Do those who make mobile sites with React truly believe that it works on low end phones? I’ve literally gotten reports about pages with no JS breaking on cheap Androids when an ul got too long. I can guarantee you that your site isn’t working for them at all.
“Footnotes now supported in Markdown fields - GitHub Changelog”
🙂
Idly pondering whether refocusing on serverside dev over the front end might be a good move, career-wise. Front end dev seems so disconnected from actual business outcomes and actual UX concerns that everything feels like such a struggle.
Interesting thoughts from Dorian Taylor on sheering/pace layers in software dev.
Unpopular opinion: “clever tricks” have no place in code that needs to be maintained by humans.
“Designing Low Upkeep Software”
How do I make software that’s cheap and easy to maintain? This is a question that web dev generally never even attempts to answer.
“Conditional Border Radius In CSS – Bram.us”
This is very clever. But it’s also the sort of thing that makes people throw their hands up in the air and declare that CSS is bullshit.
Interesting. Disagree with the caveat that CSS can’t go buildless. Had an interesting discussion here where people pointed out that since CSS doesn’t have a depency tree, you can load the CSS files in order instead of bundling
So Free Guy’s actually a decent movie, huh?
If you ever wondered what would be the simplest way to serialise a form… well here you go. www.baldurbjarnason.com/2021/fetc…
“New Azure Active Directory password brute-forcing flaw has no fix - Ars Technica”
Azure has been getting a bunch of these lately.
“Climate Change Is the New Dot-Com Bubble - WIRED”
I’m guessing that the trust many younger devs have in broader industry trends and practices is because they don’t remember the dot-com bubble.
TIL that you can use pretty much any arbitrary programming language for recipe execution in GNU Make. Even JS. Instead of setting node directly as the SHELL var, you instead go through a bash script like so:
\#!/bin/bash
node -e "$2"
“GitHub - cloudflare/miniflare: 🔥 Fully-local simulator for Cloudflare Workers”
Keeping an eye on this because I want to experiment with Durable Objects some day.
“I Guess People Really Hate AMP — Pixel Envy”
When your fancy HTML superset is so disliked that people will pay for an app to get rid of it permanently.
Pondering more about going ‘buildless’ with front end development (or achieving ‘build-zen’):
Can anybody outline just how slow CSS imports are and why?
Are there circumstances where its impact is negligable?
If it’s unusable, has there been any discussion on fixing it?
I’ve been experimenting with ways to do frontend unit testing without building, node, or npm.
AFAICT it’s only doable with firefox.
“What to Make of Isaac Asimov, Sci-Fi Giant and Dirty Old Man? ‹ Literary Hub”
Asimov and Heinlein, in literary terms, were flip sides of the same coin. In life, Asimov seems to have been much much worse.
Web 3.0 is shaping up to be the same sort of self-serving VC grift that dominated Web 2.0.
The last couple of times we got Web 3.0 (semantic web x 2) it didn’t stick which goes to show that the “Web *.0” nomenclature is totally owned by grifters.