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The [NYC] Subway Is Not Scary. “It’s fine and safe. It’s full of women and children. There are tons of old ladies on there.” And: “You sound real corny being scared of the subway.” https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway-is-not-scary

The [NYC] Subway Is Not Scary. “It’s fine and safe. It’s full of women and children. There are tons of old ladies on there.” And: “You sound real corny being scared of the subway.” https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway-is-not-scary

The [NYC] Subway Is Not Scary. “It’s fine and safe. It’s full of women and children. There are tons of old ladies on there.” And: “You sound real corny being scared of the subway.” https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway-is-not-scary

"Here is my counterpoint: No it’s not."
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway-is-not-scary

#PublicSafety #PublicTransit

The Subway Is Not Scary. https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway-is-not-scary

The [NYC] Subway Is Not Scary. “It’s fine and safe. It’s full of women and children. There are tons of old ladies on there.” And: “You sound real corny being scared of the subway.” https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway-is-not-scary

The [NYC] Subway Is Not Scary. “It’s fine and safe. It’s full of women and children. There are tons of old ladies on there.” And: “You sound real corny being scared of the subway.” https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway-is-not-scary

The [NYC] Subway Is Not Scary. “It’s fine and safe. It’s full of women and children. There are tons of old ladies on there.” And: “You sound real corny being scared of the subway.” https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway-is-not-scary

https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway-is-not-scary

“I’m saying that the subway is fine. It is not scary. It is the standard mode of transportation for millions of New Yorkers.”
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway-is-not-scary

“Today, we optimise for ‘DX’ – developer experience. Not user experience. Not performance. Not outcomes.

Today’s popular frameworks are sold on their DX. The docs are slick. The onboarding is smooth. The tooling is smart, integrated, clever. You can spin up a new app with a CLI command and feel productive before you’ve even written a line of content.

But good DX doesn’t guarantee good UX. In fact, it’s often the opposite. Because the more comfortable we make things for developers, the more abstraction we add. And every abstraction creates distance between the thing being built and the people it’s for.”

https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/javascript-broke-the-web-and-called-it-progress/

Checks out:

https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/javascript-broke-the-web-and-called-it-progress/

Checks out:

https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/javascript-broke-the-web-and-called-it-progress/

Checks out:

https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/javascript-broke-the-web-and-called-it-progress/

“Today, we optimise for ‘DX’ – developer experience. Not user experience. Not performance. Not outcomes.

Today’s popular frameworks are sold on their DX. The docs are slick. The onboarding is smooth. The tooling is smart, integrated, clever. You can spin up a new app with a CLI command and feel productive before you’ve even written a line of content.

But good DX doesn’t guarantee good UX. In fact, it’s often the opposite. Because the more comfortable we make things for developers, the more abstraction we add. And every abstraction creates distance between the thing being built and the people it’s for.”

https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/javascript-broke-the-web-and-called-it-progress/

https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/javascript-broke-the-web-and-called-it-progress/

#HackerNews #JavaScript #Web #Progress #Technology #Innovation

Checks out:

https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/javascript-broke-the-web-and-called-it-progress/

“Today, we optimise for ‘DX’ – developer experience. Not user experience. Not performance. Not outcomes.

Today’s popular frameworks are sold on their DX. The docs are slick. The onboarding is smooth. The tooling is smart, integrated, clever. You can spin up a new app with a CLI command and feel productive before you’ve even written a line of content.

But good DX doesn’t guarantee good UX. In fact, it’s often the opposite. Because the more comfortable we make things for developers, the more abstraction we add. And every abstraction creates distance between the thing being built and the people it’s for.”

https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/javascript-broke-the-web-and-called-it-progress/

Link: https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/javascript-broke-the-web-and-called-it-progress/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44325563

#javascript

JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)
L: https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/javascript-broke-the-web-and-called-it-progress/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44325563
posted on 2025.06.20 at 03:52:00 (c=1, p=8)

Fascist American immigration police, in action: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-my-reporting-on-the-columbia-protests-led-to-my-deportation

"C.B.P. has full discretion, after all. There is nothing new about the U.S. ferociously, arbitrarily, and cruelly deploying that discretion in order to keep out people the government does not like. What is new is the politically motivated deployment of that power to exclude speech that the government does not want to hear." Alistair Kitchen, an Australian journalist who wrote about student demonstrations while he'd been at Columbia, relates his detention and deportation: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-my-reporting-on-the-columbia-protests-led-to-my-deportation

Avoid the US at all costs. https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-my-reporting-on-the-columbia-protests-led-to-my-deportation

Backup in case of a paywall: https://archive.ph/KOhVv

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-my-reporting-on-the-columbia-protests-led-to-my-deportation

The US has become the antithesis to free speech.

