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.

Washed up

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 is not defending browser engine choice

“Apple uses its power over browsers to strip-mine and sabotage the web.”