Bruce Lawson’s personal site

• Building a resilient frontend using progressive enhancement (gov.uk) Government web sites need to be resilient and be available to all. That’s why they use HTML and JS properly. You should too.
• Which Three Birdies?™©® – Birds! Maps! APIs! Open Source! Put ’em together and what do you get? Finally, a solution for encoding a location into 3 birds, and open sourced as a gift to the world from Stuart Langridge and me!
• Chromium spelling and grammar features – “My first project has been implementing the new CSS spelling and grammar features in Chromium”. A deep dive that might help answer your question “How hard can it be to implement [my pet feature]?”
• URL protocol handler registration for PWAs – Let installed PWAs handle links that use a specific protocol for a more integrated experience. Further steps to enhancing the capabilities and UX of web technology.
• What’s New in Android Accessibility – TL;DR: Samsung and Google now collaborate on Talkback; You can now talk to Talkback. For deaf people: live transcription of conversations in 80 languages; an app to amplify certain frequencies of sound in real time (eg, a hearing aid); teachable app that can monitor environmental sound and alert you, eg of fire alarm/ dog barking/ your doorbell ringing. Lots of technology (crypto, surveillance, Facebook) makes the world worse, but the liberating tech on devices is a massive boon for people with disabilities.
• An experiment in helping users and web publishers create deeper connections on Chrome – Google Chrome is trialling a new technology they’re calling “RSS”
• Apple accused of breaking UK competition law by overcharging for apps – “The tech company has been accused of deliberately shutting out the competition in the store and forcing people to use its own payment processing system, generating “excessive” profits for itself in the process.”
• The Enclosure of the Public Interest Internet – EFF

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