| pronouns | he/him |
| website | https://www.jasoncoleman.net |
| github | https://github.com/super-structure |
I actually did a New Year’s goal thing and wrote a blog post this evening! I wrote about some of the music, books, shows, and film I enjoyed in 2025.
I think the theme appears to have been: angry punk/ metal, escapist fantasy reading, and political allegory in film. I mean, I enjoy those things in a normal year but man did they really help in 2025.
The world is a lot right now. But we all gotta fight for love. Because the path of hate is so simple, so easy, so seductive.. black vs. white.. us vs. them.. you're either on our team, or you are our sworn enemy.. whereas the path of love is far, far more complicated and difficult.
But love is the only survivable path.
Hating someone is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. It’s only a matter of time before that hatred eats you -- and everyone else around you -- from within.
Choose love. Come with us if you want to truly live. 💛
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/CxL4gYZeSJA/m/yNs4EsD5AQAJ
Going ahead with deprecation of #xslt in the browser. 🙁
I think the most frustrating thing about all this is, like... why ask for feedback knowing that there was nothing anyone could have said that would have changed your mind? It's not like anyone could do anything about it if they had just announced they were getting rid of it from the beginning, it takes such massive legions of Devs to maintain a browser that not even Microsoft can manage, everyone would have just have had to go along with it like we are now.
Instead, we have to deal with this stupid online version of Steven Crowders change my mind table, where we all have to simultaneously pretend:
* The Chrome team doesn't set the standards
* Also, the standards cannot deviate from the behaviour of Chrome
* Also, if you want to request a change in Chromes behaviour you cannot in any way that would break webcompat
* Except of course when the Chrome team wants to break webcompat in which case you should polyfill it.
* Also, Safari are holding back the web by not implementing web standards (which again, we remind you that Chrome didn't set). Don't you want useless shit like webUSB?
I just keep thinking back to the comments by Ian Hickson on Hacker News:
"The reality is that for all of the work that we've put into HTML, and CSS, and the DOM, it has fundamentally utterly failed to deliver on its promise.
It's even worse than that, actually, because all of the things we've built aren't just not doing what we want, they're holding developers back. People build their applications on frameworks that _abstract out_ all the APIs we build for browsers, and _even with those frameworks_ developers are hamstrung by weird limitations of the web."
We could have had a web of documents and information, where URLs returned #XML adhering to a schema, consumed by a native desktop application designed to handle it, or with an XSLT processing instruction for browser's and other documents readers... instead we have to live in this stupid software purgatory where web tech is so useless everything must be in React, but also desktop software isn't a thing anymore so our desktop applications are React running in Electron, and also our OS taskbars are React...
Scrolling through the No Kings hashtag today has been truly inspirational. Feeling proud to be an American. 🇺🇸
The Tennessee Holler 
Terry Godier
Tim Bray
Ada Worcester 🏳️⚧️
Torsten Schönberg
Jeff Atwood
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Bean 🇺🇸🇻🇪