Reading List
Web Standards
- Does Flexbox Have a Performance Problem? (TL;DR old flexbox does)
- uCSS crawls your website to find unused CSS, duplicate selectors (you can exclude pages/ subdomains)
- From microphone to .WAV with: getUserMedia and Web Audio
- List of Web Accessibility-Related Litigation and Settlements
- On Mobile, Data URIs are 6x Slower than Source Linking (New Research)
- AXR Project – @veosotano’s proposed replacement web stack – XML + HSS (CSS-like with extras) and 1 rendering engine to be used by all browsers (via a plugin for now)
Industry
- Goodbye Eolas! Troll loses ‘we own the Web’ patent appeal – troll thrown out nine years after I wrote about the original case
- Victory Lap for Ask Patents – Joel Spolsky: “It took me about fifteen minutes to stop a crappy Microsoft patent from being approved. Got fifteen minutes? You can do it too.”
- Cameron ‘Porn’ Advisor’s website ‘hacked’ – Threatens/Libels Blogger – evidence of one MP’s technological ineptitude, terrifying given that she’s one of those trying to censor the Web in the UK
- GoldieBlox – a toy firm founded by Debbie Sterling, an engineer from Stanford Uni, to get girls interested in engineering. Of course, twitter conversations ranging from “Douche!” to “check your privilege” are of immense practical value in making tech industries less male-dominated. But getting up and doing something about it seems almost as useful.
Misc
- Faster Than the Speed of Light? – the NASA research into faster-than-light travel