Thought pieces and blog posts
Ode to free software: Free software is a mean to an end, not an end in and of itself - 145 Bridging the hard and the soft - 139 The Growing āContentfulā Gap - 139 http:, ftp:, and ā¦ dict:? - 139 Why TCP needs 3 handshakes - 139 Google must share the ability to install Web Apps in Android - 139 How to make your web page faster before it even loads - 139 Faster APIs, Better Experiences: Debugging Next.js to slash API Load Times - 139 You Canāt Build Interactive Web Apps Except as Single Page Applicationsā¦ And Other Myths - 139 How Discord Reduced Websocket Traffic by 40% Austin Whyte September 20, 2024 - 139 The Timeless Power Of Spreadsheets - 139 Taking control of your browser performance when using extensions with Microsoft Edge - 139 Aspects of the Early Web Iād Like to See Come Back - 139 If you want to test the fundamentals of your design, take off your glasses - 139 Cybersecurity burnout is a real risk - 139 The Data Breach Disclosure Conundrum - 139 Attack Techniques: Encrypted Archives - 139 The graying open source community needs fresh blood - 125 āGitHubā Is Starting to Feel Like Legacy Software - 125 On the origins of DS_store - 125 Can LLMs spot accessibility issues? 5 easy tips to improve your personal website performance The different ways to build a resilient website or web app Your site or app should work as much as possible without JavaScript Against optimization How it feels to get an AI email from a friend In Defense of the New āJustā One Line Engineering for Slow Internet A modern approach to browser support Why I retired from the tech crusades Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle Please support āskip to main contentā on your docs site Do new devs rely on AI to much? How Napster created a monster that became bigger than the music industry Research shows that high-quality education data is key to AI performance Rethinking Text Resizing on Web Weāve Got Container Queries Now, But Are We Actually Using Them? Container Query usage Responsive Video Works Now. These Features Could Make It Work Better. The Gap An exploration of the pain points that CSS gap solves. Consensus in Internet Standards 618: Matt Visiwig on SVGBackgrounds Why, after 6 years, Iām over GraphQL * [Your API Shouldnāt Redirect HTTP to](HTTPS )SVG is a pain point Client Side Rendering 4 Software Design Principles I Learned the Hard Way Removing ad trackers and cookies - the technical perspective Three Laws of Software Complexity (or: why software engineers are always grumpy) Itās not just you, Next.js is getting harder to use Why We Donāt Have a Laravel For JavaScriptā¦ Yet 10 modern Node.js runtime features to start using in 2024 How I run a software book club Whither Utopia? Donāt DRY Your Code Prematurely The decline of the user interface Overcomplicating Things Is So Easy Website Optimization Measures, Part XXIII Bolting on AI Features Why Theo is Wrong & Weāll Get a Laravel for JavaScript Writing Self-Documenting Code In praise of the basics Programmers Should Never Trust Anyone, Not Even Themselves - 122 Public CDNs Are Useless and Dangerous - 122 Productitis Is the Customer always right? It depends ā¦ Why creative labour isnāt always seen as āreal workā ā and what that means for artists and designers Half-ass it Boring is good Forget Subtext - People Donāt Even Get Surtext Write code that you can understand when you get paged at 2am Rant: Iām really starting to despise the internet these days, as a web developer To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language I Donāt Want To Spend My One Wild And Precious Life Dealing With Googleās AI Search Time sinks and money sinks When Amazon Just Wipes Your Entire Device Ebook Library Developers spend close to 57% of their time firefighting than innovating- Cisco survey BASIC turns 60: Why simplicity was this programming languageās blessing and its curse Why you need to go back to basics if you want to learn HTML or CSS The curious case of the missing period When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple Taking Risk New results in AI research: Humans barely able to recognize AI-generated media Generative AI Is Totally Shameless. I Want to Be It Done is Better Than Perfect Open source is neither a community nor a democracy GDPR: Is it worth it? Perceptions of workers who have experienced its implementation CODING MY HANDWRITING Why use Web Components over traditional DOM manipulation? The Tragic Downfall of the Internetās Art Gallery The deskilling of web dev is harming the product but, more importantly, itās damaging our health ā this is why burnout happens Beautiful motivations Rebel against The Algorithm. Get a library card Heat Death of the Internet If someoneās having to read your docs, itās not āsimpleā How novelty effects and Dopamine Culture rule the tech industry Disenshittifying the Web, one piece at a time Bill Gates never left Twitter reply guys were bad, but Mastodon is no better Reweirding the Web Text Manipulation Kung Fu for the Aspiring Black Belt Bulletproof Method to Solving Problems The problem with trying to sell developer tooling is that developers have no purchasing authority Craft vs Industry: