Notices by Baldur Bjarnason (baldur@toot.cafe), page 4

‘"Tweetdecking" Is Taking Over Twitter. Here's Everything You Need To Know’
https://www.buzzfeed.com/juliareinstein/exclusive-networks-of-teens-are-making-thousands-of-dollars

Twitter is trash.

"Case studies and experiments demonstrating the impact of web performance optimization (WPO) on user experience and business metrics"

https://wpostats.com/

“Third-Party Scripts | CSS-Tricks”
https://css-tricks.com/third-party-scripts/

“Website operators are in the dark about privacy violations by third-party scripts”
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/01/12/website-operators-are-in-the-dark-about-privacy-violations-by-third-party-scripts/

I find a lot of the rhetoric coming from W3C staff these days to be perplexing.

“Improving Your Tweet Accessibility”
http://adrianroselli.com/2018/01/improving-your-tweet-accessibility.html

"To combat soaring textbook costs, look to an open-source approach"

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/to-combat-soaring-textbook-costs-look-to-an-open-source-approach/article37477566/

"(Some recent exerpts from Alan Kay emails)" http://worrydream.com/2017-12-30-alan/

Alan Kay is always required reading:

'I had quite a few more, and most thought it was a funny talk. (Oscar Wilde once said "If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh or they will kill you".)'

One factor in my burnout a while back is that because one big cause of it is lack of autonomy and control, you end up in 'reaction' mode all the time.

Day and night you live as a marionette on strings answering to your boss, your community, or your own misguided sense of obligation.

This thread on the birdsite touches on the sort of vision of future computing we lost when we stopped listening to Alan Kay and others like him

https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/946483997948776450

@jjg A big problem for the early evolution of the web (90s to ~2008) was the influence of thought-leaders who neither thought nor built.

People like Kevin Kelly, Chris Andersen, the Wired crowd, and their ilk absolutely dominated the discourse on The Web™.

They were really the only intellectuals that the people who built things read and their opinions were rambling, shallow, pseudo-libertarian, and, in very many cases, just plain wrong.

They're less popular now, thankfully.

“Warrantless Border Searches: The officer ‘searched through every email and intimate photos of my wife’ | Just Security”
https://www.justsecurity.org/50095/laptop-cellphone-searches-border/

Yeah, I’m not going to the US anytime soon

NPM's 2017 JavaScript Ecosystem Survey

http://info.npmjs.com/2017-JavaScript-Ecosystem-Survey

For those of you who are doing the JS thing.

“Dynamicland”
https://dynamicland.org/

This is really interesting.

@nolan I'm told by my boss that the W3C wanted to issue a statement on net neutrality but a number of big members objected. 😕

I've had my fill of startup types who think a startup is about 'growth hacking' and excited variations of the latest code cliches but have no understanding of the society they are a part of or the communities that come to depend on them.

Fuck 'em.

It's always disappointing when you encounter a nice blog with no feed of any kind.

"Guess I'll never read anything from here again"

RT @NickHanauer@twitter.com
My friend @Noahpinion@twitter.com is wrong. The only people who cannot answer this question are neo-classically trained economists, clinging to their models. Everyone else knows that wages fell because worker power fell. That's it. End of story. https://twitter.com/BV/status/937935558566993920

“What nobody tells you when you decide to learn how to code”
http://stefannibrasil.me/2017/08/03/what-nobody-tells-you-when-you-decide-to-learn-how-to-code/

“Performance Calendar » Evolution of : Gif without the GIF”
https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2017/animated-gif-without-the-gif/

Not really convinced any of this is a good idea. The absence of playback controls are the animated gif’s worst feature.