NotableLinks
A (more) Modern CSS Reset
I particularly valued the explanations here. I spend less time coding these days - I can go weeks without writing a line - and I’m determined to keep my skills up. #Technology [Link]
Latest
NotableLinks
The Berkeley Hotel hostage
I know people who worked with Douglas Adams and I'm incredibly envious of them. He seems like someone I would have really enjoyed meeting - and his books (all of them) were a huge part of my developing psyche. This story seems so human, so relatable. Trapped by
NotableLinks
A New Low: Just 46% Of U.S. Households Subscribe To Traditional Cable TV
I've lived in the US for twelve years, and at no point have I even been tempted by traditional cable. Every time I encounter it, I wonder why people want it. It's a substandard, obsolete product. So this is no surprise. #Media [Link]
NotableLinks
19th News/SurveyMonkey poll: The State of Our Nation
Lots of interesting insights in this poll, including on nationwide attitudes to gender-affirming care (only 29% of Republicans think their party should focus on it) and gun control (82% of Americans want to restrict access in domestic abuse cases). #Society [Link]
Nobody Will Tell You the Ugly Reason Apple Acquired a Classical Music Label
Makes complete sense: if you're charging a monthly subscription to access music, directing users to royalty-free music instead of other recordings will improve your margins. It doesn't say great things for classical music revenue in the future, though. #Technology [Link]
David Golumbia, 1963–2023
Sad to hear that David Golumbia died. If you’re unfamiliar with The Politics of Bitcoin and you’re in tech, it’s a must-read. #Technology [Link]
An endless battle for the rights of the underclass
Every word of this, but particularly: "Cultural warfare was a political ploy designed to keep workers from recognizing our common ground and banding together against corporate abuses and thefts.” #Democracy [Link]
WordPress blogs can now be followed in the fediverse, including Mastodon
I'd prefer if this was default WordPress functionality - but the big lede is buried here. Hosted WordPress sites are getting fediverse compatibility. That's a huge deal. #Technology [Link]
The Ad Industry Bailed On News. Can An AI Solution Offer A Way Back?
Services like this become single points of failure with outsize power over the journalism industry. It's a bad idea. No one entity should be the arbiter of bias in news or where a buyer should put their money. For one thing, who watches that entity's own
US economy going strong under Biden – Americans don’t believe it
It's how we measure the economy, stupid. #Democracy [Link]
Zine: How We Illustrate Tech (and AI) at The Markup
Lovely! #Media [Link]
An update on Sup, the ActivityPub API
A little while back I shared an idea about an API service that would make it easy to build on top of the fediverse. People went wild about it on Mastodon and Bluesky, and I got lots of positive feedback. My startup experience tells me that it’s important to