Reading List 327
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- OpenFreeMap lets you display custom maps on your website and apps for free. You can either self-host or use our public instance. Everything is open-source, including the full production setup
- Create a semantic breakout button to make an entire element clickable – by Andy Bell and his whippet
- mobile developer numbers have decreased again – Stack Overflow survey: “the number of mobile developers steadily decreasing YoY… companies are less and less interested in native mobile development, mainly because developing a responsive web page or a progressive web app is much easier and cheaper than a native app”
- Progress of Blink for iOS – slides from a lightning talk at BlinkOn by Gyuyoung Kim of Igalia
- Hackers Found Millions of Kias Could Be Tracked, Controlled With Just a Plate Number – “Kia updated its web portal after the hackers informed them of the security issue, which was similar to a past vulnerability with Lexus and Toyota vehicles”
- CSS min() All The Things – “a useful tool for responsive layouts that adapt to the viewport’s size”
- Interop 2025 must drop secret vetos – help persuade browser engine devs make next year’s Interop process more transparent by giving a thumbsup on the handful of bugs listed in the article
- Web Components Are Not the Future — They’re the Present – “The people actually shipping software are tired of framework churn. They’re tired of shit they wrote last month being outdated already. They want stability. They want to know that the stuff they build today will work tomorrow. As history has proven, no framework can promise that” by Cory LaViska
- Web components are okay – “As a framework author, if you want to freeze your thinking in 2011 and code as if nothing new was added to the web platform since then, you absolutely can! And you can still write a great framework! This is the beauty of the web” by Nolan (no relation) Lawson
- Web Components are not Framework Components — and That’s Okay – “The bottom line is, web components reduce the number of use cases where we need to reach for a framework, but complex large applications will likely still benefit from one” by Lea Verou
- Streaming Television Industry Conducting Vast Surveillance of Viewers, Targeting Them with Manipulative AI-driven Ad Tactics, Says New Report – “Leading streaming video programming networks, CTV device companies and “smart” TV manufacturers, allied with many of the country’s most powerful data brokers, are creating extensive digital dossiers on viewers based on a person’s identity information, viewing choices, purchasing patterns, and thousands of online and offline behaviors.”
- Google must crack open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge
- Overriding Gatekeeper Protections in MacOS 15 Sequoia Will Require Clicking Through Panels in System Settings – Blimey. Even Gruber thinks Apple’s gatekeeper nannying “for your comfort and security” has gone too far
- Android 15 could add built-in support for app archiving – Imagine if, instead of an elaborate “app archiving” subsystem to reclaim space taken up by seldom-used single-platform apps, you could just tap a homescreen icon which called a web page full-screen when you needed it. Imagine if that were possible across all Operating Systems, built with free, open standards instead of proprietary flim-flam.
- How North Korea Infiltrated the Crypto Industry – as if Crypto were not dirty enough already, it looks like the vile North Korean government might be making huge money from it.
- Mosaic Netscape 0.9 was released 30 years ago today (Oct 13 1994)
- Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours By P. Syme – A recreation of the original 1821 color guidebook that Charles Darwin consulted during his voyages
Buy "Calling For The Moon", my debut album of songs I wrote while living in Thailand, India, Turkey. (Only £2, on Bandcamp.)