Aaron Peters

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Worked in web since 1997. Web performance consultant since 2009. CDN veteran, currently building out www.cdnplanet.com
Personal sitehttps://www.aaronpeters.nl
CDN Planethttps://www.cdnplanet.com

“It’s shit, but it worked” – as @TheRealNooshu said himself, this slide doesn’t do the full story justice: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-simple-html/

This reinforces why progressive enhancement is so very important.

#PerfNow #WebDev

The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML

I've told this story at conferences - but due to the general situation I thought I'd retell it here. A few years ago I was doing policy research in a housing benefits office in London. They are singularly unlovely places. The walls are brightened up with posters offering helpful services for people fleeing domestic violence. The security guards on the door are cautiously indifferent to anyone…

Terence Eden’s Blog

Mozilla:

“These changes radically expand the capability of EU governments to surveil their citizens by ensuring cryptographic keys under government control can be used to intercept encrypted web traffic across the EU.

(…)

The text goes on to ban browsers from applying security checks to these EU keys and certificates except those pre-approved by the EU’s IT standards body”

https://last-chance-for-eidas.org/

Last Chance for eIDAS

13 days before the first eIDAS vote, still no public text

A German court has just declared a "Do Not Track" #DNT signal from your browser as legally binding, pursuant to Article 21(5) #GDPR. https://www.vzbv.de/urteile/gericht-untersagt-datenschutzverstoesse-von-linkedin
Gericht untersagt Datenschutzverstöße von LinkedIn

Landgericht Berlin gibt Klage des vzbv gegen die LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company weitgehend statt

Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband
Stel dat we op vlees en zuivel niet een keurmerk als Beter Leven of Biologisch zouden zetten wanneer het daar aan voldoet, maar juist op producten die er niet aan voldoen een logo zetten dat aangeeft dat de dieren in erbarmelijke omstandigheden leven in de intensive veeteelt, of zoals bij sigaretten, foto's die laten zien hoe de dieren leven. Wat voor effect zou dat hebben op consumentengedrag?
Just have to share my love for Eleventy again. What an awesome static site generator. Can easily extend my site, refactor, etc. New collections, filters etc. is all a breeze. Loving it, txs @zachleat
Making progress ... prep for making this graffiti piece @scottjehl
@paul_irish image maps ... forgot all about them. Still works in the browser??
it's making me very happy seeing *a lot* of people arriving today
Must change my profile pic, I'm at least 10 years older than when that pic was taken
Can't find the setting to turn off the sound of notifications 😩