Notices by Dave Rupert (davatron5000@mastodon.social)

Celebrate David Lynch's life by doing something weird. And maintain that level of weirdness for decades.

📝 I know it's the end of year and I should be doing a yearly wrap up post but this one aspect of #css has been noodling at me for awhile now.

https://daverupert.com/2024/12/css-wants-to-be-a-system/

One thing I’m becoming more sensitive to is: Corpoganda is not news.

Similarly, tweets are not news.

📝 New post https://daverupert.com/2024/12/adhd/

What a friggin' year for CSS

https://chrome.dev/css-wrapped-2024/

Great article by @DavidDarnes about the intersection of #DesignSystems and prototypes, which is an intersection I care about a lot.

Being able to prototype with your design system OUTSIDE of the primary application in a tool like CodePen unlocks ideas and unblocks teams.

https://zeroheight.com/blog/prototypes-with-design-systems/

The Website vs Web App Dichotomy Doesn’t Exist by @jakelazaroff

Loved this post. I have pre-existing biases here because I hate it when people get high and mighty about “apps” or say “the document web” so they can forego basic HTML or a11y. ughck.

But I think Jake’s four quadrant chart of offline ↔️ online vs static ↔️ dynamic is a much better framework to discuss the differences/nuances in the type of projects we work on.

https://jakelazaroff.com/words/the-website-vs-web-app-dichotomy-doesnt-exist/

Candidate you don't like in office? They taxing you too much? Raise your prices. Then use your extra money to run news stories about how bad inflation is. Fund a candidate that will give you tax cuts. Bingo bango! Now you're charging more AND get tax cuts. That's wealth, baby!

What are people actually* using as an alternative to Adobe Illustrator for creating and editing SVGs?

* Please don't Google just stuff and reply, I'm looking for actual humans who have found replacement software.

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- [ ] No Dougs allowed. I swear my name is not nor has ever been nor will ever be Doug.
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[interior: Unicode consortium]

> Hey, should we have a glyph for a pointing finger?
Absolutely
> What about filled and outlined triangle?
Sure, but make them all different sizes.
> What about arrows?
Yeah, make tons but never a full set pointing in all directions. I'm talking seven 3D arrows but they all face right.
> Dominos?
Fuckin' all of them, man. Horizontal and vertical. Let's take that part seriously.

US politics is wild. You have one candidate with some pretty concrete plans to help the middle class and one candidate who’s like “Immigrants are eating your pets!” and somehow there are still undecided voters.

What RSS needs:

1. You. Your content. Your thoughts. Your gripes. Your hearts. Your stars. Your photos. Your fears. Your bad ideas that went nowhere. Your good ideas that still went nowhere. Your perspective on an issue that's been trodden over a thousand times. Your insight. Your wisdom. Your experience.

@brianleroux Good forms can be reset with a button[type=reset]
Good forms have formData events
Good forms don't use placeholder as a label
Good forms have clear labelled inputs and buttons
Good forms work on phones
Good forms start with CSS accent-color for styling and only get more complex if absolutely necessary
Good forms don't popup and ask for personal information
Good forms make the baby jesus smile

This could be a whole conference talk. Or a blog post at least.

New CSS since 2018, a list compiled by @fimion

Dang, I love this language.

https://codepen.io/fimion/pen/WNmwJWJ

Thanks A Book Apart for the great many titles and contributions to the web industry over the years. I don't have all the books, but the ones I do have are wonderfully creased, bent, and highlighted. Thank you.

https://abookapart.com/blogs/press/a-new-chapter-for-a-book-apart

@ironchamber Non-fiction mostly but pretty open to anything, especially sci-fi or mystery/thriller stuff.

After many walks and many chores I am at Podcast: Zero *and* Audiobook: Zero. If you read or listened to a good book recently I’d love to know, but in the meantime I’ll bask in this unfamiliar feeling.

Khan Academy made a ChatGPT bot to teach kids math and it uh... it can't do math and just makes shit up. Cool cool cool cool cool cool cool.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-is-tutoring-students-but-still-struggles-with-basic-math-694e76d3?st=606ux1exuaxyk3j

Watched a Vision Pro review that said “You gotta cut Apple some slack…” and… what? Cut a four thousand dollar device by a three trillion dollar company some slack!?