Apple is a big tech conglomerate with serious antitrust problems. They’re also a source of tremendous technological progress for the industry. It’s entirely possible to seek counter to the former and still celebrate the latter.
But most people are indeed more comfortable with ideologically pure lines. I don’t have much interest in that. I want to see Apple’s monopoly abuses stopped by law and regulation. And I want to see Apple’s chip team take ARM to the moon. Their Safari crew do import maps. And 😄
The same is true for Google! They too are a serial monopoly abuser. Laws and regulations must rise to counter that threat. At the same time, the Chrome team has been an awesome job moving the web and its standards forward. I want the former stopped, the latter celebrated.
Indeed. Yes, there are transgressions that are so beyond the pale that it’s hard to separate. But, for me, those are very far out on the spectrum. The most interesting people are usually - in your eyes - flawed and contradicting and WRONG from time to time 😄
This is my favorite Tesla: Focused on pushing range to the max, speed to the max, and setting the tone for interior looks (if not quality). FSD pipe dream is a distraction. A 520-mile range 5-seater EV that does 0-60s in <2s for $139K? 🤯😍 theverge.com/2021/1/27/2225…
Tesla has no legacy range to protect, like Porsche. It's clear that every non-EV performance car is now legacy. ICE is solidly in the horse category now. Something you do for the smell, the sound, and the nostalgia. I love this.
The funny thing is that I really don't like how Teslas drive. I hate the steering weights, I loathe the pedal return spring, the brakes are seriously underpowered for the performance. But Tesla has now set the bar. Hyper car performance for a fraction of the price.
"At first I was a skeptic about Hey. Why would I want to pay for email when Gmail is free? Then I started using it.. It was good, but $99/year good? Then I signed up for a year.. and I’ve been happy with my decision every day." ❤️ birchtree.me/blog/how-im-us…
There are a million reasons why @heyhey shouldn't have worked. We're competing against free*, we're competing against the biggest tech companies in the world, we're daring radical changes to a system people have decades of ingrained experience with. But it did! It did work!
That fact that we've signed up many tens of thousands of customers to PAY FOR EMAIL on a brand-new platform that's still missing obvious elements (hello custom domains!) is pretty wild. It's humbling. And it's invigorating. Makes me all the more excited about going the distance.
JustEat has signed an agreement with the Danish union 3F to cover their 600 food delivery drivers. The pay is set to $21/hr, flexible hours from 8-37h per week, +50-100% overtime pay, pension, sick leave, parental leave, vacation, the works 😍 politiken.dk/ibyen/art80801…
This is an incredible agreement that lays waste to the idea that gig work can't both offer a dignified form of employment and proper pay. It should also serve as a counterexample to the industry spin in the US that we need a 3rd (class) classification of workers.
Delivering food is worthy of proper pay and working conditions. Driving people around is worthy of proper pay and working conditions. ALL FORMS OF EMPLOYMENT ARE WORTHY OF THAT! Putting an app and an algorithm in front does not negate any of it.
Helping your employees working from home deal with air quality issues is as important, if not more, than making sure they got whatever tech tools they need 👍
Several people at Basecamp discovered dangerous living conditions after measuring their IAQ. Explaining all sorts of “mysterious” physical conditions. I wouldn’t dare live in a new place without knowing what the IAQ was like.
After 1500 ppm, your ability to think strategically, amongst other higher cognitive functions, is more than cut in half on standardized testing! Working creatively under heavy CO2 accumulation is like trying to write a novel with a crayon.
Just a reminder of how utterly insane the amount of trackers, advertising cookies, and other spyware the @nytimes subjects its readers to online 🤯. All presented on a little mini-site as though it's all totally cool and fine and hey go fuck yourself. nytimes.com/privacy/cookie…
So say you don't want @nytimes to send your personal information to Facebook. You click the opt-out link, and land in the next rabbit hole. Do they still carry a shadow profile on you if you don't use FB? No notice on that. facebook.com/help/568137493…
Imagine actually going through the 25 different places @nytimes spreads your personal data to read about the unique way this is happening on that site. And how you might in 27 simple steps stop that from happening under a blue moon. Pretty sure nobody has ever done that.
Import maps are on by default in Chrome 89 😍. That’s quicker than I dared hope. Awesome!! Now what say ye, @firefox (cc: who’s the right person?) and @webkit (cc: @jensimmons) 🙏?
As a recap, import maps allow you to serve JavaScript modules directly in the browser with statements like: import { Controller } from “stimulus”. And then stimulus can be mapped to a fingerprinted specific file. When you update that file, no need to change source code.
This is essentially a yarn.lock file for in-browser dependency resolution. But it’s in many ways even cooler, because you can map these resolutions to web addresses too! Perfect for @skypackjs and other CDNs. It really is the missing key for a bundler-less JS future 🌈☀️