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Matt Henry
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Public interest technologist; law knower-abouter; Design system engineer in the US federal government.
Hello! If you know of any HTML Web Component[^1]-based design systems, I would love to hear about them! I'm specifically after design systems using web components that wrap and progressively enhance slotted/light DOM HTML. The only one I know of is California's.[^2]
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[^1]: In the sense @adactio used the term (https://adactio.com/journal/20618).
[^2]: See, e.g., CA's alpha accordion component (https://designsystem.webstandards.ca.gov/components/accordion/readme/)
Lately i've been neck deep in thinking about how to use web components to build a design system that works with or without JS and something @scottjehl said in his new web components course is going to stick with me for a minute: “If the docs pages are blank without JavaScript, that tells me a lot about what I need to know about the priorities of the tool.”
The law in its majestic equality forbids rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges, unless they are president in which case it's fine.
Fully weeping at the Grants Pass decision. It's hardly surprising, but it's just so unspeakably cruel.
Love to be brilliantly boring https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/06/26/1093656/us-government-website-design-accessibility/
Couple observations on seeing this:
1) it’s amazing how much great stuff the federal government still manages to build and do for people despite all efforts to make it do less and do it worse; and
2) we should never have stopped putting plaques on everything to say “hey look at what government can do for you.”
1) it’s amazing how much great stuff the federal government still manages to build and do for people despite all efforts to make it do less and do it worse; and
2) we should never have stopped putting plaques on everything to say “hey look at what government can do for you.”
Real sicko hours comparing the new Tractatus translation with the Ramsay one we all grew up on. As a German learner, this macht viel spaß https://open.substack.com/pub/ksetiya/p/tractatus-translatus
Tractatus Translatus
Legend has it that Damion Searls learnt Norwegian in order to translate Jon Fosse, whom he had read in German and identified as a genius. Searls’ translations of Fosse are, by all accounts, superb. So it is intriguing to learn that he has now translated Ludwig Wittgenstein’s