“Introducing Astro: Ship Less JavaScript”
This is a good idea and timely. I’m curious to see what the server-rendering story will be. (Even Eleventy is working on server-rendering these days).
“Fixing a design flaw that’s also an industry standard - Lynn Fisher”
I’m starting to kinda like the super-minimalistic epub reader that’s built into Dropbox.
“Ancestors and Descendants – Eric’s Archived Thoughts”
For some reason I swiped right past this the first time it appeared in my feed. That was a mistake. An important stroll through web dev history.
“Adactio: Links—The right tag for the job: why you should use semantic HTML - localghost”
“The right tag for the job: why you should use semantic HTML - localghost”
“Hixie’s Natural Log: Extracts from a private Q&A retrospective about the WHATWG”
HTML5 and WHATWG needed to happen and I don’t think they would have happened without Hixie. He has blindspots, though.
“Adactio: Links—Two articles on SPA or SPA-like sites vs alternatives — Piper Haywood”
“Two articles on SPA or SPA-like sites vs alternatives — Piper Haywood”
“Age of Invention: Why Didn’t the Ottomans Print More? - Age of Invention, by Anton Howes”
“Non-uniform memory access - Wikipedia”
Have any of the tech sites covered the possibility of Apple using NUMA to extend the M1’s RAM beyond 16GB? Or is that sort of speculation too nerdy even for the nerd sites? 😄
“Gaining a Competitive Advantage with a Solid Experience Vision”
“Competitive parity ultimately leads to experience rot”
“I helped pioneer UX design. What I see today horrifies me”
“What got lost along the way was a view of UX as something deeper and more significant than a step in the software delivery pipeline”
“On the Diverse And Fantastical Shapes of Testing”
“Similarly their notion of integration test sounds very much like what I would call a sociable unit test.”
This. A lot of what people call integration tests are unit tests without mocks.
“On the Diverse And Fantastical Shapes of Testing”
“it’s not clear what people see as the difference between unit and integration tests.”