Ryan DeBeasi @ryan@mastodon.xyz

"Code caching for JavaScript developers" by Leszek Swirski https://v8.dev/blog/code-caching-for-devs

I'm glad Chrome finally wrote something public about their bytecode cache. This is one of the biggest inside-baseball perf optimizations that browsers do, but web developers aren't very aware of.

You don't have to watch the news today.

If you're an avid open-source user who would love to help advance a project, there's a lot you can contribute whether you can program or not:

Provide constructive feedback, file bug reports, improve the documentation or help out maintaining the web & social media presence. Spread the word and recommend the projects you love to others (btw, I run Arch 😂)

Say "thank you" and tell developers to "keep up the great work". That form of contribution means a lot more than you could possibly imagine.

Accessibility is not a “React Problem”, as always the issue isn't the tool but what people do with it. You can build accessible pages using React but for that you need to understand the basics of semantic and HTML https://www.netlify.com/blog/2019/02/25/accessibility-is-not-a-react-problem

I'm really excited about Mozilla's focus on developer tools in #Firefox. My coworkers laughed when they found out I was using Firefox, because in their mind it's behind the times. Chrome is the only modern browser to them. New tools that make development easier makes it easier to show them why Firefox, and a diverse browser ecosystem in general, is important to support.

https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2019/02/21/these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-53/#developer-tools

HTML, CSS and our vanishing industry entry points, If we make it so that you have to understand programming to even start, then we take something open and enabling, and place it back in the hands of those who are already privileged. 💯 true. https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2019/01/30/html-css-and-our-vanishing-industry-entry-points/

That said, it doesn't have to be all-or-nothing. At one point the speaker drew a parallel to vegetarianism, and I actually think it's a great comparison.

You can have an impact on your health, the planet, and the suffering of animals without becoming a full vegan. There's a spectrum between flexitarian -> pescetarian -> vegetarian -> vegan where you're at least having a positive impact the further you move to the right. Maybe FLOSS can be thought of the same way.

"Rendering on the Web" by Jason Miller and Addy Osmani https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/02/rendering-on-the-web

This is a good read on the state-of-the-art in Server Side Rendering vs Client Side Rendering vs everything in between. Interesting to see that they are explicitly discouraging SSR Hydration. It was a promising technology, but it looks like in the real world it doesn't actually give many performance gains, and leads to an "uncanny valley" where sites look interactive but aren't.

Hooo YES "Google Play Store now open for Progressive Web Apps 😱" https://medium.com/@firt/google-play-store-now-open-for-progressive-web-apps-ec6f3c6ff3cc

since there are so many weird ux titles anyway can I just be a 'ux bassist' and then include all equipment purchases in tax?

🎶 I'm bringing blogging back!🎶

"Migrating from macOS to Ubuntu"

https://tiffanybbrown.com/2019/01/migrating-from-macos-to-ubuntu/index.html

"CSS doesn’t suck" Andy Bell is remind us how amazing and flexible CSS is. Let's start celebrating. https://andy-bell.design/wrote/css-doesnt-suck/