Archive for category: Web standards

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

So-called best gay books of all time    (2011.06.12)

Editing Benoît Denizet-Lewis’s list of the best gay books of all time (allegedly) so you can actually read it

Anti-Markdown    (2011.05.22)

Markdown is the a joke comedy nerds insist meets a legal definition of “funny” that nobody in the audience laughs at

Well, there’s your problem: You let a poet use a computer    (2011.03.29)

Craig Morgan Teicher remains a technical ignoramus. Hey, did you hear that poetry is hard to typeset in E-books?

Toronto-standard markup    (2011.03.15)

The incompetents at Toronto Life, who can’t even mark up a table of contents, just bought Torontoist