I’m mulling on a good approach for parsing feeds on this micro blog. Creating a feed is easy, but parsing one is kinda messed. Many feeds out there are not valid, and that’s sorta expected. The W3C website has a nice RSS and Atom feed validator. There’s also the RSS and Atom feed specification.

Naming things is hard. For the times when you don’t know what or how to name things, there’s schema.org. Sometimes it helps.

Someone told me that today was Friday the 13th — so here’s an old meme to celebrate our collective misfortunes.

Firefox’s developer tools excel at finding and fixing accessibility problems quickly. For example, to find all contrast issues on a page fire up the accessibility inspector and scan the DOM tree. My favorite developer tools? You guessed it — Firefox.

What makes a text editor or software in general popular? In my opinion — distribution and marketing. Anyone can make working software given sufficient time, but marketing is where the actual magic happens. The tech and fashion industry are cousins.

ActivityPub

All roads lead toward the ad based revenue model, but sometimes I wonder what comes after that? The singularity?

Microsoft Edge is poised to become a very popular browser. Seems like there are more tech savvy users on Edge versus Chrome. Online, people talk a lot about Firefox, but spotting someone using that browser is like finding a unicorn.

The CSS flexible box layout (flexbox) is a great spec. The flex-direction property allows rearranging the position of children inside a flex container. This works in pretty much every browser — even defunct ones like Internet Explorer. Don’t work hard and write JavaScript, be lazy and write CSS.

Dictionaries or even Wikipedia will never tell you what words mean, just what people think they mean. Very very important distinction.