Reading List 304
- The Fugu project: priorities, Mozilla and Apple, support realms, Web vs native, and future plans – Vadim and I interrogate Thomas Steiner on Te F-word
- Scoped CSS is back (in Chromium, behind a flag). Great news for ending CSS-in-JS abominations.
- Add the WAI-ARIA Usage bookmarklet to evaluate document conformance requirements for use of ARIA attributes in HTML and allowed ARIA roles, states, and properties.
- Meeting WCAG Level AAA – Pattypoo cascades his wisdom
- The ongoing defence of frontend as a full-time job
– “You can hire frontend developers to build your product, or make it happen somehow and later on hire performance and accessibility consultants to fix what doesn’t work properly.” – @codepo8 on why “frontend developer” is a real, and vital, specialism. - Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs by 90% – The move from a distributed microservices architecture to a monolith application helped achieve higher scale, resilience, and reduce costs.
- How to use AI to do practical stuff: A new guide – “People often ask me how to use AI. Here’s an overview with lots of links.”
- Small Penises and Fast Cars: Evidence for a Psychological Link – “We found that males, and males over 30 in particular, rated sports cars as more desirable when they were made to feel that they had a small penis”. Thanks, Science!
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