Tag: web
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Watched the pilot of Webbed Briefs by @heydonworks (of Every Layout fame). It's a sarcastic independent vlog about web technologies, so I immediately fell in love and subscribed to the feed...
Just kidding. It doesn't have a feed! (Yet?)
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Loading CSS Asynchronously Without JS Dependency
Dan proposes a new technique for lazy-loading CSS which doesn't break style for non-JS users.
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Unreal Engine 5 is meant to ridicule web developers
The Olognion article showing off Unreal Engine 5's blazing fast multi-polygon rendering that makes your average Web page look like shit. It's satire, but there's a real point here.
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Why $FAMOUS_COMPANY switched to $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY
Saagar Jha tells the now-familiar story of how a bunch of techbros solved their scaling problems by reinventing the wheel.
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Visitors, Developers, or Machines
Dan comments on Garrett Dimon's thoughts about performance bottlenecks being moved, not removed, by the adoption of client-side web frameworks.
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Mackerelmedia Fish
Dan reviews Mackerelmedia Fish, a surreal game by Nathalie Lawhead, and recommends that you give it a go.
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Digital Climate Strike's Carbon Footprint
Dan criticises a website promoting a "Digital Climate Strike" as being among the world's worst websites from the perspective of its carbon footprint.
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idTech 4 WebAssembly port - Doom 3 Demo
Continuation Labs have compiled Doom 3 to perfectly-usable WASM. Mind blown.
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BingO Bakery
A fun retro-game style video from Microsoft giving a basic grounding in Web accessibility technologies.
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Pay Up, Or We'll Make Google Ban Your Ads
Brian Krebs writes about a new trend of Web extortion, based on threatening to get a victim's website's ads demonetised by pretending to be the victim and attempting to exploit them.
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Old CSS, new CSS
eevee describes their experience of the early-CSS and pre-CSS Web, and Dan echoes a familiarity with the topics covered.
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Building the most inaccessible site possible with a perfect Lighthouse score
Manuel Matuzovic worked hard to make a web page that's violates so many accessibility rules but still passes a computerised audit.
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Geohashing Resurected
Dan resurrects the "official" Geohashing website (as if he didn't have enough to do) with a little help from the community.
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New browser on the block: Flow
QuirksMode reports that a new browser engine is on the horizon, and Dan is amazingly surprised.
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CSS4 is here!
Peter-Paul Koch of QuirksMode proposes that CSS4 should be declared a "thing", for marketing reasons, and Dan agrees.