What I've been reading

• I don’t expect stone-cold truths from a chatshow, but Saoirse Ronan delivered one, Marina Hyde
• Highly Predictable Interaction, Terence Eden
• What's up Python? 3.13 is out, t-strings look awesome, dep groups come in handy..., Bitecode
• Make It Ephemeral: Software Should Decay and Lose Data, Armin Ronacher
• How this blog does IndieWeb - Blogroll (the "What I'm Reading" page), Jeremy Kun
• Ukraine: What next, Lawrence Freedman
• PEP 751 – A file format to record Python dependencies for installation reproducibility, Brett Cannon
• CSS Masonry Layout Syntax, Michelle Barker, which led to another article Should masonry be part of CSS grid, Ahmad Shaheed
• The body element, Heydon Pickering
• Rewrite it in Rails, dirkjonker.bearblog.dev
• Is the Q Source the Origin of the Gospels?, Eben De Jager, and now for something completely different.
• Failure in the Sahel, Lawrence Freedman
• The button element, Heydon Pickering
• The story of Trump's win was foretold in New York City, Nate Silver
• A postcard from the day after an election: capturing a further political-constitutional moment, David Allen Green
• The end of modern democracy, Mathias Eichler
• What does Trump's win mean for the world?, Lawrence Freedman
• The Most Feared and Least Known Political Operative in America, Michael Kruse, excellent profile piece on Trumps new chief of staff, Susie Wiles.
• The tech industry is about to get a lot worse, Chris Ferdinandi
• What if My Tribe Is Wrong?, Armin Ronacher
• How it went, John Gruber
• The model exactly predicted the most likely election map, Nate Silver
• Contempt for human rights, trashing allies: the world’s populists are rubbing their hands with glee, Simon Tisdall
• We can rage about Donald Trump. Or we can be curious about why he appealed to so many, Peter Hyman
• PM, it’s far better to stand firm rather than suck up to Trump, Kim Darroch
• The Death and Life of Prediction Markets at Google, Dan Schwarz, intrigued to read how internal prediction markets acted as a social pressure that changed behaviours.
• The art in everyday life, Sophie Koonin
• It's 2004 all over again, Nate Silver
• The br element, Heydon Pickering, when Heydon quoted Bob Mortimer proving Heydon knows his shit.
• What if AI eventually makes programmers smarter, not dumber?, Bitecode
• Week 27: Request for change, Frankie Roberto
• Dropping Out, Sam Freedman
• Maybe Bluesky has "won", Gavin Anderegg
• Strava’s Big Changes Aim To Kill Off Apps, DC Rainmaker, enshittification comes for us all in the end.
• Anchor Positioning Is Disruptive, James Stuckey Weber
• You Can't Build Interactive Web Apps Except as Single Page Applications... And Other Myths, Tony Alaribe
• On not using copilot, Tom MacWright, good counter position to Bitecode post.
• The State of the "Art", Audrey Watters
• Frosted Glass from Games to the Web, Tyler Wolf Leonhardt
• Why Not Bluesky, Tim Bray
• Importing a frontend Javascript library without a build system, Julia Evans
• Theory-building and why employee churn is lethal to software companies, Baldur Bjarnason
• How to stop IHT avoidance but protect farmers, Dan Neidle
• Go and Java: Rethinking Type Safety for the Pragmatic Age, Rohan Ganapavarapu
• Can Trump do a deal with Iran?, Lawrence Freedman, do you want a careful, thoughtful walkthrough of the many possible foreign policy moves of the incoming Trump administration in the Middle east?
• I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either, Ben Houston
• Is there another way to think about the political cycle?, James Kanagasooriam
• The UX of LEGO Interface Panels, George Cave
• In Praise of Print: Why Reading Remains Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse, Ed Simon I agree wholeheartedly with this, there is something much more compelling and intimate about reading from a book than just reading from a screen.