Fascist American immigration police, in action: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-my-reporting-on-the-columbia-protests-led-to-my-deportation

"Officer Martinez said I needed to unlock the Hidden folder in my photo album. He insisted. I felt I had no choice. I did have a choice: noncompliance, deportation. But my bravery had left me. I was afraid of this man and the power he represented. So I unlocked the folder and watched as he scrolled through all of my most personal content. We looked at a photo of my penis together.

When he was done, he disappeared again. I sat there, trying to understand why I felt so violated. I am proud of my life, of who I am. That didn’t seem to help. I realized then I had no privacy left for them to invade."

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-my-reporting-on-the-columbia-protests-led-to-my-deportation

#USPol

Avoid the US at all costs. https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-my-reporting-on-the-columbia-protests-led-to-my-deportation

Backup in case of a paywall: https://archive.ph/KOhVv

Fascist American immigration police, in action: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-my-reporting-on-the-columbia-protests-led-to-my-deportation

I had already basically written-off ever going back to the United States ever again, but these (repeated) stories of completely innocent travellers getting detained and deported are the nail in the coffin.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-my-reporting-on-the-columbia-protests-led-to-my-deportation

I had already basically written-off ever going back to the United States ever again, but these (repeated) stories of completely innocent travellers getting detained and deported are the nail in the coffin.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-my-reporting-on-the-columbia-protests-led-to-my-deportation

New dating for White Sands footprints confirms controversial theory. Results are consistent with two earlier studies dating the footprints to between 22,000 and 24,000 years ago. https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/study-confirms-white-sands-footprints-are-23000-years-old/

New dating for White Sands footprints confirms controversial theory. Results are consistent with two earlier studies dating the footprints to between 22,000 and 24,000 years ago. https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/study-confirms-white-sands-footprints-are-23000-years-old/

New dating for White Sands footprints confirms controversial theory. Results are consistent with two earlier studies dating the footprints to between 22,000 and 24,000 years ago. https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/study-confirms-white-sands-footprints-are-23000-years-old/

New dating for White Sands footprints confirms controversial theory. Results are consistent with two earlier studies dating the footprints to between 22,000 and 24,000 years ago. https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/study-confirms-white-sands-footprints-are-23000-years-old/

New dating for White Sands footprints confirms controversial theory. Results are consistent with two earlier studies dating the footprints to between 22,000 and 24,000 years ago. https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/study-confirms-white-sands-footprints-are-23000-years-old/

New dating for White Sands footprints confirms controversial theory. Results are consistent with two earlier studies dating the footprints to between 22,000 and 24,000 years ago. https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/study-confirms-white-sands-footprints-are-23000-years-old/

This is so exciting! 55 different radiocarbon results now support that humans were in New Mexico 22000 years ago, 8000 years before first humans have been assumed to be in the Americas https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/study-confirms-white-sands-footprints-are-23000-years-old/

This is so exciting! 55 different radiocarbon results now support that humans were in New Mexico 22000 years ago, 8000 years before first humans have been assumed to be in the Americas https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/study-confirms-white-sands-footprints-are-23000-years-old/

This is so exciting! 55 different radiocarbon results now support that humans were in New Mexico 22000 years ago, 8000 years before first humans have been assumed to be in the Americas https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/study-confirms-white-sands-footprints-are-23000-years-old/

This is so exciting! 55 different radiocarbon results now support that humans were in New Mexico 22000 years ago, 8000 years before first humans have been assumed to be in the Americas https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/study-confirms-white-sands-footprints-are-23000-years-old/

We’re wasting the remaining carbon budget on war and AI.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/18/only-two-years-left-of-world-carbon-budget-to-meet-15c-target-scientists-warn-climate-crisis?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu

We’re wasting the remaining carbon budget on war and AI.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/18/only-two-years-left-of-world-carbon-budget-to-meet-15c-target-scientists-warn-climate-crisis?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu

We’re wasting the remaining carbon budget on war and AI.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/18/only-two-years-left-of-world-carbon-budget-to-meet-15c-target-scientists-warn-climate-crisis?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu

