“Detailing the iOS Menu – Codea & Shade”
Part two
“The iOS Menu – Codea & Shade”
The lack of a standard menu control is an issue for complex iOS apps.
“Top JavaScript Frameworks and Topics to Learn in 2019”
‘TypeScript bills itself as “JavaScript that scales”. Perhaps they should add a word: “JavaScript that scales awkwardly.”’
Kind of feel sorry for the businesses in the AWS blast radius.
“CSS doesn’t suck - Andy Bell”
“For some reason, amazing features of CSS like this are often seen as a negative in the JavaScript community”
So I just got these 😊
Over the past 2-3 years, CSS has become the least bad part of the web, occasionally being actually quite pleasant. This makes it a bit painful for me to watch JS people try to ‘fix’ the least broken part of the web by breaking it just enough for it to be familiar to them.
“Harold Crick and the Web Platform”
On MathML.
“AGPL Policy – opensource.google.com”
In case people were wondering if the differences between the GPL and the AGPL are meaningful or not.
“Using the iPad Pro as my main computer - Hicks Journal”
A counterpoint to my semi regular griping about the iPad.
“CSS-only multiple choice quizzing - Matthew Somerville”
This is very clever.
Note to the software world: using a single, commonly used word as your company or product name is usually a bad idea
Like, how are you supposed to search for Zeit’s ‘Now’ service? (Zeit is also not optimal as, y’know, there are quite a few German-speakers around)
“A declarative router for service workers - JakeArchibald.com”
I haven’t worked enough with service workers to have a substantive opinion on his but it looks very usable.
This looks much easier for us to use at work than Matomo.
If I had to succinctly describe my view on all modern software it’d be: the software industry doesn’t recognise or understand ‘progress’ in any meaningful way so it flaps from fad to fad like an open gate in a storm. At some point it’ll just break.