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A critique of npm (and other package managers), the move-fast hype cycle of tech products, and the tech debt it …

There are two browser engines in the world. Dave considers what might be lost if that were to become one. He argues that browser diversity forces the standards process to be slow – and therefore …

I've been saying for years that React feels like jQuery did circa 2010: it's used everywhere, its devotees are numerous, but the leading edge left it in the dust a while ago. I do think that Hooks …

A very thorough overview of how to write a modern, performant, HTML-driven image component that is as optimised to serve the most appropriate image as possible. There are some very neat tricks in …

Astro and Netlify largely play well together, but I've found a few aspects of redirects and URL design that contain the odd foot-gun I had to work around.

Some interesting thoughts on how short-term wins and fun, quirky ideas can morph over time into technical debt and various other issues particularly inherent within an open-software …

Somehow, I've been writing these little blurbs for an entire decade now. What better time to take a look back at how this site has evolved.