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Matteo Fogli
Matteo Fogli
@pecus.it
Front-end developer for 30 years, advocate for web performance and a less bloated web. Design Systems, modern CSS, a11y, universal Web. Trigger word: capitalism.
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Gardens next to dark forests. An impeccable piece on the humanity and personal purpose of a great tech professional, that might just as well apply to many of us.
Hi, friends. The last 6 years have been a blast, but I just don't like being on The Internet anymore. I'm leaving DevRel, and I wrote a little bit about why. Look after yourselves, and each other. Love, Salma
The #StateOfCSS survey is still out, and despite being off programming, it feels good to still be in the game (if you care about CSS, it shouldn't be hard to be in the top 100% of all respondents, like yours truly). survey.devographics.com/survey/state...
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📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/
PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.
> We often choose the comfort of importing solutions over the discomfort of understanding problems. I loved this beautifully disarming insight. Read Loren’s excellent manifesto if you care about the Web
This post is the culmination of my thinking about (and building) SPA-like apps w minimal JS for the last 2 yrs The ideas are informed in large part by the @infrequently.org blog posts and talks Thanks @htmx.bsky.social and @astro.build for building great tools. www.lorenstew.art/blog/progres...
Someone higher up the corporate chain might not know what implications blind requests to dev have. Make sure they understand the consequences and act accordingly. Put your ethics and privacy laws first (in EU, the GDPR umbrella most likely provides you with a reason for your questioning)
Devs: draw your line remysharp.com/2025/03/08/d... "Facebook and TikTok had been given access to read what medication I'm on by the development team responsible for the Pharmacy2U web site."
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Arianna Ciccone says it like it is
Quindi il presidente di un piccolo paese democratico, quello che i suoi detrattori, compresa una certa presunta sinistra, fino a oggi definivano a sfregio un ex comico, ha fatto vedere al mondo come si tiene testa a due fasci di merda alla guida della più grande potenza nucleare al mondo.
All except the fascist coward of Italy, Giorgia Meloni. Always count on a fascist for cowardice and avoiding to take the right side in history. It’s a defining principle.
European leaders quickly pledged their continued support for Ukraine on Friday after President Trump’s blistering criticism of Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, in a meeting at the White House.
Fascism always fails. It is destructive and it is awful and not everyone lives to see the other side, but it always, always fails. It takes work. It takes fighting back.[…] And through it all, it feels impossible that we will win. But we will.
In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…
@speedcurve.com is on Bluesky! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Do you know if third-party scripts are hurting the speed of your pages – and your users' experience? Learn how to: 👉 Audit third parties on your pages 👉 Understand third-party #webperf metrics 👉 Prevent regressions 👉 Make third-party providers accountable www.speedcurve.com/web-performa... #ux
This post has +8.5K retorts and +22.5K likes and yet I think it does not get enough attention. This has the power to shut down any academic voice and research. FoS never extended to its economic grants: they found the loophole, effectively silencing those that can demonstrate their wrongness.
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
When you remove public data, you remove much more than information. You remove accountability.
NEW: USAID source says staff are scrambling to save archived copies of US regulations before they're gone & are being actively locked out of systems, including a publicly available database of USAID documents. WIRED has built software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government domains.
It’s a coup
“With rapidity that has stunned even longtime political observers, forces loyal to Musk’s junta have established him as the all-but undisputed unelected head of government in just a matter of days, unwinding the longtime democracy’s constitutional system” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...
Trump ordered data from the CDC website be scrubbed. The DataHoarder community at Reddit picked up early warnings from internal sources. Some stellar volunteer has archived all data and is publishing it to the Internet Archive. See www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarde... Not all heroes wear capes
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Been doing some webperf work and encountered zstd content compression from @cloudflare.social (I had missed the post announcing support for it). If you're curious, there's a great read from @paulcalvano.bsky.social zstd is supported by Chrome (123) and Firefox (126)
further reading: - browser support via caniuse caniuse.com/zstd - cloudflare announcement blog.cloudflare.com/new-standard...
The Web Almanac goes Love* December 10 at 7pm (CET) for those in Europe like me. Tons of data and insight on the current state of the web. * lovely autocorrect that I had to keep. See the Web Almanac presented Live ✨ in 10 days!
🎙️ For those familiar w/ @httparchive.org's WEB ALMANAC, we're going to be live! Dec 10th with some of the authors in the 1st of a series of streams covering the 2024 edition. 17M sites, 83TB of data. Join us! 📆 Tuesday Dec 10th, 13h EST 🔗 RSVP here: bit.ly/web-almanac-2024 Spare a RT? ⚡️
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I’m super excited to announce I'm part of an amazing team (<3 @williambrady.bsky.social @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social @mjcrockett.bsky.social) that just published a paper in @science.org on the role of outrage in spread of misinformation Link here: science.org/doi/10.1126/... Summary in🧵🔽 1/
Everything Harry does is top notch, from investigating Google fonts loading to how small can a LQIP get to still reach LCP scoring. Long read that I’m saving for later this week, but it already looks he dropped a bomb
📊 I’ve been working on a new ranking score and I’ve finally written it up! csswizardry.com/2024/11/desi...
When you step on sh*it you should realize it well ahead of people telling you they scent a disgusting smell
I've removed the Bluesky data from the repo. While I wanted to support tool development for the platform, I recognize this approach violated principles of transparency and consent in data collection. I apologize for this mistake.
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An employee of Huggingface, a site of AI training datasets, made a dataset of a million Bluesky posts scraped simply because they could. It’s currently trending: www.404media.co/someone-made...
We’ve been praising the value of links on this platform for a reason. Because links are expressive. For content creators the value is in the curation. Google is hijacking links for profit. The length at which capitalism squeezes you for profit is depressing.
Google is now automatically modifying publisher content to turn valuable phrases into into search links and publishers have to opt out if they don't like it. Just awful
This looks like a defining piece of visual research on the intersection of technology, documentarism and contemporary society (as much as The Hustwit Trilogy – Helvetica, Urbanized, Objectified – is on design and contemporary spaces). Very curious (if you can attend, go in person!)
Join us for the Berlin premiere of "Eno" on January 14th, 2025. Together with Gary Hustwit and @brendandawes.bsky.social. All information here: beyondtellerrand.com/events/eno
Italiani! (no, non con quella cadenza…) I cugini francesi ci battono 139 a 15. Spagnoli e olandesi davanti, seguiti da svizzeri, austriaci, danesi, svedesi e belgi. Basta un niente per passare davanti a cechi e irlandesi. Contiamo su di voi.
Here's a TreeMap showing the (rough) distribution of TLDs from 10,000 domain verified accounts on BlueSky. Approx a third on .com, .UK is the largest ccTLD, and I assume 2.6% .gy is due to FediBridge.