I completely agree, and I’ve said as much. meta tags + RSS is all your blog needs.

Ah I see. Well it’s true that there’s some concern about how the compatibility story could work from M3 onward, but as I said, M1/M2 generation is pretty solid and you can get a great deal from the used market. I don’t know who was telling you it sucked. 😅

A used Apple M2 desktop or laptop is probably the best deal in the biz right now. I’m rocking Asahi GNOME on an old Mac mini M1 right now, works great. Why worry about ditching Asahi? Are you having any problems with it?

The downsizings will continue until morale improves.

I’ve been sharing this far and wide today, and bookmarked as a must-have resource. Absolutely fantastic article, with reams of modern best practices. Love to see it!

Fedora GNOME.

If that doesn’t tickle your fancy, plenty of other options, but it’s a great beginner distro (especially for long-time Apple nerds like me).

Overhyped then.

Overhyped now.

Stop trying to make “API economy” happen! 😂

And yet when I look at the UI of KDE, it’s not for me. At all. 😅

Totally fine that other people use it and appreciate it! All I’m saying is I’d still be full-time on macOS if it weren’t for modern GNOME.

The only reason I use desktop Linux is because of GNOME and the UX of the GTK ecosystem. Not everyone care about 5 billion points of customization, they care about simplicity & consistency. 😄

Maybe…I misinterpreted your post. I think I’m on your side actually 😄

Absolutely against the DoB addition, yep.

This is getting really old, really damn fast. 🫩

I suppose nobody should work with you then, since you’re here complaining about things publicly.

In all seriousness though, Cine is pretty nice.

Hehe, I’m actually using a 6 year-old Mac mini M1 running Asahi Fedora, and it kicks ass.

Pagefind is an awesome solution and can work with pretty much any static site generator. https://pagefind.app/

For example, I use it here on my site That HTML Blog.

XML is very good for documents and other structured content formats. The problem is people took XML and used that for things that aren’t really documents. That led to a lot of people hating XML for the things it wasn’t good at and thus hating XML even for the things it is good at.

I wish we could find a reasonable middle ground. I’d love to have a job where I work a lot more with XML to be honest!

Just sounds like somebody who isn’t good at their job. “Not committing to answers” isn’t the role, the opposite is true.

And why is this article so antagonistic? The takeaway is…what, exactly? It’s obvious to anyone who’s been paying attention for the last few years that most companies working in tech desperately need UX—good, caring, talented people working in UX who are given real decision-making power. Otherwise the people making decisions are user-hostile FOMO VPs and C-suite types, and they’re making a damn mess everywhere.

The answer to bad UX designers isn’t no UX designers, it’s better UX designers. And give them some damn power already!

I’m a big fan of Web Awesome. It can scale from just a CSS starter like Pico all the way to a full component library, depending on what you need.

https://webawesome.com/

And yet hype cycles are real and many of them have bellyflopped. Microslop is similarly in real danger of shooting themselves in the foot with this terrible rebranding.

…and your point is?