Activity for vale.rocks

I just saw a marketing page refer to a product as the 'final solution'. I didn't think it needed saying, but don't go around advertising the 'final solution'. There are some connotations there...

Y'know that scene at the end of [action blockbuster] where you see the guy walk out of the flames caused by the huge explosion? Well, I'm fairly sure Mat is that guy.

Mat “Wilto” Marquis@wil.to

I don’t know what’s ahead for web development, and I couldn’t change it if I did. What I do know is that I want more than this for us. I want more than this for you. I may not know what happens next, but I know that I can help you be ready for it. So I’m not done. wil.to/js4e/newslet...

Information architecture? More like, 'Blimey, I'm 90% through organising this crap, and now I've just found a stupid edge case that means I've got to reorganise the entire hierarchy and structure.'

The sudden sinking feeling when you're given a codebase to work on, then you notice the HTML tags are all written in uppercase, that there is no document declaration, and that there are conditional comments for Internet Explorer.

With Xbox struggling and the PlayStation physical media fiasco, Sega has the chance to do the funniest thing.

Smashing ahead at Mach 5 presently. Can't wait to catapult the fruits of my labour at you all.

Stumbled across this. A Blink-based (not WebKit-based!) browser running natively on iOS. Wild. github.com/Nodesclock/B...

Okay folks. People are interested in this idea – it has legs and I want to make it happen. If you're a digital professional and interested in being part of such a freelancer collective, send me a message. Nothing set in stone yet, but I've got concepts of a plan and would like to establish this.

Vale@vale.rocks

Perhaps a freelancer collective is needed? A distributed agency. Different people with different specialisations sharing resources and referring work to each other based on their capabilities. Every freelancer I know is reporting difficulty finding work, and they're long established in the industry.

You can say 'the industry is fucked and we're all doomed' and people don't even dispute it. They just look at you like:

A thread, because things are feeling rough at present. 🧵👇 I'm not quite sure where to go or what to do. I'm watching my peers slowly burn out, go quiet, quit the industry, or struggle on hoping it'll get better in time. Even if the storm is weathered, what comes out the other side?

There is working going ahead at present to allow permissioned data on the AT Protocol. This is great in a lot of ways. Being able to have private data will open up a lot of doors. My fear is that this will bring an end to the open environment of the Atmosphere. The openness is what makes it great.

daniel holmgren 🫠 (@ dweb camp 🏕️)@dholms.at

just in the nick of time! github.com/bluesky-soci...

I suppose Google Search's full pivot to AI explains why Google dropped support for non-JavaScript usage at the end of 2025.

They should do a show like Air Crash Investigations, but instead of investigating aeroplanes, they investigate what went wrong at last Tuesday's all-hands.

I'm glad people have enjoyed my posts about web browsers on game consoles and virtual reality devices, but I've heard enough anecdotes from people about using the Dreamcast/Wii/Xbox/Vita/Quest/etc to watch porn. Please no more.

AutoMod used to have a red accent, but the logo was rainbow-ified for pride month a few years ago and it stuck. Sometimes people are critical of it which weeds them out, and sometimes people message me because they appreciate the representation and it makes them feel safe.

Reddit is slowly winding down Old Reddit. Functionality is being removed and features are discreetly disappearing. They're quite obviously eroding its functionality so that when they finally kill it there is less outrage. Sucks as someone who makes money from Old Reddit stylesheets...

Ars Technica@arstechnica.com

I love CSS, but it isn't perfect. Even the CSSWG admits so, with a published list of design mistakes. FixCSS is a little library that tackles these mistakes and presents the CSS syntax that could have been. A fun little look at an alternate universe. tangled.org/vale.rocks/F...

Seeing lots of discussion of smart glasses as of late. Especially a petition to the UK Government regarding banning them. A few thoughts: vale.rocks/micros/20260...