Reading List
- Grid Style Sheets – “GSS reimagines CSS layout & replaces the browser’s layout engine with one that harnesses the Cassowary Constraint Solver the same algorithm Apple uses to compute native layout”. Imagine if this were not a polyfill, but baked into the browser, with normal CSS as a fallback.
- CSS will-changeγγγγγ£γ«γ€γγ¦η₯γ£γ¦γγγΉγγγ¨ – Japanese translation of Sara Soueidan’s CSS will-change article
- Net neutrality: what it is and why you should care (in comic – ahem, “graphic novel” – format)
- Resource Hints – draft spec defines preconnect, preload, prefetch, and prerender hints that the developer, or the server generating or delivering the resources, can use
to optimise performance - Unfashionably profitable – Rachel “Grandma” Andrew explains why her successful business relies on PHP rather than something cool.
- Web 2024 A response to Robin Berjon’s post – Mozilla’s Magical Mr Marcos Manifest dabbles in dystopian standards visions.
- Native Versus Web: A Moment In Time – “the web represents independence from platform owners. It offers incredible freedom to build what you to want build, and to ship when you are ready to ship, without any gatekeepers.”
- Pinboard Turns Five – “I enjoy the looking-glass aspect of our industry, where running a mildly profitable small business makes me a crazy maverick not afraid to break all the rules.”
- Bad Voltage podcast – “an amusing take on technology, Open Source, politics, music, and anything else we think is interesting”
- School aged children who were lied to were more likely to lie and cheat themselves. via the Useful Science blog
- Lettuce See the Future: Japanese Farmer Builds High-Tech Indoor Veggie Factory – veg grows 2.5 times faster, waste down from 50% to 10% of harvest, water usage to just 1 percent of the amount needed by outdoor fields
- Song: The Ballad of the Printer βͺ by the inimitable @ourmaninjapan
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