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I read this in the Firefox’s latest release notes…

The :has() selector is now supported. This allows authors to match an element that has, or “anchors”, at least one element matching its relative selector.

… and first thought I had was isn’t it curious Mozilla calls people who will use this feature “authors” and not “developers”?

One app for feeds and newsletters is a promise that’s hardly fulfilled, especially when newsletters these days are HTML-heavy – almost webpages. No feedreader renders the majority of them. It can work only when a separate view is built just for newsletters and I don’t know of any that does this well. I have tried Feedbin, Reader and a few others. They all suck.

One app for feeds and newsletters is a promise that’s hardly fulfilled, especially when newsletters these days are HTML-heavy – almost webpages. No feedreader renders the majority of them. It can work only when a separate view is built just … www.amitgawande.com/2023/12/1…

Every time I see a blogging platform make title a mandatory field, I cringe. I know why the new blogging platforms generally do that — it simplifies the UI and backend design. But that tells me they will support the titleless posts only as an afterthought, which I don’t like. 

Start with titleless posts as the base, making them first-class citizens. Stitch the design around that. And then add support for titles. People latched on to the microblogging phenomenon of Twitter and Facebook because they made posting interfaces frictionless. A simple textbox floated at the top of the timeline for quick thoughts to be posted.

That’s what every blogging platform needs if we are to attract more people to blogging. Everything other than the content of the post is meaningless.