Notices by Mia (web luddite) (mia@front-end.social), page 2

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.

@eaton Thanks! For now, I've just switched to a for loop, and it's working fine.

(where 'fine' involves some amount of rage and regret for past decisions)

YOU CAN"T DO ASYNC IN AN ARRAY.MAP() FUNCTION?!

I've wasted so many hours trying to debug this array of promises that never resolve…

You're allowed to post on your blog once every decade, and you don't even need to apologize for it. That's also part of having your own space.

Personal sites aren't a competition, and productivity doesn't have to be a metric.

(note to self)

@matuzo Safari supports user styles! (I thought the same thing, but then went looking)

@yatil @matuzo Yeah, I love that one two. Makes me want a min-font-size property.

I also like that user setting as an author. I don't want to define a font size _relative_ to the user preference (which I can't know), I want to set a size _no smaller_ than the user preference.

Oh sure, of course NFTs aren't worth anything - but the AI is still real, right?

right?

The only way to 'avoid the cascade' is by not writing #CSS. Every web style, no matter how or where we write it, participates in the cascade.

CSS wouldn't even be possible without a cascade of some kind. Since it's possible to write conflicting styles, browsers need some way to resolve those conflicts. That's all the cascade is.

We can imagine different rules for that process – what we have now wasn't the original proposal, & we've made updates recently – but there has to be something.