Note archive: September, 2024

Comparing web components to React is like comparing a good bicycle with a cybertruck.

They do very different things, and they’re used by different people with very, very different mindsets.

Websites have always been tiny mutinies, perfectly designed for rebellion!

— Robin Rendle, Coming home

Reading 84K by Claire North.

Going to Cáceres. brb

Going to Seville. brb

Why, oh, why can’t I use logical properties in media queries?

Seeing min-width in a stylesheet just looks like a weird bug when you’re using min-inline-size everywhere else.

Reading Dogs Of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Idle CSS thought …should the flex-direction values “row” and “column” have the aliases “inline” and “block”?

flex-direction: inline;

flex-direction: block;

Like @[email protected] says:

It feels a little like we’re going backwards.

https://css-irl.info/the-problem-with-surveys/

Here’s the sausage fest I pulled out of:

https://frontmania.com/

They responded to my concerns:

We did receive a lot of talks, but almost no women because there are almost no women in this kind of jobs.

😳

Pulling out of a conference I was supposed to speak at because, now that the schedule is live, I see that 90% of the line-up is white dudes like me.

If you have a pet parrot, it’s fun to get it to say “Help, I’m trapped in the body of a parrot!”

If you have a photocopier, it’s fun to copy a piece of paper that says “I am a sentient photocopier!”

#LargeLanguageModels