Greg Potter

Apple's internal politics demand the safer, more private, low-tax web always remain inferior to the proprietary native apps it profits from through enclosure. This sometimes escapes the lips of Fruit Co. employees as "native and web solve different problems." Pure, uncut horseshit.

EU folks now's a great time for a reminder that mass surveillance is inherently authoritarian. Let your representatives know that there is no such thing as a safe backdoor, and there is no place for authoritarianism and mass surveillance in Europe.

Instead of all this press and attention for MapQuest, which is just another corporation, how about we get attention going toward OSM and other related open projects like organicmaps.app instead.

@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social Can we get a definition check? The most common deffinition I'm finding for barbone is "vagrant". If this instrument is a thing, I would love to learn more about it. I'm finding other bar- instruments (barbaton/barbitos, barbat), but their descriptions don't match.

Oh my, the way Safari handles accessibility around modal dialogs is a freaking nightmare. It intentionally makes them not actually modal, so you have to add aggressive JS and focus-trap elements to try and make the user experience not be confusing as heck.

One thing I've learned from the past couple of days' Editor's Corner of Smush is that @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social seems to dislike closed compounds. Who writes them as "pine cone" and "pit bull" anymore? Is this a generational divide?

#FIFAWorldCup2026 #QuarterFinals #NORvsENG In regular time, Norway had the better team game, but they were making too many individual mistakes. In overtime they just fell apart.

#FIFAWorldCup2026 #RoundOf16 #BRAvsNOR Norway took it by using possession to dictate the game's pace while maintaining fewer mistakes throughout. Haaland has been getting all the praise, but that first goal's credit goes to Schjelderu's absolutely perfectly placed cross for Haaland to finish.

This 1996 Wired article on bots is an interesting read within the current AI landscape. It even calls out "agent" as smelling of marketing-speak, along with this apt quote: "Web robots, due to design flaws, are much dumber than most humans — and far, far faster. Thereinlies the rub."

Reminder that the difference between a million and a billion is essentially a billion, and the difference between a billion and a trillion is essentially a trillion. Such concentrated wealth is incomprehensibly monstrous, vile, and a direct affront to humanity.

Ever struggled to get heading tags right in includes/components? headingoffset could be the answer…

This is nicely put. The machine that subordinates all life to its own algorithm of self-expansion is already operating: It’s called capital. www.newyorker.com/science/anna...

Pope Leo XIV showing way more understanding of AI than way too many other people in power and within AI industries themselves. www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

I made a parametric shoe last model for cosplay shoe making based on a 2019 research paper: codeberg.org/NHF/Utilitie...

While the term "critical thinking" is based on the critique definition of critical, it has become ever more critical: vital, in-crisis.

…the ignorant, the obstinate, and the malicious.

Thank you @jeffjacksonnc.bsky.social

@TrashPandaDiscGolf @udiscapp.bsky.social #EarthDayBingo2026

Watching the earthset on the livestream was powerful. I feel like earthrise has been talked about way more from the Apollo missions, but earthset feels just as impactful. #Artemis2

The round-trip delay for light to go between Earth and Integrity is now over two seconds. #Artemis2 …and you thought your ping was bad.

This video was a complete joy to make. Here's a short preview, but next time you're looking to sit down for 45 minutes of math and art, take a look at the full version on YouTube: youtu.be/ldxFjLJ3rVY

@kevinpowell.co The "Other awesome stuff…" section of your blog post had me excited for a second to learn about a feature I had never heard of, before realizing it was just a typo on the click through. kevin-powell.kit.com/posts/is-css...

…the ignorant, the obstinate, and the malicious.

This is a helpful blog post by @highlysuspect.agency on why a weird JS syntax, that uses an object literal computed property, lets you dynamically name runtime-created classes. …and to give one answer to the question posed by the post's title: it can be useful for dynamic schema architectures.

Added to the list of CSS features I wish were baseline years ago.

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

If you code websites, then you KNOW how it’s been to style form controls. Watch this #cssday talk from @ntim.bsky.social to learn why it’s been so hard, and how we are going to fix it for the future. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgSi... #css #webdev #formcontrols

I find Apple’s Liquid Glass even worse than basic translucent blur implementations, because Apple has added busy, straining simulated refractions. Liquid Glass would be fine on a couple flashy items on top of controlled known backdrops, but it is horrendous as a UI-wide design.

Avoid the violence/nonviolence debate. It’s a trap. The only thing that matters is what actions lead to more justice and less harm. Inaction and complicity in the face of brutal oppression is the worst form of violence. Never forget it.

An ARIA attribute like “aria-earcon” would be nice to have, for providing a path to a custom earcon audio file, that could be used by screen readers for situations like, providing an audio alt for decorative icons next to text links. It could have a screen reader toggle for users to opt in/out too.

200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue. It is here: wclivestream.com/watch

It would be great if browsers/assistive-tech had actually implemented the HTML5 outline algorithm. It’s so much cleaner than what we have, and way easier to parse. You just walk the semantic elements in the DOM tree! …but no, we’re stuck with numbered headings and shoddy aria attributes hell.