Interconnected, a blog by Matt Webb
How would I improve RSS? Three ideas
Posted on Wednesday 29 Jul 2020. 1,702 words, 7 links. By Matt Webb.
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Jul 31, 2020, 2:49 PM -04:00 
Gatsby
The World’s Sneakiest Route Change | Gatsby
The story of how we added dynamic filtering to an entirely statically-built Gatsby site. -
Jul 26, 2020, 9:09 PM -04:00 How did I wait this long to start watching Doom Patrol?
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Jul 25, 2020, 3:27 PM -04:00 Not usually a fan of graffiti, but sometimes...
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Jul 25, 2020, 11:38 AM -04:00 Reply to https://twitter.com/rosielefaive/status/1287021487963156480?s=19
I think I'm going to file this one under "adage"
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Jul 25, 2020, 11:32 AM -04:00 
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Kelly Vaughn (@kvlly) on X
Just wondering... is there a point in adulthood where I should have a single set of matching pots and pans, or is it acceptable to have pots and pans from 4 different sets for all of my life? -
Jul 20, 2020, 10:24 AM -04:00 Reply to https://doubleloop.net/2020/07/19/6961/
Hmmm... interesting, but I'm honestly not sure what that would even look like.
Jul 19, 2020, 6:28 PM -04:00I think the argument would be that any enforceable rules would be built in to the protocol itself. Kind of like the idea of smart contracts I guess – certainly not without its own range possible pitfalls, but the idea being that it requires much more consensus to change a protocol. -
Jul 19, 2020, 10:06 AM -04:00 Reply to https://doubleloop.net/2020/07/19/centralised-applications-are-authoritarian/
Interesting. How do you think this would apply to something like a distributed game, where you want a certain kind of enforcement of the rules between players?
Jul 19, 2020, 8:03 AM -04:00Centralised applications are authoritarian
In thin client/thick server models, the server does all the work and has all the power. Any authority for the user to do something is borrowed from the server (which can also remove it at any point). The society of users in thick-server applications route their actions through the server. When they message each other, they are updating entries in the server’s database. When they publish files, they are writing those files to the server’s disks. The server has ultimate authority over those sys... -
Jul 17, 2020, 9:52 PM -04:00 Reply to https://twitter.com/desmondrivet/status/1284304050004135937?s=19
I apparently did not post a photo. Here we go.
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Desmond Rivet (@desmondrivet) on X
Very late to the party on this one but I finally made @alisoneroman 's anchovy shallot pasta and I am shocked at how mellow this stuff is, considering it has a shit ton of shallots and a whole jar of anchovies. Good stuff! -
Jul 17, 2020, 9:47 PM -04:00 Very late to the party on this one but I finally made @alisoneroman 's anchovy shallot pasta and I am shocked at how mellow this stuff is, considering it has a shit ton of shallots and a whole jar of anchovies. Good stuff!
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Jul 16, 2020, 2:15 PM -04:00 Bookmark of https://adactio.com/journal/17140
Jul 16, 2020, 10:45 AM -04:00Hey now
Progressive enhancement is at the heart of everything I do on the web. It’s the bedrock of my speaking and writing too. Whether I’m writing about JavaScript, Ajax, HTML, or service workers, it’s always through the lens of progressive enhancement. Sometimes I explicitly bang the drum, like with Resilient Web Design. Other times I don’t mention it by name at all, and instead talk only about its benefits. I sometimes get asked to name some examples of sites that still offer their core functiona... -
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Matthias OttMay 12, 2019, 7:05 AM -04:00Into the Personal-Website-Verse
Social media in 2019 is a garbage fire. What started out as the most promising development in the history of the Web – the participation of users in the creation of content and online dialogue at scale – has turned into a swamp of sensation, lies, hate speech, harassment, and noise. Your Unfriendly Neighborhood Craving for attention and engagement, our timelines have changed. Algorithms now prioritize content from people with a huge following and everything that is loud and outrageous. It’... -
Jul 14, 2020, 7:19 PM -04:00 I will never understand three-seat sofas with two cushions.
