Platform Adjacency Theory
The forces behind what’s currently going on in browser-land.
The forces behind what’s currently going on in browser-land.
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.”
What Apple is preventing any browser from delivering to iOS today.
A short recipe for setting up worktrees for a blog repository.
How Apple, Facebook, and Google broke the mobile browser market.
Are technologies marketed under "web3" an evolution of the web?
“Performance is an expression of mastery. When teams run systems, they can deliver intentional experiences. When systems run teams, only firefighting is possible – and likely.”
“It’s pretty wild how many framework authors out here are basically admitting that they don’t grok how HTML and DOM work.“
“Apple uses its power over browsers to strip-mine and sabotage the web.”
“Can’t believe we’re all still suffering with JSON that doesn’t support comments.”
When digital is society’s default, slow is exclusionary.
Why is the frontend technology market so inefficient?
A duopoly is still holding back Progressive Web Apps.
“Front-end’s hangover from the JavaScript party is gonna suck.”
Decoding Apple’s ploy to scuttle progressive web apps.