“Hixie’s Natural Log: Extracts from a private Q&A retrospective about the WHATWG”
HTML5 and WHATWG needed to happen and I don’t think they would have happened without Hixie. He has blindspots, though.
“Adactio: Links—Two articles on SPA or SPA-like sites vs alternatives — Piper Haywood”
“Two articles on SPA or SPA-like sites vs alternatives — Piper Haywood”
“Age of Invention: Why Didn’t the Ottomans Print More? - Age of Invention, by Anton Howes”
“Non-uniform memory access - Wikipedia”
Have any of the tech sites covered the possibility of Apple using NUMA to extend the M1’s RAM beyond 16GB? Or is that sort of speculation too nerdy even for the nerd sites? 😄
“Gaining a Competitive Advantage with a Solid Experience Vision”
“Competitive parity ultimately leads to experience rot”
“I helped pioneer UX design. What I see today horrifies me”
“What got lost along the way was a view of UX as something deeper and more significant than a step in the software delivery pipeline”
“On the Diverse And Fantastical Shapes of Testing”
“Similarly their notion of integration test sounds very much like what I would call a sociable unit test.”
This. A lot of what people call integration tests are unit tests without mocks.
“On the Diverse And Fantastical Shapes of Testing”
“it’s not clear what people see as the difference between unit and integration tests.”
“1997: The Year of DHTML – Web Development History”
I remember being very excited about this. Which in turn makes me feel very old.
“Trying Your Best is really bad advice (and strategy) - Zell Liew”
“Islands of Data - BitWorking”
“The depressing part is that in every single one of those applications you will end up building a data island”