Notices by Mia (web luddite) (mia@front-end.social)

I worked college summers on electrical crew. Even then, the staff electrician who trained me was just vibe wiring his way through dorms. We'd come behind & fix his work.

The attitude isn't new, but I never expected hype for incompetence. I hope there's always work for people who do the fixing.

In @OddBird stand up this morning, we're discussing the fact that CSS pixels are defined in reference to "a nominal arms length of 28 inches."

Does having a 28in arm make you better at CSS? Where do you measure from? Does the W3C have an official mannequin reference arm?

https://www.w3.org/TR/css-values-3/#ref-for-reference-pixel

July class registration is open at the pottery studio - 4 week beginner wheel throwing. I'll be teaching the tuesday night class:

https://www.kinshipdenver.com/group-pottery-classes/#signup

Hey y'all, I have a new workshop at the end of April - deepdive into modern CSS Layout techniques. Level up your team with a systemic understanding.

The intro video has a demo of #CSS grid areas. I’ll post more tips in the lead up. Early-bird pricing til April 12!

https://www.oddbird.net/workshops/cascading-layouts/

The oss 'benevolent dictator' model was always a bad one, always built on an imagined 'best way to get things done' which frames collaboration as impossible, and was always a setup for claiming the rich tech guys are the best guys.

@mynameistillian under learn more they say it's off by default and action is only required to turn it on

We have a special Winging It live stream next week, celebrating the birthday of the #CSS specification (Dec 17, 1996) – with @michelle, @kevinpowell, @5t3ph, and myself competing in a "CSS is Awesome" game show hosted by @stacy.

Tuesday, Dec 17 @ 1pm ET / 11am MT – join us!

https://youtube.com/live/fYfs6sKGciQ

I am very tired of conference talks that start by telling me

- everyone is excited
- these tools are the future
- now is the time to get on board
- you don't want to be left behind

You do not need to be excited for the machine they wish could replace you already

People now trust 'information' coming from black box algorithms controlled by just a few companies, as though they have "looked it up" somewhere,

but also we can copy/paste relevant code snippets, with some amount of success! so it's great, actually! ✨

this industry is fucking stressful

I'm not saying you haven't found a use case for the magic beans. I'm saying the 'magic' is exploited workers, and I'm not interested in that kind of magic.

The luddites didn't smash all the machines, just the machines being weaponized against people. https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/113574481518667615

There's often the one guy after the conference who finds out I teach CSS and wants to monologue at me how much he hates the language, and challenge me to defend it.

Cool, man. You win. CSS sucks. I'm just trying to enjoy my cheese.

Q: How is AI being used in web development?

A: CEO's stole our copyrighted work, and are now using it to threaten our jobs, lay people off, and cut our pay.

- Refuse to publicly support trans rights
- Lose the election
- Blame it on your excessive support for trans right

Yeah, that tracks

Vote Like a Radical, from NDN Collective

"All candidates, once elected, become our opponents… We never vote for them. We always vote for us. So we can shape the conditions in which we fight for the liberation of all peoples."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2CHfqJ3I5w

@AmeliaBR what's the point of gummies if you don't share them, after all

No kids came by. Does anyone know how to get the razor blades out of leftover chocolate? I don't want this all going to waste.

If cool URIs don't change, maybe they shouldn't be managed by landlords and rented on a year-to-year basis.

(it seems to me that avoiding link rot should be treated as a platform issue, not a slogan for scolding people who didn't successfully predict the future or treat a webpage as a lifelong commitment)

30 years of the World Wide Web Wide World Wide Web Wide World Wide Web Wide World Wide Web Wide World Wide Web Wide World Wide Web Wide World Wide Web Wide World Wide Consortium #w3ctpac

@zachleat @beep variable fonts don't weigh anything anyway they're magic

We need unions.

And we also need employee-owned collectives that reject eternal growth, increased production, and shareholder profit as the goals of our labor.

The infinite growth model is destroying our world. We can build alternatives.