There was a time when you needed to make a native app in order to take advantage of specific technologies. That time has passed. Now you can do all of these things on the web: push notifications, offline storage, camera access, and more. Take a look at the home screen on your phone. Looking at the apps you’ve downloaded from an app store, ask yourself how many of them could’ve been web apps. Social media apps, airline apps, shopping apps …none of them are using technologies that aren’...| Adactio: Journal
If you’re a front-end developer and you don’t read Chris Ferdinandi’s blog, you should change that right now. Add that RSS feed to your feed reader of choice! Lately he’s been posting about some of the thinking behind his Kelp UI library. That includes some great nuggets of wisdom around HTML web components. First of all, he pointed out that web components don’t need a constructor(). This was news to me. I thought custom elements had to include this incantation at the start: constru...| Adactio: Journal
My thoughts on Berkshire Hathaway's 2024 annual report and Warren Buffett's letter to shareholders.| The Rational Walk
A conversation with Anat Shenker-Osorio, founder of A.S.O. Communications, a progressive political communication bureau known for slogans such as “Don’t take the temperature, change it” and “A great message doesn’t say what’s already popular; a great message makes popular what needs to be said". We try so hard in the regenerative (and probably any other progressive) space to work on our messaging, how to communicate, how to reach people inside our bubble and beyond. We try to sp...| Investing in regenerative agriculture
by Steven Willing, MD Progressive and left-wing bias in American centers of higher education is a fact so universally recognized it is barely worth mentioning. “A worrying new study suggests that young doctors with known conservative inclinations would fare worse in residency placement.”| Christian Medical & Dental Associations® (CMDA)
Tribalism not only lives; it rules -- even more than I thought! I've been reading Hyrum Lewis and Verlan Lewis's book The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America. It's certainly clarified my thinking. The Lewis brothers are a historian and a political scientist.…| The Libertarian Institute
The requirements of due process are often minimal, but still important.| Double Aspect
THE ELECTION IS COMING. 🗳️ With only 46 days left until polls close, the airwaves are choked with soundbites. Glossy flyers spill from every mailbox. Canvassers roam the streets with clipboards. Information of varying accuracy flies in all directions. It can be hard to know what’s-what, especially when our opposition is so effective at co-opting […] The post LD Roundup: Sept. 20 appeared first on La Defensa.| La Defensa
It’s a central tenet of the free-market economy: a corporation’s job is to maximize investment returns to its shareholders. Bluntly, to make money. And “shareholder proposals” have been a powerful tool enabling investors to pressure a company’s board to take a particular action to increase its value. In recent years, however, activist groups have been weaponizing shareholder proposals to pressure companies into pursuing ideological goals, especially environmental and “progressive...| C2C Journal
If a browser feature can be used as a progressive enhancement, you don’t have to wait for all browsers to support it.| adactio.com
We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite will be published October 8, 2024 by Princeton University Press.| Musa al-Gharbi
President Xi Jinping wants to be leader for life, but brave Chinese citizens continue to speak out against the increasingly authoritarian rule. We must stand with them. DEENA GUZDER October 6, 2022 President Xi Jinping is on the verge of securing an unprecedented third term as the leader of the world’s most populous country, the People’s Republic of China. On October 16th, the Communist Party congress will declare Jinping as China’s ruler for an additional five years. Such congresses t...| art of life in chinese central asia
Contemporary social conflicts and dysfunctions turn on how people relate to the knowledge economy and associated institutions/ professionals| Musa al-Gharbi
You can launch web apps as standalone apps on Mac now.| adactio.com
Post-2011, there was a 'Great Awokening' among knowledge economy professionals. Contemporary data suggest it may now be ending.| Musa al-Gharbi
Enhance your website, progressively.| adactio.com
