Reading List 301
- Link o’The Week: The Market for Lemons – Big Al Russell on how managers and developers have come to believe -against all evidence- that massive frameworks are better for making web things.
- A Historical Reference of React Criticism Over 8 years worth of people pointing out the performance calamity that is React, curated by Zach Leatherman
- Why I’m not the biggest fan of Single Page Applications – to do them well you have to reimplement lots of things browsers do by defaults in normal web pages. Hopefully when the View Transitions API comes to multi page apps we’ll square the circle
- Container queries land in stable browsers – a short tutorial by Una Kravets
- The case for frameworks – Laurie Voss makes the case for React. It’s well-argued, but I’m unconvinced everybody has considered the downsides and balanced the risks. Everyone I consult with seems shocked at the performance and accessibility nasties of many of the popular frameworks.
- CSS lazy loading is broken in Safari by Vadim Makeev
- The (extremely) loud minority – Andy Bell, a Northerner, gets righteously grumpy again. I’m worried about the lad’s blood pressure, to be honest. Have a pontefract cake, mate, and take the weight of the world off your whippet.
- Nintendo to increase wages 10% despite lowered forecast – “It’s important for our long-term growth to secure our workforce” president Shuntaro Furukawa said
- Microsoft to phase out Internet Explorer with newer Edge browser – An update will begin to replace its 27-year-old predecessor from Tuesday. Farewell, old frenemy.
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