In my 19 full-time professional years in this business there have been many eras in which very prominent web developers have argued “don’t worry about it” in discussions of web performance and time has *never* proven those arguments to have merit, even with continually improving network connections and hardware. The web is diverse. Let’s keep it that way!

web components are usb-c react is the lightning cable thank you for coming to my ted talk

I went out to try to improve society, somewhat. #NoKings

maybe as a society we should spend less time “Verifying that you are a human” and more time “Verifying your humanity”

The Verge

After the Switch 2, there’s no going back to the old eShop

It’s actually nice to browse.

look, I just want to know what the tech stack of the old shop was 😅

Web sites with a Facebook pixel were communicating with local native apps (Instagram, Facebook, maybe WhatsApp) to log (and attribute) incognito web browsing activity. Write-up:

Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android

Story:

EL PAÍS English

The covert method Meta uses to track mobile browsing without consent — even in incognito mode or with a VPN

A group of researchers has uncovered a system that Instagram and Facebook have been using since September 2024 to collect users’ web browsing his...

Just how portable is your web site? Could you switch hosting providers in an hour? In a day? Would it take you a week? You should think about it.

I’m curious: is this chart surprising to y’all?

Web performance experts, would love to see a performance breakdown of this web site:

Indieweb.Social

Yves Van Goethem :firefox: (@yvg@indieweb.social)

Omg, they used a framework that's spitting out 10M of JS to display the most simple website. Have they ever heard of HTML & CSS? The whole thing co...