The wife tagged along as the trip coincided with Mother’s Day and her birthday. Plus she loves to travel. So we headed over early and stopped by Barcelona and Madrid. Beautiful cities.

Life updates for the bird site:

Last week I went to Portugal for a company offsite. We’re 100% virtual and need events like this to bond and connect in person. It was awesome.

@haritssr No libraries, just hand-coded JS

Mechanical Watch – ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/

Building a data team at a mid-stage startup: a short story by @bernhardsson erikbern.com/2021/07/07/the-data…

@Rmmmsy @jesseflorig I came here to post this

@brianboyer Slowly reinvent Google+ as they fade into obscurity

twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1525…

Please don’t import SVGs as JSX. It’s the most expensive form of sprite sheet: costs a minimum of 3x more than other techniques, and hurts both runtime (rendering) performance and memory usage.

This bundle from a popular site is almost 50% SVG icons (250kb), and most are unused. t.co/G1IgOjTeIT

“Cool Things People Do With Their Blogs” is a cool post about blogs. The RSS-Tricks section is the most interesting. /via @ericwbailey brainbaking.com/post/2022/04/coo…

In defense of Single Page Applications

(ht @josephruscio)

williamkennedy.ninja/javascript/…

As someone who spent several years helping build Twitter, I have some thoughts on what — if anything at all — Elon Musk means to the future of the service. It’s 3,555 heartfelt words, but you’ll sail right through it. 💙⛵️ mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/…

@noaheverett Is this sexting?

I think Google’s sign in prompts on your phone are a good balance support.google.com/accounts/answ…

I got a Google Titan Security Key for free but I’m hesitant to use it since it will make logging in so much harder. I don’t want to have to keep this dongle with me wherever I go.

@cameronmoll OH no! Here it is on Archive.org archive.org/details/The_Web_Ahea…

You can also read the transcript in the previous link

@cameronmoll See the 49:19 mark of this podcast episode thewebahead.net/109#transcript

@miked1ck This is the best version youtube.com/watch?v=PXvh08Mnork

@gijovarghese141 If it was a press event and the audience is all journalists then they aren’t supposed to clap and cheer.

My guess is bird app daddy musk doesn’t follow through and backs out of buying Twitter.