note | Chris Aldrich

I’ve noticed that Bloomberg Businessweek’s Jealousy List for 2020 has quirky little animated drolleries racing around on it as you scroll up and down the page.

This makes me wonder what web designers and developers would put on their own personal jealousy lists for 2020. What types of features and functionality have you seen this year that you’d love to have on your own website or in your own projects?

One of many definitions of IndieWeb:
The IndieWeb is about hacking the web to make it more useful for real people.

Here we’re using hacking with a decidedly positive connotation.

I like the idea of the microformats web extension. I suspect it could do with an update to microformats v2 though. The idea of being able to parse a page and add contact information or events directly to my address books or calendars is pretty awesome.

I could also appreciate it parsing a page and allowing me to use an h-card to quickly create a follow post and automatically add a page’s feed to my feed reader.

I just noticed there’s a dedicated Beta menu item on wordpress.org: https://wordpress.org/plugins/browse/beta/

I wonder how we could leverage something like the Webmention plugin into a space like that?

My theme doesn’t provide any differentiation when I’m logged in between public posts and private posts so I’ve gone into the CSS and added the following snippet which then adds a simple light gray background to my private posts. It’s a simple visual way to indicate which posts are private or not.

.status-private{
        background-color: #e7e7e7;
}