2023.05.09 – Chris James discusses HTMX, an HTML-enhancement JavaScript library (similar to Unpoly which I use on this site), and the trending rise of HTML-over-the-wire replacing thicker libraries like React.
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React and Flash
2023.03.01 – Brian Rinaldi makes a compelling comparison between React and Adobe Flash, the inevitability of change, and how overly-attached developers suffer as a result.
How To Pay HCD Study Participants In Government
2023.02.15 – This article from the U.S. Digital Response team breaks down methods for government agencies to pay participants in user testing.
Exiting Technology Projects
2023.01.06 – As I’m starting a few new projects, I’m revisiting this guide from Keith Porcaro and friends on how to shut down tech projects. It’s always a good idea to begin with the end in mind!
Breaking up with JavaScript Frontends
2023.01.04 – I really enjoyed this presentation from Henning Koch, the author of unpoly.js about replacing React/Vue/Angular with the much, much thinner unpoly library.
Building for Longevity
2023.01.03 – I thoroughly enjoyed this post from Seth Etter on building technology for longevity.
Government Domain Name Rationalization
2022.12.09 – Ana Monroe shared this workshop that GSA performed to rationalize its wide assortment of domain names. Government agencies typically have lots of different vanity domain names for new programs, and it makes it very hard for people to find these programs as a result.
Basecamp Moving Out Of The Cloud
2022.11.01 – I generally don’t like to repost DHH, but I saw this morning that Basecamp is moving out of the AWS Cloud because it’s not cost effective for them. For those of y’all who have read my Cloudbusting and Cloud Strategy Guide articles, this should sound familiar.
Run Your Own Social Network
2022.11.01 – With the implosion of Twitter, it’s a good time to revisit this post from Darius Kazemi on some of the philsophical aspects of running a Mastodon (or Hometown) server for your friends & colleagues!
Astronomer Ranks Fictional Spaceships
2022.10.12 – H/t Gareth Branwyn on BoingBoing: Michael Siegel reviews the most popular spaceships from Sci-Fi and rates them. Super-nerdy and fun.
Animated Gifs
2022.09.30 – There is little in this world that I love more than animated gifs, especially those crunchy oldschool ones. @hachx0 notes that GearSphere has shared a thriftstore CD full of them!
<blink> Polyfill
2022.09.28 – Gareth Branwyn and Ben Morris said my site wasn’t properly retro unless I had the tag, but that’s deprecated so I wrote a polyfill. Who doesn’t love a good challenge?