Back when South by Southwest wasn’t terrible, there used to be an annual panel called Browser Wars populated with representatives from the main browser vendors (except for Apple, obviously, who would never venture onto a stage outside of their own events).
I’ve recently really enjoyed a number of small features that make blogs feel more… interesting. One of those features is sidenotes. They are like footnotes, except, well, on the side. As someone who writes with a lot of parentheticals, a sidenote seems like a great way to remove …
I was having a discussion with some of my peers a little while back. We were collectively commenting on the state of education and documentation for front-end development.
[Becky Chambers]“You’re an animal, Sibling Dex. You are not separate or other. You’re an animal. And animals have no purpose. Nothing has a purpose. The world simply is. If you want to do things that are meaningful to others, fine! Good! So do I! But if I wanted to crawl into a …
A lot of frontend teams are very convinced that rewriting their frontend will lead to the promised land. And I am the bearer of bad tidings.If you are building a product that you hope has longevity, your frontend framework is the least interesting technical decision for you to …
I’m a natural-born American citizen but never lived here until my early thirties. I have a complicated relationship with the country: I never thought I’d live here until I suddenly did. As it happened, my parents moved back to look after my grandmother, and ten years later, I …
This is the first in a series of posts (cross-posted at Medium).Dear journalists: This is your moment.It’s your opportunity, maybe your final one, to stand proudly for reality and democracy, for freedom of expression, for human rights. To stand up as journalism’s best — think Ida …
I accepted an offer for a permanent job in one of the most prestigious British institutes. To get there, I had to first understand I'm not cut for the web industry anymore.
Simone Silvestroni
