Ramblings from February, 2012

How to scare off female developers

I know developers of both sexes don’t have a reputation for being the most socially adept creatures. But would it hurt male developers like Mark Jaquith to try to not piss female developers off?

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What–I don’t even: Comment tags and HTML5

I have complained that the HTML5 spec is too blog-centric ever since my beloved dialong tag got cut. But apparently it’s not blog-centric enough to have a comment tag. In HTML5, we’re supposed to markup comments as articles nested within the article they comment on. I see a number of ways this method could fail, both in implementation and interpretation.

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