Simply Jonathan

When to put down the tools – Mike Monteiro →

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Facebook employees, with a few individual exceptions, don’t believe their company has crossed a line yet. Twitter employees, again with a few individual exceptions, don’t believe their company has crossed a line yet. We know this because they haven’t put down the tools. And by continuing to aid the companies making those decisions by selling them their labor, they’ve become complicit in their actions. They haven’t organized. They haven’t made a stand.

And they won’t.

Firefox Facebook Container Extension →

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While I applaud treating Facebook as a virus to be contained, I somehow doubt a similar version for Google is right around the corner.

(Via John Gruber)

Facebook, always there to help

A screenshot from Facebook with the message, 'Jonathan, it's almost your birthday!'

Thanks, Facebook. Thanks for also reminding me what my name is, you’re a pal.

(Yes, they did use it as a call to action to donate to a charity, but I still find it a ridiculous hook.)

What's in a HREF →

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Yet another great piece — or, actually, question — by Ryan Tomayko. It is a bit strange, though; I have never once wondered of the origin of this.

It might be because I started learning HTML when I knew only a little English, but I always assumed there was some obvious meaning to this. Apparently not.

This is Simply Jonathan, a blog written by Jonathan Holst. It's mostly about technical topics (and mainly the Web at that), but an occasional post on clothing, sports, and general personal life topics can be found.

Jonathan Holst is a programmer, language enthusiast, sports fan, and appreciator of good design, living in Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe. He is also someone pretentious enough to call himself the 'author' of a blog. And talk about himself in the third person.