Notes

HTML Boilerplate

Manuel shares his current setup for new HTML documents, including all the best practices for 2021.

https://www.matuzo.at/blog/html-boilerplate/

Don't Rush to Simplicity

To me simplicity is made more beautiful when understood through a long personal struggle with complexity. When I can dance with it, having turned a mighty nemesis into an old friend, and teach others to do the same.

https://www.swyx.io/simplicity-rush/

Which type of novelty-seeking web developer are you? Baldur Bjarnason

‘There is no history in web development and everybody walks on the shoulders of giants thinking-or pretending-that they’re just following a dirt path conveniently laid out by nature.’

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2021/which-kind-of-web-developer-are-you/

I haven’t seen that much joy and relief on Twitter in a long time. A nice change from all the doomscrolling!

Looking at coronavirus.data.gov.uk - Matthew Somerville

Yesterday I was looking for data on less-then-ideal emergency information sites. Then @dracos does this amazing case study with more detail than I could have hoped for! 😍

http://dracos.co.uk/wrote/coronavirus-dashboard/

Gardened. - Ethan Marcotte

‘…right now, producing quality work relies on teams electing to adopt best practices: In other words, they have to give a damn. But giving a damn doesn’t scale.’ (via @beep)

https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/gardened/

Hydration

‘So you’ve got a facade of an interface that you can’t actually interact with until a deluge of JavaScript has been loaded, parsed and executed.’ (via @adactio)

https://adactio.com/journal/16404

Letting Go of the Old Internet

we miss the old internet - but that time has gone and passed. The future web can only hold as much wonder, discovery and community as it did back then, when we let go.

https://dezz.ie/web-history/still-making-for-ourselves/

Getting to work. - Ethan Marcotte

(…) No single one of us can fix our industry: it’s going to take all of us, and we need to start now. (via @beep)

https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/getting-to-work/

Introducing Sass Modules

Sass is getting better namespacing for imports. This will be a good fit for component-based architectures! (via @originell)

https://css-tricks.com/introducing-sass-modules/