I talk about an apparent attitude shift in attitude towards React in the community and also make some recommendations about decision-making for your projects.
It just occurred to me that pretty soon web developers need to test their sites on the new Chrome/Blink/iOS and Firefox/Gecko/iOS and other new iOS browsers
@ppk Cloud-based testing services like lambdatest etc could offer that as service, no? I get that it's a higher barrier for cross-browser testing though. And devs may not go that extra mile.
On SVGs & performance: is there a perf reason to inline an SVG image (so the XML code is visible in your HTML source) rather than pulling in an external resource e.g. <img src="zonk.svg">? It feels a bit like inlining images with base64, which doesn't therefore take advantage of the browser cache.
@pepelsbey@brucelawson awesome post! I also still use a SVG symbol sprite for my icons, works great. One issue I have with it is that you can't host the SVG sprite on a different domain though (i.e. on a CDN).
@pepelsbey@brucelawson Good to know! I'm aware that it isn't ideal for more complex graphics but honestly in the last 10 years or so I've never had a usecase other than "single-color icons, styleable with CSS".
Anyone know/recommend courses or online resources for non-developers to get exposed to the language we use - to help with terminology and understanding (but not looking for "how to do X with tech")?
@rem nothing public, but this is something we try to do with clients at the start of new projects (i.e. as an internal wiki / docs page). Super helpful, and made me realize how different departments talk about the same product.
for example, one client frequently called an admin interface "the backend", which caused some hilarious misunderstandings with our actual backend developers 😅
@kev@ricard yeah exactly. I know that social media exists and we won't replace it anytime soon. But it would be nice to have a low-barrier way to surface indie content to non-tech people as well.
having RSS readers baked into browsers for example, so I can "follow" someones website with the click of a button
@kev yeah right? For some of these things, the barrier to adoption is just to high. I don't think I've ever seen anyone use webmentions who wasn't a professional web developer 😅
@sarajw@jtr of course all the nice things form the pre-social-media-web are still around, but I worry the standard for convenience has been set so high that you lose a lot of people if things get even slightly tech-y.
It would be great if you could have a really low-friction way of curating the content you see. For example a built-in feed reader in the browser. Detect an RSS Feed, User gets a "follow" button to subscribe. There was talk of a similar feature in Chrome once I think...
This is an article that took a lot of strength to write and I might take it down again. But I felt like it is an article that is very necessary right now. https://bastianallgeier.com/notes/grandpa
@matthiasott@bastianallgeier My great-grandfather kept a journal from 1944-1946 . It was written in "Kurrentschrift" so it was hard to decipher. A couple of years ago we sat down with my grandma and recorded her reading it - I later transcribed it.
He wrote about life in the last days of the war and the years after. Feels a lot more personal than the history books as it's set in my hometown. Tanks rolling down the streets I grew up in.
In one entry, he crossed out the name of the holiday:
Have you ever had to resolve the same merge conflict over and over again? TIL about rerere, a hidden feature of git where it remembers your resolution! It's not enabled by default though. To use it:
