Here is food for thought: is the rise and popularity of JavaScript frameworks and, as a result, websites that are less resilient and more user hostile, a product of throwing user experience under the bus for the sake of developer happiness?
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WordPress’s role in a changing web - Heather Burns
20 minutes very worth your reading time, if you are interested in the open web, and the role large open source projects like WordPress should play in regard of policy making, and the reasons why this is not happening. All the while other interested parties try to shape the regulations that are underway and a…
Hydration - Jeremy Keith
Jeremy once again about the advantages (and misconceptions) of the Progressive Enhancement approach, 2020 edition, in light of SSR and 'Hydration'. I find (t)his layered approach and the rule of least power so, so much convincing and 'natural' for what the web and browsers are good at. But then again I am old enough to…
Today, the Trident Era Ends - Christian Schaefer
This is a must-read for all web dev people. Plenty of info on the poineering that was done with Internet Explorer at a time where we, the web tinkerers, weren't quite there yet.
TIL: TYPO3 TypoScript conditions / include files gotchas
Today I struggled with a problem concerning TypoScript conditions and included files. I'm wrestling with TYPO3 for about 16 years now, and yet sometimes the most basic stuff trips me, like accidently creating nested conditions by including TypoScript files inside a condition. In a setup.typoscript file I had several includes, and additionally I wanted to…
Frank Turner - 1933
The lyrics of this song; this mirrors how I feel about the state of affairs on our spinning rock for the last years. Make. This. Loud.
Keep on Posting in the Free Web
The news of the shut-down of one of (my) oldest got-to places on the web, the "Fender Discussion Pages", has made me think, again, about how the web has changed. Hey Hey, my my content on the web will never die… I am a strong advocat for 'owning your content' and having a personal web…
RIP Fenderforum
The Fender Discussion Pages have shut down right now, after being online for 20+ years. This forum, not affiliated with the official Fender brand, was active since 1999 and one of my main sources when I got my first Fender Offset Guitar, a Jaguar, around that time. Info on these was so rare back then,…