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David Windham Jan 2

prefer year in rearview over year end review - https://davidawindham.com/twenty-twenty-five/

Twenty Twenty-Five

David A. Windham

David Windham Apr 27, 2025

nixCraft 🐧Apr 26, 2025

Humans independently edit Wikipedia for humans. They don’t have any Ads or cannot be bullied into removing content. Wikipedia is free from AI slop. No wonder tech bros with AI companies want to eliminate it so that their fake AI text generator can show or push propaganda. Please do not let Wikipedia die. It is an independent source and far more reliable than Gen AI companies. It is a real shame that it comes to this.

David Windham Feb 3, 2025

International Golden Retriever Day

David Windham Jan 18, 2025

Iris in the snow

David Windham Nov 16, 2024

my new favorite pastime

David Windham Aug 14, 2024

World Wide Web Consortium Aug 14, 2024

W3C Invites Implementations of Payment Request API.

The Web Payments Working Group has republished Payment Request API as a W3C Candidate Recommendation. This specification standardizes an API to allow merchants (i.e. web sites selling physical or digital goods) to utilize one or more payment methods with minimal integration. User agents (e.g., browsers) facilitate the payment flow between merchant and user.

Comments are welcome via GitHub by 1 October 2024.
https://www.w3.org/news/2024/w3c-invites-implementations-of-payment-request-api/

W3C Invites Implementations of Payment Request API

This specification standardizes an API to allow merchants (i.e. web sites selling physical or digital goods) to utilize one or more payment methods with minimal integration.

W3C

David Windham Jun 14, 2024

Hey. It's just me. I'm usually up to date @ https://davidawindham.com/now but I mostly try to avoid giving my attention away.

Posted here to test the fediverse and encourage the creator OpenGraph tag cc:@mosseri

Now | David A. Windham

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David Windham Feb 6, 2024

nixCraft 🐧Feb 3, 2024

I worked in IT for over 30 years, and people tend to forget the technical details of how you solved problems or implemented clever code hacks. However, they do remember how you made them feel. I am referring to both colleagues and customers. Even a small gesture of writing a compliment or thank you note can be impactful enough to make them remember it. Human emotions are powerful tools. Use them wisely.

David Windham Feb 1, 2024

Jen Simmons Feb 1, 2024

If you want to know which web technologies are part of Interop 2024, this is *the* place to get in-depth explanations.

Learn what the technology in each focus area does, and what benefit Interop 2024 will bring.

https://webkit.org/blog/14955/the-web-just-gets-better-with-interop/#the-2024-focus-areas

The web just gets better with Interop 2024

The web is amazing.

WebKit

David Windham Jan 25, 2024

Simon Willison Jan 25, 2024

I'm quoted in this @arstechnica piece about that recent "AI generated" George Carlin special

I don't think it was written by AI

I found the whole thing grossly disrespectful, but I do slightly appreciate the meta-joke here that the AI generated text is fake and was actually written by humans

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/01/did-an-ai-write-that-hour-long-george-carlin-special-im-not-convinced/

Did an AI write that hour-long “George Carlin” special? I’m not convinced.

"Everyone is ready to believe that AI can do things, even if it can't."

Ars Technica

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