Tumbleweeds
I’m in London , hosting a W3C TAG meeting at 22 Bishopsgate.
Leaving the Nazi bar, by Ben.
We, the authors of this article, each count such losses in our own lives, and maybe you do, too: friends you struggle to hold onto despite their growing allegiance to terrifying ideas, and friends you give up on, and friends who have given up on you and the hope you shared together.
Deplatforming Myself: A Tech Manifesto, by Elizabeth Haste.
I helped my partner’s mom die and witnessed the perfect death, by Nuala.
Horror stories of cryonics: The gruesome fates of futurists hoping for immortality, by Tom Hartsfield.
Years ago my car was about to go, and the guy checking it out said,
You never know how long trannies are gonna last,and I thought, ain’t that the truth, bud.
The conclusion of Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial? Parachute use did not significantly reduce death or major injury[.]
Some things I came across recently by reading Karl’s blog:
- via banana:
diagram.website, which lead me to- the wonderful concept of an antilibrary
- via autour des flocons:
The personality of a personal website, by Manuel Moreale.
- One absolutely lovely example I came across recently is 楊立瀅 (Katherine Yang)’s.
- Her site is set in TT2020, an
advanced, open source, hyperrealistic, multilingual typewriter font for a new decade
designed by Fredrick Brennan. How TT2020 achieves its realism is very clever.
Where Do We Go From Here?, by Michelle Barker.
How can we keep domains working long after our death?, by Chuck Grimmett.
Just normal web things: a plea for us to get back to building websites that can do normal website things, by heather buchel.
You don’t need JavaScript for that, by Kilian Valkhof.
Sending webmentions from a static site, by Sophie Koonin.
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