Simon Fox

@SimeonBrownMP Obviously never ridden a bike in your life. If you had you’d realize you can get where you need to go really quick. I’ll send you my 3 year olds trainer wheels in a month or two

Big win for Auckland! We’re passing legislation to restore democracy to transport. That means putting decision-making back in the hands of Aucklanders - so transport investment actually helps you get where you want to go, quickly and safely.

The web already gave us everything we need: HTML, CSS, and JS. A framework should amplify those tools, not replace them with its own dialect. Aurelia treats the platform as the foundation, not a problem to be patched over. That's why Aurelia code feels timeless.

@natfriedman lol

Started work at Meta this week. My job is to make amazing AI products that billions of people love to use. It won't happen overnight, but a few days in, I'm feeling confident that great things are ahead.

This aligns with the things I experienced during both of my tenures at Microsoft. It's a long article, but it's worth it. wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the…

AI enthusiasts be like: "AI can generate an entire HTML front-end from a simple prompt! It can even build an OpenAPI backend! It's coming for your job!" Also AI enthusiasts: "We can't use HTTP, HTML, REST, or OpenAPI for interop; we need MCP because AI doesn't understand any of that." I get that there are legit reasons for something like MCP. But let's not keep pushing this contradiction. The dissonance is loud.

@marcgravell Jeff in particular made us all feel part of StackOverflow

@marcgravell I would look forward to the next codinghorror and joelonsoftware post. Now it's all faceless generated garbage .

Lots of people opining on reasons; I'm very intentionally not offering thoughts there, simply talking raw data and sighing a nostalgic sigh.

@thdxr I think you mean duck typing

does it make you mad that typescript has one of the best implementations of polymorphism ever

@ryancrawcour theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

The CTU has taken a look at the costs of the Cook Strait Ferry upgrade (sometimes called the IReX Project). It's a huge deal, with a huge price tag. The recent decision by the Coalition Government to end it however should be viewed against the other decisions they have made. A 🧵

The NZHTA is not going to sit idly while the new government undermines our curriculum. I look forward to reading @EricaStanfordMP's response.

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After months of work, the Web Component Engineering course is now live! 🎊 You can read the announcement here: eisenbergeffect.medium.com/the-web-compon… I've extended the presale discount through the end of the day today. So, for just a few more hours, you can use code EARLYBIRD to save $100 at checkout here: bluespire.com/p/web-componen… If you lead an engineering team or want to try to rally a group internally at your company, please reach out for information on group rates. Finally, we're now offering PPP pricing for select countries. See the blog post above for more information. Happy learning!

Woohoo! Today, I'm announcing the Web Component Engineering course presale! Please help spread the word 😁 You can read about it on my blog here: @eisenbergeffect/announcing-the-web-component-engineering-course-presale-3e2169183859" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@eisenbergeffe… Or check out the course page, video intro, Q&A, and full course outline here: bluespire.com/p/web-componen… Use code EARLYBIRD when checking out for a $100 discount, available from now until when the course launches on Nov. 7th! #webstandards #uiengineering #training #webcomponents

We just wrapped up some great Web Component meetings at W3C TPAC this year! There were five dedicated sessions on related topics, with excellent implementor engagement across the board. A few highlights include: * Firefox intends to ship Declarative Shadow DOM very soon! 🎊 * The remaining major open questions on Scoped Custom Element Registries have been resolved. Microsoft is implementing a prototype in Chromium now. * Google has an early prototype of DOM Parts available now in Chromium under experimental platform features. * There was a ton of interest (and I think excitement) about bringing custom attributes/behaviors/enhancements/mixins to HTML. * Cross Root ARIA proposals are getting more refined, and folks are now looking at how best to harmonize simplicity for common/simple cases with power for complex scenarios. I'll be following up with a blog post providing more details in the coming days.

165! That's the number of lessons planned for my upcoming Web Component Engineering course. I spent this week doing a final review and edit pass on the entire course. The screenshot below shows the full course module list. Next week we begin video production. 😀

YES! Finished writing module 9 of my upcoming Web Components Engineering course focused on the modern Web Platform. This module, titled "integrating with Forms," has 23 lessons covering form association, submission, validation, reset, state restore, focus, styling, and more.

My most recent blog post was about HTML and the DOM as they exist today. But this week's post is about new W3C proposals and browser prototypes for the future of HTML. This will be game changing. "The Future of Native HTML Templating and Data Binding" @eisenbergeffect/the-future-of-native-html-templating-and-data-binding-5f3e52fda259" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@eisenbergeffe…

I'm sorry, but WTF... newshub.co.nz/home/politics/…