Mastodawn

The current state of the web assumes that the reader is an adversary to be trapped and monetized.

When a news website forces you through three dismissive actions just to read a headline, they are burning your cognitive budget before delivering any value. You are greeted by a cookie banner taking up the bottom 30% of your screen, a "Subscribe!" modal dead center, an autoplaying video pinned to the corner and a prompt begging to send you push notifications.

I wrote about the state of news websites. Would love to hear your thoughts✨🙏

https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit

#enshittification #darkpattern #web #technology #socialmedia #indieweb #ux #privacy

The 49MB Web Page

A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

Edwin Martin Mar 6

Gabriele Svelto Mar 4

A few years ago I designed a way to detect bit-flips in Firefox crash reports and last year we deployed an actual memory tester that runs on user machines after the browser crashes. Today I was looking at the data that comes out of these tests and now I'm 100% positive that the heuristic is sound and a lot of the crashes we see are from users with bad memory or similarly flaky hardware. Here's a few numbers to give you an idea of how large the problem is. 🧵 1/5

Edwin Martin Feb 11

Tim Severien Feb 11

🔍 I'm looking for a remote senior frontend/full-stack/software engineering position in the EU! I have 15 years experience building web-based products with a strong UX, mostly with JS-heavy stacks. TypeScript, React, Node.js, Astro, HTML, CSS, etc.

My best work is done with empathy. I like to collaborate with and support the people around me, and to develop for and with the user.

[email protected]
https://tsev.dev
https://www.linkedin.com/in/timseverien/

#fediHire #getFediHired #job #jobSearch

Tim Severien

Blog of another senior web engineer

Tim Severien

Edwin Martin Jan 1

KNMI Dec 30

Aan het eind van het jaar voegen we traditiegetrouw een nieuw streepje toe aan de klimaatstreepjescode: de reeks gekleurde lijnen die laat zien hoe de temperatuur in Nederland sinds 1901 is veranderd. De streep van 2025 kleurt donkerrood. 🔗 https://www.knmi.nl/over-het-knmi/nieuws/klimaatstreepjescode-krijgt-nieuw-streepje-voor-2025

Edwin Martin Jan 1

The Ridiculous Engineering Of The World's Most Important Machine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiUHjLxm3V0

The World's Most Important Machine

YouTube

Edwin Martin Dec 26

Als je twijfelt, heb je het waarschijnlijk niet goed. Als je het ziet, dan past het zo goed, dat je niet meer twijfelt.

Edwin Martin Dec 20

Paris Marx Dec 19

🚨 THE FINAL TWO 🚨

From thirty-two candidates, we’ve now made it to the final round where Elon Musk and Peter Thiel will face off for the crown.

Who will win? You decide!

🗳️ Cast your ballot: https://twsu.forms.app/wpit25-final

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Edwin Martin Dec 1

@kizu

From https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/break

outerBlock: {
innerBlock: {
console.log("1");
break outerBlock; // breaks out of both innerBlock and outerBlock
console.log(":-("); // skipped
}
console.log("2"); // skipped
}

break - JavaScript | MDN

The break statement terminates the current loop or switch statement and transfers program control to the statement following the terminated statement. It can also be used to jump past a labeled statement when used within that labeled statement.

MDN Web Docs

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Edwin Martin Dec 1

@kizu Why not use break in labeled blocks?

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Edwin Martin Nov 19

@Anneke You can also try NextDNS.io for pretty much the same effect. Less fun and less educational, but much easier. You can always go to pi-hole later if you like it.