Raindrop.io Bookmarks 06/16/2024

2024年6月16日 著

• htmx: Simplicity in an Age of Complicated Solutions

  "The engineering culture among many front-end developers seems to be one where simplicity is a dirty word. There are towering levels of abstraction, comically complicated and long build processes, bad performance, horrible tooling, and buggy applications, and everybody seems fine with this."

• Use of ch unit considered inappropriate (in certain circumstances) | Clagnut by Richard Rutter

  "The important part of Bringhurst's guideline is not the '66-characters' but the 'satisfactory length'. This is about readability, and readability is affected by the length of a line more so than the number of characters in it."

• Safari 18 -- what web features are usable across browsers? | Stefan Judis Web Development

  "And these are my highlights of this release. I've never been a fan of screaming "Safari is the new IE" because they're certainly at the forefront of adopting new web features. And it breaks my heart to see Firefox often lacking behind the new'n'fancy."

• Sustainable Computing in the New World of AI - www.caltech.edu

  "The computing industry's energy appetite is notoriously ravenous. Currently, this results in the industry producing between 2.1 and 3.9 percent of all global carbon emissions. And that is before the true impacts of new energy-consuming applications such as generative AI (artificial intelligence) and upgraded virtual communal spaces have kicked in."

• The future is built on solid foundations | Brad Frost

  "Organizations with solid foundations in place are better equipped to adopt emerging technology."

• The CSS attribute selector has a case-insensitive mode | Stefan Judis Web Development

  "One new selector flag caugh my eye; the attribute selector will become an i flag which makes it case-insensitive."