Great post by Chris James. “If I can’t use your website without JavaScript being turned on, then you don’t know what you’re doing.”

Eric Meyer talks about one of the downsides of HTTPS everywhere, particularly caching strategies that benefit remote regions with high-latency internet connections.

A detailed look at the crushing effect of JS on UX and especially performance, by Addy Osmani.

Ethan Marcotte makes the case for thinking about slow websites in a broader context, so we don’t only focus on improvements to processes or put too much responsibility on those who build. There are business needs that should be considered.

“You know how building wider roads doesn’t improve commute times, as it simply encourages people to drive more? It’s that, but with bytes and bandwidth instead of cars and lanes.”

“This website is dedicated to the spreading and promotion of the RSS and Atom news syndication formats.”

This is an interesting demo that looks dramatically different in every browser.

Another article observing the increasing complexity of modern websites.

With this deck of cards, you can piece together a wireframe by using the cards as puzzle pieces, helping you quickly iterate through ideas away from the computer.

A rich collection of recipes and patterns for service workers.

“Tell us where, when, and how long you want to camp for. We’ll text you when a suitable spot opens up!”

“It’s ironic that, at the same time as we can do so much more with less when it comes to the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in browsers, many developers are choosing to make things more complicated by introducing complex tool chains, frameworks, and processes.”

Incredible portrait by Diana Smith made with HTML and CSS. Works well in the latest Firefox and Chrome, but the real fun is trying it in older browsers.

Rob Weychert provides a fantastic summary of every talk from the Generate conference.

A proposal for trustworthy analytics. At Faculty, we’ve considered building something like this that would also be extremely fast, since analytics account for a lot of today’s performance issues, not just privacy issues.

“The web was never supposed to be a few walled gardens of concentrated content owned by Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and a few other major publishers. It was supposed to be a cacophony of different sites and voices.”

Solid rant from Charlie Owen about the downward spiral of quality in web design and development.

“An information embedding technique for text documents. Provided a text document with specific fonts, our method embeds user-specified information in the text by perturbing the glyphs of text characters while preserving the text content.”

A privacy-first name server from Cloudfare that also boasts impressive performance. I’ve been using it as my primary web server since first discovering it.

A Super Mario World animation made exclusively with HTML and CSS.

This is a concept I have been wanting for many years. With multi-account containers in Firefox, you can isolate accounts, similar in spirit to using a separate browser for each account.

Rob Weychert shows some examples from his work at ProPublica that show how far you can push the envelope with design without sacrificing web fundamentals.

“At a time when millions are losing trust in the the web’s biggest sites, it’s worth revisiting the idea that the web was supposed to be made out of countless little sites.”

Thoughtful post from Natasha Lampard of Webstock fame. “Building for the long run beats racing for a quick exit.”

Another gem from Frank Chimero. “If we’re setting out to change the character of technology in our lives, we’d be wise to learn from the character of places.”

A 15-week group program for people participating in the 100 Day Project.

The world could use a movie about Mister Rogers right now.

Insightful article from Tim Berners-Lee. “It’s dangerous having a handful of companies control how ideas and opinions are shared.”

Excellent essay by Frank Chimero about long-term experience on the web, getting started, unnecessary complexity, and the web’s legibility problem.

Another post about RSS and why it’s great.

Fascinating look at Analogue, the company making gorgeous replicas of old video game consoles, including the Analogue Nt and the upcoming Analogue Super Nt.

Eddie Woo is math teacher from Sydney who creates some pretty great educational videos.

Good alternative to branching models like GitFlow. Provides a linear logical history instead of a branching mess. Via Elle Meredith.

A project from Simon Willison that provides an instant, read-only JSON API for any SQLite database.

Very cool display that resembles the design of a split-flap display you might see at a train station.

Investment companies aren’t usually interesting, but they’re not usually comprised of partners like Caterina Fake. Yes!

A chat app you can only use when you have less than 5% battery left.

This is the text version of a talk given by Maciej Cegłowski at the Front Trends conference in Warsaw.

“We are a community of individuals who have a significant interest in the development and health of the World Wide Web, and we are deeply concerned about Accelerated Mobile Pages, a Google project that purportedly seeks to improve the user experience of the Web.”

“Inspired by a style of lettering invented to convey precision and reliability, Isotope is a new family of typefaces designed to be both luxurious and fit.”

Informative post from Stoyan Stefanov about how to add the appropriate sharing tags for Twitter and Facebook to your site, so that anyone who shares the link will get a nice preview image.

Pretty thorough front-end performance guide from Vitaly Friedman of Smashing Magazine.

Pretty good introduction to Web Payments and the Payment Request API.

Another example of the growing similarities between ads and XSS. Ad blockers don’t just improve your experience; they improve your security, too.

A short film by Daniel Martínez Lara & Rafa Cano Méndez.

“Tech Solidarity is endorsing eight candidates for Congress. Each of them is a first-time progressive candidate with a day job, an excellent campaign team, and a clear path to victory.”

Protecting your email account is one of the most important steps you can take to protect yourself online.

Facebook is now offering a page that checks whether you got played by the Russians during the 2016 election.

My site was featured on Site Inspire. Yay!

My site was featured on Typewolf. Pretty cool.