“A Management Maturity Model for Performance - Infrequently Noted”
“Xilem: an architecture for UI in Rust - Raph Levien’s blog”
Posted this yesterday: “What I learned about markdown from interviewing a bunch of people”
Some thoughts that fell out of the research I’ve been doing.
“Pinboard vs. Raindrop: Two bookmark apps enter… – Dorothea Salo”
“In Defence of the Single Page Application”
Actual LOL.
A year old but gives a bit of insight into what Deno is trying to accomplish.
“Contextual Spacing For Intrinsic Web Design - Modern CSS Solutions”
“Postmark has been acquired by ActiveCampaign - Wildbit”
Acquisitions are always worrying.
Google’s rhetoric has created the misconception that “web components” = a Google framework and “the platform” = code made by Googlers. This serves nobody.
“Web Scraping via Javascript Runtime Heap Snapshots - Adrian Cooney’s Blog”
Just… wow.
“Hard to work with. - Irrational Exuberance”
Not entirely sure I know what to think about this. Some of it feels familiar though.
AccessHandle, an API for faster file- and worker-based persistence is now shipping in both Safari (iOS and macOS) and Chrome (desktop only, I think)
“Exploring the SameSite cookie attribute for preventing CSRF”
Jeremy goes over some of the responses to his post on web dev trust.
“Trusting Browsers - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
A response to Jeremy Keith’s post on the lack of trust towards built-in APIs, pointing out some of the historical baggage.
This trust dynamic, where devs mistrust built-in browser features (which are by definition more secure) but trust random code from npm, has perplexed me as well.
There are few things about modern productivity that I dislike more than the Google Docs model of real-time collaboration. Writing with people watching over your shoulder has got to be one of the worst ways of writing ever invented.
“Michael Tsai - Blog - App Store Removing Old Apps That Still Work”
An overview of Apple’s latest instance of self-sabotage.
“Best Font for Online Reading: No Single Answer”
It depends, basically.
“Progressive Enhancement and HTML Forms: use FormData – Bram.us”