Very glad that finally my favourite music website has got a long overdue refresh at its front end, it was so painful to browse without using the reader view in Firefox.
Where data lives, how to retrieve data, how to change data, how to track updates to data and provide feedback accordingly to the user…in other words, state.
#WebDev can necessitate a wide range of possible options for how you manage state, and in this episode we look at many of the ways this may work from the server to the client and back again.
Someone from bsky mentioned he doesn’t show peoples’ avatars and just uses this library for identicons. It looks amazing! I will use this too for rendering webmentions in my blog. https://github.com/laurentpayot/minidenticons
Enhancing my JavaScript knowledge bit by bit - today with a fun short clip by @cferdinandi and @kevinpowell; explaining var, let, and const - and when/where to use them for declaring a variable.
How do you feel about duplicate links in articles, blogs, whatever? Meaning: A certain word is a link (let's say "HEALTH") leading to an external website.
Would it annoy you if this word was always a link and it's mentioned for example 20 times in an article? Or would you rather have it only once to make it easier to scan for links?
»Cloudflare-Alternative:
19 Cloudflare-Alternativen im Überblick«
Hat jemensch von euch Erfahrung mit eines diesen Alternativen oder gar sogar mit einer nicht aufgeführten? Wenn ja, welches könnt ihr aus welchen Argumente und Gründen empfehlen?
(Ich zweifle immer noch welches am "sichersten" und "daten sparsam" ist)
Why I prefer reading #GhostBlog blogs to #Medium and am looking forward to their #ActivityPub networking. I'm not sure if Medium authors remember this is the first impression that many of their blogs will see-- a good part of the page covered with a popover.
@markstos It’s a bit frustrating. This is the screenshot of me viewing an article on my phone earlier following a shortened url on Mastodon post. #WebDev community, can we do BETTER?
Last month's exclusive video at The Spicy Web demonstrating a CodePen example of Signals—what they are, how they work, and why frontend frameworks and fans of vanilla #JS alike are adopting them rapid-fire—is now available to view for free! Check it out:
running a web service that sends emails, do you have to send plain text as well as html emails? If so, whats a good strategy to keep them in sync, content wise? #webdev
My pals in BBC World Service have been doing some awesome work on "lite" versions of their news articles (other page types to follow).
They essentially skip the Server-Side React hydration which means you end up with a simpler HTML+CSS page, no JS.
Page sizes drop significantly: