Watched the first episode of Little America. Surprised, in a good way.
Will be watching more. 📺
Daniel Ehrenberg talks about how the TC39 committee work in a presentation from dotJS 2019.
Interesting talk, not too long.
PPK has an interesting post about a new browser called Flow.
Not ready to download yet, but will be interesting to see what they can do in the long run.
Harry Roberts discusses Performance Budgets, Pragmatically.
I love this part:
Our budget for [metric] is never-worse-than-it-is-right-now.
Performance budgets is something I care about and I think this is solid advice to get started.
Friday afternoon my wife got home from work and were told the main water pipe to our area was damaged. And the earliest they could start repairs would be Monday.
For two days now we have been without any running water. Who knew I would miss it so much so fast. 💦
So once again I find myself going through my list of unfinished games thinking I should finish more of them.
There are always some more moons to be found in Super Mario Odyssey I guess.😎
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Yesterday 44 people in my department were told they wouldn’t have a job there anymore. Most of them were contractors, and as a former contractor I know this is part of the job.
It still sucks though.
Jason Snell argues for new Apple hardware for home strategy.
Finally, consider how much more intelligent a “smart home” could become if there’s a device at the center of it, orchestrating different devices through automation rules both simple and complex?
I’d like that.
Peter-Paul Koch of QuirksBlog fame believe we should state that CSS4 is here!
He argues that it would be a benefit to the community. And I think he might be right.
Will be interesting to watch it unfold.
Marco Arment argues that we need a Low Power Mode for Mac laptops.
Mac laptops need Low Power Mode, too. I believe so strongly in its potential because I’ve been using it on my laptops (in a way) for years, and it’s fantastic.
Longer battery life? Yes please.
Do you want to learn the basics of Svelte in under 3 minutes?
Yesterday evening I felt that I would wake up sick today. As I recently got back into filling my rings on Apple Watch again, my first thought was how was I ever going to fill that exercise ring?
Today I have not felt well, and wishing I could get a sick day on my Apple Watch.
Maybe for WatchOS 7?⌚️
After beating Breath of The Wild again with my son, I went looking for Legend of Zelda - Breath of the Wild 2 trailer.
How do you create a sequel to perhaps the best game ever made? I hope more info will come at E3.
Just helped my son beat Ganon in Breath of the Wild.
He’s spent around 200 hours playing the game, about the same as me I guess.
Such an amazing game this is. How can the sequel ever live up to this? 🎮
I was never a classic Mac OS user. I used it for a couple of months in 97 before switching to Linux.
John Siracusa has created the app Front and Center to replicate the window management of classic Mac OS. And I’m intrigued by the behavior he describes. I’ll give this a try.
W3C put up an Editor’s Draft of ARIA in HTML back in December. It lays out rules to follow if you find yourself using ARIA in HTML.
Bruce Lawson tells you Why You Should Choose HTML5 <article> Over <section> over at Smashing Magazine.
Smashing Magazine has published their annual Front-End Performance Checklist for 2020.
As always it’s a nice summary. But I especially like the second point:
Goal: Be at least 20% faster than your fastest competitor.
Chris Coyier with a Recap of Frontend Development in 2019 over on CSS-Tricks.
CCS Tricks has a new article about the :is() CSS pseudo-class.
It looks useful at least.
Heydon Pickering and Andy Bell has created the site Every Layout.
If you find yourself wrestling with CSS layout, it’s likely you’re making decisions for browsers they should be making themselves.
It’s an interesting take on CSS layouts. And well worth a look.
Hex Guess! is a fun and frustrating way to kill some time.
Playing Super Mario Odyssey with my four year old is so much fun.
She’s using the Assist Mode and loves just running around in the world.
The new year is off to a good start.
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Happy new year! 🎆
Looks like an interesting book for a good cause. Swift for Good – Learn Swift, Change the World