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Your righteous Cassandra energy right now must be enough to power the country
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Web consultant and custom developer. Believer in the web. Thou look’st like antichrist, in that lewd hat. He/him. @sil@mastodon.social
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Just observed this hack in the wild. This problem is still ongoing. Intermittent 302 redirects to adult sites hosted by . From what I see, the problem is still being ignored. #GoDaddy #GoDaddyHack
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FYI, #GoDaddy is affected by a massive hack that is randomly redirecting to bad sites. They confirmed it's happening all across their network and are supposedly "working on it". Recommend you contact support and reference Incident # INC-5492776 as proof of the issue. #BREAKING
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If you're hosted with GoDaddy it's their load balancer that's compromised and not something you can fix directly. They have an incident open - INC-5492776 - but please continue to publicize on Twitter.
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Cory Doctorow explains why we are fighting against the #appleBrowserBan
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Mobile tech is a duopoly run by two companies - Google and Apple - with a combined $3.5T market cap. Each uses a combination of tech, law, contract and market power to force sellers to do commerce via apps, and each extracts a *massive* commission in-app sales - 15-30%! 1/
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Oh hello gorgeous. The print copies of my book are now shipping.
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Ha, the nice people at #fusionmeetup ( ) gave me thirty seconds to talk about the #BrumTechXmas pub crawl which is happening on the 29th December; I'll let everyone know where we'll be over the course of the day once I've worked that out!
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At where the patron of Christmas herself, Saint (Pic)Nick, , brings literally ALL THE PIZZA from through the streets as a glorious gift to you all
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Bruce Lawson: Progress reversing iOS browser ban in UK, EU and Australia buff.ly/3gUAWfk by #PlanetBirmingham
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Planning the #BrumTechXmas pub crawl between Christmas and New Year in Birmingham. Previous years were fun; show up and leave when you like for a coffee/pint/catchup, and get away and talk about tech after a week of enforcedly not being able to :)
When/where would you all prefer?
- Thu 29th Dec, city centre25%
- Thu 29th Dec, JQ25%
- Fri 30th Dec, city centre25%
- Fri 30th Dec, JQ25%
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Planning the #BrumTechXmas pub crawl between Christmas and New Year in Birmingham. Previous years were fun; show up and leave when you like for a coffee/pint/catchup, and get away and talk about tech after a week of enforcedly not being able to :)
When/where would you all prefer?
- Thu 29th Dec, city centre25%
- Thu 29th Dec, JQ25%
- Fri 30th Dec, city centre25%
- Fri 30th Dec, JQ25%
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You've just got time to get in under the wire here. Submit your talks now!
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The CFP for #SCALE20X is closes TOMORROW. Submit your talk and join your fellow lovers of #OpenSource #DevOps and #Kubernetes ! socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/cfp
The first of our talks are now available to watch online.
First up : youtube.com/watch?v=8jVRdt
Then : youtube.com/watch?v=GZsIhi
Set aside a little over an hour and enjoy some excellent food for your brain.
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State of Web App Support (December 2022)
On iOS:
- Critical Functionality / Low Hanging Fruit shows almost no change in 1.5 years
- No movement on Install Prompts
- Notifications yet to be delivered
- NFC / Bluetooth still rejected
- Third Party Payments locked to ApplePay
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UK 🇬🇧 and EU 🇪🇺 regulation is progressing for Browsers and Web Apps. with a short and sharp update for the OWA blog.
"Apple has done a great job in concealing their anti-competitive behaviour" 🎖️
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The transitions are 100% CSS, zero JavaScript.
Currently, What PWA Can Do Today is a SPA and the only reason for that is I wanted native app-like page transitions.
I need quite complex JS to this but with the View Transition API it's now only a few lines of CSS.
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The View Transitions API is an absolute game changer and will effectively deprecate single page apps in most cases.
I'm implementing it in What PWA Can Do Today.
What you see in the video below is an MPA that does a full page reload on each navigation
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Here's a scatterplot of health spending per capita (x axis) & life expectancy (y axis) in OECD countries (lines = averages).
One country sits alone in the bottom right quadrant due to its much higher spending and below-average life expectancy.
Source: oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/ae3016b9
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Does anybody know what the logo in this stained glass window is? It's upstairs in DigBrew's bottleshop in Birmingham and obviously predates them. The windows are sadly boxed off, but presumably they date from early Piccadilly Arcade history in the 1920s. Maybe ?
