#jeremykeith (7 links)
- Adactio: Journal—Erase and rewind adactio.com
"The BBC is employing a slash-and-burn policy regarding online content. 172 websites are going to disappear down the memory hole. Just to be clear, these sites aren’t going to be archived. They are going to be deleted from the web. Server space is the new magnetic tape." Nnng.
- Adactio: Journal—Three questions adactio.com
The WHATWG spec is the place to look for what’s new and evolving. The W3C spec, once it goes into Last Call, is the place to look for the official milestone that is HTML5. In practice, the two specs will be pretty much identical for quite a while yet. But the truth is that authors shouldn’t be looking at specs to decide what to use—look at what browsers support in order to decide if you should use a particular feature—look at the spec to understand how to use features of HTML5.
- Adactio: Journal—A responsive mind adactio.com
The choice is not between using media queries and creating a dedicated mobile site; the choice is between using media queries and doing nothing at all.
- Adactio: Journal—Ship talk adactio.com
Quick summary of the Tom Taylor, Bobbie Johnson, Paul Ford media/shipping discussion plus nice reiteration on (no) comments: "I don’t think we should be looking at comments to see conversations. It isn’t much of a conversation when the same person determines the subject matter of every dialogue. The best online conversations I’ve seen have been blog to blog: somebody posts something on their blog; somebody else feels compelled to respond on their own blog. The quality of such a response is nearly always better than a comment on the originating blog for the simple reason that people care more about what appears on their own site than on someone else’s."
I’m being cyberstalked by a paranoid existentialist chalkboard.
- Adactio: Journal—Building Reprieve adactio.com
I persevered, I obediently followed the tutorial, and I discovered all the things that make Django such a powerful framework; the excellent separation of concerns, the superb templating system, the lack of so-called front-end “helpers” that cripple other server-side frameworks. I think Gareth was really onto something when he noticed the way that the web standards world appears to be choosing Django.
- Adactio: Journal—PaperCamp adactio.com
Papercamp writeup from Jeremy Keith.