Reading List
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WOOOOH!! It’s my 200th reading list! A mostly-weekly dump of links to interesting things I’ve read and shared on Twitter. Supported by those nice folks at Wix Engineering who shower me with high-denomination banknotes to reward me for reading this stuff.
- Thinkpiece o’the week: I dunno – Brad laments the flame wars that happen if you say you find technology X “hard”. I can 100% relate; I find Git atrociously unintuitve, and hate watching billions of things I don’t understand get installed by npm etc. It’s why we’re working hard with Stylable to make the user experience good for CSS + HTML devs. (JSX helps a lot).
- Spec o’the Week: WCAG 2.1 is a W3C Recommendation – updates guidance for mobile users & touchscreen users, low-vision users and ppl with cognitive disabilities. Yay.
- Overscripted Web: a Mozilla Data Analysis Challenge – “Help us explore the unseen JavaScript and what this means for the Web .. The Web gets more complex by the minute, keeping it safe and open can only happen if we work together.”
- The Cult of the Complex – Zeldman writes, “Let us never forget how lucky we are, nor, in chasing the ever-shinier, lose sight of the people and purpose we serve.”
- React Application Manager: create and run React (and other) applications – no command line or build setup required. “RAM is aimed at abstracting away the terminal and npm aspects for beginners.”
- Web Components Club – “A journal about learning web components”
- Intent to Implement: CSS shadow parts – a better way to style web components from outside, without the problems of the previously-tried /deep/ and >>> selectory things (Monica’s excellent ::part and ::theme, an ::explainer).
- Apple jams Facebook’s web-tracking tools
- Designing Web Content for watchOS – TL;DR: Use semantic HTML!. Reader mode looks for
<article>element, useitempropatttributes; use Open Graph image and title; no video, Service Worker or webfont support; use HTML5 input types andlabels; use <figure> etc. WatchOS will adapt responsive designs automatically – there’s a new metatag to override this adaptation. (Source video) - Apple: Information for website operators about distrusting Symantec certificate authorities – “Starting this summer, Apple products will partially distrust Symantec Certificate Authorities (CAs). Apple products will completely distrust Symantec CAs at a later date, as early as Fall 2018.”
- The Value of Attending Conferences – “The magic of a conference is its people. And that’s speakers, attendees and organisers alike”. That’s certainly the case for me.
- How startups die from their addiction to paid marketing