Note archive: December, 2021

Boarding an airplane to fly into 2022.

Ooh, Parable of the Sower almost topped my fiction list this year (great book!):

https://adactio.com/journal/18712

I’ll definitely be reading Parable of the Talents in 2022.

Going to Bisbee. brb

Given how fast framework complexity has escalated in the past couple of years, it feels like we’re at the point where not using a framework for web dev could be a strategic advantage for a new startup or company

— Baldur Bjarnason

I don’t know who’s more excited: my four year old niece waiting for Santa to visit or me waiting for the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope.

🎅 🚀 🔭

Getting very excited about a James Webb Space Telescope Christmas …but also getting nervous, remembering the Beagle2 Christmas that wasn’t.

شب یلدا مبارک

I think that IE10- and Safari6- can’t access The Session anyway because of TLS protocol mismatch, so ditching those polyfills shouldn’t cause any issues.

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=thesession.org

I’ve still got some polyfills in place for IE11 on The Session, but I’d be happy to see ABCJS ditch its polyfills if it makes for a lighter payload.

(Or let me know what the polyfills are and I could add them in myself.)

Reading The Road from Castlebarnagh: Growing Up in Irish Music, A Memoir by Paddy O’Brien.

“Personalized ads pay better, hence tracking exists.”

Citation needed.

Counterpoint: https://adactio.com/journal/17658

Going to Arizona. brb

All I want for Christmas is for the James Webb Space Telescope to make it to L2 okay.

I don’t agree with your assertion that “The real problem isn’t that the code comes from a third-party. It is that the third-party can change the code arbitrarily.” A tracking script with subresource integrity is still a tracking script.

Boosted. 💉💉💉

But it is a zero-sum game.

https://adactio.com/links/18668

Any money that one person makes from buying low and selling high must come from someone else who bought high and sold low – there are as many losers as winners.

Reading Record Of A Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers.