Mar 2023

Connected in Isolation

"Connected in Isolation"

The vast majority of people in wealthy, highly connected, or digitally privileged societies may have crossed the digital divide, but being online does not mean that everyone is equally connected—and digital inequality reflects experience both […]
2023

Disrespectful thoughts about design: Social, political and environmental values in Finnish design, 1960–1980

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This dissertation by Kaisu Savola is as niche as it is fascinating (to me at least, having received my “designerly training” in the very institution that formalized the design profession in Finland):
In the field of design history […]
2023

Extending the Kirby page cache with Etag validation and custom flush rules

Kirby is a very performant CMS to start with (see this recent benchmark test), and is already enjoyably responsive without any server-side caching in place. Yet, instead of re-rendering for every visitor, the “page cache” feature (which last year […]
2023