Walk around the neighbourhood 2
Walk around the neighbourhood 1
“Google’s apps to embrace iOS on iOS – Six Colors”
About time.
“Comparing Google Analytics and Plausible Numbers - CSS-Tricks”
As with all statistics and metrics, the answer seems to be ‘it depends’.
“Windows 11’s Start Menu ～ take”
Curious to see all of this nostalgia for the Windows 10 start menu. My main workstation is a Windows one, and I pretty much never use the start menu, just search and the taskbar.
“Transitional Apps with Rich Harris”
“The secret sauce in transitional web apps is progressive enhancement.”
This key to a Kuhn-style paradigm shift: a new model that does a better job of fitting all of the various existing ideas and practices together
“Safe DOM manipulation with the Sanitizer API”
IMO, this would be the most important addition to web platform in recent years. Much more important than all of the fugu/USB/filesystem stuff. 🙏🏻
“A practical example of flat file storage”
There’s a ‘magic’ trick that lets you use flat file storage in production sites that need to scale: use S3 instead. Same structure, strong consistency, worldwide scale. Works a lot better than you’d think
Do those who make mobile sites with React truly believe that it works on low end phones? I’ve literally gotten reports about pages with no JS breaking on cheap Androids when an ul got too long. I can guarantee you that your site isn’t working for them at all.
“Footnotes now supported in Markdown fields - GitHub Changelog”
🙂
Idly pondering whether refocusing on serverside dev over the front end might be a good move, career-wise. Front end dev seems so disconnected from actual business outcomes and actual UX concerns that everything feels like such a struggle.
Interesting thoughts from Dorian Taylor on sheering/pace layers in software dev.
Unpopular opinion: “clever tricks” have no place in code that needs to be maintained by humans.
“Designing Low Upkeep Software”
How do I make software that’s cheap and easy to maintain? This is a question that web dev generally never even attempts to answer.
“Conditional Border Radius In CSS – Bram.us”
This is very clever. But it’s also the sort of thing that makes people throw their hands up in the air and declare that CSS is bullshit.
Interesting. Disagree with the caveat that CSS can’t go buildless. Had an interesting discussion here where people pointed out that since CSS doesn’t have a depency tree, you can load the CSS files in order instead of bundling
So Free Guy’s actually a decent movie, huh?
If you ever wondered what would be the simplest way to serialise a form… well here you go. www.baldurbjarnason.com/2021/fetc…