The other day someone claimed a hostname on a domain I own and it took me a while to track down how. After a lot of digging around, trying to figure out how the hijack was accomplished, it turns out it was via GitHub Pages.
Dispatches From The Internets
Locking down your GitHub-hosted Domains
No Comment 2: The Webmentioning
You can now use webmentions in Eleventy via a plugin rather than rolling the whole thing yourself.
Equality vs. Equity
Over the last few years, I’ve been quietly leading training efforts within Microsoft focused on leveling up folks’ allyship skills. There are a ton of really important lessons to be learned form the curriculum my team and I developed, but one folks ofter struggle with is the concept of “equality” as compared to “equity.”
When Equal Isn’t Equitable
This is an important insight from the Microsoft design research team regarding boosting the signal from historically excluded communities:
The trick is… the system is built on inequity, so finding customers who have been historically excluded means that you can’t expect to find them in the system itself.
A Bittersweet Goodbye
June 3rd was my last day on the Edge team. It’s been an absolute honor and privilege to work with such an amazing team all these years, moving from Internet Explorer (IE) to “Spartan” Edge and, finally, to “Anaheim” Edge.
Beyond WCAG: Losing Spoons Online
Have you ever considered that your website might be an energy vampire?
This excellent piece from Lē McNamara takes you on a brief tour of design patterns that actively deplete the mental and physical stamina of your users, potentially incapacitating them for days.
You need to read this.
Make Beautifully Resilient Apps With Progressive Enhancement
A good walkthrough on how to build a form that hooks into an API and works either with or without JavaScript.
One note however: Austin in incorrect in that you absolutely can define nested objects in your forms. I’ve done it many times. Your field names just need to use bracket notation like this:
<input name="foo['bar']['baz']">That will pipe through as the value for the baz property of bar within foo.
Making the world’s fastest website, and other mistakes (Series)
This 4 part series walks through the various levels of Hell you must traverse to actually achieve solid web performance on a large e-commerce platform. What is most amazing to me is how things continue to align pretty directly with the philosophy of progressive enhancement.
Web Components as Progressive Enhancement
Building (and improving) PWAs in VSCode just got even better. Many thanks to the PWA Builder team for all their hard work!
The Right Stuff
Would people who are disabled here on Earth make excellent astronauts? Dr. Sheri Wells-Jensen thinks they could. This episode of Radiolab takes zero-gravity flight with a host of people with disabilities to explore that question.
This podcast brought me so much joy in experiencing the participants’ profound joy in both weightlessness and freedom. It also brought me so much sadness with respect to how far we’ve yet to come with our treatment of people with disabilities here on Earth. In the end though, it left me with hope though. Lots of hope.
See also: AstroAccess