Archive: December 30th, 2019

Words I wrote in 2019

I wrote just over one hundred blog posts in 2019. That’s even more than I wrote in 2018, which I’m very happy with.

Here are eight posts from during the year that I think are a good representative sample. I like how these turned out.

Timelines of the web. The World Wide Web is a mashup.
Dev perception. The perceived state of front-end development tools and technologies might be quite different from the reality.
Split. Materials and tools; client and server; declarative and imperative; inclusion and privilege.
A song of AIs and fire. Game of Thrones spoilers ahoy.
Trad time. From the west coast of Clare to the World Wide Web.
Passenger’s log, Queen Mary 2, August 2019. The inaugural Dance The Atlantic crossing from Southampton to New York.
Mental models. Back-end development isn’t the same as front-end development.
Rams. A most unusual encounter in Frankfurt.

I hope that I’ll write as many blog posts in 2020.

I’m pretty sure that I will also continue to refer to them as blog posts, not blogs. I may be the last holdout of this nomenclature in 2020. I never planned to die on this hill, but here we are.

Actually, seeing as this is technically my journal rather than my blog, I’ll just call them journal entries.

Here’s to another year of journal entries.

Replying to a tweet from @davatron5000

See, this is what makes it such a good question!

Batman’s moral code is his weakness; Boba Fett just shoots Batman…

But!

Boba Fett is a bouty hunter. His weakness is money. And what’s Batman’s (Bruce Wayne’s) superpower? Money!

Replying to a tweet from @brad_frost

Who would win in a fight—Boba Fett or Batman?
What’s that smell?
Will there ever be a boy born who can swim faster than a shark?
What am I thinking right now?
What’s the bloodiest you’ve ever been?

How creating a Progressive Web App has made our website better for people and planet

Creating a PWA has saved a lot of kilobytes after the initial load by storing files on the device to reuse on subsequent requests – this in turn lowers the load time and carbon footprint on subsequent page views, making the website better for both people and planet. We’ve also enabled offline access, which significantly improves user experience for people in areas with patchy connections, such as mobile users on their commute.