Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
Joined March 2008
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Harassment, disinformation, filter bubbles, algorithmic bias in feeds and ranking...
The web we all create has massive ethical implications. As spec authors, we have a responsibility to consider them.
Our new finding:
@W3CTAG Ethical Web Principles
w3.org/2001/tag/doc/ethical-…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
1/ For months, we’ve investigated how wealthy towns keep themselves exclusive.
They speak in what many see as code:
- frail public infrastructure
- clogged streets
- a lack of sidewalks
- concerns over “neighborhood character”
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If a browser is using 6GB of memory to render a webpage, it's likely that the webpage isn't all that simple.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
That's it. Midnight. Netanyahu hasn't won the election. Instead the Knesset is voting now (2nd reading) for a re-run. First-ever Israeli election that didn't deliver a government. Shortest-serving Knesset ever.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Full implementation of Transbay Core Capacity Program will allow BART to run 30 trains per hour through the Tube, increasing train frequency by 30+% & overall capacity by 45%.
BART lined up $2.3 billion in local and state funding. It needs $1.25 billion from @FTA_DOT via grant.
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Somewhere there's an economics grad student waiting to analyze the results of this "natural experiment" on occupational licensing.
"Safety is at risk." Plumbers calling on Texas Governor to call a special session after Legislature unexpectedly wiped out the agency that oversees them and the entire state plumbing code
texastribune.org/2019/05/28/…
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I agree with your premises, but I also think many people overestimate the amount of shared understanding of how to convey tone in writing -- or perhaps underestimate the diversity of their readers in an online context.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Even if you taxed all of Jeff Bezos' net worth to zero, it would compensate for a little more than 1 year of home price appreciation in SF. (I support more progressive taxation, but voters literally do not understand the scale of these problems.) bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco…
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For SF downtown, March-April-May normals have each month's normal rainfall about half the previous. May-June-July falls faster than that. (May 30 - June 10 is probably a factor of two on its own.)
Rain in May isn't that unusual. See ggweather.com/sf/monthly.htm… ... compare May to July!
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Photos from Reykjavík and nearby parts of Iceland last week: flickr.com/photos/dbaron/set…
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Yes, the AMP HTML version shows slightly more context around the commented text, which seems like a UI improvement that ought to be in all versions... but that's not nearly enough to justify the doubling in size.
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So Google Docs email notifications (about comments being resolved) have added an AMP HTML to their multipart/alternative package. The sizes of the three parts I just got:
text/plain 2.2 KB
text/x-amp-html 37 KB
text/html 18 KB
Shouldn't the AMP half be... smaller?
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I think they've largely been replaced with better reports that Marco Castelluccio built. But we were running those in crash-stats for a long time...
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Exclusive: Anti-money-laundering specialists at @DeutscheBank detected what looked like suspicious activity in @realDonaldTrump and Kushner accounts in 2016 and 2017. They recommended alerting the government. Bank managers said no. nytimes.com/2019/05/19/busin…
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A graph of the current age of the US president over time (since Truman), and how the 2020 Democratic candidates [*] would fit into that graph if elected.
Source at github.com/dbaron/president-…
[*] candidates qualified for the debates
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
If you’re worried about measles, get vaccinated. There hasn’t been an increased risk at Berkeley Bowl since 5pm on May 7. Our Health Officer, Dr. Lisa Hernandez, stopped by to pick up some milk and goat cheddar.
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