Separating Concerns The Debuggerās Toolkit - Understanding the thoughtful art of debugging code The Struggles of a Young Developer Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things Good Ideas in Computer Science The Power of Open Source Building Something Real in your spare time Code Review: The Author: Mindset Matters Exists is the enemy of good - 106 Tech has graduated from the Star Trek era to the Douglas Adams age Internal tools often make bad startup ideas From Go to Rust: The Two Types of Readable Code * Blog Posts, Sorted by Sleep Mario meets Pareto Models All The Way Down Are we too pedantic with semantic Repetition ē¹°ćčæć Friends Donāt Let Friends Make Bad Graphs The Internet Archiveās last-ditch effort to save itself Google Made Me Ruin A Perfectly Good Website: A Case Study On The AI-Generated Internet The more you polish, the less you see Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things The internet is in decline ā it needs rewilding - 115 Passwords Are History - 115 In-App Browsers: The worst erosion of user choice you havenāt heard of The (not so) subtle reason you hate chatbots The Blessing of the Strings Shipping Code Faster The threat to open source comes from within Understanding the thoughtful art of debugging code What itās like to run HTMX in Production - Stories from Experienced Software Engineers Why is observability so expensive? Google agrees to destroy browsing data collected in Incognito mode Facebook secretly looked at Snapchat, Amazon, and YouTube user data, documents reveal Build time is a collective responsibility Google to Fight Cookie Hijacking With Encryption Keys for Chrome Browser AI hallucinates software packages and devs download them ā even if potentially poisoned with malware Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel Code Smell 244 - Incomplete Error information The āBeastification of YouTubeā may be coming to an end How GitHub replaced SourceForge as the dominant code hosting platform Frontend Debugging Is Bad and it Should Feel Bad Front-end developmentās identity crisis Mental Health in Open Source How to use GitHub Copilot in your IDE: Tips, tricks, and best practices Friends donāt let friends export to CSV Fewer people are using Elon Muskās X as the platform struggles to attract and keep users, according to analysts 10 Reasons Why Static Site Generators Are Perfect for Modern Web Development Who cares about tech regulation? The Tragic Race Condition Why do regexes use $ and ^ as line anchors? - 109 Machine Learning in Web Development: Use Cases and Implementation Strategies - 109 Architecture.md The value of live web design Elon Musk switched on X calling by default: Hereās how to switch it off Clippy, the animated paper clip known as one of the most annoying virtual assistants of all time, is making a comeback. On getting paid for open source - 107 Serving my blog posts as Linux manual pages Why Does āis-numberā Package Have 59M Weekly Downloads? How Discord Moved Engineering To Cloud Development Environments More files please Package dependency hell 12 Years at Meta How Google is killing independent sites like ours - HouseFresh
And why you shouldnāt trust product recommendations from big media publishers ranking at the top of GoogleColor Spaces Concatenating text Casual programming Mastering Programming Itās OK to abandon your side-project. If You Can Code, You Can Write! Nervous about Q&As? 7 Essential Tips to Answer Confidently 100 things you can do on your personal website āHey, will you build me a website?ā Pinball User Interface Reverse engineering the recipe for excellent documentation Why Should You Care About Package Metadata Interoperability? How GitHub uses merge queue to ship hundreds of changes every day Java is here to stay: Popular programming language to remain on business hit lists in 2024 Is Making Websites Hard, Or Do We Make It Hard? Or Is It Some of Both? Autogenerating a Book Series From Three Years of iMessages Optimizing Technical Docs for LLMs The quiet, pervasive devaluation of frontend - 107 Exclusive: Public trust in AI is sinking across the board - 107 Design2Code: How Far Are We From Automating Front-End Engineering? - 107 The most important goal in designing software is understandability - 107 Generative. Architecture.md The value of live web design Elon Musk switched on X calling by default: Hereās how to switch it off Clippy, the animated paper clip known as one of the most annoying virtual assistants of all time, is making a comeback. On getting paid for open source Serving my blog posts as Linux manual pages How Discord Moved Engineering To Cloud Development Environments More files please 12 Years at Meta Color Spaces Concatenating text Casual programming Mastering Programming Itās OK to abandon your side-project. Home Screen Advantage - Decoding Appleās Ploy To Scuttle Progressive Web Apps - 105 10 Good Coding Principles to improve code quality. Three Virtues of Developers The web is mostly links and forms Browsers Are Weird Right Now Concatenating text Blogging is back Have we forgotten how to build ethical things for the web? Zero to Unmaintainable in 1.2 Commands Learning about debuggers Why is Prettier rock