We’re wasting the remaining carbon budget on war and AI.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/18/only-two-years-left-of-world-carbon-budget-to-meet-15c-target-scientists-warn-climate-crisis?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu

We’re wasting the remaining carbon budget on war and AI.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/18/only-two-years-left-of-world-carbon-budget-to-meet-15c-target-scientists-warn-climate-crisis?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu

We’re wasting the remaining carbon budget on war and AI.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/18/only-two-years-left-of-world-carbon-budget-to-meet-15c-target-scientists-warn-climate-crisis?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu

We’re wasting the remaining carbon budget on war and AI.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/18/only-two-years-left-of-world-carbon-budget-to-meet-15c-target-scientists-warn-climate-crisis?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu

We’re wasting the remaining carbon budget on war and AI.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/18/only-two-years-left-of-world-carbon-budget-to-meet-15c-target-scientists-warn-climate-crisis?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu

We’re wasting the remaining carbon budget on war and AI.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/18/only-two-years-left-of-world-carbon-budget-to-meet-15c-target-scientists-warn-climate-crisis?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu

We’re wasting the remaining carbon budget on war and AI.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/18/only-two-years-left-of-world-carbon-budget-to-meet-15c-target-scientists-warn-climate-crisis?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu

Today, I wrote for 12 hours in what could have been 12 separate blog posts. But instead, it’s one comprehensive post that covers what I think about Apple design right now.

It’s long. And there’s audio.

Rose-Gold-Tinted Liquid Glasses
🔗 https://lmnt.me/blog/rose-gold-tinted-liquid-glasses.html

I recommend reading the whole post, but one thing I can’t stop thinking about regarding a small part of it:

I find it weird that no one really knows where Alan Dye came from or why—collectively—we should be trusting his judgement on design.

I’ve said this about Jony recently, but I keep wondering about some people in charge the days: Do these people even like computers?

🔗 https://lmnt.me/blog/rose-gold-tinted-liquid-glasses.html

Today, I wrote for 12 hours in what could have been 12 separate blog posts. But instead, it’s one comprehensive post that covers what I think about Apple design right now.

It’s long. And there’s audio.

Rose-Gold-Tinted Liquid Glasses
🔗 https://lmnt.me/blog/rose-gold-tinted-liquid-glasses.html

🔗 https://lmnt.me/blog/rose-gold-tinted-liquid-glasses.html

Today, I wrote for 12 hours in what could have been 12 separate blog posts. But instead, it’s one comprehensive post that covers what I think about Apple design right now.

It’s long. And there’s audio.

Rose-Gold-Tinted Liquid Glasses
🔗 https://lmnt.me/blog/rose-gold-tinted-liquid-glasses.html

Today, I wrote for 12 hours in what could have been 12 separate blog posts. But instead, it’s one comprehensive post that covers what I think about Apple design right now.

It’s long. And there’s audio.

Rose-Gold-Tinted Liquid Glasses
🔗 https://lmnt.me/blog/rose-gold-tinted-liquid-glasses.html

Today, I wrote for 12 hours in what could have been 12 separate blog posts. But instead, it’s one comprehensive post that covers what I think about Apple design right now.

It’s long. And there’s audio.

Rose-Gold-Tinted Liquid Glasses
🔗 https://lmnt.me/blog/rose-gold-tinted-liquid-glasses.html

Today, I wrote for 12 hours in what could have been 12 separate blog posts. But instead, it’s one comprehensive post that covers what I think about Apple design right now.

It’s long. And there’s audio.

Rose-Gold-Tinted Liquid Glasses
🔗 https://lmnt.me/blog/rose-gold-tinted-liquid-glasses.html

Today, I wrote for 12 hours in what could have been 12 separate blog posts. But instead, it’s one comprehensive post that covers what I think about Apple design right now.

It’s long. And there’s audio.

Rose-Gold-Tinted Liquid Glasses
🔗 https://lmnt.me/blog/rose-gold-tinted-liquid-glasses.html

Today, I wrote for 12 hours in what could have been 12 separate blog posts. But instead, it’s one comprehensive post that covers what I think about Apple design right now.

It’s long. And there’s audio.

