“Monotype Announces the Acquisition of Iconic Type Foundry Hoefler&Co. - Monotype”
This seems to be the week for independents getting acquired.
“On why I think adding a new HTML sectioning element for search is a good idea.”
“Should we make deprecation more prescriptive?”
Just don’t deprecate APIs that have cross-platform support. Deprecate APIs that don’t have cross-platform support and are Chrome-exclusive. Those are Google products and people are used to being shafted by Google products.
“An Idea from Computer Science That Can Change Your Life – Jorge Arango”
For a moment there, I was filled with an overwhelming nostalgia for writing with WordPerfect on DOS.
It passed, thankfully.
“Aggregators aren’t open-ended - by Gordon Brander - Subconscious”
“Hacking CloudKit - How I accidentally deleted your Apple Shortcuts - Detectify Labs”
Whoops.
“MailChimp: an inequitous acquisition”
Kinda glad I’m not a MailChimp user, tbh.
“Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS”
“All of a sudden, things started making so much more sense. CSS is a language that rewards those who go deep.”
Reviewing some of the work that came out of W3C Publishing WG: web publications, lightweight packaging format, and audiobooks and with two years’ worth of hindsight it’s all pretty good, actually?
It’s kind of a pity that it didn’t get the broad uptake we hoped for.
Did web packaging ever get any adoption outside of Google?
My impression a year ago was that archiving had mostly settled on warc, bundlers prefered solutions that work now, and other browser vendors thought signed exchanges were too risky.
“I completely ignored the front end development scene for 6 months. It was fine”
There must be some phrase or idiom that describes the phrenetic circle-running that passes as progress in web development.
Experimenting a bit with PDF-generation using latex/xetex via pandoc. Kind of digging it, tbh. Interesting to compare it with working with the same content using CSS and weasyprint or paged.js.
“Enough With Must-Have Features - Itamar Gilad Product Management”
“Vanilla JS is a web performance decision - Go Make Things”
“If you actually care about your users, use as little JavaScript as possible”
Interesting pattern for handling git pull requests.