Notices by Baldur Bjarnason (baldur@toot.cafe), page 2

How to deal with that one problem browser: http://notes.baldurbjarnason.com/2018/10/03/how-to-deal.html

‘The psychological construct “Grit” is an example of redundant labelling in personality psychology, claims new paper’ https://digest.bps.org.uk/2018/09/25/the-in-vogue-psychological-construct-grit-is-an-example-of-redundant-labelling-in-personality-psychology-claims-new-paper/

“The Valley of Never”

I loved Jean M. Auel’s books when I was a teen. http://www.bmpvoices.com/the-valley-of-never

“Oh God Not This Again”

Brent shares my exasperation at people proclaiming feeds dead when they’re still in widespread use

“millions of mainstream users rely on it — for podcasting, especially, but also because it powers other things that they use” http://inessential.com/2018/09/17/oh_god_not_this_again

“I need to change some of my
behavior, and I want to apologize to the people that my personal
behavior hurt and possibly drove away from kernel development
entirely.”

I did not expect to see this kind of introspection from Linus Torvalds https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/16/167

“Paul Graham blocked me on Twitter”

Good piece on re-evaluating your heroes. https://code.likeagirl.io/paul-graham-blocked-me-on-twitter-c28ca647c7f8

“The Bullshit Web”
https://pxlnv.com/blog/bullshit-web/

The most on point description of the state of the web that I’ve read in a while.

"Don't Feed the Trolls And Other Hideous Lies – The mantra about the best way to respond to online abuse has only made it worse" https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/12/17561768/dont-feed-the-trolls-online-harassment-abuse

“It’s time to regulate social media”
http://www.bigmouthstrikesagain.com/2018/07/its-time-to-regulate-social-media/

Icelandic word of the day: 'hundalógík'. Literally: 'dog logic'.

Used to describe reasoning that looks logical at first glance but actually turns out to be complete and utter nonsense on every level.

"Patreon Is Suspending Adult Content Creators Because of Its Payment Partners - Motherboard" https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbqwwj/patreon-suspension-of-adult-content-creators

“Youtubers with millions of followers are dropping out, citing stress and burnout from algorithm kremlinology – Boing Boing”
https://boingboing.net/2018/06/02/algorithm-grade.html

Probably doesn’t help that Youtube actively penalises LGBTQ content.

“If you tear out React, you get a blank page. React is a big commitment”
http://bradfrost.com/blog/link/replacing-jquery-with-vue-js-no-build-step-necessary/

“Block party”
http://www.bigmouthstrikesagain.com/2018/05/block-party/

“Social media has been weaponised.”

"We’re Hiring: Rebus Reader Product Manager" https://rebus.foundation/2018/05/22/were-hiring-rebus-reader-product-manager/

It's a great job with a great bunch of people (if I say so myself 🙂)

A thing that tech _never_ seems to understand is that consistency is a huge part of usability.

An UI change that is a marginal improvement becomes a net negative if it breaks from people's prior expectations.

“Bitcoin’s energy use got studied, and you libertarian nerds look even worse than usual | Grist”
https://grist.org/article/bitcoins-energy-use-got-studied-and-you-libertarian-nerds-look-even-worse-than-usual/

“A fucking rant about fucking const vs fucking let”
https://jamie.build/const

Pretty good points.

“Twitter executing on 2012 vision | Manton Reece”
http://www.manton.org/2018/05/twitter-executing-on-2012-vision.html

"UX animations are slowly killing me" https://abe-winter.github.io/trouble/in/these/fields/2018/04/29/animus.html