The case for frameworks | Seldo.com
Laurie reiterates the fact that:
And Laurie thinks that’s okay.
I don’t.
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The self-fulfilling prophecy of React - Josh Collinsworth blog
Matcalfe’s Law in action:
Companies keep choosing React because they know there’s a massive pool of candidates who know it; candidates keep learning React because they know companies are hiring for it. It’s a self-sustaining cycle.
But the problem is:
React isn’t great at anything except being popular.
React Bias
The juxtaposition of The HTTP Archive’s analysis and The State of JS 2020 Survey results suggest that a disproportionately small—yet exceedingly vocal minority—of white male developers advocate strongly for React, and by extension, a development experience that favors thick client/thin server architectures which are given to poor performance in adverse conditions. Such conditions are less likely to be experienced by white male developers themselves, therefore reaffirming and reflecting their own biases in their work.
The Fonts in Popular Things Identified Vol. 1 · Typewolf
I’d watch this game show:
Welcome to the first installment of a new series on Typewolf, where I’ll be identifying the fonts used in popular things. The focus here is on anything you might encounter in contemporary visual culture—movie posters, TV shows, book covers, etc.
We are all trapped in the “Feed” – Om on Tech
No matter where I go on the Internet, I feel like I am trapped in the “feed,” held down by algorithms that are like axes trying to make bespoke shirts out of silk. And no one illustrates it better than Facebook and Twitter, two more services that should know better, but they don’t. Fake news, unintelligent information and radically dumb statements are getting more attention than what matters. The likes, retweets, re-posts are nothing more than steroids for noise. Even when you are sarcastic in your retweets or re-shares, the system has the understanding of a one-year-old monkey baby: it is a vote on popularity.
SSL Issuer Popularity - NetTrack.info
This graph warms the cockles of my heart. It’s so nice to see a genuinely good project like Let’s Encrypt come in and upset the applecart of a sluggish monopolistic industry.
The average web page from top twenty Google results
Ever wondered what the most commonly used HTML elements are?
BuzzFeed
A new site for tracking what's hot and what's not.