Reading List
Lots of tasty web/ apps links here, Reading List Fans!
- New data shows losing 80% of mobile users is normal, and why the best apps do better by Andrew Chen (Uber). TL;DR: the average Android app gets uninstalled by 77% of users in 24 hrs. By day 90, install retention is down to 3.97%.
- The app boom is over “Last month, the top 15 app publishers saw downloads drop an average of 20 percent in the U.S.”
- Meanwhile, in web land… The Crisis Facing the Web Platform in which Peter Gasston plays Boswell to Alex Russell’s Dr Johnson
- PWA Discovery: You Ain’t Seen Nothin Yet by Alex Russell
- Progressively less progressive Andrew Betts on mobile-only, JS-required PWAs. I particularly agree with him about AMP.
- Don’t use iOS meta tags irresponsibly in your Progressive Web Apps by Maximiliano Firtman
- Progressive Web Apps isn’t a Google-only thing – absolutely! The amount of time I’ve spent with Andreas Bovens and the Opera for Android team is huge!
- Android Instant Apps, Progressive Web Apps and the Future of the Web by Jason Grigsby
- Why UK’s Government Digital Service Decided To Ditch Apps
- The fucking open web – a discouraging essay by a software CEO, which is important to address as browser makers, standardisers & devs.
- Surveying the landscape by Peter Gasston; a less gloomy assessment of the web, by @stopsatgreen. Long, but deffo worth reading.
- Opera 38 goes final with new battery saver – 49% longer battery life than using Chrome. Because PCs don’t live on your desk, plugged in all the time.
- A list of everything that could go in the <head> of your document – it’s a LOT
- [Proposal] API to Control User Gesture Navigation – CSS
overscroll-actionproperty to control user gesture navigation - Typosquatting programming language package managers – “17000 computers were forced to execute arbitrary code by typosquatting programming language packages/libraries” of which 50% had admin rights, including .mil and .gov domains. Fiendishly brilliant.
- chinese text displays in different sizes and fonts: troubleshooting chinese font problems
- Decoding Culture on the Chinternet – collecting and preserving memes on the Chinese internet
- Open Open Source – Charlotte Spencer on getting more diverse participants in projects
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