The Crushing Weight of the Facepile—zachleat.com
Using IntersectionObserver to lazy load images—very handy for webmention avatars.
Archive: June 16th, 2019
7 absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer
This is a wonderfully written post packed with hard-won wisdom.
This are the myths that Monica dispelled for herself:
- I’m a senior developer
- Everyone writes tests
- We’re so far behind everyone else (AKA “tech FOMO”)
- Code quality matters most
- Everything must be documented!!!!
- Technical debt is bad
- Seniority means being the best at programming
CURRENT FUTURES: A Sci-Fi Ocean Anthology—XPRIZE
A collection of sci-fi short stories about oceans, featuring contributions from Madeline Ashby, Lauren Beukes, Elizabeth Bear, and more.
BBC - Future - How to build something that lasts 10,000 years
As part of the BBC’s ongoing series on deep time, Alexander Rose describes the research he’s been doing for the clock of the long now—materials, locations, ideas …all the pieces that have historically combined to allow artifacts to survive.
When should you be using Web Workers? — DasSur.ma
Although this piece is ostensibly about why we should be using web workers more, there’s a much, much bigger point about the growing power gap between the devices we developers use and the typical device used by the rest of the planet.
While we are getting faster flagship phones every cycle, the vast majority of people can’t afford these. The more affordable phones are stuck in the past and have highly fluctuating performance metrics. These low-end phones will mostly likely be used by the massive number of people coming online in the next couple of years. The gap between the fastest and the slowest phone is getting wider, and the median is going down.
ffconf - Web development & JavaScript conference in Brighton, UK
All of the talks from ten years of FF Conf …including this pretentious one from five years ago.
Relearn CSS layout: Every Layout
A new site from Heydon and Andy that provides CSS algorithms for common layout patterns.
If you find yourself wrestling with CSS layout, it’s likely you’re making decisions for browsers they should be making themselves. Through a series of simple, composable layouts, Every Layout will teach you how to better harness the built-in algorithms that power browsers and CSS.
HTML is the Web ~ Pete Lambert
The lowest common denominator of the Web. The foundation. The rhythm section. The ladyfingers in the Web trifle. It’s the HTML. And it is becoming increasingly clear to me that there’s a whole swathe of Frontend Engineers who don’t know or understand the frontend-est of frontend technologies.
This page is a truly naked, brutalist html quine.
What you see really is what you get. I like this style!