Today, the good people of the world commemorate the passing of Google Reader eleven short years ago on July 1, 2013.
To honor their memory (and in leiu of flowers) please add an RSS, Atom, JSON or equivalent feed to your web site and keep building towards a web that connects people in meaningful and positive ways.
Banning TikTok shows the myopic vision of our lawmakers. The US needs comprehensive data privacy legislation that applies to *all social networks* and protects our data—and we needed it 15–20 years ago.
what’s the name for the SPA phenomenon where it has an outdated data model on the client so even when you do a faux-navigation it shows you old, stale data and you have to force a full page refresh anyway to see the latest data
Notably, the author here has done a lot elevate the discourse around sustainability—and it was pretty harsh how their original attempts were received by the community. Some good lessons here, and it shows how much further we still have to go.
If we moved on from React with even half of the enthusiasm level we used to move from CommonJS to ESM, the web (and the folks using the things we build) would be better off for it.
We are in the midst of another Google Reader-level community disruption.
It’s a good time to reset, take stock, clean house, and own your content!
If you don’t yet have your own web site—it’s a good time to start!
1. The most crucial piece is ownership of the domain name. 2. Then add content (it can just be plain HTML!) 3. Iterate on it! Make it better, but more importantly—make it yours.
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