Joe Gregorio

I'm looking at that font and wondering if Ikea sells pasta...

Finally, a united nation.

The Broadband Story Abundance Liberals Like Ezra Klein Got Wrong | Washington Monthly Ezra Klein and abundance liberals blame red tape for broadband delays. But the real story behind Biden’s BEAD program is far more complicated.

Ezra Klein keeps getting stuff wrong.

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Of course, the discussion on the orange site is bonkers, this comment summarizes it:

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The idea that there's a significant lobby on fucking Hacker News unhappy that a startup IPO'd for a zillion bucks and made everyone rich is twilight zone shit.
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Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny | TechCrunch A surprising figure is celebrating Figma’s successful IPO: Lina Khan, former chair of the Federal Trade Commission, who said the offering demonstrates the value of "letting startups grow into independ...

Figma IPO'ing for 3x the Adobe offer is a great vindication.

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I always use Grid for the top level layout of an app, and then Flexbox inside each of those elements.

Senate Democrats have a chance to show their voters they can effectively stymie President Donald Trump as Republicans work to advance spending bills and a flurry of nominations. But publicly and behind closed doors, the Democratic Party is grappling with whether to resist or - in Minority Whip Dick Durbin's words - seek a "quid pro quo," Jordain Carney reports. Inside Democrats' lunch Wednesday, senators talked through potential September strategies. Among the ideas they are floating is securing policy wins, like preserving soon-to-expire Affordable Care Act tax credits, or getting a commitment from Republicans not to pursue more rescissions.

Dear god these people are pathetic.

Hawley's stock trading ban sparks drama with White House The bill may now include the president and vice president in its ban on certain investments.

It's called the PELOSI Act 🤣

www.axios.com/2025/07/29/w...

Caught some lightning at 1/8 speed:

Astronomer CEO Andy Byron resigns after Coldplay kiss-cam video Tech company Astronomer said its board launched an investigation after CEO Andy Byron was seen embracing a coworker at a Coldplay concert.

If he's this unethical in his personal life, I wonder what a financial audit of his company will uncover.

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Any Dem that isn't pursuing Epstein to their fullest just makes me wonder which of their donors/family members are on the list.

Why the switch from "territory" to "enclave"?

Is the @nytimes.com trying to push the idea that it's just a neighborhood?

On a Thursday, that's a bold move Cotton, let's see how that works out for you.

the brain that can see a face in a wall outlet was always doomed to hear the voice of God in a markov chain

This brings me joy.

I *am* a constitutional scholar and you are correct.

@bkardell.com Like I said, I've got strong opinions on the subject ;-)

Looking back on five years of web components Over 5 years ago I wrote No more JS frameworks and just recently Jon Udell asked for an update. It's almost 4 years since @bitworking said: "Stop using JS frameworks, start writing reusable, orthogona...

Finally here's an even longer explanation of why and how that was built:

bitworking.org/news/2019/07...

Here's a demo page of all (most?) of those elements in action:

jsdoc.skia.org/theme/theme-...

skia-buildbot/elements-sk/modules at 23b7378549e8b82fe461057c49c4a0c727cc0e06 · google/skia-buildbot Build, Test, and Analysis Tools for Skia Infrastructure - google/skia-buildbot

I built an entire set of base web components with that philosophy, source is here:

github.com/google/skia-...

Here's a concrete example of how I did this at my last job, with a single stylesheet: github.com/google/skia-...

This allows for a much more flexible application. For example, I can totally change the look of an application from a global style sheet, such as introducing "dark mode" w/o having to perform surgery on every web component to update it's hidden styles.

I seem to approach web components differently that what a lot of people propose. For example, I believe the HTML of the component should be viewed as part of the "surface" of the component. I.e. it should all be in the Light DOM, allowing it to be styled as part of the wider application.

As for web components and Shadow DOM, I have strong feelings :-)

When using WC I'm building applications and not building low-level reusable components. I don't find the CSS isolation useful, in fact, I find it gets in the way of using CSS to build an application.

OK, for a more nuanced answer, yes, I have gotten into complex layouts where I wish I had something like @scope to make the rules a little simpler to reason about.

Enshittification and the Bitterness of Billionaire Bros Hell hath no fury like a tech god scorned

"we have a political system that has made some crazy people incredibly wealthy and lets them translate that wealth into power."

Market concentration has political consequences. A lesson the founders understood.

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/enshittifi...

If I need it.

Yes.

I never use Shadow DOM, it's completely useless to me.

Zohran Mamdani Defeated a Corrupt, Weak Democratic Party Establishment Mamdani laid out the strategy. Now the left should follow his example and primary Ritchie Torres, Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, and so many others.

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