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Reference Target: having your encapsulation and eating it too, by Alice.
Versioning JSON for APIs, by mt.
Ad Blockers didn’t help kill the open web and Adblocking ≠ Piracy, both by Manu Moreale.
The web, then, can be a gateway to so much learning. At least it has been for me. I most likely would not have thought about typography without hearing about it in the context of the web. Now I think about type a lot[…] My critical design eye builds with every such experience – both on and off the web.
The range of disciplines that cross over with the web also make it clear how much of a skill – and craft – web weaving is. The more time I spend with and building for the web, the more I realise there is to learn. This feeling is invigorating.
Also by James: Build the web you want to see.
The Long Web Society, by Alex.
Maintaining the Bridges, by Brian.
Brian also asked: What if we just shared information about the custom elements we use? It’s a good idea. I already publish a list of the custom elements I use. Maybe that sort of simple HTML page is sufficient? The custom elements manifest proposal seems like overkill.
The Wrong Work, Done Beautifully, by Domenic.
Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025, by LiAnna Davis.
On affordances, by Karl Koch, via Eric Bailey.
The NYC Trans Oral History Project, via Matt.
Berkeley Students Make 300,000 Wikipedia Edits to Preserve Queer History Against Trump, by Abby Monteil, via Kottke.
Criminal Charges Pressed Against Budapest Mayor After Hundreds of Thousands Defy Pride Ban, by s. baum.
Also by s. baum:
- Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital In WA Shuts Down Youth Gender Clinic Amidst Federal Funding Threat.
- California AG Bonta Files Groundbreaking Lawsuit Against Rady Children’s Hospital for Dropping Trans Youth GAC.
The Cowardice Of American Medicine On Trans Youth Care, by Erin Reed.
We Have to Talk About Dr. Ting and Epstein, by Katelyn Burns.
Council of Europe votes for ban on conversion practices, from the Good Law Project.
Fox News Poll: Americans Prefer Democrats On Transgender Issues +22 Points, also by Erin.
Notable Sandwiches #136: Peanut Butter & Jelly, by Talia Lavin.
Spurious Correlations, by Tyler Vigen, via Kottke. One take-away: we all need to stop calling our kids “Aubrey”. I know it’s hard—I loved Master and Commander too—but the fate of the world depends upon it.
Tolkien’s Dragons and Ours, by Dr. Timothy Snyder.
Vector search in Dungeons and Dragons, by Ivan Centamori, via Jasper Tandy.
Also via Jasper:
bitchat is a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over bluetooth mesh networks. no internet required, no servers, no phone numbers.
- Who Said It: Donald Trump or Martin Luther King Jr.?, by Carlos Greaves.
ファシストになるより、豚の方がマシさ。Your friends are still acting like everything is normal in America. What do you do?, by Sigal Samuel, via Kottke.
Mark Carney at the End of the End of History, by Justin Ling: Carney deserves enormous credit for laying out the world as it really is. But I can’t help but think he should have told us what the world ought to be.
When Love Thy Neighbor Is a Cry of Resistance, by Rebecca Solnit.
This is what democracy looks like, by Philip Bump.
It is an unfathomable exercise to read lawyers and a federal judge discussing at length the ways in which the rule of law is slipping through our nation’s fingers, but it is an absolutely necessary document to read for anyone who wants to protect the rule of law — and America.
what the fuck, Jeff Bezos? democracy — and the Washington Post — dies up the oligarchy’s ass, by Jeff Tiedrich.
Heather Cox Richardson on various threats to American elections.
A couple of posts by Lars Ingebrigtsen, creator of Gnus: