This blog and this publishing effort hasn’t been active for several years. I continue to blog both over on my own site and on my notes blog.
There’s also Twitter but that place honestly feels like a bit of a dump.
Author Archives: Baldur Bjarnason (@fakebaldur)
From the other blog: “The new age of HTML: the web is being torn apart”
For web development to grow as a craft and as an industry, we have to follow the money. Without money the craft becomes a hobby and unmaintained software begins to rot.
But which money?
From the other blog: “Should I make a WWDC prediction? Yes, let’s”
I’m only going to make one quick prediction:
Apple is going to expand and open up out-of-process rendering and execution in iOS9 and Mac OS X 10.11.
From the other blog: “Writing the Other: a book that’s useful to all writers”
It’s one of those books where you wish we lived in a world where everything it said was common sense. But we don’t. It’s a short book. I highly recommend it .
From the other blog: “Other people talk about startups and entrepreneurship”
You don’t need to look far to find examples of how dysfunctional the Silicon Valley/San Francisco startup culture is. It seems to exist in a worldview bubble, even if it might not be an economic one.
From the other blog: “Other people discuss software quality (spoiler: it sucks)”
Quite a few people are noticing that our apps are a little bit more crap than they used to be.
From the other blog: “A few quick links and thoughts on big web problems”
When websites fail, it isn’t because people are dumb—not smart enough—or lazy.
As I and others have said before, people aren’t doing progressive enhancement because it is harder than not doing it.‘Hard’ in this context isn’t a measure of how much intelligence or skill is required to solve the problem. ‘Hard’ here is a description of the volume of effort required, namely that it’s more than you would have otherwise needed to make a passable website.
It’s the system that guides the effort and controls which problems are worth expending that effort on.
From the other blog: Our Grim Meathook Present #1 and #2
From the other blog: “I really want the Supergirl TV show to be fun”
Superheroes and romance are a natural fit and it’s a crying shame that nobody has properly gone for that particular genre amalgamation before. It would be a mistake for the show to shy away from combining the two.
So, I, for one, am hoping that the upcoming Supergirl series is all in on the romance.
From the other blog: “We are a violent species”
Stephen Pinker and Nassim Nicholas Taleb had a brouhaha a while back about the statistical validity of Pinker’s claims in The Better Angels of Our Nature.
Looks like Taleb really likes having the last word.
