Si Kelly
si-kelly.bsky.social
Si Kelly
@si-kelly.bsky.social
Senior front end dev working in healthcare
@comsoc.bsky.social Dear IEEE wouldn't it be awesome if WiFi routers were able to report their internet connection speed/quality back to clients? Please can you add the facility into the next WiFi version? Okthanksbye
November 5, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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British.
October 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Thank you to @observeruk.bsky.social for this thoughtful review.

“Berners-Lee is clear-eyed about the benefits and the dangers. This Is for Everyone contains some very sharp thinking about what we need to do now.”

We must fight for the web we want.

observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Nick Clegg and Tim Berners-Lee: the battle for the soul o...
The ex-deputy PM toes the line of his former Meta paymasters, while the web's inventor shares his vision of a utopian digital future
observer.co.uk
September 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.
4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
www.newyorker.com
July 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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As promised, here is a post on subclassing `Event` to create truly custom #JavaScript events in #WebComponents. I'm excited to explore this space a bit more for creating specialized events, not just for web components.

dev.to/stuffbreaker...
Creating Truly Custom Events for Web Components
Learn how to extend JavaScript's Event class to create powerful custom events for web components. Includes TypeScript examples, pros/cons analysis, and best practices for semantic event handling.
dev.to
June 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
When your AI powered blog post stealer hits a JavaScript check dialog and just runs with it
Enable JavaScript and Cookies: Why Your Browser Settings Are Blocking You Online in 2025

Learn how enabling JavaScript and cookies can restore your web access in 2025. Understand the risks, solutions, and device-specific browser settings today.
Enable JavaScript and Cookies: Why Your Browser Settings Are Blocking You Online in 2025
Learn how enabling JavaScript and cookies can restore your web access in 2025. Understand the risks, solutions, and device-specific browser settings today.
blog.ggonggong.com
May 2, 2025 at 6:07 AM
You're in Spain and you ask ChatGPT what's going on with the power outages:
April 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Subclassing the component at the point of defining the custom element - very tidy actually!
Working with web components and trying to figure out how to decouple the data access? Phil talks about this in DIY Dependency Injection in Custom Elements.

Check out the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unQHwYz7gqA

#JavaScript #WebDevelopment #DependencyInjection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unQHwYz7gqA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unQHwYz7gqA
www.youtube.com
April 15, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Automatically binding data to the DOM is now the most common way to design web components. But is this always the best architecture and is there another way?
March 4, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Greed blinds. The mobile networks could get together a decent group messaging protocol. It would have to be global and and nearly free but it would kill whatsapp and also make profit. The margins they make from messaging are just so high, they can't see past them.
January 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM