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Interested in setting aside the magical prompter and learning some web standards skills the old fashioned way? You can sign up for my online Web Components course for free until Oct 31 with the code markitzero. If you find it useful, please consider letting folks know! 🎃

Fun project I've been working on the side for a couple of months now. I quite like cycling, but I hate that I need to sign up for Strava/Komoot just to be able to share routes. In the spirit of rewilding the internet with ATProto, I figured why not build an open alternative? www.attrails.app

I don't get this. So your app is US-Only? OK, put that in your Claude md 🤷‍♂️ Asking for a list of things to improve should not be followed by "yes do all of these". It's an opportunity to reflect on where you are and where you might go. These are text generation machines. Engineering still matter.

if you never used llm coding tools, you should know: this is either manufactured for bait, or this person is the "holding-it-wrongest" user on the planet there's simply no benefit to not knowing the actual state of the thing you want to fight against. it is, in fact, a detriment.

These people are so cooked. It's no wonder they make products that people don't want.

I've been very happy with Zen.

ICYMI "The people holding up the Internet" sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

Your MCU Likely Escaped the eMudhra Intermedia CA Compromise By now, you have likely seen reference to the eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise. Perhaps this is an opportunity for us to learn from the intention with which we build software for constrained devices. danielmangum.com/posts/mcu-em...

How bad is it? This bad:

i don't use Facebook, but I just learned they're now charging page owners to share more than two links per month, whether in a post or comment. insane bit of rent seeking enshittification.

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

Psst, foryou.club/atmosphere

Also - and this is interesting - there's new language that explicitly prohibits you from using *your own blood sugar data* (oh sorry, Dexcom's data, they own it apparently) with any AI system. Pretty sure this would prohibit something as simple as asking an LLM to analyze graphs for trends.

Deno spent years persuading developers to bet on a better runtime. Now its creator calls gains over Node.js “marginal” and says it was “sucked into the gravity well of node compatibility.” The backlash, the forks, and how AI is changing the future of JavaScript runtimes. socket.dev/blog/deno-ac...

I was recently reminded about this. It's cool. peoplesgdarchive.org

Welp there it is: Deno is joining Cloudflare and the Deno cli will EOL in a year. blog.cloudflare.com/deno-joins-c... Dropserver uses Deno as its sandbox, so this is not great news. I'll post a blog about this and dropserver.org in general soon.

Interesting indeed. If this works, sites that don't require high security can turn their login form into an email address entry and that's it. The user's email service session on that device becomes the proxy for the authentication. Really neat!

What if there was a Web Components conference?? @stuffbreaker.bsky.social and I are teaming up to get a little more serious about the idea of getting one together. We want to gather data on if there is interest in the community forms.gle/ZGqtYGj7V6q8... Please fill out and share to anyone!

New website, new weird layout! jonikorpi.com Scroll down to skim through sections, scroll right to drill into a section. Same idea on all devices.

Web developers! Do you use html forms? Do you let forms submit or just use them for UI and call fetch()? Don’t use forms? Tell me why. Do? Tell me what’s painful. Let’s see if we can fix it!

eliminating xslt is a huge middle finger to the open web this is something that has worked reliably for 25 literal years i know because i have been using it for 25 literal years the rationale is "it's old", "less than 1% use it", and that there are vulns in the implementation

Also, interesting to go with Svelte? Lit has been around for a long time and is well proven by now.

Huh I am not sure I knew Tangled was built with HTMX, and I definitely didn't know they would soon not be. I wonder if there were some specific issues with HTMX or if it's just that "everything is a roundtrip to the server" is actually not that great.

i am really loving the worm-blossom aesthetic worm-blossom.org

We need a better and more secure way to run on-demand, ephemeral, networked apps than what the web currently provides.

Whoa Patio11 blast from the past

My idea of where cities are on the globe v where they actually are often creates fun moments. Like, which of these three is farthest north: Istanbul or Tokyo or New York? Which is farther west: Reno or Los Angeles? Boston or Aruba? Atlanta or *any* non-island point in South America?

“FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford told reporters a backup fiber line had been cut accidentally by a construction crew in New Jersey, prompting significant flight cuts.” That’s…not how backups work? bsky.app/profile/airl...

Blink: Intent to Ship: HTML install element

Blink: Intent to Ship: Web Install API

Absolutely not futurism.com/artificial-i...

This is why my design systems are centered on CSS, which has evolved but hasn’t been replaced in 30 years. Our design tools and frontend frameworks change every few years, but with a solid, bespoke CSS framework supporting your system, devs don’t even have to write CSS and it works with any stack.

i mean it's very easy to come up with failure modes for the various types of architectures. i'm the first to admit that SPAs are overused but i think critics are way too happy to throw out the baby with the bath water.

A modest proposal. The current people building the future are fucking it up. We want some better people to build the future. Perhaps even a future not built by pedophiles and oligarchs and fans of autocracy.

The killer feature of PWAs is not that they update automatically or they’re cross-platform. The absolute killer feature of PWAs is that they can be freely distributed without any app store dependency No risk that one party can kill your distribution and end your business. That’s a killer feature.

There are a lot of people who think their parents got their brains destroyed by Fox News, but somehow they’re not getting their brains destroyed by staying on Twitter.

I’ve seen a lot of proposals to fund open source in my time. This one is a bit odd, but I like it precisely because of that. I’m not optimistic yet, but this one might actually work Give it a read :)

What's the point if GitHub has unsandboxed RCEs, Hugging Face has unsandboxed RCEs, Forgejo has unsandboxed RCEs... Anyway, we gotta stop shelling out to git in security contexts.

Love it. It would pair nicely with a dropserver.org instance on the tailnet 😬

"Experimental: pure userspace Tailscale web browser" 👀👀👀

"With regular CSS you have a class, you're ending up, like, searching for where that is. So, like, okay. This is a class here, but, like, where is that defined? Oh, it's in several different files." @syntax.fm on StyleX syntax.fm/show/1035/wh... True, but I'd solve this with better CSS tooling.

Productive evening. Added 1 new feature + fixed 3 bugs for my Scroll-Driven Animations DevTools extension (brm.us/sda-debugger) - Scrollable Minimap - Support more units in the ranges - Support min(), max(), … in the ranges - Take `view-timeline-inset` into account (+ visualize) Release imminent.

🚀 Container style queries are baseline; New attr() capabilities are nearly there. Neat apart, but together they change how we can wire up components. Practice will make perfect, and I still need to rewire my brain for this combo. So, time to start that rewire. utilitybend.com/blog/contain...

Who would've guessed

Sticky headers, snapped slides, and scroll shadows have been JavaScript's job for a decade. scroll-state() container queries hand that work back to CSS. 🔗 danholloran.me/posts/css-sc... #css #webdev

I keep repeating this fun fact to people while they stare at me with feigned interest: “helicopter” is a compound word, but probably not in the way you think! it’s made up of “helico” as in, “spiral,” from the Greek “helix” and “pter” as in “wing,” like in pterodactyl!!

I want him to do this just so we can see how fast Google will make the change in Maps.