Reading List
- Stylable – CSS for Components – an open-source CSS pre-processor I’ve been working on with Wix, that automatically scopes styles so they don’t leak across components, that doesn’t alienate CSS designers and which converts the Stylable CSS into flat, static, valid, vanilla CSS that works cross-browser.
- Editing the W3C HTML5 spec – my glamorous life just gets glamorouser and glamorouser. I’m at Audrey Hepburn level now.
- Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: ‘The system is failing’
- How web bloat affects people with slow connections
- Web Components Survey, Fall 2017 – “Help us prioritize what we work on next!”
- The Current State of Element Queries – good overview of what we need and the state of the various specs
- Comlink + WebRTC — An Intro to WebRTC – “WebRTC is one of the weirder APIs; one of those APIs that stand out because they are not very intuitive to a web developer.”
- WebAssembly support now shipping in all major browsers – yay! I was initially sceptical but now a convert.
- Building Browser Extensions At Scale by Grammarly
- Events vs Streams vs Observables vs Async Iterators – Domenic Denicola on StackOverflow
- Something is wrong on the internet – “Someone or something or some combination of people and things is using YouTube to systematically frighten, traumatise, and abuse children, automatically and at scale, and it forces me to question my own beliefs about the internet, at every level.”
- Silicon Valley Is Not Your Friend – “We are beginning to understand that tech companies don’t have our best interests at heart. Did they ever?”
- Silicon Valley thinks it invented roommates. They call it ‘co-living’ – Gated faux-communities for hyper-entitled “digital nomads”. Burn it all down.