cause you need skin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POKOmbge5ZQ

I call dibs on Conservative Web Apps.

Reading Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman, translated by Elizabeth Manton and Erica Moore.

Very happy that @LeaVerou, @hober and @rhiaro have been elected to the @w3cTAG …and even happier that the shill from an ad-tech company failed.*

• Not Google—a different ad-tech company.

It’s like Boris Johnson’s government came up with the current mix of activities for Donald Trump:

Rule 1: You’re not allowed to post on Facebook or Instagram anymore.

Rule 2: You can still launch nuclear missiles.

I wonder how many of the white supremacists that stormed the Capitol building got their swag from Breitbart’s merchandising store, powered by @Shopify.

@Tobi, do you have any stats on that?

(Related: is attempting a coup “free speech”?)

Congratulations! Well deserved!