Spooky action.

Reality is a bonus stage in the lifecycle of jokes/memes. VanillaJS, ZeroVer, and “The Year of The Linux Desktop” are semi–serious concepts now. Makes me lol. This is the case for everything — including politics.

Rumor has it that a certain country’s political discourse is actively “memed” by anonymous forums on the Internet. That’s some Serial Experiments Lain type spookiness — funny, until it becomes utterly terrifying.

Sweetheart Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland (© Westend61/Getty Images)

A lot of websites dump the entire feed — that’s nice. Ideally for bandwidth efficiency, combine multiple delivery strategies.

1. A partial content feed (Atom preferred) limited to the last 3/5/10 posts for quick queries.

2. A full content RSS feed of a similar limit for fresh content.

3. A hidden/unlisted feed for dumping all content (mirror).

Alternatively, just implement atom’s collection partial lists for feed pagination. If your post bandwidth (size/frequency) is low, then pretend you didn’t see this — be lazy and optimize later.

Long-beaked common dolphin pod and diving Cape gannets hunting sardines off the Eastern Cape, South Africa (© Pete Oxford/Minden Pictures)

The Bergamot project is a collaboration between Mozilla, University of Edinburgh, Charles University in Prague, the University of Sheffield, and University of Tartu with funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation …

Websites have many reasons to notify their users of time-sensitive or high-priority events, even if the user does not currently have the site open.

Haaga Rhododendron Park, Helsinki, Finland (© Samuli Vainionpää/Getty Images)

Web UI and UX? Not sure about web UI design, but for UX Nielsen and Baymard are supposed to be canon.

1. How Users Read on the Web, 1997
2. Formatting Links for Usability, 2010

WWDC22 is here, and with it, a host of announcements of new web technology shipping in WebKit on macOS, iOS and iPadOS, including advancements in privacy and security – plus new features for Safari, Web Inspector and Safari Web Extensions.