WebDeveloper at Tomorrow. Photography. Dad of two. @voltdeutschland. Former organizer of JS Unconf.
Kirby 5 is here 🚀 And it's packed with new features and improvements:
🔮 Changes preview
🌑 Dark mode
📕 Entries field
🗑️ Batch delete of pages and files in sections
👁 Panel file previews for audio, video, PDF, and even custom previews
🍰 Chunked uploads for large files
🪄 Panel view buttons, the magic wand for custom workflows
🔌 Plugin licenses right in the Panel
🐘 PHP 8.4 support
And a lot of other bigger and smaller features and enhancements: https://getkirby.com/releases/5
Wissenschaft: „Das CO₂-Budget ist in drei Jahren aufgebraucht.“
Diesel-Dieter: „Für mich langt's noch!“
Things I would like every young web engineer to learn:
- anything you can do in CSS + HTML, you *should* do in CSS + HTML
- *framework du jour* is not a platform, it's a high-interest loan against your future capacity. The platform is the platform
- understanding the memory hierarchy *always* matters
- client-side isn't easier than the server, and "generalists" usually suck at client-side. Mind the (packet) gap
- managers who are not technical are not useful
- put users first, always
People tell me nobody wants to look at climate curves anymore, yet here we are!!! Please enjoy our interactive journey through 485 million years of climate history and dive into the fascinating and important work of paleoclimate scientists.
I hope US folks on the No Kings rallies know how much people outside the US are heartened to see them. We always knew the US is full of very fine people who totally reject and revile what's happening, but my god it's good to see it.
Behold the billionth repository created on GitHub. It’s absolutely perfect.
Wherever you live in the world, your climate is getting warmer.
21st June is #ShowYourStripes day when we encourage everyone to use the warming stripes graphics to talk about climate change and how we are all already experiencing the consequences.
Download your stripes: www.ShowYourStripes.info
📢 A bunch of unresolved thoughts and feelings on AI, the web, and making things. Writing this mostly for future me:
I can't believe we replaced blogs and RSS with people emailing their posts to you. just a really obviously stupid step backwards
Omg, they used a framework that's spitting out 10M of JS to display the most simple website. Have they ever heard of HTML & CSS? The whole thing could have been less than a 100kb and provide a better UX.
Things are getting serious. We are starting the release candidate phase for Kirby 5. 🚀 https://getkirby.com/releases/5
@john_fisherman @kaib Hey, I have one copy each of issues 3 to 9 and 14 to 24. Would love to sell them as a bundle to someone interested. :)
"Hätte ich damals doch bloß für #Hamburg #Werbefrei unterschrieben" --
Jetzt ist die Gelegenheit.
Noch bis HEUTE: Dienstag, 13. Mai.
This guy made a real life version of Wallace & Gromit’s breakfast machine, complete with a spoonful of jam flying through the air perfectly meeting a piece of toast popping out of a toaster. (Don’t miss the outtakes.) https://kottke.org/25/05/a-real-life-version-of-wallace-gromits-breakfast-machine
I need to be very clear, that the push towards "vibe coding" - that is, deliberately deskilling people - is because AI code assistants are an (increasingly expensive) subscription service.
If you know how to code, you can just write Python, C, Java, R, PHP, whatever for free and make things. You may not own the tools of production, but at least you're not renting them.
If you have been deskilled so you only know how to vibe code, you will be paying for that privilege forever.
This also goes, by the way, for researchers who are starting to be convinced they don't need to learn how to be scientists anymore, because "the AI" can just do the science for them. Nope.
CI is cool because you're like "I want to find out my code has problems, but not right now, in like 45 minutes."
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
“If democracy is built on trust, and trust is built on relationship, then the collapse we’re living through isn’t just political—it’s personal. It’s relational. And it’s happening because we let disconnection become default.”
Connection isn’t just personal. It’s political.
https://brilliantcrank.com/connection-isnt-just-personal-its-political/
