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- Oh look, cracking down on Big Tech works. Brave, Firefox, Vivaldi surge on iOS – “Thanks to Europe forcing Apple to offer a browser choice screen. Now, about ditching WebKit …”
- Apple execs and lobbyists — including CEO Tim Cook — visited White House 87 times since Biden took office as antitrust crackdown looms
- Nielsen needs to think again – “Jakob Nielsen thinks accessibility has failed. Jakob Nielsen thinks that generative AI will make my experience better. I think Nielsen needs to think again” by Léonie Watson
- Why my code isn’t in TypeScript – “I even pay for CoPilot, almost exclusively, to explain TypeScript errors to me (goodness knows what the TypeScript library can’t do a decent job of explaining errors, we devs are suckers for shit tools)”. By Remy Sharp.
- Screen Reader User Survey #10 Results – includes top 10 “gets right on my tits” list of accessibility niggles
- PageSpeed Insights bookmarklet – by Jeremy Keith
- View transitions: Handling aspect ratio changes by Jank Architect of Spotify
- Okay, Color Spaces – a brilliant article on what colour spaces mean and why they matter, with a ton of interactive visualisations. By Eric Portis
- Chrome Extensions: eyeo’s journey to testing service worker suspension – “In this post, we delve into the problem of testing extension service workers. In particular, we take a look at how to make sure that our product works correctly in case a service worker gets suspended.”
- UI = f(statesⁿ) – Dave Rupert explores all the states that can affect the UI layer
- Tailwind marketing and misinformation engine – “It’s only a matter of time before Tailwind collapses. The vendor-specific language and the misleading communication cannot hold water very long … Learn to write clean HTML and CSS and stay relevant for years to come.”
- Dead Simple Sites – The most minimal sites on the web, curated in one place.
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