Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes
Yahoo PIpes was ahead of its time. Here’s a nostalgic retrospective by Glenn Fleishman.
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Things I’ve been wrong about, things I’ve been right about | Nolan Lawson
- Wrong: web workers will take over the world
- Wrong: Safari is the new IE
- Right: developer experience is trumping user experience
- Right: I’m better off without a Twitter account
- Right: the cost of small modules
- Mixed: progressive enhancement isn’t dead, but it smells funny
Maybe I should do one of these.
CodePen - Instagram.exe
I’m not sure why but I genuinely love this Windows 95 style interface for Instagram coded up by Gabrielle Wee.
A microdata enhanced HTML Webcomponent for Leaflet | k-nut — Blog
Here’s a nice HTML web component that uses structured data in the markup to populate a Leaflet map.
Personally I’d probably use microformats rather than microdata, but the princple is the same: progressive enhancement from plain old HTML to an interactive map.
Bill Oddie taught me how to make web sites - Hicks.design
I remember Jon telling me this lovely story when we first met in person. I love the idea that we had already met in a style sheet.
I also love the idea of hosting your own little internet archive—that Bill Oddie site still looks pretty great to me!
It’s a lot like an embarrassing family photo, but I’m owning it!
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The datalist element on iOS
Some buggy behaviour has been fixed in iOS 18 but now there’s a new bit of weirdness.
HTML web components
Don’t replace. Augment.
Re-evaluating technology
The importance of revisiting past decisions. Especially when it comes to the web.
Media queries with display-mode
I never would’ve known about the `display-mode` media feature if I hadn’t been writing about it.
Publishing The State Of The Web
There’s a video and a transcript of the talk.