Notices by Nolan (nolan@toot.cafe), page 16

"Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links (scrolling navigation)."
Interesting concept, one of the issues for me is the uncontrolled "overflow cutting". A French newspaper implemented this and on my mobile, Culture got cut into "Cul" (French for "Ass")
https://bradleytaunt.com/2019/06/14/hamburger-menu-alternative/

What mod tools could you develop with these APIs? Which could you not because a crucial part is missing? Let me know

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/9387

#mastodev

"The New Wilderness" by Maciej Ceglowski https://idlewords.com/2019/06/the_new_wilderness.htm

"[T]he giant tech companies can make a credible claim to be the defenders of privacy, just like a dragon can truthfully boast that it is good at protecting its hoard of gold."

Recently I've been trying to re-evaluate my own negativity towards tech. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar, etc. Also I don't know how good it is for my soul that I keep focusing on everything wrong with the tech industry.

"Why We’re Relicensing CockroachDB" https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/oss-relicensing-cockroachdb/

Interesting to see this explosion of new open-ish licenses.

Interesting interview with Jaron Lanier (2018): https://www.vox.com/2018/7/27/17618756/jaron-lanier-deleting-social-media-book-kara-swisher-too-embarrassed-podcast

Question: “How [do you] respond to the argument that without viable alternatives, walking away from Facebook or social media more generally is a privilege?”

JL: "If you’re privileged enough to have the option of walking away from social media, and yet you don’t, you’re failing to use your privilege to defeat a system that traps other people who are less fortunate than you."

New blog post: "One year of Pinafore" https://nolanlawson.com/2019/06/02/one-year-of-pinafore/

My reflections on the last year (ish) of working on #Pinafore.

JS talks I'm becoming less and less interested in over time:

- hey here's this amazing new browser API, it can make your sites 2 milliseconds faster

More interesting:

- why are we doing this
- what does it all mean
- what are the economics behind all this stuff that devrel folks are way too uncomfortable to bring up

"Warning – do not click on Twitter ads" by Terence Eden https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/05/warning-do-not-click-on-twitter-ads/

Apparently if your Twitter account gets highjacked, the highjacker can post sponsored tweets in your name without you knowing it. Yikes. 😬

The more I work in web development, the more I conclude that the majority of web teams are just not skilled/disciplined enough to build an SPA when a static site will do.

Static sites do not have to worry about:

- memory leaks
- the back button / history
- scroll state
- focus state
- page lifecycle (tab freezing/unfreezing)

SPA frameworks should come with a "you must be this tall to ride" sign.