Can you feel the rhythm‽ · 13 March 2024
Adam makes a very good point here: the term “vertical rhythm” is quite chauvanistic, unconciously defaulting to top-to-bottom writing modes; the term “logical rhythm” is more universal (and scalable).
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Fair Warning — Real Life
Abeba Birhane has written an excellent historical overview of the original Artificial Intelligence movement, including Weizenbaum’s aboutface, and the current continuation of technological determinism.
Modern CSS in Real Life - Chris Coyier
This is a terrrific presentation by Chris, going through some practical implementations of modern CSS: logical properties, viewport units, grid, subgrid, container queries, cascade layers, new colour spaces, and view transitions.
Google’s AI Hype Circle
Google has a serious AI problem. That problem isn’t “how to integrate AI into Google products?” That problem is “how to exclude AI-generated nonsense from Google products?”
Why aren’t logical properties taking over everything? - Chris Coyier
Good question.
I think it’s mostly inertia.
A long-term plan for logical properties? | Miriam Eric Suzanne
Well, now I’m really glad I wrote that post about logical properties!
We’re not there yet. So how do we get there?
Well, I don’t know for sure – but articles like this are very helpful as we try to work it out!
Operator Lookup - Search JavaScript operators · Josh W Comeau
Operators in JavaScript—handy! I didn’t know about most of these.
Stacking the Bricks: How the Blog Broke the Web
The title is quite clickbaity, but this is a rather wonderful retelling of web history on how Content Management Systems may have stifled a lot of the web’s early creativity.
Also, there’s this provocation: we like to rail against algorithmic sorting …but what if the reverse-chronological feed was itself the first algorithm?
Sillyness Spelled Wrong Intentionally » Lifestream, ala WordPress
Chris J. Davis has turned my life stream thingy into a plug-in for Wordpress. Nice!