“Michael Tsai - Blog - Fanhouse vs. Apple”
“Fanhouse’s presumably largest competitor, Patreon, gets to do it.”
“Best method for dark-mode friendly SVG in HTML”
“You should always specify either role=img (static or animation) or role=application (interactive) when embedding an SVG image into a webpage.”
“The rise of community-owned monopolies”
“how did software collapse become normal? I believe that this is a near-automatic consequence of infrastructure software being managed by monopoly holders”
“The dependency hubs in Open Source software”
“there is no practical difference between Microsoft killing Windows 7 and the Python community killing Python 2.”
“It’s time to ditch Chrome - WIRED UK”
Apple vs Google is one of the few times where I use the phrase “lesser of two evils” and mean it. Apple’s lock on iOS devices, harmful as it is, is still less harmful than Google’s control over the web. Web > iOS.
“The CSPO Pathology - Silicon Valley Product Group”
“These people are confusing the rituals of a delivery process, with the skills and responsibilities of a major job on a product team.”
We’ve industrialised cargo culting.
“The CSPO Pathology - Silicon Valley Product Group”
“What I want to address specifically is why our industry has such a high proportion of weak product managers and product leaders.”
He doesn’t put enough blame on management, but yeah
“Is beef bad for the environment? 🐄 💨 - Justin Mares”
The short answer is yes, but pretty much only because of capitalism. Meat consumption isn’t inherently bad for the environment, esp. in arid climates.
“Real-world CSS vs. CSS-in-JS performance comparison - Tomas Pustelnik’s personal website”
“Don’t use runtime CSS-in-JS if you care about the load performance of your site.”
Whodathunkit?
“Robin Rendle ･ Everything that books ought to be”
A hardback book’s primary purpose is to be collectible furniture. That’s the job it’s going to spend 99.99% of its time doing. For some titles, that’s all they do.
“Introducing Astro: Ship Less JavaScript”
This is a good idea and timely. I’m curious to see what the server-rendering story will be. (Even Eleventy is working on server-rendering these days).
“Fixing a design flaw that’s also an industry standard - Lynn Fisher”
I’m starting to kinda like the super-minimalistic epub reader that’s built into Dropbox.
“Ancestors and Descendants – Eric’s Archived Thoughts”
For some reason I swiped right past this the first time it appeared in my feed. That was a mistake. An important stroll through web dev history.
“Adactio: Links—The right tag for the job: why you should use semantic HTML - localghost”
“The right tag for the job: why you should use semantic HTML - localghost”