@mahryekuh If you don’t already, I highly recommend following Andy
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#css I’ve been experimenting with resetting margins a whole lot less, but margin defaults and margin collapse is such a shit show that I’m almost certainly going to go back to micro-managing margins myself. Sigh -
#css I’ve been experimenting with resetting margins a whole lot less, but margin defaults and margin collapse is such a shit show that I’m almost certainly going to go back to micro-managing margins myself. Sigh@mahryekuh I used normalize for a long time but more recently I have been working with something adapted from @andy’s https://piccalil.li/blog/a-more-modern-css-reset/
I thought I’d try eschewing the blunt instrument but doing so is just a mess.
It’s good to explore if old practices are still needed. And in this case, they still are!
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#css I’ve been experimenting with resetting margins a whole lot less, but margin defaults and margin collapse is such a shit show that I’m almost certainly going to go back to micro-managing margins myself. Sigh#css
I’ve been experimenting with resetting margins a whole lot less, but margin defaults and margin collapse is such a shit show that I’m almost certainly going to go back to micro-managing margins myself. Sigh -
AI is \*not\* just a tool.@lindawoodrow your post has helped me see that it has the same dynamics as this metaphor https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/113107865455294213
What Ted Chiang last year characterised as the “blurry JPEG of the web” problem is just a subset of the *ever-thinning gruel for dinner* problem
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“One day, James Williams—the former Google strategist I met—addressed an audience of hundreds of leading tech designers and asked them a simple question:“One day, James Williams—the former Google strategist I met—addressed an audience of hundreds of leading tech designers and asked them a simple question:
‘How many of you want to live in the world you are designing?’
There was a silence in the room. People looked around them. Nobody put up their hand.”
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“France’s constitution, bizarrely, allows its president to appoint any prime minister that he can get past MPs – but this is the first time in the history of France’s ‘Fifth Republic’ that a French president has refused to appoint a PM from the biggest...“France’s constitution, bizarrely, allows its president to appoint any prime minister that he can get past MPs – but this is the first time in the history of France’s ‘Fifth Republic’ that a French president has refused to appoint a PM from the biggest parliamentary bloc. Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s ‘France Unbowed’, which leads the ‘New Popular Front’ left bloc, has launched impeachment proceedings against Macron.”
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So France is now a country of authoritarian centrists* who get to choose whoever tf they like as PM?So France is now a country of authoritarian centrists* who get to choose whoever tf they like as PM?
Choosing someone from the party that got less than a quarter of the party that came first!
Pretty good indicator that centrism is even more vacuous and scornful of democracy than it already was
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqjlxvg2gj7o
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*Update in light of replies: right wing plutocrats in ‘centrist’ clothing
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This doesn't look good:@BashStKid we could. But we’ve been giving power to sociopaths for at least 7,000 years. Hope we can break the spell
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This doesn't look good:@BashStKid it’s all bad. I wish we could take our foot off the accelerator and give ourselves time to think differently.
But the thermodynamic road seems to enslave us https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/112500670860562086
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This doesn't look good:And while that trajectory unfolds, the growing of food in places like Pakistan does not look good https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/111555969227295370
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According to https://httparchive.org/reports/page-weight, the median weight in KB for web page tech on desktop:…Seems to me the big tech #webperf community is mostly untroubled by this ️
As long as it asyncs OK, “What’s the problem?”
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According to https://httparchive.org/reports/page-weight, the median weight in KB for web page tech on desktop:According to https://httparchive.org/reports/page-weight, the median weight in KB for web page tech on desktop:
Over the last 14.5 years:
HTML
2010: 20KB;
mid 2024: 33KB;
Increase of 65%.Images
2010: 229KB;
mid 2024: 1,062KB;
Increase of 464%.JavaScript
2010: 89KB;
mid 2024: 640KB;
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Over the last 9 years:
Video
mid 2015: 173KB;
mid 2024: 3,872KB;
Increase of 2,238%.I reckon that in the era of AI the JS gradient is gonna steepen significantly