Day: 7 December 2018
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Browser diversity starts with us
Jeffrey Zeldman (zeldman.com) ...
Even if you love Chrome, adore Gmail, and live in Google Docs or Analytics, no single company, let alone a user-tracking advertising giant, should control the internet.
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Diversity is as good for the web as it is for society. And it starts with us.
Jeffrey Zeldman
Yet more fallout from the Microsoft … -
Long-forgotten virus could help solve antibiotics crisis
Alexander Belcredi (TED)
Fantastic lightweight introduction to bacteriophages and how they can potentially be our next best weapon against infection as we approach the post-antibiotic age. Plus an interesting look at the history and the discovery of bacteriophages! -
Goodbye, EdgeHTML
Microsoft is officially giving up on an independent shared platform for the internet. By adopting Chromium, Microsoft hands over control of even more of online life to Google.
This may sound melodramatic, but it’s not. The “browser engines” — Chromium from Google and Gecko Quantum from Mozilla — are “inside baseball” pieces of software that actually … -
Poly Parents Evening
Ruth, JTA and Dan went to a school parents' evening as a trio. And everything was fine.