solid? Code Chores: The boring part of maintenance Clean code: Meaningful names Discovering the main characteristics of Clean Code Twitterās Recommendation Algorithm Using the Bluesky API A search engine in 80 lines of Python In search of a digital town square Sora is an AI model that can create realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions. Preventing SQL injection attacks in Node.js View transitions: Handling aspect ratio changes Playing with Infinity in CSS (Almost) Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years running infrastructure at a startup A tale of three architectures - How we built and rebuilt and then rebuilt Luro Why walking around in public with Vision Pro makes no sense - 103 Why Write Small Diffs - 103 The creator economy canāt rely on Patreon. Too much of a good thing: the trade-off we make with tests Why We Canāt Have Nice Software Web Development Is Getting Too Complex, And It May Be Our Fault The Fastest Growing Software Sectors in 2024 The myth of technological inevitability The Fucks and How We Give Them (A Manifesto) Making a PDF thatās larger than Germany - 103 -2000 Lines Of Code Why Renaming a File Isnāt the Same as Converting It How Iām (re)learning math as an adult The āerrorsā that mean youāre doing it right Mourning Google The Open Source Sustainability Crisis A unified theory of fucks The Value of Open Source Software Introduction to Better Code Practices
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Ingenuity packed more computing power than all other NASA deep space missions combined.Why I donāt use Scrum to manage my Remote Teams? Thereās never going to be time Git commit messages are useless Take the Road Most Documented What Can a Website Do? Write code for the web This Web Page is Best Viewed in the EU - 101 You are never taught how to build quality software - 101 Deploying an 11ty Site to GitHub Pages Using GitHub Actions Going Lean - Lea Verou wordpress-export-to-markdown A lot of what people use React for would be better handled with vanilla JavaScript The Golden Rule of Assertions Y2K was a big thing Microsoft taught Apple nothing The cheap web How a 3rd Party API Can Ruin Your Weekend All code is technical debt Donāt let ChatGPT write your code All treats, no tricks: 6 solutions to common developers challenges Cold-blooded software Thank you to those who helped me to be the CSS developer I am today - Jeff Bridgforth One of the lessons that I have learned in my career is how powerful it is to reach out and show your appreciation.Every software is messy and has skeletons Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find How bad are search results? Letās compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT How to Turn Google Slides Into a Polling Tool (Live Audience Engagement) Itās 2023, here is why your web design sucks. My ideal frontend interview My Web Development Wishlist 2024 Operation Paperclip (and other crimes) Scientists Explain Why āDoing Your Own Researchā Leads to Believing Conspiracies The best Substack alternatives The End of Front-End Development The end of social media, and naive optimism The IDEs we had 30 years agoā¦ and we lost The Implied Web The Roots of Todayās Modern Backend Engineering Practices The year in computer science - 96 Things that arenāt doing the thing Unrot (that) link We are writing the language of the future. Letās make sure everyone can read it. BIMA Whatās happening with Stack Overflow? Where have all the websites gone? Why are websites embarrassing? The Website vs. Web App Dichotomy Doesnāt Exist - 99 The Pros and Cons of Using React Today Electron Ecosystem 2023 Recap My $500m Mars Rover Mistake: A Failure Story - 93 Free eBook: Software engineering at Google - 94 Managing an online community - 94 Reflecting on 18 years at Google - 94 Deleting 50,000 Lines of Code in 3 Days - 95 The surprising connection between after-hours work and decreased productivity - Slack Netflix finally reveals viewing data across its entire catalog - Ars Technica Code is run more than read - 95 12 lessons from 5 years of running a tech meetup Firefox on theĀ brink? - BryceWray.com The Weirdest Bug Iāve Seen Yet Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes - 95 One YouTube Embed weighs almost 1.2 MBāzachleat.com Old School Web Techniques Best Forgotten Behind every swipe: the workers toiling to keep dating apps safe Things I wish someone would have told me about configuring VSCode Pre-Hire Assignments Frustrate Job Applicants in Sluggish Market How Google takes the pain out of code reviews, with 97% dev satisfaction - 95 Dark Design Patterns Catalog How to prepare the technical interview - by Fran Soto Maybe Getting Rid of Your QA Team was Bad, Actually. - by David Caudill - Dec, 2023 - Medium 7 questions to help you be a better writer The Value of Repaying Good Technical Debt Adobe, Figma to terminate $20 billion deal over regulatory hurdles - Reuters What Happened to Separation of Concerns in Frontend Development Ā· Jens Oliver Meiert The end of social media, and naive optimism - Web Directions Robin Rendle ā Why are websites embarrassing? Splitting the Web
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