Note of Tim Berners-Lee.

He lists various Ways of Dealing with Ambiguity:
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Note of Tim Berners-Lee

:has has a lot of possibilities with drag'n'drop. Here the developer uses 3 items: mushrooms, potions and .

For example: dragging some items to make parts of the site grow. https://lynnandtonic.com/assets/images/thoughts/case-study-2022-mushroom-header.mp4

See https://lynnandtonic.com/assets/images/thoughts/case-study-2022-david-rose.mp4 for more real interactions.

A potion adds color: https://lynnandtonic.com/assets/images/thoughts/case-study-2022-home-potions.mp4

I am also anxious about this situation

The overwhelming motivation behind it seemed to be “I made something, here it is”. Sharing things for the sake of showing them to the world. Somebody had created something, then put it online so you could see it. Visit their website (wait for the dial-up to finish), and it’s yours.

Large companies find HTML & CSS frustrating “at scale” because the web is a fundamentally anti-capitalist mashup art experiment, designed to give consumers all the power. — Mia, with valuable secrets 🤫 (@TerribleMia) November 24, 2019

You can stand out of the crowd by simply treating the web platform as what it is: a way to deliver content to people.

The best growth hack is still to build something people enjoy, and then attach no strings to it. You’d be surprised how far that can get you.

Because the federation is disturbing for casual users, it seems normal to

remind ourselves of what social media used to be: a way to connect around shared interests, talk to friends, and discover new content. No grifts, no viral fame, no drama.

The barrier to be free on the web is highly correlated to the level of expertise.

You could loosely map some of them by how easy it is to get started if you have no technical knowledge. [...] The more independence a technology gives you, the higher its barrier for adoption.

Owning, control and independance on the web should be just as easy as signing up for a cellphone plan.

Plus je suis stressé et plus je m’éparpille, une façon de canaliser mon cerveau qui bouillonne, une tentative pour étouffer ce qui remue au fond par un ensevelissement de tâches plus ou moins f·utiles. La beauté de ce mécanisme c’est que même en étant pleinement conscient de cela, je n’ai pas pour autant une prise dessus. Alors je lâche-prise justement, j’accepte cette période, surtout si je sais qu’elle est bornée par une date clé. Savoir qu’il va y avoir un après est déjà libérateur.

Either a <table> or a grid layout?

Si vous n’avez rien à cacher et que vous ne faites rien de répréhensible, vous devriez chiffrer vos communications.

En ne le faisant pas, vous soutenez la thèse que seuls ceux qui ont qqch à se reprocher utilisent ce genre d’outils. Vous concourrez à la criminalisation de leur utilisation. Vous légitimez le soupçon généralisé sur les utilisateurs.

Utilisateur que vous deviendrez peut-être un jour.

When to use a GUI Toolkit, is it more native than the web? It means some criteria the author defines. Also what level of WCAG conformance can someone hope for?

e-waste is defined as used electronic devices with batteries or plugs that are at the end of their useful life.

The main thing you can do to prevent e-waste is to avoid upgrading unnecessarily and hold onto your devices for as long as possible. If a device is no longer needed, consider selling or donating it, or if it can no longer be used then take it to a recycling facility or return it to the manufacturer.

The internet works because

• there is a stack of protocols built to make things work. Each protocol solves one thing.
• all miraculously work together because these standards are open.

Tim takes the example of the network stack: Ethernet Packet, Internet Packet, TCP Packet, the port, and the email protocols.

Protocols and standards are everywhere. He takes more examples. When you publish a web page for example: it can be both human and machine-readable. It can be accessed through a URI and when someone follows a link to your web page, their browser opens a TCP/IP connection to TCP port 80 on the machine which is registered as serving the (www.whatever.com, etc) in question. All of that is because the URI specification says that what you can tell about a URI depends on the first bit, in this case HTTP. Tim explains in depth why these relationships exist.

An XML document is a less specified version of an HTML document. The namespace declaration gives a URI indicating the namespace used to interpret this XML though. And more...

An RDF document is based on XML and a triple: a value of some property of some object, or some relationship between some object and some other object. How to figure out what a triple means? A URI defines it, and its standard can be read while dereferencing it. The color example is great! So the stack for this document piles up from the Ethernet to the RDF MS 1.0 and RDF MS 1.0 definition of rdf:type.

A pattern is that each technology evolves into three stages: using numbers or strings, then using a URI, and then a dereferenceable URI. As we move on to later protocols, the protocols themselves become more diverse, so URIs were created instead of simple versions with numbers or strings. "The third stage of civilization is the one at which the identifiers can be looked up on the web.".

This stack prevents one from sending a nasty email to someone and then protesting that the message didn't mean anything. So if the stack is so strict, how does one send a nasty email message when one doesn't mean it? Many protocols have ways of breaking the chain, of including information that is not part of the meaning of the message.

For the email: an attachment. "So being able to refer to something without asserting it, whether you call it attachment, packaging, or quoting, is an important feature of a language. The fact that you can do this removes the last excuse for anyone claiming not to have meant whatever they did say in the main message!"

TL;DR they degrade illustrators work.

AI can be used by artists to augment their work and explore an exciting, new, creative frontier. But the vast majority of “AI art” I’ve seen is not that. It’s theft. You don’t have a right to “free” art, in the same way you don’t have a right to have your car fixed for free.

The good old paper and a pen still work well. I am also so messy with my lists that I can write them on any old paper sheet or piece of.

It is valuable to offload what is in your mind, and see the current progress.

The author proposes a serie of question instead of sentences.

Instead, it could be better to use:

• community pattern: everyone else is doing it. Everyone sees it they know exactly how and why it is there.
• readability pattern: created for the sake of making more readable code. The only true goal is writing code that anyone can reason quickly about.
• performance pattern: squeeze the code for maximum performance, and it can degrade readability.
• guardrail pattern: it exists to avoid known foot guns such as magic number

Often people see "best practices" as community, readability, or guardrail patterns. It is also time as professional that we use a richer vocabulary.