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A (usually) weekly round-up of interesting links I’ve tweeted. Sponsored by Smashing Magazine who slip banknotes into my underwear so I can spend time reading stuff.
- Microsoft Edge: Making the web better through more open source collaboration – a somewhat weasely title. Microsoft will use Chromium for its Edge browser. Now, the only non-Chromium browser on Windows will be Firefox. So, for the love of Web, test in Firefox!.
- The State of Web Browsers – Late 2018 edition – a long, depressingly convincing look at the market after and the abandonment of EdgeHTML, and the future of Firefox.
- Reluctant Gatekeeping: The Problem With Full Stack by @heydonworks pretty much sums up my feelings
- Lighthouse custom audits tutorial – by Aymen Loukil
- The Baseline Costs of JavaScript Frameworks – “Your React application will never load faster than about 1.1 seconds on an average phone in India, no matter how much you optimize it. Your Angular app will always take at least 2.7 seconds to boot up.”
- The dialog element – intro to this very useful element. browser support is about 70% globally, behind a flag in Firefox. Polyfills are available.
- Ways to extract slides – techy post by Remy Sharp. “When you run events, once everything is over, it’s nice to be able to share the slides both as a single link but also for the video production*… this post is reminder for my future self on how to do that.”
- Programming CSS by Jezza Keef. “It’s precisely because CSS selectors (and the cascade) are so powerful that we choose to put guard rails in place.”
- Forget Zuckerberg the tech giants don’t have to own the future – “Facebook, Google and Apple make the headlines, but there are many inspiring startups to dissipate the sense of techno-dread”
- Twitter and KaiOS take on KaiOS-powered smart feature phones – KaiOS is the successor to FirefoxOS, and Twitter made a PWA for it, despite “those designing the products couldn’t be further removed from the people whom the products are intended for”. Here’s how.
- Open-source wedding site – “Now that my wedding is over, I am open-sourcing it”. fully responsive, RSVP uploads to Google Sheets & emails; Add to Calendar feature; single-tap book Uber to venue; no DB required – uses GitHub pages
- Bruce Lawson – Shokunin of the Web – my talk at Generate Conference in September (and repeated at Codemotion in November)
- Make your Outlook email accessible – “step-by-step instructions to make your email messages accessible to people with disabilities.”
- Four Days Trapped at Sea With Crypto’s Nouveau Riche – a long, wonderfully snarky article. As Ben Bodien wrote, “The “Crypto Cruise is the closest we’ve come to a real life version of Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B”
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