There’s a tropical storm out there with my name on it.

I’ll be digging out my DVD copy of American Movie tonight. Rest in power, Mike.

Ecstatic that the vinyl gods saw fit to have this waiting in my mailbox at the end of what felt like a long week. Nine Inch Nails, The Fragile (1999/2017, Interscope/nothing)

Reminder that the N on the Cornhuskers’ helmets stands for “knowledge” #boilerup

Out of date docs are worse than no docs because they make your users feel stupid. Then they make users angry when support tells them the docs are wrong. Product orgs: invest heavily in docs. Not just creating them, but updating too. They are crucial to driving adoption.

Still plenty of time to listen to Iron Maiden’s Number of the Beast, three times in a row.

It’s fun when a teeny, tiny PR marks a big shift. This one updated the MDN/Can I Use compat data for implicit rollback on `setRemoteDescription()`, which has meant since Safari 15.4 that #webRTC perfect negotiation is now in all major browsers: github.com/mdn/browser-co…

The Venn diagram of people who a) correctly write “Daylight Saving Time,” b) know we’re now on Standard time, and c) have had to configure TZ data on servers scattered across the globe is a beautiful, perfect circle.

10/10 would buy

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Four of five editions of Bryan A. Garner’s usage dictionary. The missing second edition came out while I was in grad school—and grad school finances meant having to sit that one out.

Love to see credit given where its due. Admirable move here, Chris.

I saw a truck this morning for a home-renovation company called AverUs. I’m guessing whoever named the company doesn’t know the word “avarice”—or knows it all too well.

A new beta of my book on is out: pragprog.com/titles/ksrtc/p… And hey: I’ve been quietly searching for my next FT role in front-end engineering or engineering-aligned DevRel. I’m a practiced communicator, generous collaborator, and champion of the web platform and its native APIs.