JavaScript overindulgence remains an affirmative choice, no matter how hard industry 'thought leaders' gaslight us. Better is possible, but we must want it enough to put users ahead of our own interests.| Infrequently Noted
I have worked with dozens of teams surprised to have found themselves in the JavaScript ditch. They all feel ashamed because they've been led to believe they're the first; that the technology is working fine for other folks. It isn't.| Infrequently Noted
SNAP benefits sites for more than 20% of Americans are unusably slow. All of them would be significantly faster if states abandoned client-side-rendering, and along with it, the legacy JavaScript frameworks (React, Angular, etc.) built to enable the SPA model.| Infrequently Noted
It would be tragic if public sector services adopted the JavaScript-heavy stacks that frontend influencers have popularised. Right?| Infrequently Noted
Interaction to Next Paint is now a stable Core Web Vital metric, replacing First Input Delay.| web.dev
This post introduces the Interaction to Next Paint (INP) metric and explains how it works, how to measure it, and offers suggestions on how to improve it.| web.dev
How to build web pages so they work in HTML first: starting with HTML, extra styles and features, using JavaScript.| www.gov.uk
How much HTML, CSS, and JavaScript can we afford? More than in years past, but much less than frontend developers are burdening users with.| Infrequently Noted
The Service Standard helps teams to create and run great public services.| www.gov.uk
View the Public Suffix List| publicsuffix.org
New web services are being built to a self-defeatingly low UX and performance standard, and existing experiences are now 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?| Infrequently Noted
