What, Exactly, Makes Something A Progressive Web App?

The baseline requirements and the good-to-haves.

Why Are App Install Banners Still A Thing?

The short answer is growth.

Web Components: The Long Game

“It’s time to consider how and when you’ll transition to Web Components.”

Can You Afford It? Real-world Web Performance Budgets

“JavaScript is the single most expensive part of any page.”

The ‘Developer Experience’ Bait-and-Switch

“We cannot continue to use as much JavaScript as is now ‘normal’.”

Platform Adjacency Theory

The forces behind what’s currently going on in browser-land.

The performance inequality gap, 2021

The current state of devices, networks, browsers, and website construction.

“If you work on the frontend, the only skill you must *absolutely* acquire is caring about users.”

“Feed browsers mostly HTML & CSS and they will work magic for you. Feed browsers mostly JS, and you’re going against the grain. Polish doesn’t take easily when you cut that way.”

“‘In-app browsers’ are fundamentally anti-web: they undermine browser choice for the benefit of the linking application. They ought to be banned.”

Progress delayed is progress denied

What Apple is preventing any browser from delivering to iOS today.

Git Worktrees step-by-step

A short recipe for setting up worktrees for a blog repository.

Hobson’s Browser

How Apple, Facebook, and Google broke the mobile browser market.