Reading List
A weekly (-ish) dump of links to interesting things I’ve read and shared on Twitter. Sponsored by those nice folks at Wix Engineering who hurl money at me to read stuff.
- Chuckle o’the week: CSS: A New Kind Of JavaScript by Heydon Pickering
- T-25 days until Chrome starts flagging HTTP sites as “Not Secure” – check your domain here
- Antitrust: Commission fines Google €4.34 billion – “for illegal practices regarding Android mobile devices to strengthen dominance of Google’s search engine”
- Why GOV.UK content should be published in HTML and not PDF (all content, really!)
- Guppy – A friendly application manager and task runner for React.js – “a friendly GUI for many of the typical tasks facing React developers … we’ll always prioritize the new-developer experience”. Pre-alpha, MacOS only.
- We have DevTools. What about DesignTools? asks Razvan Caliman, in his CSSconf EU 2018 talk.
- 9 Biggest Mistakes with CSS Grid – video by Jen Simmons (14 mins)
- React Component Patterns and Defining Component APIs in React
- W3C Workshop on Web5G:
Aligning evolutions of network and Web technologies – “how the Open Web Platform could help drive the adoption of 5G innovations from the applications layer to the network level.” - How the Blog Broke the Web – an article that Peter Gasston rightly characterises as ‘I preferred the web when it was just me and a few thousand middle-class Westerners like me.’