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gregpotter.me
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As we reckon with corporatocracy in our real world governance, let us also be aware that most of the major governing bodies for the internet — W3C, WHATWG, ICANN — are currently structured around a presupposition of a corporatocratic real-world order.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

If you restrict immigration and remove domestic food and medical aid, the labor-exploiting companies will have no labor force, because the exploitable labor will all be dead or kept out of the country. I guess that’s one way to end labor exploitation, but it’s a hell of a grossly inhumane one.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Don’t let the clickbait marketing of this video turn you off from it. It’s on PFAS, their environmental pollution proliferation, and their health effects.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

@kevinpowell.co I have a topic suggestion for you. The way CSS is handled in web components and their shadow DOM. The cascade order just has more to deal with between different declaration locations in the DOM & shadow DOM — how :host etc. fit into the cascade order.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Breaking: NC Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin just conceded the election - six months, and three rounds of vote tallies, after he lost. Our office led the legal defense of this election, pushing back against an effort to throw out tens of thousands of lawful votes.

submitted 17 days ago • 331 comments

Opinion: The super wide use of declarative UI frameworks like React or SwiftUI is a blight. Imperative UI with encapsulated components makes way more sense for most UI use cases. For web dev, I generally find declarative FP more apt on the server side and imperative OOP more apt on the client side.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Opinion: The tenor trombone having become the dominant trombone is regression to the mean. The bass trombone and alto trombone are both better sounding instruments, but because the tenor covers most of their ranges with an in-between timbre, it became the norm, while bass and alto became more rare.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

In positive news:

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

This is from a post by the official LA 2028 Olympics Instagram account, and is a textbook case of why the Oxford comma matters! This is literally an announcement of a change from “speed, boulder and lead” to “speed, boulder, and lead”. Their omission of the Oxford comma just makes it confusing.

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Trying to obscure that they’re a cartel behind a technological veneer.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments