Archive for category: Web standards

WaSP shitcans self    (2013.03.05)

I may now have the only Weblog in existence with valid HTML at all times

MetaStupid    (2013.01.01)

A year-long hiatus from MetaFilter, where I am user 250 (1999), due to the entrenched stupidity of its intelligent and sophisticated owner and developer

List of participants in 2012 Toronto Pride Parade    (2012.06.04)

Since Pride Toronto is too computer-illiterate to present an alphabetized list in HTML I did it for them: Alphabetical list of organizations intending to participate in the 2012 Toronto Pride parade

When Readability harms readability    (2012.03.07)

The Readability app supposedly makes Web pages easier to read. What does it do to pages that are already easy to read?

Whose code is worse – Muse’s, WordPress’s, Tumblr’s?    (2011.09.08)

It’s no contest: Tumblr’s

BookCamp Toronto 2011: ‘E-books are hard. Let’s go shopping’    (2011.08.21)

BookCamp Toronto 2011 was a liberal-feminist-consensus clusterfuck of mediocrity. But I’m calling their bluff and offering free training

Web supergurus’ contempt for the hyperlink    (2011.07.12)

The higher the standing of the elite Web commentator, the more likely he is to avoid, misuse, or distrust the fundamental feature of the Web, the hyperlink

Confidential to Mike Lee of le.mu.rs    (2011.06.17)

Fix your TITLE, please, Mike