People often ask me about ETAs. When will the feature they’re waiting for ship? If you’re a software developer, they probably ask you too. I totally get it! Though I write an app, I’m mostly a user of apps, and I too want to know when the features I’m waiting for will ship. The Problem But here’s…

The other day I was listening to the latest Shop Talk Show podcast while out for my morning run. They had Jen Simmons on the show, talking about (among other things) the standards process. It’s a great conversation, as you would expect—Jen’s super smart and has been doing great, meaningful work for…

29-10-2019 In July , John Otander and I released a modest start to a project we are calling components.ai . This is an ambitious and long-term project we've been working on aimed at exploring two questions: In design, what can be computed? How might we contribute to our collective design knowledge?…

Written by on CSS Wizardry . Table of Contents Cache-Control public and private max-age s-maxage no-store no-cache must-revalidate proxy-revalidate immutable stale-while-revalidate stale-if-error no-transform Cache Busting No Cache Busting – style.css Query String – style.css?v=1.2.14 Fingerprint –…

Dark matter permeates the universe. In fact it does more than permeate. It is the universe . 85% percent of everything that exists is actually dark matter. We can't detect it, we can't see it. But it's there. In fact, the universe that we actually perceive, what you and I are made of, is the…

Written by on CSS Wizardry . Table of Contents Solving the Problem for the Client Solving the Problem for Everyone Reaching Out The Solution Closing Thoughts Disclaimers: I was not approached or hired by Hoefler&Co or Cloud.typography to look into any ofthe following issues. I disclosed all of the…

Home 02/22/2019 A friend and I had a discussion about the basic skills that are often lacking in experienced programmers. How can a programmer work for ten or twenty years and never learn to write good code? So often they need close supervision to ensure they go down the right path, and they can…

A vast number of websites use third-party JavaScript libraries as a way to enhance their functionality with the capabilities offered by a particular library. In many cases, library data is conveniently loaded directly from the service provider’s domain. However, using third-party libraries as part…

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It's finally here After several months of being just days away, we are over the moon to announce the stable release of Svelte 3. This is a huge release representing hundreds of hours of work by many people in the Svelte community, including invaluable feedback from beta testers who have helped shape…

Why Geography Matters When Using Amazon Web Services | How the AWS CloudHSM Eases the Pain of Security Audits 11 Comments Yesterday, I refurbed an old joke for a current time and problem I had faced. This is 'edge case' testing; posting values to a system that really don't belong there. It came to…

Every few months, it seems like there’s a revival of the Twitter War™ about JavaScript libraries and accessibility. React is a common target, with developers naming a litany of issues: infinite wrapper s inline styles overriding custom user stylesheets no focus management when navigating between…

In our incessant rush to move quickly, everything is ephemeral. Technology moves so quickly that today’s strong favorite is outdated in a matter of years. We slurp up notifications and are fascinated by the next thing before we even fully understand the current thing. The web stack du jour has…

Over the years, I’ve noticed patterns in how I tend to approach component APIs and building out applications and libraries.The following is a collection of thoughts, opinions, and advice for defining component APIs that are meant to be more flexible, composable, and easier to understand.None of…