Social
Social networks come and go, and I really like posting social media. In this section (currently called ‘Social’), I’m trying to mirror the stuff I post to social networks. There’s also just a photos page or just a notes page. You can follow what I post here using my whole site RSS feed.
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09 October 2020 16:14 UTC
I read this article yesterday. Coincidentally, this morning an Acast podcast played me an ad which listed three other Acast podcasts I listen to in order to promote its platform. Big old no thanks to that creepy nonsense.
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08 October 2020 07:40 UTC
Incredibly clever, enlightening, fun and totally privacy-respecting.
Learn about facial recognition while this website analyses your face.
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02 October 2020 09:53 UTC
As a tracking nerd (as in I hate it, but know a fair bit about it), the subtitle on this article made me chuckle. This is a really great explainer about first party vs third-party tracking, focusing on Facebook:
I Scanned My Favorite Social Media Site on Blacklight and It Came Up Pretty Clean. What’s Going On?
I think any person building stuff for the web should be subscribed to The Markup. They’re publishing really useful explainers, and giving us a lot of insight into the impact of “our” common practices.
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28 September 2020 16:55 UTC
Tech boys… egos as fragile as their javascript-riddled websites.
This post brought to you by my work this afternoon:
Q: “Why does the content not load on this site?” A: Third-party JS! Q: “Why are all the links on this site broken?” A: Third-party JS!
Text and links should not require another person’s JavaScript to work.
Or should that be…
Tech boys… websites as fragile as their javascript-riddled egos.
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22 September 2020 14:22 UTC
This is really useful if you want to check your own site or even point out privacy issues with your organisation’s site to your boss.
(Devs:) it’s worth reading the writeup on what’s being checked: How we built a real-time privacy inspector.
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18 September 2020 10:10 IST
Does selecting “Whatever” constitute consent? 🤔
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15 September 2020 08:41 IST
Pretty immense lineup for @id24conf, and it’s free with no registration required! Know what I’ll be doing this Thursday…
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09 September 2020 13:49 IST
My slides from yesterday’s talk at SmashingConf are now up on Notist, if you wanted to read any of the reference material or catch something you missed!
Slides for ‘This One Weird Trick Tells Us Everything About You’ on Notist.
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08 September 2020 11:46 IST
Turns out that I still get nervous before an online conference talk! But I’m set up and ready to go for SmashingConf! (Thanks Aral for the photo)
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04 September 2020 10:31 IST
So much worthwhile reading.
Emotional Labor: The MetaFilter Thread Condensed via Eriol Fox on Twitter.
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03 September 2020 15:45 IST
Lots of me talking about “data transparency” and how I don’t think transparency is enough:
‘Designing data transparency – ideas from the community’ on openDemocracy.
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25 August 2020 16:25 IST
These two ❤️
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