Reading List 275
- Container Queries are actually coming – yes siree!
- CSS Container Queries – @rachelandrew explains all
- No, Google! Vivaldi users will not get FLoC’ed – whether or not you use Vivaldi, this is a good intro into Google’s plans for FLoC once third-party cookies are gone.
- How to fight back against Google FLoC – “To opt your site out of FLoC, you need to send the Permissions Policy HTTP response header.
Permissions-Policy: interest-cohort=()“. Or there’s a WordPress plugin. - WordPress core: Proposal: Treat FLoC as a security concern – WordPress Core developers are discussing a security patch to block FLoC by default, and potentially roll it out as a security fix
- Chrome Extension to block FLoC from your chums at DuckDuckGo
- Publishing a Progressive Web App (PWA) on the PlayStore What works and what doesn’t (in 2021)
- “Person, Shoes, Tree. Is the Person Naked? What People with Vision Impairments Want in Image Descriptions
- How to publish packages to npm (the way the industry does things) by Zell Liew
- How to locally test an npm package – a good guide to using yalc, by Mae Capozzi
- The WebPageTest API Has Gone Public
- Building Blocks – What you should look for from open source code – Flaxen-haired FOSS Adonis @sil writes “When Isaac Newton made his point about standing on the shoulders of giants, he was actually talking about Github (probably).”
- A list of connectivity indexes, maps, and reports “to help you better under who has access to communication infrastructure and on what terms” by Steve Song.
- Browser Standards Rampage: Can We Have Nice Things? – JS Jabber talk with Jake Archibald about Portals, iframes, App Cache, Service Workers, HTML, Browser History and more. Wouldn’t it be lovely if all podcasts have transcripts?
- Space Jam – an analysis of the original 25 year-old site and its replacement: “Although connection speeds and devices keep getting better and better, the web is actually getting slower. We see the increasing bandwidth as an invitation to use more and more stuff in our websites. More images, more videos, more JavaScript.”
- They Hacked McDonald’s Ice Cream Machinesand Started a Cold War – “Secret codes. Legal threats. Betrayal. How one couple built a device to fix McDonald’s notoriously broken soft-serve machinesand how the fast-food giant froze them out” – A surprisingly interesting article.
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Just yesterday I watched a video on Johnny Harris’ channel on YouTube about the real reason McDonalds ice cream machines are always broken. The company that supplies the machines to McDonalds have exclusive rights to supply franchises with the machines, and they make 25% of their revenue from servicing and supporting these ice cream machines. Therefore, keeping these machines as un-user friendly benefits them.