bkardell @bkardell@toot.cafe
Brian, you know, from the Internet. Betterifying the Web. Co-author Extensible Web Manifesto | Standards Dude (JS Foundation) https://bkardell.com
SF Bay Area Web Devs:
Join is at Samsung Create coming up later this week in San Jose. We have a great and diverse speaker line-up (including @ada, @tink, @diekus & @reybango) and we're giving away 100% of ticket revenue to charity! Check out https://samsungcreate.com for details and to sign-up. I hope to see you there! #SamsungCreate
hmm, well this seems bad...
You don't say?
I find mastodon's UI very noisy and confusing :( I would use this way more if I could just figure out how to make it less so.
Pro tip: Set your default browser to something other than the one you use every day. Good way to see beyond your browser monoculture.
RT @TheBrandonMorse@twitter.com
Someone auto-tuned “Smells Like Teen Spirit” to a major chord, and now life is confusing. https://vimeo.com/249694026
Alright, help me out... Imagine you could pick any one of these Jeremy Mann paintings to own, but you have to hang it prominently in your home forever. Which one, why?
Ok, this is kind of important..
https://bkardell.com/blog/W3CTAGElectionChange.html
1) There's a W3C Election underway
2) @dbaron and andrew betts are up for re-election and need your support because
3) The rules just changed pretty radically
For Thanksgiving I decided to publish the first part of a post I've been working on, so that I can be thankful I don't have to look at it anymore.
@nolan I wonder whose Mastodon instance will get more joins from that tpac mention 😁
Part III in my series on making the browser speak and listen to speech...
New Post: Part of a series on bringing speech to the Web...
New blog post: Burnout and Twitter fatigue https://nolanlawson.com/2017/08/23/burnout-and-twitter-fatigue/
Lost internet access today.. it was terrible.
Design like you give a damn! The original post from back in 2011 https://tink.uk/design-like-you-give-a-damn/
Chapters.io is live streaming right now with a presentation on Web Payments with Mozilla's Marcos Caceres https://www.pscp.tv/w/1LyxBBLqbZyxN followed by town hall - watch, queue up your questions
I love the web. We need more articles like this explaining what the web is, and what *isn't* the web: https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/24/15681958/what-is-web-definition
Can I do on Mastodon? I haven't figured it out if so
JS is 22 years old today.
I joined Netscape on 4 April 1995, lured by jg&mtoy to "do scheme in the browser". Upon joining I found (1) headcount wars in pre-IPO NSCP left the client group unable to hire me as planned, so I joined the server team; (2) Sun was doing the Java deal with Netscape. Sun viewed Netscape as the vector for its Java virus, didn't care about integration with HTML -- but Bill Joy "got it" and along with Marc Anddressen supported me doing "Mocha". After a month on server side
There's an election happening in the W3C: Here's what it is, what it's about, how it works, and how you can help...
https://bkardell.com/blog/W3C-Congress.html
Also, why I most strongly support Natasha Rooney, Mike Champion, Chris Wilson and Judy Zhu