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Alex, you seem to be saying that any criticism of Safari (even if it’s unwarranted and unrelated) is justified by the rendering engine monopoly on iOS.

That’s childish. It does your/our cause more harm than good.

Yeah, that gave me a squirmy feeling:

https://adactio.com/journal/17132

Yes! Exactly!

That’s exactly how I felt when Yoav had a crowdfunding campaign to get picture in Blink and when Agalia had a crowdfunding campaign to get :focus-visible in Webkit.

Same energy.

Jeremy Bantam, inventor of the panoptihen and founder of utiliteggianism.

Aaron, meet Matthew. dracos.co.uk

https://twitter.com/dracos/status/1479949362616848386

Matthew, Aaron. aaronparecki.com

I think that IE10- and Safari6- can’t access The Session anyway because of TLS protocol mismatch, so ditching those polyfills shouldn’t cause any issues.

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=thesession.org

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).

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

https://adactio.com/journal/6564

I like it!

Therein lies the problem. The “web folks”, the “search folks”, and the “advertising folks” are all working for the same company. If that company were broken up it would be better for all three products.

Today is World Digital Preservation Day.

https://adactio.com/tags/digital,preservation

On a related note…

Here’s where you can donate to the Internet Archive:

http://archive.org/donate

#WDPD21

Thank you so much!

I published the transcript of my talk, The State Of The Web:

https://adactio.com/articles/18580

Here’s the video:

https://vimeo.com/641568337

And here are the slides:

https://speaking.adactio.com/nKuSkE/the-state-of-the-web

I sent my first tweet fifteen years ago.

https://twitter.com/adactio/status/53859

It’s been downhill ever since.

Reading Let It Go: My Extraordinary Story — From Refugee to Entrepreneur to Philanthropist by Dame Stephanie Shirley.

Yes, but the selection is very limited:

• https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/resilient-web-design/id1183700985
• https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/web-history/id1535003098

https://www.flickr.com/photos/adactio/262962547/