> _“To ensure line lengths don’t exceed 80 characters, the #CSS `max-width` property can be set using font-relative lengths of around `70ch` or `34em` (note that this value will need to be adjusted slightly up or down depending on the font used).”_
I'm so annoyed by the _appification_ of services…
No, I won't install your stupid app just to book a haircut, to see the balance in my meal card, or to be notified when my vehicle is ready to leave the garage.
Especially if your stupid app needs a ton of irrelevant permissions, weights 250 MB, keeps itself always busy in the background and bugs me with notifications!
Develop a fucking universal web app which can be used by pretty much anyone anywhere immediately and without leaving a trail of binary droppings.
Best of wishes to the good people of the @w3c during this transition phase!
#Microsoft, #Skype: this is very stupid.
What comes before the `@` in my email address is… a single character. You're banning a letter of the alphabet for me.
You're preventing me from using a very robust, completely new password — so now I have to make some contortions (and most importantly, _remember_ those contortions) to adapt my usual password strategy to this silly requirement.
I don't know if it's me having worked full-time for nine organisations already (five of them for-profit #startups), the industry itself having changed, me getting old and grumpy, or a combination of all of the above, but **too often now, the typical start-up attitude feels almost disgusting to me**.
The jargon, the buzzwords, the grandiose goals, the productivity hacks, the hyped substacks or podcasts, the cheesy taglines, the obsession with “growth” and “disruption”…
I still love #tech and the #web, I think #software is still eating the world, and I believe in great organisations developing novel ideas with a net positive impact.
But [“Silicon Valley”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley_(TV_series)), which used to be a parody, became a docu-series with the passage of (little) time.
Perhaps it was always that way, and I've grown more mature. Or maybe things got worse.
Thoughts?
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**Too long**, and **too histrionic**, to say many things that the good folks at [IndieWeb](https://indieweb.org/), the [EFF](https://www.eff.org/), etc have been saying for a decade or two now.
Not to mention **incoherent** (if _“the #web is fucked and there's nothing we can do about it”_, why should I care about it, bother to read the post, or try to change anything at all?), **inaccurate** (_“web 1.0 […] was better”_… there are few breaking changes in the development of the #WWW: that web the author misses didn't go anywhere; anyone can still create and browse sites like those) and **naïve** (have fun using alternatives to Gmail, Google Maps, Wikipedia, many kinds of streaming, collaborative editing of online docs, some kinds of feeds or syndication, sites with 3D capabilities, microblogging, etc!).
I have been saying for a while that we conscious #internet users or techies should be first to adopt, and eager to promote within our personal and professional circles, ethical open frameworks to support #web services and apps via micro-payments (instead of via advertising and surveillance). We already had #Brave. Now we also have #Coil. These are steps in the right direction (although I don't like those all-or-nothing memberships, kind of walled gardens of their own — I would prefer truly open, federated systems).
https://tink.uk/everybody-be-coil/
There are universal #web sites that don't include #JavaScript at all. There are accessible, progressively-enhanced sites that use #JS sensibly. There are crappy web apps that rely too much on #JavaScript.
…and then there is #LinkedIn, which is a blank page unless you keep its tab focused while https://www.linkedin.com/feed/ is loading and stare at it attentively and in reverential silence.
I think @bert would be even more appalled than me about this 😉
#badweb #antipattern
