If frontend aspires to be a profession -- something we do for others, not just ourselves -- then we need a culture that can use statistical methods for measuring quality and reject the marketing that dominates the React discourse.| Infrequently Noted
Alex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress.| Infrequently Noted
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
