Currently: TL for PWA on Chrome, Project š”, Dhamma Practitioner, too many hobbies, he/him Previously: Blink, IndexedDB, Web Blobs, G+ Ranking
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Dan Murphy retweeted
Housing scarcity is a policy choice. It's time to choose abundant, affordable housing instead.
Yes! We've been working on this one for a long time, really excited to see it get this close to shipping!
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Dan Murphy retweeted
.@krazamtv's 'Virtual Coachella' remains the single most prophetic video about the garbage metaverse days ahead of us: youtube.com/watch?v=67sfZfreā¦
Dan Murphy retweeted
What do we want? Housing for the homeless!
When do we want it? After an exhaustive and yearslong community input process that caters to the concerns of businesses and homeowners!
Where do we want it? Somewhere else!
Dan Murphy retweeted
Just lost 100 homes for students to appease this NIMBY. xitter.cf/berkeleyside/status/14ā¦
4 stories shorter: UC Berkeley drops height of Peopleās Park student housing complex berkeleyside.org/2021/08/25/ā¦
Dan Murphy retweeted
Once you push through the crypto gaslighting, you realise there's no meaningful tech here at all all, and the whole of it just gambling, regulatory arbitrage, and scams.
Torching the planet to sell expensive entries in a database really is as stupid as it seems.
Dan Murphy retweeted
Top GOP recall candidate Larry Elder used his radio show to push anti-vaccine conspiracy theories. He could be our next Governor if we don't vote by September 14. huffpost.com/entry/californiā¦
Watching the Olympics - have sunglasses gone crazy? These styles are wild. Did I miss some sort of sunglasses revolution?
I've been really enjoying the marketing for the electric trucks / mustangs / etc. It's interesting to see their strategy to allow demographics that have disliked Tesla / identify as gas-loving to like these vehicles.
Dan Murphy retweeted
Virginia's weekly vaccine breakthrough report is out. Here is data from June 1 to July 30, which is when Delta circulated. The breakthroughs are still very rare. 97.1% of all cases are unvaxxed. And this is all positives, not just symptomatic. vdh.virginia.gov/coronavirusā¦
Dan Murphy retweeted
There's been a lot of discussion recently about how "Safari is the new IE", and some interesting rebuttals that Safari's approach is actually protecting the web.
I don't agree: httptoolkit.tech/blog/safariā¦
Dan Murphy retweeted
There's nothing better than that new YIMBY Chapter feeling! š„°š„°š„°
We are SO STOKED by how many people showed up for our first Orlando YIMBY meeting! Thank you!
We're all excited to say yes to housing, yes to people, and yes in my backyard. Stay plugged in with us here: orlandoyimby.org/email-list
Dan Murphy retweeted
171 scientists find calculation error that proves the electric vehicle is not greener!
That's the gist of many German papers today but a better headline would be:
THE COMBUSTION ENGINE LOBBY IS GASLIGHTING AGAIN
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Dan Murphy retweeted
Hereās why I never give a damn about anything a NIMBY has to say about land use or housing. ā at Emeryville, CA
Dan Murphy retweeted
Once redlining became illegal and the FHA became law, racist folks took their cabal to local codes. āLocal Controlā is not a racist dog whistle in housing, itās a goddamn bullhorn. Itās the pretext used by modern day racists to keep communities white and to keep poor people poor.
Dan Murphy retweeted
š¼Hiring to Chrome Web Platform Capabilities team, and the device team. Ping me. Google I/O 2021 highlights our teams' work!:
ā Web platform Keynote "Capabilities" section - youtu.be/0UiaD059eqM?t=442
ā Chrome OS Keynote "Web Apps and PWAs" section - youtu.be/a8kkzdOfAgU?t=228
Dan Murphy retweeted
ā60s preservationists: historic districts will increase property values
[property values increase a lot]
ā90s preservationists: wait did we say that? we meant they will fight gentrification
Dan Murphy retweeted
Chrome is reducing User-Agent strings (not in 2021 though). The string is too complex and carries a lot of info that might be used for fingerprinting.
What's changing and why
blog.chromium.org/2021/05/upā¦
Some examples of the reduced strings here:
chromium.org/updates/ua-reduā¦