Weekly Notes #5
Hello Everyone, Hope you all had an outstanding week. This week I built my first mechanical keyboard for myself and I love absolutely everything about it. And we have also reached
Hello Everyone,
Hope you all had an outstanding week. This week I built my first mechanical keyboard for myself and I love absolutely everything about it. And we have also reached week 5 of this newsletter, so thanks for reading and if you have any feedback, do let me know.
📚 To Read
The Hexagons and the HexanotsA well-thought-out opinion by Dave Rupert on Twitter’s approach of using Hexagons for NFT profile pics.
The five levels of HypeA great way to measure new trends and popular stuff on the hype scale.
When I first fell in love with the web, it was a radically different place. Aside from the many technical improvements that have been made, I feel like the general culture of the web has changed a lot as well.
This article truly captures the spirit of the web and how the web doesn’t need to be pay for this and pay for that and can be the good beautiful old place where people used to create stuff and share that for fun.
Emojis and cultural differencesI never really thought of emojis this way, heck I can’t even manage to think of emojis when I’m typing a message, but nevertheless this is a fascinating way of thinking about them and how our culture impacts the emojis that we all love.
The Web in 2036: Predictions on a WhimI love thinking about how things will evolve in our near future, a future that hopefully all of us will get to see and when we reach there, then we can look back and see the things we wrote now.
Trailing SlashesI never really thought whether you should end your URL’s with a trailing slash or not, but after reading this, I’m amazed at how nuanced can a thing as straightforward as this can be.
Why Don’t Developers Take Accessibility Seriously?While everyone can agree on usefulness of accessibility, it’s still the sad truth that most websites are still never built keeping accessibility in mind and in turn turns out to be heavily inaccessible. But have you ever wondered why is it so? Why and how does most website don’t have this in built when this seems to be a necessity and not commodity
No Apple Did Not Crowdfund :focus-visible in SafariSafari recently added :focus-visible to its newest build and this was built by Igalia by crowdfunding the feature and people were mad that why does world’s most valuable company needs this, so the answer is: They didn’t crowdfund the thing and while it may be debated why such a crucial feature was missing for so long it will still be wrong to bash Apple for wrong reasons.
😃 Something that made me smile
https://twitter.com/iamdevloper/status/1487106952261943297?s=20&t=CQbR2vCwcxuJVkfQofSnKg