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Jul 12, 2020, 3:56 PM -04:00 My God, what have I done?
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Jul 11, 2020, 9:27 AM -04:00 Bookmark of https://sarahchima.com/blog/css-specificity/
What is CSS Specificity?
CSS specificity is an important topic to understand if you want to get better at CSS. . In this article, we discuss what CSS specificity is and how it is used to determine which styles are applied to an element. -
Jul 11, 2020, 9:24 AM -04:00 A little bit of plain Javascript can do a lot
I’ve never worked as a professional frontend developer, so even though I’ve been writing HTML/CSS/JS for 15 years for little side projects, all of the projects have been pretty small, sometimes I don’t write any Javascript for years in between, and I often don’t quite feel like I know what I’m doing. Partly because of that, I’ve leaned on libraries a lot! Ten years ago I used to use jQuery, and since maybe 2017 I’ve been using a lot of vue.js for my little Javascript projects (you can see a ... -
Jul 10, 2020, 10:19 AM -04:00
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Andrew Nadeau (@TheAndrewNadeau) on X
The year is 2030. Bakery art is so realistic, literally anything could be cake. The uncertainty has gripped the world in fear. I go to hug my wife for comfort. She is cake. -
Jul 10, 2020, 10:16 AM -04:00 TIL I learned that "boat", "bait", "bite", "bolt", and "bitter" are all cognates, from a PIE word meaning to strike or split (the connection with boat appears to be that one used to make them by hollowing out split tree trunks).
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Jul 9, 2020, 9:00 AM -04:00 Reply to https://twitter.com/helenleigh/status/1280997471636926464?s=20
Errr...wrong link. I meant this one: https://youtu.be/ajM4vYCZMZk If you need theremin inspiration :)
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Helen Leigh ⚡ (@helenleigh) on X
Well I appear to have successfully put together this theremin tonight, an open source hardware @arduino Uno shield from Gaudi Labs. It apparently does CV so I wanna try and use it to control one of my synths. I'd post video but my neighbor complained already 😅 -
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Jul 9, 2020, 7:39 AM -04:00 Reply to https://twitter.com/helenleigh/status/1280997471636926464?s=19
If you need inspiration to learn how to play: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=RDajM4vYCZMZk&feature=share&playnext=1
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Helen Leigh ⚡ (@helenleigh) on X
Well I appear to have successfully put together this theremin tonight, an open source hardware @arduino Uno shield from Gaudi Labs. It apparently does CV so I wanna try and use it to control one of my synths. I'd post video but my neighbor complained already 😅 -
Jul 8, 2020, 4:25 PM -04:00 Reply to https://twitter.com/helenleigh/status/1280925729635610626?s=20
I made this! It's a lot of fun. I never got very good playing it, though. Detailed my adventures here: https://desmondrivet.com/2018/05/20/theremin-build
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Helen Leigh ⚡ (@helenleigh) on X
Last week I got a little drunk and went down a theremin YouTube rabbit hole at 2am. This week, a deliciously pretty Open Source Hardware theremin board and a bundle of parts arrived in my mailbox. Thanks past drunken Helen! Your gifts are much appreciated 🥃🛠️✨ -
Jul 6, 2020, 11:21 PM -04:00 Reply to https://twitter.com/FyreByrde/status/1280125461310443520?s=19
One of my favorite versions of it: https://youtu.be/ajM4vYCZMZk
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Gillian Kerruish (@FyreByrde) on X
This year has brought so many memorials I am not yet ready to make. I will eventually. But today let's appreciate this film score, and the one who created it. RIP. Ennio Morricone - "The Ecstasy Of Gold" from The Good, The Bad & The Ugl... https://t.co/q1tafgZ8lh via @YouTube -
Jul 3, 2020, 7:32 AM -04:00 TIL that the "-ly" suffix commonly added to words in English to denote an adverb comes from the word "like" (still existing in the word "ladylike", for example). So "slowly" came from "slow-like" and "carefully" came from "careful-like" (possibly explaining the double "l").