FEDIDEVS POSTS
Frameworks, Libraries, and others
I wrote a rambling post for Branch on the theme of perfectionism, code and web sustainability: https://branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue-8/the-perfect-site-doesnt-exist/ I’m very proud to have made a nice illustration for it too! The site is grid-aware, so images will only show up in full when the carbon intensity of the grid is low. (You can toggle if you really want to see it though)
The web dev equivalent of seeing the ex who dumped you looking terrible in public is when your former employer launches a new 15MB slow-motion train wreck of a homepage.
has anyone got any good resources on giving conference talks?
extra points if they’re specific to our industry 
I was copyediting a Wikipedia article and was surprised and delighted to see it referenced someone I knew: Professor Cynthia Beall, whose house I rented for half a year while she was in Tibet, almost 30 years ago. And she already has her own Wikipedia page! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Beall
Of all the awful takes in development, none grinds my gears more than "silly JavaScript devs JavaScripted too much and now everything's a mess but they got themselves into it haha."
Right, sure, everything was great before, and we just made it complicated because we were silly, bored little dummies who didn't know any better. Our jobs were so easy! Everything is actually so simple!
Fuck off with that reductive bullshit.
Train wifi: “You have full signal strength!”
Also train wifi: “No, I don’t want to load any of your websites”
Note to self: You haven't listened to OK Computer in a long time and you should do that.
Starting work on someone's legacy codebase realizing with TERROR it's not built with the framework you expected.
After just under a week of owning and riding a Decathlon B'TWIN R500E longtail cargo e-bike:
It's awesome. It's big, and heavy, and basically unrideable without battery assistance, but great fun. And very practical. The kids love riding together on the back. If I see it as a car substitute rather than a bike, I feel much less like it's cheating.
The frame could indeed do with having a lower crossbar. It is sometimes challenging me to get my leg over (fnarr), but maybe I'll gain flexibility 💪