Tinned Fruit Missives August 2019
After a brief hiatus last month (I accidentally went on holiday), I’m back with links. I don’t think I missed very much except for some mud-slinging about the worthiness of micro-frontends, which I am pretending I didn’t see and so never happened.
I Used The Web For A Day On A 50 MB Budget - Chris Ashton
Another excellent - if not exactly scientific - experiment by Chris Ashton. This should be suitable eye-opening if your product is intended for a global audience.
The cost of JavaScript in 2019 - Addy Osmani
And if you really want to get deep on performance optimisation, especially on mobile, Addy is back again to help out.
Internet Explorer 3, an adventure in cross-browser compatibility - Chen Hui Jing
In which I chuckle at a youngster rediscovering terrible hacks to get stuff working in a 1990’s web browser. Charming but (mostly) useless.
Some other World Wide Web hyperlinks I have enjoyed this month
The Web Can’t Survive a Monoculture - Mike Pennisi
When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop - Mark Christian and Johnny Rodgers
Bringing new CSS techniques to production - Ash Stevens
How Uber quietly redesigned its interface for the rest of the world - Katharine Schwab
The Future of Websites: Headless CMSs - Dan Fries
HTML can do that? - Ananya Neogi
The Real Dark Web - Charlie Owen
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Tinned Fruit Missives is a monthly newsletter about web product development and front-end practices published by Jim Newbery, an independent coach and consultant from Edinburgh in Scotland.
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