Baldur Bjarnason
"Why You Should Enable Privacy-Enhanced Mode on Your Embedded YouTube Videos" https://www.davideocompany.com/blog/enabling-privacy-enhanced-mode-on-your-embedded-youtube-videos
I had no idea this was a feature but apparently Youtube has supported this in one form or another for almost a decade.
Baldur Bjarnason
“SmugMug snaps up Flickr photo service from Verizon's Oath”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/04/20/smugmug-buys-flickr-verizon-oath/537377002/
Oh wow.
Baldur Bjarnason
This one was taken the same day.
Baldur Bjarnason
“Somebody decided to program the systems to look for breasts and bras, but not for knees or toes or backs. I wonder why.”
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/jilltxt/~3/dvd_gN6v9Cc/
Baldur Bjarnason
“Do Search Engines speak JavaScript?”
http://www.phpied.com/do-search-engines-speak-javascript/
The answer is for the most part, no. Making a JS-only page is a good way to only _reliably_ get indexed by Google.
Baldur Bjarnason
“#SmooshGate FAQ”
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/03/smooshgate?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=updates_feed
Baldur Bjarnason
“12 Things Everyone Should Understand About Tech – Humane Tech – Medium”
https://medium.com/humane-tech/12-things-everyone-should-understand-about-tech-d158f5a26411
Baldur Bjarnason
“Third party CSS is not safe - JakeArchibald.com”
https://jakearchibald.com/2018/third-party-css-is-not-safe/
Baldur Bjarnason
“Audacious Fox: Your ‘Lite’ App Should Be Your Only App”
https://audaciousfox.net/2018/lite
Baldur Bjarnason
“Finding the Exhaust Ports | Jon Gold’s blog”
https://jon.gold/2018/02/exhaust-ports/
Baldur Bjarnason
“Website Sameness™”
https://css-tricks.com/website-sameness/
Baldur Bjarnason
Today's pen, in case anybody's curious, is a blue Pelikan m600 filled with Sailor 'nano' blue-black ink.
Baldur Bjarnason
"Business Musings: The Indie Publishing Lesson (2017 in Review)" https://kriswrites.com/2018/01/24/business-musings-the-indie-publishing-lesson-2017-in-review/
Relying on silos for your income is precarious but, ATM, it seems necessary for a lot of people in creative industries.
Baldur Bjarnason
"GDPR and Google Analytics" https://adactio.com/journal/13364
Baldur Bjarnason
“Stop Using CSS Selectors for Non-CSS” https://css-tricks.com/stop-using-css-selectors-non-css/
The advice is not to hang behaviour (i.e. JS and related) off the selectors you use for styles but off custom attribute selectors ('data-'). It's good advice.
Baldur Bjarnason
This thread on Twitter is another reminder that every chapter in the history of the British empire is filled with villainy and murder https://twitter.com/ireland/status/954792642327523329
Baldur Bjarnason
“Just because your site isn't for emerging markets, doesn't excuse you from web performance optimisation”
https://www.twnsnd.com/posts/nothing_excuses_you_from_web_performance_optimisation.html
Baldur Bjarnason
Good thread on machine learning over on Twitter
Baldur Bjarnason
Even over at Hacker News the consensus seems to be that Google's effectiveness as a search engine has deteriorated considerably
Baldur Bjarnason
“Beyond the Rhetoric of Algorithmic Solutionism”
https://points.datasociety.net/beyond-the-rhetoric-of-algorithmic-solutionism-8e0f9cdada53?source=rss----2488f66d2e39---4
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