2026-04-02T17:00:41Z https://yabu.me Alex Russell https://yabu.me/npub1pf4zt8xadv25njtqjx4qztc9227ufgm0ykz7lllqt8htydferhwqw9pgxq https://assets.toot.cafe/accounts/avatars/000/002/283/original/56c6671ff8e9e8fe.png https://assets.toot.cafe/accounts/avatars/000/002/283/original/56c6671ff8e9e8fe.png https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfgga2wvf46vcmg69fm9yvraqq8dv29uuf7n456gz6fl6vs3clcjgzyq9x5fvum4432jwfvzg65qf0q4ftm39rdujctmllupv7av348ywac5et7tz At a critical moment, the tech press are failing to connect the dots between Apple and Google&#39;s craven capitulations and the authoritarianism they have nurtured within their own ecosystems. Apple is now corrosive to democracy itself, and we have to get smarter about the way these forces interact:<br/><br/><a href="https://infrequently.org/2025/10/the-app-store-was-always-authoritarian/">https://infrequently.org/2025/10/the-app-store-was-always-authoritarian/</a> <br/><br/>/cc <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1kn4yzxru7ms44j86faup3erm0mz5fxly8j3t8lwvlr70nztekxsses3asa" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Open Web Advocacy</span> (<span class="italic">npub1kn4…3asa</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1fdrpydz4n2dpgpy5xhsa6rjg8ytggn82mt0addw6sf93272nhhnqsjlvhs" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Cory Doctorow</span> (<span class="italic">npub1fdr…lvhs</span>)</a></span> 2025-10-12T00:18:09Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsv359f9zdfhe0mh4mcc20mttcteegxjjx9m56h0kc4aus7sksgkuczyq9x5fvum4432jwfvzg65qf0q4ftm39rdujctmllupv7av348ywactkujk6 This tool from Firefox DevRel is *awesome*, and if you care about how much progress the web platform delivers *please* go rank your interests:<br/><br/><a href="https://interop-rank.jakearchibald.com/">https://interop-rank.jakearchibald.com/</a> 2025-10-09T21:33:21Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9dsl0tp9jx4yym5r7scxpy9v2at3pnyzqsxn3ft7z0pgpavcy3jqzyq9x5fvum4432jwfvzg65qf0q4ftm39rdujctmllupv7av348ywacx60ued Every time I watch a team of hard-working folks burn months on a React upgrade, I&#39;m reminded of how thoroughly the JS-Industrial-Complex gaslit us. <br/><br/>You know who hasn&#39;t slogged through constant breaking change migrations? Web Components developers. New runtimes drop *every month*...and it&#39;s *fine*. 2025-10-08T20:10:38Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0zcu2ngu8hr40u0qzyzulm0trh9e2nemty834g2efdk0pc4ynacczyq9x5fvum4432jwfvzg65qf0q4ftm39rdujctmllupv7av348ywacfmm5dc Apropos of nothing, but maybe monopolies on software distribution are, like, bad? And a threat to the legitimate exercise of civic rights? <br/><br/>Anyway, make web apps and support <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1kn4yzxru7ms44j86faup3erm0mz5fxly8j3t8lwvlr70nztekxsses3asa" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Open Web Advocacy</span> (<span class="italic">npub1kn4…3asa</span>)</a></span> 2025-10-03T05:39:58Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9uw9ktf3kjz8wkqxfwznff7tgxnjm9lm90km2kgfp49z75ds6l2qzyq9x5fvum4432jwfvzg65qf0q4ftm39rdujctmllupv7av348ywacnntq68 A colleague asked me yesterday what I thought of Tailwind, and thought I&#39;d share the topline response: avoid it, not because it&#39;s slow (it&#39;s fine-ish), but because of the culture it drags behind it.<br/><br/>Instead, hire people who know CSS, then let them loose on your UI problem(s). Give them space to turn huge pile of JS into tiny rulesets, and create guardrails to keep slow selectors from hurting (e.g., Shadow DOM). Lean on the browser, not the transpiler. 