Kaylee Douglas — KFOR

Oklahoma Politics: Representative wants to ban ‘furries’ from Oklahoma schools

A newly filed bill would ban students in Oklahoma from pretending to be an animal during the school day.

Erin Christy — 2 News Oklahoma

Okla. lawmaker backpedals on bills’ controversial language one day after filing

Humphrey admitted the furries bill was more designed to make people aware of furries, rather than it being a problem in schools.

Another non-existent problem based on hearsay taking up time in the state’s political system instead of the real pressing issues getting the attention they deserve.

This state seems to enjoy making a fool of itself on a national scale.

We’ve been fooled into accepting mediocrity.

Parking Reform Network

Parking Lot Map

The Parking Reform Network educates the public about the impact of parking policy on climate change, equity, housing, and traffic. In partnership with allied organizations, we accelerate the adoption of critical parking reforms through research, coalition-building, and direct advocacy.

Witold Rybczynski — The American Scholar

Give Us Something to Look At

Take away ornament, and what are you left with? When we get close to a building today, we are confronted by gaskets, caulking, nuts and bolts—the minutiae of building construction. Or worse: exit signs, ventilation grills, and fire-hose cabinets. There is an architectural consequence to this.

So where does that leave us?

Mirza Akdeniz — Vimeo

Roger Scruton — Why Beauty Matters (2009)

Philosopher Roger Scruton presents a provocative essay on the importance of beauty in the arts and in our lives.

Alex Russell — Infrequently Noted

The Market for Lemons

For most of the past decade, I have spent a considerable fraction of my professional life consulting with teams building on the web. It is not going well.

Alex Russell — Infrequently Noted

The Performance Inequality Gap, 2023

To serve users at the 75th percentile (P75) of devices and networks, we can now afford ~150KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JavaScript (gzipped). This is a slight improvement on last year’s budgets, thanks to device and network improvements. Meanwhile, sites continue to send more script than is reasonable for 80+% of the world’s users, widening the gap between the haves and the have-nots. This is an ethical crisis for frontend.

Kilian Valkhof — HTMLHell

You don’t need JavaScript for that

Because HTML and CSS features are handled by the browser they can be more performant, more native, more adaptable to user preferences and in general, more accessible. That doesn’t mean it will always be (especially when it comes to accessibility) but when the browser does the heavy lifting for you, your end users will generally have a better experience.

It’s totally a disaster right now, but don’t worry; there’s hope we’ll get it right this time!

I think I made the right decision to pursue an SLR, but I missed out on the convenience of the point-and-shoot with my continued disdain for those models. With the advantage of time, I was able to look back at some of the better point-and-shoots that I missed, find one used at a terrific price, and get started on taking the random photos I would’ve been disappointed with if taken from my cellphone.

📷 Continue reading “My new old camera”

I liked the aesthetic of the advertisement for the iPhone 12 Pro that Apple did years ago. I wanted to remake it in HTML as much as I could, so I used this project to build a list of links to my social network profiles.

📱 Continue reading “My fun side project”

I didn’t want to remain ignorant, but learning even the smallest new piece of information seems to carry a huge cost to a vast array of elements in my life. Could I find a way to feel comfort in understanding more?

📖 Continue reading “Knowledge shouldn’t be a burden”

From my youth I have worked to lessen my consideration of my own value, thinking it a virtue to self-deprecate. I thought I was being a better person by hating myself. Eventually, I wondered if my self-perception could be incorrect. Could I be poisoning my life with such a crushing view of my value?

🫥 Continue reading “Being invisible”

I used to play a lot of video games. These days I settle for some games from my Apple Arcade subscription, but I used to have many mobile consoles, several home consoles, and a gaming PC. I played many titles across a variety of platforms, filling out a list of memorable games that left a permanent impact on my life. In a recent conversation with my coworkers I started listing my favorite games and learned that the games that I have felt the most important in my life were ones that generated a feeling of hopelessness. I certainly enjoy a variety of gaming genres and story types, but the ones I can recall with fondness are the ones that made me feel the most miserable.

🕹️ Continue reading “Hopelessness in video games”

I don’t like analog clocks. People have tried to persuade me and have shown me the obvious benefits to using such a platform, but I continue to remain unconvinced and I feel that I have good reason for my opinion. I will now present a rather adversarial and controversial view of why analog clocks are inferior to the newer digital clock method of presenting time. This will be a pedantic and antagonistic position.

⏰ Continue reading “The time for analog clocks is over”