Where to Put a Mouse or Trackpad

On a setup that is standard on notebooks but that seems unpopular on desktops.

Published on March 23, 2025, filed under Everything Else.

Where Frontend Dogma Gets Its News From

On sources for news and views that approach 4,000 items per year.

Published on March 20, 2025, filed under Development.

Utilization

Why don’t we talk more about queueing theory.

Published on March 18, 2025, filed under Management.

Prisoner’s Dilemma

On “tit for tat” with about 10% more forgiveness.

Published on March 16, 2025, filed under Philosophy and Everything Else.

Forwarding Appreciated: A WhatsApp [and Signal and LinkedIn] Link Sharing Bug That Cannot Be Reported

There’s an issue with WhatsApp link sharing that cannot be brought to WhatsApp’s attention. If you know someone at WhatsApp, please help (support appreciated with Signal and LinkedIn, too).

Published on March 12, 2025, filed under Development.

A Moratorium on Men Making Major Decisions

On the many news you’ve read today about a woman or a non-binary person invading another country, driving into a crowd, firing workers to maximize profits, raising taxes for low-income people, denying help, cutting benefits, beating someone up, setting a homeless person on fire, raping someone, making the life of a minority hell, endorsing or escalating a genocide, slashing education funding, or doing other WTF.

Published on March 9, 2025, filed under Everything Else.

DeepSeek and HTML

“What is the most minimal valid HTML document?”, DeepSeek-R1 edition.

Published on March 7, 2025, filed under Development.

On Ethics in Web Development (With a Brief Overview of Ethical Theories)

When we read and talk about ethics in technology, it’s rare that we’re explicit about the school(s) of thought we’re following. Surprisingly, this lack of clarity often works—but it’s relevant, interesting, and useful to be more clear about our ethical theories.

Published on March 6, 2025, filed under Development and Philosophy.

Website Optimization Measures, Part XXX

Everybody ♥️ website maintenance. On trimming input, updating WordPress ping services, cleaning up Eleventy architecture, reorganizing redirects, synchronizing server log configs, replacing dependencies by native Node functionality, adding minimal dark mode (HTML edition), and unfancying error pages.

Published on March 3, 2025, filed under Development.