2025-10-02T18:37:40Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsw5a2aqx69rvxe34vf9l5pxar8a5y8f2hcjjyu6xhz7mcyl2c52zgzyq9x5fvum4432jwfvzg65qf0q4ftm39rdujctmllupv7av348ywacnwqsph Technology is political. Film at 11.<br/><br/><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lopqc5qlyamugbxdujsojdhb/post/3lzee26lse22g">https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lopqc5qlyamugbxdujsojdhb/post/3lzee26lse22g</a> 2025-09-21T21:33:16Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsp7ejzcazfznvwk5n9j9ncp6t5xa83kcylpnyzmttcs0w9mqq6u9gzyq9x5fvum4432jwfvzg65qf0q4ftm39rdujctmllupv7av348ywac0eqypm Safari at WWDC &#39;25: The Ghost of Christmas Past<br/><br/><a href="https://infrequently.org/2025/06/the-ghost-of-christmas-past/">https://infrequently.org/2025/06/the-ghost-of-christmas-past/</a> 2025-06-13T15:55:38Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyxn6m2hkgrxzvzkp0a7277ndxttphqgcxnchf6nfguvvqf5c9n4szyq9x5fvum4432jwfvzg65qf0q4ftm39rdujctmllupv7av348ywaca78kcp Most of the damage Musk can do now is premised on his wealth, which comes back to Tesla. This is gonna be a bumpy ride, but to all my EV-loving peeps who aren&#39;t down with the fash, I salute you:<br/><br/><a href="https://insideevs.com/news/750076/tesla-sales-tanking-globally/">https://insideevs.com/news/750076/tesla-sales-tanking-globally/</a> 2025-02-09T07:17:33Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0l59jj0zgmrj47hetdyeq57ytzsz08hs9g7z8k9grx9vjxc7xhwqzyq9x5fvum4432jwfvzg65qf0q4ftm39rdujctmllupv7av348ywac2ejxpe A truly shocking fraction of the JS community is carrying as if nothing has happened back on the hellsite. Negotiating with myself how to feel about that (and them) is increasingly easy and final. 2025-02-04T19:40:28Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsg3ue2u6y6c5r4a0mqp805wrsqpknxjm3fc6hrfqsl56grvvgvcaszyq9x5fvum4432jwfvzg65qf0q4ftm39rdujctmllupv7av348ywac9m2xxu You are about enter another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mindlessness.<br/><br/>Consider one Mr Alex Russell. He has a headache. He senses something off, but he can&#39;t put his finger on it. He&#39;s looking at web page. With a carousel. And some links.<br/><br/>As is the style, it has three copies of React (3), between the document and two (2) iframes. None of which is shared. It&#39;s served as 200 requests across 40 connections. <br/><br/>Or at least it&#39;s the style...in **the Twilight Zone** 2025-02-01T23:23:06Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstgpvn98mwxw3gqw2dtz9ynevhqwqxjm9dukd6kuzprnpplw9uz6gzyq9x5fvum4432jwfvzg65qf0q4ftm39rdujctmllupv7av348ywac7f3dl4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg5zg6v8ly0q05uxkvapc8xal4agzyww4nkp374sdmegkcd237gysqjudpd'>nevent1q…udpd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Software cultures that indulge in ignorance of constraints facilitate magical thinking, which eventually erodes the foundations out from underneath even conservatively-constructed experiences if left unchecked.<br/><br/>This is bad for users, but also business. A great shame of frontend&#39;s lost decade is that we lost the ability to adapt because so much of the community was high on frameworkism. 2025-01-21T21:18:34Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsg5zg6v8ly0q05uxkvapc8xal4agzyww4nkp374sdmegkcd237gyszyq9x5fvum4432jwfvzg65qf0q4ftm39rdujctmllupv7av348ywaczn62qa The correct response to realizing computers are fast is not to make your software slow, because:<br/><br/>a.) you won&#39;t benefit as much as you hope<br/>b.) if you break pro-user norms, so will every other site/app/library, and your thing will feel slow even if it&#39;s &#34;fine&#34; in isolation<br/>c.) HW bounty is not evenly distributed, so your product becomes less usable non-linearly below some resource floor<br/><br/>Pretending constraints don&#39;t exist is not engineering, it&#39;s bullshitting. 