The web I experience as a user is a slog.

But browsers are fast

JS engines themselves are high performance environments used for responsive serverside apps. But JS, run by those same engines, is by far the slowest part of most websites

Feels like we could be doing better 😕

“The (Mostly) Complete Unicode Spiral – Terence Eden’s Blog”

TIL:

const response = new Response(readableStream); const blob = await response.body();

…will collect the stream into a nice, neat Blob for you.

“TBM 31/52: Those Pesky Question-Askers - by John Cutler”

“Potential fabrication in research images threatens key theory of Alzheimer’s disease - Science - AAAS”

Wow.

“Fixing the UK’s Online Safety Bill, part 0: no, it’s not fixable. – Hi, I’m Heather Burns”

“Four Comments on Netflix’s _Persuasion_”

“Adactio: Journal—Subscribing to newsletters”

This. Every major newsletter platform automatically provides RSS feeds. No need to clutter up your inbox.

“Finding Stuff to Write About - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”

“Soft Deletion Probably Isn’t Worth It — brandur.org”

“A practical guide to changing code so you can understand it: Automated refactoring tools basics”

“Peering into the accessibility of Dark Mode - by Dora Cee - UX Collective”

“Whether you use Light or Dark Mode is more of an expression of identity rather than one rooted in productivity outcomes”

“Not Too Late”

What does “vanilla JS” mean to people? Does it mean JS with no dependencies (write everything yourself)? Does it mean no frameworks, but anything else goes? Does it just mean that you don’t use non-standard extensions to the platform’s languages (jsx, custom attributes, etc)?

“Help Me Help You: A Guide to Asking for Help - Kitty Giraudel”

It’s kind of remarkable how lower my computing requirements are now that I don’t use Slack. Memory pressure and CPU load is lower on all of my devices. I need less screen real estate to work. All because of the absence of one megalithic electron app.

Kind of impressive how useful it is, when you’re working on something complex, to regularly step back and ask yourself “hang on, what’s the simplest thing that could actually work here?”

Too often you realise that you’ve been way overthinking the problem.

“The New Numbers on Music Consumption Are Very Ugly”

“Giving a Shit as a Service - Allen Pike”

“Perceived affordances and the functionality mismatch - Tink - Léonie Watson”

“Colors don’t solve problems”

“The week the open web won – Hi, I’m Heather Burns”

“What is the best way to mark up an exclusive button group? – Lea Verou”

“Distraction-free writing environment” is not something an app can deliver. Everything in a writing app’s UI has to do with writing. The apps themselves can be cluttered but they’re never distractions. Being distracted is exclusively a function of the environment and the writer.

“The CSS behind Figma - Ahmad Shadeed”

Lot’s of interesting tactics there.