“The lost art of legendary Apple UX”
…it’s simply UX from hell
“Towards a general method for accessible content trees or: deep aria-labels for equations revisited”
That’s a good reading list.
“Build for failure - Go Make Things”
CSS also tends not to be blocked by ad blockers and, in most modern website, is a much smaller payload that the JS.
“A more complicated web - Christian Heilmann”
Sounds pretty accurate to me.
How are folks who support Web Mentions handling spam mentions? (I’m assuming there’s spam, there’s always spam.) Is everybody using Vouch? Moderating? Akismet?
(No reason for the question, just suddenly became curious as I was reading up on IndieWeb for other reasons.)
“The Flexbox Holy Albatross Reincarnated - HeydonWorks”
These “Albatross” series of articles on flexbox really give you a sense of when to use flexbox and when to use the grid
“AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source – Stratechery by Ben Thompson”
“Web Standards:: The What, The Why, And The How — Smashing Magazine”
Comprehensive, actually.
I can’t be the only one who thinks that hyperviolent superheroes, especially in live action are really unsympathetic and, yeah, should be arrested by the police for their crimes?
(See: Daredevil, Titans, Punisher, etc.)
“Websites don’t need to sound the same in every screen reader.”
I’m leaning towards the ‘mark it up semantically; let the browsers decide what it means for their users’ approach, myself.
“The Flexbox Holy Albatross - HeydonWorks”
This is very clever.
“Yubico announces the first Lightning security key for iPhones - The Verge”
This is good news.
If I am to be honest, the thing that scares me the most about the web dev community today is that so many seem insistent that those of us who eschew React and frameworks for practical reasons are archaic and bad at our jobs.
And before anybody replies with ‘but that isn’t what anybody’s saying’ or something along those lines.
Yes. Yes, people are actually saying this.
I’ve had several IRL conversations where people said that making websites without frameworks is error-prone and unsafe and should be avoided. Usually those people either hadn’t been born or were still in their diapers when I made my first website.
(This ended up being way more ‘angry old man shouting at clouds’ than intended. Oh, well 😁)
“When And How To Use CSS Multi-Column Layout — Smashing Magazine”
“Does progressive enhancement still matter? - Go Make Things”
“The Perfect iPad Keyboard (Has Not Been Invented Yet) + Subtraction.com”
Random thought:
a. software dev lies at the intersection of tech and arts & humanities. b. the other industry at that intersection is fashion c. the two industries have similar dynamics d. comparing the history of fashion with the history of software would be a very fun project