2025-01-21T20:27:28Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxqep9cuqgp4eudsjcuzzvfl5ldhjgdg73fald56q48fgnmp8z7vszyq9x5fvum4432jwfvzg65qf0q4ftm39rdujctmllupv7av348ywac7g63nv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg7v5va9zf3hpjjq75wgv662h22pv52wr9gjxuvrzc3rza5kkqw0qmtqpxa'>nevent1q…qpxa</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>But it&#39;s not cheaper! 2024-11-05T09:03:14Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2csy0v92a05r4cdugvczqhdckhy7p00tr5kxperx8hcura8dek2szyq9x5fvum4432jwfvzg65qf0q4ftm39rdujctmllupv7av348ywacuxclux In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstqc76s3d34rf2tvzf88tpn2gh6xuca0579g0aa28wzwjf6rqum6c96zd67'>nevent1q…zd67</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>So folks are right; the framework *isn&#39;t* the problem. It&#39;s what choosing *those* tools says about an organisation, and what the indicated lack of performance management maturity portends:<br/><br/><a href="https://infrequently.org/2022/05/performance-management-maturity/">https://infrequently.org/2022/05/performance-management-maturity/</a> 2024-11-05T06:37:01Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsryjnp9jpwszrk44ztchs3c06t3f9u0tu2m8vq7jlxx2hzhkmwk0qzyq9x5fvum4432jwfvzg65qf0q4ftm39rdujctmllupv7av348ywacj2rpgy &#34;The framework isn&#39;t the problem!&#34; is something I&#39;ve been hearing the apologists for lemon vendors spout for going on a decade now, and I think we need to decapitate this zombie idea once and for all.<br/><br/>First, *I know* that 45KB of JS isn&#39;t going to break the bank. Duh. That&#39;s not the point. The point is that the apologists *don&#39;t even have budgets*. Which means that *every* increment above zero is *a priori* too much!<br/><br/>Folks that can&#39;t say &#34;when&#34; aren&#39;t sophisticated enough to be using JS. 2024-11-05T06:37:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8a3tjqqmky8syqjy70lxzke0rpu202029c4wg7zqmen0dv8vrjfgzyq9x5fvum4432jwfvzg65qf0q4ftm39rdujctmllupv7av348ywacf6cjdy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2evmnzh7c8f45qg6zp0z7zxnjzen30lsf3mpyx2jaclgqe7z5n0gt9u7cw'>nevent1q…u7cw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>What do I mean by &#34;losing&#34;? Going back to the time spent metric, the web is *killing it* on desktop. The web&#39;s JTBD percentile continues to rise as we keep adding new power and capability to the platform, handily displacing other platforms, one fraction of a percent every year (because that&#39;s how platform wars work; there are no KOs, only slow, grinding changes that look &#34;boring&#34; to a tech press that would rather report on social media contratemps). 2024-10-21T17:19:23Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszdsr6svxplhq2ejw9k55gaegfm6xh9s8ar4tj8g0w0j3l5rquw5szyq9x5fvum4432jwfvzg65qf0q4ftm39rdujctmllupv7av348ywacwtdu3n I&#39;m sure there are more important PM skills, but killing jargon and getting people to say what they mean is underrated. 2024-10-15T11:50:29Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsv4r7mwn0aa4ulfyl23lnuhl5qlquh6zexmgzdeuskujufgxhn4rszyq9x5fvum4432jwfvzg65qf0q4ftm39rdujctmllupv7av348ywacu37ygc Governments around the world have found exactly this every time they&#39;ve looked hard at Apple keeping competing browsers at bay, but crikey. The DOJ is not playing around:<br/> <img src="https://assets.toot.cafe/media_attachments/files/112/134/849/931/499/301/original/430493a44971442c.png"> <br/> 2024-03-21T17:28:22Z