This is a very very good video about the web and the tracking mess that we're in. (via @faulancer)
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WebrockerHow to set up local development for Kirby and Tailwind - Brian Liddell
Super helpful recipe for setting up a local development environment on macOS for php, node, postcss, kirbycms and tailwind, with homebrew and the command line.
Painting With The Web - Matthias Ott
This. This. This. This is what initially brought me to the early web; the improvisation, the bugs, the happy accidents the intersection of exciting new technology, not yet understood, and the excitement of actually seeing in the browser directly if what I tweaked in the html gibberish works or not… This naive playfulness matured, of…
Pratical ethics for the modern web designer - Morten Rand-Hendriksen
In this talk for An Event Apart on 20th July 2020, Morten lays down a path toward an explicit ethics for web workers, by anchoring the work we do in the capabilities we manipulate in the people we design for, and providing an ethical foundation to stand on when making the decisions that build the…
CSS Naked Day 2020
Today my site looks unstyled*. The reason behind the #cssnaked day is: Good sites work, even when the "pretty" visual layer is removed. It is one of the super powers of the web and good html-markup: The elements' browser defaults may not look pretty, but their function is intact. Sadly this functional aspect is often…
Why is CSS frustrating? - Robin Rendle
Very good read on the cognitive load CSS seems to put on "real" developers:
The History Of The URL - Zack Bloom
Here's a great read about the history of the URL. (via adactio.com)
Visitors, Developers, or Machines - Garrett Dimon
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?
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…
Der kleine Webrocker möchte aus dem Marken- und Urheberbällebad abgeholt werden
Von einem der auszog, um sich einen Spreadshirt-Shop zu machen und dann gleich mal mit Anlauf in die Absurditäten des (deutschen?) Markenrechts und teil-automatisierter Plattformentscheidungen rein rannte. Wie aufmerksame Leser meiner Bloghütte vielleicht wissen, mache ich nebem meinem Tages-Shop als Website-Flüsterer auch noch so sporadisches Design- und Illustrationsgedöns. Im Zuge dessen haben sich über die…
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.