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mid-October link dump

Pope urged at LGBT meeting to reverse church ban on gender-affirming care, via Kathleen.

Ta-Nehisi Coates Corrects the Record, by Jonathan W. Gray.

Damning and unsurprising:

[Richard] Stallman has been the subject of numerous allegations of misconduct. Stallman has also incited numerous controversies for advancing a political agenda which normalizes sexual misconduct and advocates for reforming our social and legal understanding of sexual conduct in a manner which benefits the perpetrators of abuse.

On the basis that Stallman has not demonstrated an understanding of his misconduct; has not apologized for allegations of misconduct, alleged or corroborated; continues to publish his harmful political program; and does not acknowledge or apologize for harm done in the course of this program, this report reiterates the position that Stallman should be removed from the board of directors at the Free Software Foundation.

— The Stallman Report

Apple Passwords’ Generated Strong Password Format, by Ricky.

I Do Not Care About Impediments to a Creepy Growth Hacking Technique, by Nick Heer.

How Twitter works in theory, by Kevin, from 2009. Still relevant, though somewhat rose-tinted in hindsight. The lessons apply to all the various post-Twitter replacements out there today.

A woman in a yellow hat and gray t-shirt stands across the street from a classic-looking Irish pub called The Kerryman. The dark-paneled pub is on the ground level of a yellow-beige building, and its patio is surrounded by greenery.
Outside The Kerryman in Chicago’s River North. Photo by Eryn.

Liskov’s Gun: The parallel evolution of React and Web Components, by Baldur Bjarnason.

HTML for people, by Blake Watson, via Jeremy and Chris. See also Plain Vanilla, an explainer for doing web development using only vanilla techniques, via Karl, and TODS, a typographic and OpenType default stylesheet, by Richard Rutter, via Jeremy.