Tailwind 4.0: a True “Mea Culpa” Moment | That HTML Blog

Here we are. The ships have turned around. React 19 can now play in a world where not all of your components are built with React, and Tailwind 4 can now play in a world where not all of your HTML markup is riddled with utility classes. This is unequivocally a good thing,

A path forward indeed.

Peak Design denies snitching on Luigi Mangione - The Verge

“We cannot associate a product serial number with a customer unless that customer has voluntarily registered their product on our site.” The statement goes on to say that the serial numbers on the V1 of the Everyday backpack “were not unique or identifying … We did not implement unique serial numbers until V2 iterations of our Everyday Backpack.”

I’m sorry. What? How on earth did we get here. 🤨

From where I left -

if you read the new Redis license, sure, it’s not BSD, but basically as long as you don’t sell Redis as a service, you can use it in very similar ways and with similar freedoms as before (what I mean is that you can still modify Redis, redistribute it, use Redis commercially, in your for-profit company, for free, and so forth). You can even still sell Redis as a service if you want, as long as you release all the orchestration systems under the same license (something that nobody would likely do, but this shows the copyleft approach of the license). The license language is almost the same as the AGPL, with changes regarding the SAAS stuff. So, not OSI approved? Yes, but I have issues calling the SSPL a closed license.

Totally fine. Never was quite sure why the community was so upset. Only businesses that sell Redis as a service should really care. 🤷‍♂️

I Would Not Take My Post-Assassination Meal At An Altoona McDonald’s, But I Guess I’m Built Different | Defector

Heretofore unimagined levels of operational preplanning! A pistol, a bicycle, and the wherewithal and intent to use them: Your high-end professional contract killer might possess any two of these, but all three? Now we are in the realm of speculation. Of fantasy. We are talking about some type of Ernst Stavro Blofeld type of guy. The hardest of hard targets.

Brilliant from start to finish.

Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React - Josh Collinsworth blog

React falls behind in terms of performance (and here I mean both bundle size and execution speed) by factors of 2 or more in many cases. (The bundle itself can be by 10x or more.) The latest run of the JS web frameworks benchmark places React’s performance, on average, at almost 50% slower than Solid, 25% slower than Vue, 40% slower than Svelte, and 35% slower than Preact. (Other frameworks weren’t available in this particular test.)

Woof. That’s slow. 🐢

Why Amazon, Disney, and others are pushing employees back to the office - The Verge

Here are some of the news stories, surveys, and studies we discussed in this episode, if you’d like to learn more:

A great list of articles and resources at the bottom of the article.

Feeling despair after Trump’s 2024 election win? Viktor Frankl can help. | Vox

He argued that human beings always have agency, even when we’re facing a horrible reality that it’s too late to undo. “When we are no longer able to change a situation,” he wrote, “we are challenged to change ourselves.”

Builder Day 2024: 18 big updates to the Workers platform

Starting today, as an early developer preview, you can use OpenNext to deploy Next.js apps to Cloudflare Workers via @opennextjs/cloudflare, a new npm package that lets you use the Node.js “runtime” in Next.js on Workers.

That’s excellent. An alternative to having Next.js deployed on Vercel is great for everyone.

I’m back, Ruby on Rails | WildCat’s Blog

Ruby on Rails is a full-stack framework. It has a lot of built-in features, such as ActiveRecord, ActionMailer, ActionCable, and SolidQueue. You don’t need to make a lot of decisions when you start a new project. You can just follow the conventions and get things done.

Years of the JS community and there’s a real feeling of fatigue with each and every decision you gotta make, over and over.

All About Hotwire and Turbo - DEV Community

Officially “Turbo is a collection of techniques for creating fast, progressively enhanced web applications without using much JavaScript. All the logic lives on the server, and the browser deals just with the final HTML.”

Alex Morgan, a star on and off the pitch for U.S. soccer, announces retirement - The Washington Post

Alex Morgan, a centerpiece of the U.S. women’s national soccer team that won two World Cups and an Olympic gold medal, and one of the program’s greatest scorers, announced that she will retire after Sunday’s game with the NWSL’s San Diego Wave.

An absolute fucking legend.

Implementing React from scratch

My goal here is to walk through my process of building react from the groundup, hopefully giving you an intuition to why things behave the way they do in react. There are many cases where react leaks its abstraction in the interface, so learning how the internals could by implemented is extremely useful to understand the motivation behind those interface designs.

Very cool.

Gregg Berhalter faces questions about USMNT job after Copa América failure - The Washington Post

He was tasked with getting the most out of a roster gushing with youthful promise and primed to take the next step in the Americans’ drive to the 2026 World Cup. Instead, they fell on their faces. No one expected the U.S. team to win Copa América or even get close to the final, but to not get out of the group stage? Woof.

Enough said. Woof.

