Reviewing some of the work that came out of W3C Publishing WG: web publications, lightweight packaging format, and audiobooks and with two years’ worth of hindsight it’s all pretty good, actually?
It’s kind of a pity that it didn’t get the broad uptake we hoped for.
Did web packaging ever get any adoption outside of Google?
My impression a year ago was that archiving had mostly settled on warc, bundlers prefered solutions that work now, and other browser vendors thought signed exchanges were too risky.
“I completely ignored the front end development scene for 6 months. It was fine”
There must be some phrase or idiom that describes the phrenetic circle-running that passes as progress in web development.
Experimenting a bit with PDF-generation using latex/xetex via pandoc. Kind of digging it, tbh. Interesting to compare it with working with the same content using CSS and weasyprint or paged.js.
“Enough With Must-Have Features - Itamar Gilad Product Management”
“Vanilla JS is a web performance decision - Go Make Things”
“If you actually care about your users, use as little JavaScript as possible”
Interesting pattern for handling git pull requests.
“Adactio: Links—404PageFound – Active Vintage Websites, Old Webpages, and Web 1.0”
“404PageFound – Active Vintage Websites, Old Webpages, and Web 1.0”
“Replacing broken avatar images with background SVG Emoji – Terence Eden’s Blog”
“Online Trolls Also Jerks in Real Life: Aarhus University Study”
“Review Notes: Shape Up. These notes are based off of the v 1.7… - by John Cutler - Medium”
Interesting review of Shape Up that articulates how a lot of it is a rediscovery of ideas and principles that have been around for a while.
E.W.Dijkstra: The strengths of the academic enterprise
“The second reason is that what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names —otherwise you would be selling nothing”