Adam Silver:
The best way to make pages fast, is to have less stuff in them. You’d be forgiven for wanting to punch me in the face as this is obvious. And yet web pages keep getting fatter and fatter.
Amazing video from CSS Day 2017:
In this session the two inventors of CSS will talk about what they’d do differently if they could design CSS all over again.
Oliver Williams thinks we should update the “mustard cut” technique to truly deprecate Internet Explorer, and I love the idea.
Users have more browsers than ever to choose from, yet IE manages to single-handedly tie us to the pre-evergreen past of the web. If developing Chrome-only websites represents one extreme of bad development practice, shackling yourself to a vestigial, obsolete, zombie browser surely represents the other.
He makes a crucial point — IE users might actually be better off with a pared-down experience:
By making a clean break with the past, we can focus our energies on building modern sites using modern standards without leaving users stuck on antiquated browsers with an untested and possibly broken site. We save a huge amount of mental overhead. If your content has real value, it can survive without flashy embellishments.
Watched 9 May 2018
This is actually the best Marvel movie???
My first computer is 20 years old today.
Avi Selk, for the Washington Post:
Note: An earlier version of this story published incorrectly because, seriously, putting two spaces in the headline broke the web code.
Watched 4 May 2018
Fun to watch, extremely cool, wholly original. And not a single “crossover event” to be seen. The Marvel movie I’d been waiting for since Iron Man.
Why are we still picking between warm and cool lighbulbs? Give me True Tone lights. Auto color adjustment, no WiFi-connected shenanigans.