#rant (12 links)
- The Incredible Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button paulmakeswebsites.com
- DevOps is Bullshit blog.massdriver.cloud
DevOps started as a well-intentioned set of practices and culture. Over the years, it has devolved into an unholy beast of division and tunnel vision.
- The Market for Lemons - Infrequently Noted infrequently.org
Not only are new services being built to a self-defeatingly low UX and performance standard, existing experiences are pervasively re-developed on unspeakably slow, JS-taxed stacks. At a business level, this is a disaster, raising the question: "why are new teams buying into stacks that have failed so often before?"
- blog · I Don’t Want to Do This Any More camendesign.com
- QuirksBlog: The iPhone obsession quirksmode.org
"The iPhone has become an obsession. If we don’t pay attention, we’ll have a mobile web that only works on the iPhone. And then we’ll have the real mobile web that wasn’t made by us and doesn’t give a shit about web standards and best practices." Overstating things somewhat but still a useful reminder.
- Fuck the foundries [dive into mark] diveintomark.org
"This, then, is my current thinking about embedded web fonts: FUCK THE FOUNDRIES." Mark Pilgrim rants.
You think of people who do know CSS as designers, not giving any credit to the engineering prowess required to tame the stylesheet of a multinational corporation because (self-taught as they are) most true front-end gurus don’t speak the same language as you do. Their skill appears to be a black-art, some kind of magic, or internalized instinct for browser flaws. This is your guess anyway, because you simply can’t communicate with them.
- Cappuccino is not designed for building web sites,... · Ben Ward's Scattered Mind micro.ben-ward.co.uk
When I hear a friend talking about learning Cappucino I react as if they’ve been tricked out of their money by a con-artist on a street corner. I think they’ve been conned out of true knowledge, duped down the wrong path. “Don’t be like those schmucks learning HTML! Just take these magic beans!”.
Interesting rant about microformats.
- A Reader's Manifesto theatlantic.com
An attack on the growing pretentiousness of American literary prose