Rose-Gold-Tinted Liquid Glasses
🔗 https://lmnt.me/blog/rose-gold-tinted-liquid-glasses.html

It turns out the iconic Jaws poster is public domain! And the story behind it is crazy. https://ironicsans.ghost.io/how-the-jaws-shark-became-public-domain/

It turns out the iconic Jaws poster is public domain! And the story behind it is crazy. https://ironicsans.ghost.io/how-the-jaws-shark-became-public-domain/

It turns out the iconic Jaws poster is public domain! And the story behind it is crazy. https://ironicsans.ghost.io/how-the-jaws-shark-became-public-domain/

It turns out the iconic Jaws poster is public domain! And the story behind it is crazy. https://ironicsans.ghost.io/how-the-jaws-shark-became-public-domain/

It turns out the iconic Jaws poster is public domain! And the story behind it is crazy. https://ironicsans.ghost.io/how-the-jaws-shark-became-public-domain/

Fascinating article.
https://ironicsans.ghost.io/how-the-jaws-shark-became-public-domain/

It turns out the iconic Jaws poster is public domain! And the story behind it is crazy. https://ironicsans.ghost.io/how-the-jaws-shark-became-public-domain/

It turns out the iconic Jaws poster is public domain! And the story behind it is crazy. https://ironicsans.ghost.io/how-the-jaws-shark-became-public-domain/

It turns out the iconic Jaws poster is public domain! And the story behind it is crazy. https://ironicsans.ghost.io/how-the-jaws-shark-became-public-domain/

An intersection between 'Jaws' and copyright in a story that made me laugh out loud a couple times at a public service desk. This made my day.
https://ironicsans.ghost.io/how-the-jaws-shark-became-public-domain/

The response to Wednesday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding Tennessee’s law barring transgender minors from obtaining gender-affirming medical care has been muted at best.

At Law Dork, a look at how we actually got here. https://www.lawdork.com/p/where-is-the-outrage-over-skrmetti

"Wednesday was the result of a long-term campaign that ultimately succeeded. As same-sex couples succeeded in obtaining marriage equality in 2015, the far-right organizations who had used their opposition to those couples’ marriage rights to fund their work needed a new cause.

The far right moved on to attacking transgender people."

~ Chris Geidner

#SupremeCourt #Trump #Republicans #Skrmetti #trans #cruelty
/1

https://www.lawdork.com/p/where-is-the-outrage-over-skrmetti

NEW: "Where is the outrage over Skrmetti?"

On the far right's campaign to create uncertainty over gender-affirming medical care for minors — and the powerful institutions that helped along the way.

Tonight, at Law Dork, my written equivalent of a direct-to-camera address. https://www.lawdork.com/p/where-is-the-outrage-over-skrmetti

https://www.lawdork.com/p/where-is-the-outrage-over-skrmetti

https://www.lawdork.com/p/where-is-the-outrage-over-skrmetti
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p131#a250619p131

NEW: "Where is the outrage over Skrmetti?"

On the far right's campaign to create uncertainty over gender-affirming medical care for minors — and the powerful institutions that helped along the way.

Tonight, at Law Dork, my written equivalent of a direct-to-camera address. https://www.lawdork.com/p/where-is-the-outrage-over-skrmetti

NEW: "Where is the outrage over Skrmetti?"

On the far right's campaign to create uncertainty over gender-affirming medical care for minors — and the powerful institutions that helped along the way.

Tonight, at Law Dork, my written equivalent of a direct-to-camera address. https://www.lawdork.com/p/where-is-the-outrage-over-skrmetti

NEW: "Where is the outrage over Skrmetti?"

On the far right's campaign to create uncertainty over gender-affirming medical care for minors — and the powerful institutions that helped along the way.

Tonight, at Law Dork, my written equivalent of a direct-to-camera address. https://www.lawdork.com/p/where-is-the-outrage-over-skrmetti

"Wednesday was the result of a long-term campaign that ultimately succeeded. As same-sex couples succeeded in obtaining marriage equality in 2015, the far-right organizations who had used their opposition to those couples’ marriage rights to fund their work needed a new cause.

The far right moved on to attacking transgender people."

~ Chris Geidner

#SupremeCourt #Trump #Republicans #Skrmetti #trans #cruelty
/1

https://www.lawdork.com/p/where-is-the-outrage-over-skrmetti

The response to Wednesday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding Tennessee’s law barring transgender minors from obtaining gender-affirming medical care has been muted at best.

At Law Dork, a look at how we actually got here. https://www.lawdork.com/p/where-is-the-outrage-over-skrmetti