Atom > RSS: Why We Should Just Call Them “Feeds” Instead of “RSS” Feeds
I’m no longer calling feeds “RSS feeds”. From now on I’m calling them “syndication” feeds, or just “feeds”. There have been two standards for doing this type of XML-based website syndication for a long time now — Atom and RSS. RSS is older and has more penetration, so its name has been confused with its function. Just like Xerox, Kleenex and Google."
Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3?
I have never found a better analogy to show the systematic difficulty in providing software estimates, which are frequently wrong:
Adrian Todorov
Please support Web Monetization if you want less ads on the web
for a lot of web content creators, ads remain the main way to make money of the content they produce, which could be just to compensate costs, as a reward for the time spent, or even potentially to allow transferring to full time content producing. And for a lot of content consumers, blocking ads removes the only way to “pay”, baring some direct donations scheme.
Semantic Versioning Will Not Save You
As a maintainer of several open source projects (both in Ruby and JavaScript), I agree with everything Hynek says about the difficulty for a maintainer to define versions and give a hint about potential compatibility issues.
Nolan Lawson
JavaScript performance beyond bundle size
There’s a huge focus recently on JavaScript bundle size: how big are your dependencies? Could you use a smaller one? Could you lazy-load it? But I believe we focus on bundle size first and foremost because it’s easy to measure.
I learned a lot with this detailed article about z-index!
When these things happen, as a community, I feel we should respond with kindness, support, and understanding when someone steps back from community participation or projects. We should not shame or guilt them in any way, and ideally act in such a way that welcomes their return whenever they are able to do so.
I feel sorry for anyone trying to get into the field of web performance. Not only are there complex browser behaviours to understand, there’s also a veritable alphabet soup of initialisms to memorise. Here’s a really good post on web performance by Harry, but notice how the initialisms multiply like tribbles as the post progresses until we’re talking about using CWV metrics like LCP, FID, and CLS—alongside TTFB and SI—to look at PLPs, PDPs, and SRPs. And fair play to Harry; he expands each initialism the first time he introduces it.
Heydon is back with a new brilliant Webbed Briefs video, this time about the rise and fall of the free Web, and the new hope that is IndieWeb.
Rebuilding my site - Part 1: Eleventy
Carol shares the process to build her new site with Eleventy, with a section about image optimisation, a topic I'm very interested in, as you should already know. 😅
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Daniel Miessler
Michael Wolfe
Hynek Schlawack
Josh W Comeau
Tantek Çelik
Jeremy Keith
Heydon Pickering
Carolina Gilabert