Vol_1.12.26

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Gene Crawford
January 12, 2026

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The rise of industrial software
For most of its history, software has been closer to craft than manufacture: costly, slow, and dominated by the need for skills and experience. AI coding is changing that, by making available paths of production which are cheaper, faster, and increasingly disconnected from the expertise of humans.
https://chrisloy.dev/post/2025/12/30/the-rise-of-industrial-software

10 ideas for 2026
Thinking is the foundation of everything we do and, for most of us that foundation has many cracks. Here are 10 ideas to consider in 2026. These ideas are not for everyone, but useful for some.
https://shreyasdoshi.substack.com/p/10-ideas-for-2026

Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts
A less romantic truth is that aesthetic standards rarely travel alone; power tends to follow in their wake. An episode at the U.S. State Department this month makes exactly this point.

https://hsu.cy/2025/12/times-new-american/

How I do web design - https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/how-i-do-web-design

Introducing CSS Grid Lanes
It’s here, the future of masonry layouts on the web! After the groundwork laid by Mozilla, years of effort by Apple’s WebKit team, and many rounds debate at the CSS Working Group with all the browsers, it’s now clear how it works. https://webkit.org/blog/17660/introducing-css-grid-lanes/

Scroll percent
Scrolling is a fundamental UI interaction on a webpage, on any device. Calculating how far the user has scrolled can be useful for creating sophiscated UX (user experience). Below shows how.
https://garden.bradwoods.io/notes/javascript/web-api/scroll-percent

A Minimal CSS Starter - https://meiert.com/blog/a-minimal-css-starter//

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