Notices by Andy Bell (andy@bell.bz)

optician: the results are not good
patient: can I see them?
optician: probably not

You may remember a while ago, we asked people to visit a little web app that grabbed their viewport sizes.

We had an idea in mind for a visualisation and article that today, we've just pushed live.

The ideal viewport doesn't exist https://viewports.fyi/

@Guildev @aral nah, you just need to fuck off

@Guildev @aral fuck off

Also, it’s been hell for more than us today. Our hotel was a “safe zone” even this afternoon (yesterday at this point).

People had to walk to our hotel for up to 4 hours in 38 C heat. People with young kids. Old people. Vulnerable people.

They then again, had to walk for hours to get a chance at safety.

I’ve bumped into a few here thankfully and they’re safe.

Climate change is right now: not in the future.

We’re in Rhodes and have been evacuated due to the wildfires.

We’re safe in a hotel which has been turned into a temporary refuge.

By all accounts, 30,000+ tourists and locals have been displaced in the last 24 hours and let me tell you, it’s been fucken scary.

We went from our hotel being turned into a refuge to jumping on the back of a dump truck in the middle of the night, to walking for hours in pitch black to finally getting picked up by a coach to take us to where we are now.

imagine if mozilla invested in firefox rather than jumping on every tech fad with two feet

first crypto, now AI…

I tell you what, this setup has worked an absolute *treat* https://andy-bell.co.uk/how-im-dealing-with-twitter-in-a-hands-off-manner/

Mixed with this too: https://andy-bell.co.uk/i-wired-up-my-feedbin-likes-to-auto-post-to-mastodon/

New on the blog: How AI and Crypto combined, are the future of the web

https://andy-bell.co.uk/how-ai-and-crypto-combined-are-the-future-of-the-web/

I really enjoyed reading: Still on Arc https://chriscoyier.net/2023/02/11/still-on-arc/

@aral it’s broetry

when the creator of one of the heaviest, clunkiest SPA frameworks that is responsible for undoubtedly thousands in extra data costs for users (in some countries data is as expensive as other utilities) tweets this, all I think is “what are they gearing up to grift next?”

2023 is going to be the year of websites—specifically personal websites—and I’m here for it.

It seems like the momentum for people to hyper-focus (or re-focus) on their personal home on the World Wide Web has come from the rapid decline in Twitter, since Elon Musk has taken it upon himself to destroy it.

Sure, it’s mainly created a surge in people creating Mastodon accounts, but people are also realising—including me—that betting
https://andy-bell.co.uk/2023-the-year-of-websites/

happy early Xmas to me