Reading List
- Breaking Down a CSS Grid Layout – analysing a no-Media Queries responsive grid declaration.
- Grid “fallbacks and overrides by Rachel “Grid” Andrew
- BREAKING THE GRID – “Two ways to break CSS Grid and how to fix it” by Dave Rupert
- Web Manifest: add (optional) “category” member – now in the spec
- Beware of Disqus! “After ten minutes of the page being being opened, 5,504 request, 31.5MB loaded. This is insane.”
- Mozilla and the Washington Post Are Reinventing Online Comments – Mozilla’s open-source commenting platform
- A fully accessible React modal built according WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices – (I haven’t tested this with AT myself)
- Using the Paint Timing API. Another real-world performance measurement.
- Lazy async SVG rasterisation by Jank Architect
- ::part and ::theme in Web Components – coming “in a year or two. Part of a video at Polymer summit.
- Firefox 57 will be less chatty to screen readers in some situations – “change how we expose implicit landmarks of some HTML5 elements”
- Firefox: Headless mode – for use in automated testing.
- The average web page is 3MB. How much should we care? asks Tammy Everts
- Where in the World is Mobile Development? – Development on Android seems to correlate to GDP per capita, so low in Americas, Europe, Russia. (Caveats etc)
- growing demand in emerging markets for 4G smartphones – $150 – $200 price range demand up in India, Indonesia and South East Asia
- 465,000 Patients Need Software Updates for Their Hackable Pacemakers, FDA Says – remember, “Things” in IoT is a recursive acronynm for “Things Have Internet, no Goddam Security”.
- AssemblyScript – “A subset of TypeScript that compiles to WebAssembly”. Or, as Ben Francis puts it, “A subset of a superset of JavaScript that compiles to a subset of JavaScript.”
- The zen of Just Writing CSS – explainer of just why so many developers find CSS hard to work with.
- The Data That Turned the World Upside Down – “How our Likes helped Donald Trump win”. From an average of 68 Facebook “likes” you can predict a user’s skin color (with 95% accuracy), their sexual orientation (8% accuracy)
- New AI can guess whether you’re gay or straight from a photograph – This has monstrous privacy implications. Don’t ask “how can I build this”, ask “should I build this?”.
- The Web in 2050 – “Is anybody still reading this?”
- The user is drunk – “Your website should be so simple, a drunk person could use it. You can’t test that. I’ll do it for you. I’ll get very drunk, and then review your website.”
- Clippy for Visual Studio. Yay.
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