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Thudfactor Link Roundup #2

| This week's links lean more towards the technical / business side of things.

Markup for fancy headings

| How to mark up elaborate headline structures

Thudfactor link roundup #1

| In this first link roundup, I share posts about metrics, AI psychology, and accessibility that caught my attention this last week.

I Like JavaScript

A meerkat stands upright on a rock, watching the skies

| Regardless of what you think about it, JavaScript is a crucial part of the platform.

Why scrum fails

A branch of a shrub with a newly sprouted green leaf; the leaf and the branch are encased in ice

| Scrum seems like it works. I've seen it work; it's working for me now. Why do so many people think it's a failure?

A Fairy-Tale about Capitalism

Sunset over a large, mostly still body of water. The sun is already below the horzion, so the water is dark and the sky is fairly dark as well. There are a few wisps of clouds near the horizon that lighten the burt orange of the sky there.

| A story that illustrates what we were all told about capitalism, and most of us still feel to be true. Even if we know better.

18 months (or so) with AI

An old sawmill with a water wheel sits in front of a bunch of trees. The wood is very weathered, the sun bright, and it is mid-summer.

| A check-in on the AI front, both technically and culturally

The last Kindle

A bookshelf showing a complete set of the Great Books of the Western World, a wooden jack-o-lantern, and a ceramic lamp shaped like a pair of siamese cats. Off to the side you can see a couple of media shelves with variety of DVDs.

| Confessions of a data-hoarder in the midst of late capitalism.

Playing catch-up

Three knit swatches. The top is a stockinette swatch knit in the round. Bottom left is a yellow swatch in broken rib, and bottom right is a flat-knit stockinette swatch.

| Where my head is at after a three-month hiatus

Agile’s insistence on co-location is disabling

Closeup of a Mochamaster coffee pot with coffee and condensation in it

| Does “face to face” communication require our bodies to be in the same space, too?

Don’t drive screws with a hammer

Banner that reads We do this not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy.

| Sometimes developers will solve problems with the handy tool, not the right tool, just because it seems like less work. It's probably not.

The Regrettable State of Cross-Browser Testing

A very life-like sculpture of a security officer.

| Update-by-default has pushed the platform forward, but has also put browser testing out of reach for many

Uptake of the new CSS seems slow. Why?

A fortune from a fortune cookie, which reads Be content with your lot, one cannot be first in everything.

| There’s so much great new stuff in CSS, some of it with extraordinary support. Why aren’t people leaping on it?

Adventures in VIM part 2

A sunny day at Pandapas pond, with the bright blue sky and scattered clouds reflected perfectly in the water.

| The continuing story of migrating my brain from VSCode to vim

Adventures in VIM part 1

A weathered pier stretches out across a calm water in an overcast sky.

| Some thoughts on the first view days using neovim

Seeking a new editor

A short columnar flower blossom with tiny, white and blue blossoms.

| Some thoughts about changing up my typical toolset

Popovers and Dialogs, a (kinda) case study

| The differences (and similarities) of the new Popover API and the Dialog element.

Some rules about making rules

| My first one is “never call them rules.”

Is CSS a programming language?

| And why does it seem to matter to so many people?

AI, computers, and looms

A closeup photo of a Jacquard loom, a large wooden contraption with many threads attached and a thick stack of punch cards.

| We seem to be very selective about whose jobs deserve to be automated.

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