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Thank you so much for listening! 😊

And, yeah, I know how you feel: I too want to keep caring but it sure feels like going against the tide of “modern” web development. 😔

Thank you so much for making Scribe!

I used to be torn when I’d read something interesting on Medium: why link to it when its bound to disappear any day? Now, I link away!

Counterpoint:

“In Defence of the Single Page Application”

https://williamkennedy.ninja/javascript/2022/05/03/in-defence-of-the-single-page-application/

• https://journal.plausible.io/you-probably-dont-need-a-single-page-app
• https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2021/single-page-app-morality-play/
• https://gomakethings.com/spas-were-a-mistake/

Maybe the proposal for a CSS :toggle pseudo-class could solve this?

https://tabatkins.github.io/css-toggle/

On my phone’s home screen (an iPhone):

• The Session: https://thesession.org
• Instagram: https://instagram.com
• Mastodon: https://mastodon.social

One screen deep:

• Accessible UK Train Timetables: https://traintimes.org.uk/

Then there’s the original port number for the Web World Web: 2784

There’s a story behind it… https://adactio.com/journal/16531

I think you’re right—I’ll update it.

I challenge you to rework the genuinely good Kettle Companion:

https://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2022/11/the-internet-of-good-things.html

(the obvious fixes are for their terrible website)

Oh yes, I linked to that a while back:

https://adactio.com/links/18512

Thanks for the reminder!

It’s no longer an issue. I was in California last month and that was fine.

But I think if you go to places like Florida in the summertime, there might be further questions to answer about tropical infectious diseases.

https://adactio.com/feeds/

Yup, it’s classic POSSE: Post on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere.

https://indieweb.org/POSSE

(Same with this reply: I’ve got a bookmarklet I use to pop open a new browser window pre-populated with the URL I’m replying to.)

This is the first web component I ever recall seeing in the wild years ago, and I still think it’s a good example of doing one thing well:

https://github.com/github/relative-time-element

Here’s mine: https://adactio.com/journal/19797

Turns out 3 of my 4 “purchases” were projects I backed on Kickstarter:

• The Wilderness Yet
• Tom Delaney
• Paddy Egan

All great albums!

The other one was Cormac Begley’s excellent “B”.

Gruß!

I follow you for cats, astrophotography, and the almost complete lack of JavasScript …like you’re in a witness protection programme for OG JavaScript library authors. 😉

RIP Jared Leto’s career.

It snowed and snowed on Hoth, but Santa never came. What did that make Luke, Han, and Leia?

Rebels without a Claus.

Right!?

Everyone thinks I’m being sarcastic when they ask “What would you like for Christmas?” and I respond “Socks!”

But I genuinely want good socks!