Apple News Plus is ready to work offline - The Verge

Even if subscribers are outside cellular or Wi-Fi range (or if there’s a massive outage), Apple News Plus on iOS 17.5 can still supply them content now that it’s added Offline Mode —

In the year 2024 it is ridiculous to think that an app on my iPhone only gets updated with the OS itself.

4 common arguments against DEI—and how to dismantle each one - Fast Company

In the 1940s, these sidewalk modifications were designed so that war veterans and soldiers with disabilities could better access walking paths. While initially an effort to support a specific community, people with strollers, bikes, and many more found sidewalk curb cuts beneficial to their mobility and access, creating unexpected but welcome positive externalities.

Unexpected. Positive. Externalities.

Manton Reece - TikTok bill is not xenophobic

Wondering about China’s influence on the TikTok algorithm isn’t xenophobic. It’s not about the people. It’s about the leadership. In the same way we can blame Putin for the war in Ukraine and still be sympathetic and trusting of the Russian people, we can be skeptical of the motivations of the Chinese Communist Party and still respect people in China, admire their culture, and welcome Chinese immigrants to America with open arms.

Really well said. 100% agree.

Linux is now an option for safety-minded software-defined vehicle developers | Ars Technica

There’s a new Linux distro on the scene today, and it’s a bit specialized. Its development was led by the automotive electronics supplier Elektrobit, and it’s the first open source OS that complies with the automotive industry’s functional safety requirements.

2024 The Year of Linux on the … automobile?

The Efforts to Extend ActivityPub - We Distribute

“I think there will be a working group chartered at the W3C to make backwards-compatible changes,” Evan Prodromou explains, “especially clarifying difficult text, and possibly recommending profiles for other standards…”

GE Profile™ Leads the Way in AI Technology and Precision Cooking Modes with Cookcam™ AI | GE Appliances Pressroom

GE Profile™ is introducing a new over-the-air software upgrade to owners of select wall ovens with in-oven cameras with Cookcam™ AI. The new innovative AI feature recognizes what is being cooked and automates the rest. Harnessing the images of the in-oven cameras, it expertly identifies your food and recommends the best Precision Cooking Mode, ensuring great results every time.

Once the food is placed in the oven and the door is shut, the camera takes images[1] of the oven cavity and uses AI and machine learning to detect and identify the food. Within a few seconds, the oven will chime and recommend a specific Precision Cooking Mode on the oven’s LCD touchscreen and cooking is underway with just a few taps on the screen.

Where to even start?

  • over-the-air updates
  • built in camera(s) plural
  • AI and ML
  • touchscreen

An oven should have NONE of these things.

Paying people to work on open source is good actually - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Many, many more people should be getting paid to write free software, but for that to happen we’re going to have to be okay accepting impure or imperfect mechanisms. Criticize those mechanisms if you like. Work to change the underlying societal inequities – please!

But when a maintainer finds a way to get paid, celebrate them. It’s a win for all of us.

I am reminded of a Talk by Mike Monteiro appropriately called “Fuck You. Pay Me” if you haven’t seen it, absolutely worth your time. # Mike Monteiro: F*ck You, Pay Me

Apple is officially dropping iPhone support for web apps in the EU - The Verge

Apple says it’s removing homescreen apps for users in the EU because bringing them into compliance with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) would involve “an entirely new integration architecture” that’s “not practical” to build on top of the other changes it’s been forced to make. One of these changes requires Apple to let third-party browsers use their own engines on iOS.

Wow. Just wow. While I shouldn’t be surprised by Apple’s actions, they continue to raise the bar on being actively hostile towards the web and their own users when enacting their service fee isn’t possible.

Four important bolts were missing

I could argue that EVERY bolt on an airplane is “important”

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Full-Scratch Implementor of OAuth and OpenID Connect Talks About Findings | by Takahiko Kawasaki

The OpenID Connect website says “OpenID Connect 1.0 is a simple identity layer on top of the OAuth 2.0 protocol.” and this gives an impression that OpenID Connect can be implemented easily and seamlessly on top of an existing OAuth 2.0 implementation. However, the truth is utterly different. IMHO, OpenID Connect is virtually OAuth 3.0.

Oh you know. Just some light reading on oauth and openId protocols. 🙃

Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free — ProPublica

But the success of TurboTax rests on a shaky foundation, one that could collapse overnight if the U.S. government did what most wealthy countries did long ago and made tax filing simple and free for most citizens.

Seriously. Do it, like yesterday.

The 2024 Kia EV9, an electric three-row SUV designed with the US in mind | Ars Technica

American car buyers love purchasing way more car than they need. Have a kid and a dog? You’d better get a Suburban. Need to tow a Hobie Cat to the lake once or twice a year? Get a full-size diesel four-wheel drive pickup. Looking at an EV for your family? Well, it had better do 400 miles at a time and charge in 15 minutes, despite you having a six-mile commute.

On point.