Its exhausting to see 3rd party plugins using 0,4,0 specificity and adding !important to every style property in these selectors. Also, why use BEM and nesting? This is like... exactly the wrong way to make your plugin extensible.
There’s a robust modding scene for iPods and I wish I had more money / desk space to get into electrical and hardware engineering. Even though Apple killed them, it’s still possible to get a refurbished & upgraded iPod with a huge SSD, brand new battery, and… ✨a dedicated hardware audio jack✨
If anyone has a line on one of those $370k/yr do-nothing jobs at a FAANG company, hit me up. I have a lot of open source work I need to finance.
The Ghost starter theme needs a less built out "skeleton" version. I appreciated the example styles when I started experimenting with development, but there's some stuff in here like overly-specific CSS selectors, no BEM, no postcss nesting, and 1rem = 10px that need to be exercised. 👻 🩻
“… an advanced stage of the same illness that's plaguing many other American cities: the elimination of a local paper from its role in not only helping residents understand the place in which they live, but holding political actors accountable to those people as well.”
In a much healthier local media environment, the Times would just be one of many news outlets that has their editorial board select a candidate. But as always, the importance of the Times has less to do with its own greatness, and more to do with the poverty of other options.
New York City's local news coverage losses continue to pile up, and other links to start your day.
Now games writers are generally punished for being curious, punished for not adhering to SEO and performing keyword hocus-pocus. Every weekend my social media and discord fills up with talented but burnt-out writers who are amazed their job even survived another week. I wish things were different.
Nobody wants this. We all deserve so much better. There are so many interesting things we can learn from each other and stories to tell. Instead we’re forced to navigate a landscape shaped by SEO and AdSense, converted into digital fingerprints for banner ad salesman. I just want read about science.
A lot of really interesting conversations going on under this post about what good moderation looks like for social spaces on the internet.