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Tubridy’s gonna snap his fingers and half the Marvel toys are going to disappear.
#LateLateToyShow
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If there aren't people in your feed going on about the toy show then you don't know enough Irish people
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this is great (and great 3 priorities: #AppleBrowserBan, deep system integration, web app equality):
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Definitely worth speaking at and going to. Heartily recommended.
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You really don't need all that JavaScript, I promise!
Watch @sil's full talk from Pixel Pioneers Bristol '22:
youtube.com/watch?v=ZSIquj
The conference will return to Bristol on 16 June 2023 and the call for speakers is now open: pixelpioneers.co/call-for-speak
Watch @sil's full talk from Pixel Pioneers Bristol '22:
youtube.com/watch?v=ZSIquj
The conference will return to Bristol on 16 June 2023 and the call for speakers is now open: pixelpioneers.co/call-for-speak1
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Thanks to all web developers who took the time & trouble to reply to CMA's consultations. Big Tech firms have whole departments who leap into action if regulators start sniffing, and the money to set up pseudo-associations to lobby on their behalf. We didn't; you had our backs.
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BREAKING NEWS: The UK 
has made the decision to open a Market Investigation Reference into Browsers and Cloud Gaming.
This is a huge step towards restoring browser competition, ending the #AppleBrowserBan and ensuring Web Apps have the ability to compete.
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The View Transitions API now supports MPAs (Multi-page applications) and it's truly mind-blowing.
This is a server-side rendered website where every interaction is a full-page load. There is _zero_ JavaScript on this site ✨
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📱 Following our consultation, 86% of responses supported us starting a more in-depth investigation into Cloud #Gaming and #mobile browsers.
Learn more: gov.uk/government/new
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Big news from here. I found the the "Board Advisory Steer" a really useful summary document; it's basically a short understandable list of things that they've told people to pay attention to. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/637b7647
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The CMA has launched a market investigation into cloud gaming and mobile browsers after receiving widespread support for its proposals first published in June. gov.uk/government/new
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BREAKING NEWS: The UK 🇬🇧 has made the decision to open a Market Investigation Reference into Browsers and Cloud Gaming.
This is a huge step towards restoring browser competition, ending the #AppleBrowserBan and ensuring Web Apps have the ability to compete.
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Personally I thoroughly enjoyed The Mysterious Murders of Yin Mara, so if you're reading this and able to vote for a Nebula... now you know what to vote for.
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Nominations are open for the Nebula Awards! My eligibility this year:
NOVEL: The Assassins of Consequence
NOVELLA: The Mysterious Murders of Yin Mara
NOVEL: The Quarrygate Gambit
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Nominations are open for the Nebula Awards! My eligibility this year:
NOVEL: The Assassins of Consequence
NOVELLA: The Mysterious Murders of Yin Mara
NOVEL: The Quarrygate Gambit
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Just seen this very excellent animated trailer for 's UK tour next year (which we're going to!), and on top of everything he did the animation! That's just downright unfair.
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Something good in the Autumn statement today - gov is bringing forward legislation to set up the Digital Markets Unit in with powers to punish anti-competitive tech firms operating in UK (they're investigating mobile ecosystem at the moment) gov.uk/government/pub
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But seriously, folks. This morning's conversation with me, at the CMA was helpful and informative (in both directions), and it's good to see the government committing to get the legislation through Parliament to empower the Digital Markets Unit. gov.uk/government/pub
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well, can't complain at that. We () met with at 9am, and just now at 1pm the Chancellor re-confirmed the government's Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Bill to provide new powers to the DMU to foster more competitive digital markets. Fast work!
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Another meeting with the UK monopoly regulator in 20 mins about the #appleBrowserBan. Wish us luck, PWA and open web fans!
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We're speaking with the @CMAgovUK, the UK tech regulator, again next week as part of @OpenWebAdvocacy about the upcoming Digital Markets Unit and the powers they'll have to legislate fair rules for browsers and devices. It's good they're constantly keen to keep devs involved!
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Looking forward to Twitter performance increasing dramatically when my home timeline is a static HTML page that gets regenerated when things change. Might increase server requirements a bit, but what's important is user experience here.
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"My biggest fear has been realised - he has removed the entire accessibility team"
Tech access expert Leonie Watson explains what Elon Musk's recent staff lay-offs at Twitter could mean for disabled people:
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