“How to fight back against Google FLoC - Plausible Analytics”
I hadn’t realised just how goddamn invasive Google’s plans are with FLoC.
“Distributed Persistent Rendering (DPR) · Discussion #549 · jamstack/jamstack.org · GitHub”
Has the reasoning behind Netlify’s on demand build feature and a good discussion of what it’s good for.
“Get Faster Builds for Large Sites on Netlify: On-demand Builders”
The snarky response here would be “that’s just server-side rendering, Netlify!” but that isn’t what they’ve done.
Netlify has turned SSR into a composable, encapsulated commodity
“How to Sign Users In with IndieAuth • Aaron Parecki”
I really like IndieAuth as a tech (basically a more manageable profile of Oauth) but suspect that it has little appeal outside of indieblogger circles.
“TBM 15/52: Stop Hiring Things to Do Too Many Jobs - The Beautiful Mess”
This is excellent advice that too few follow.
“Robin Rendle ･ How To Be Hopeless”
Every Brit I know seems to think that the result of the Brexit vote heralded the arrival of fascism. It didn’t.
Politicians campaigning on a platform of calling foreigners vermin marked the arrival of fascism
“The Trouble With Objects – Codemanship’s Blog”
“Millions of people around the world read OO code the wrong way around.”
This could work. Now you just need to fix selection APIs and make it work with accessible modal implementations 👍🏻
“The Layers of the Web - Jeremy Keith - YouTube”
This is really good
“Practical accessibility, part 2: Name (almost) everything - Filament Group, Inc.”
‘”It’s Not Cancel Culture — It’s A Platform Failure.” - Galaxy Brain’
Context collapse in social media
“A generic HATEOAS client for Javascript”
Ketting is one of the more interesting experiments in web dev that I’m seeing ATM. Really want to try it in a real project.
Found this gem in a book box I hadn’t opened in over twenty years.
“Pixels of the Week – April 11, 2021 by Stéphanie Walter - UX designer & Mobile Expert.”
“5 ways to prevent code injection in JavaScript and Node.js”
‘JS classes are not “just syntactic sugar” - by Andrea Giammarchi - Apr, 2021 - Medium’
“The Creator Economy Needs Fatter Tails - Strange Loop Canon”
“Why Keyboard Shortcuts don’t work on non-US Layouts and how Devs could fix it · tkainrad”
I run into this all the time, esp. with Electron apps. I’ve never used the US keyboard layout in my life and not going to start now. I’d rather switch apps.
“The Trouble With Easy Criticism by Ritesh Babu”
“Why can’t we criticize creators, and the works of creators, without these terribly reductive, deeply shitty value judgments? At what point did what art you consumed define your morality and worth as a human being?”