Once you’re paid some minimum threshold you stop caring about money and start caring about your legacy.

Everyday I grapple with the legacy my coworkers left behind..

Ah yes, my legacy: UserOAuthLoginProfileAPIService

// TODO: migrate to UserOAuthLoginProfileAPIService2 by Wednesday

At this point I wonder if it’s time we add a kind of markup control scheme to Unicode so we can finally have a standard for rich text that is backwards compatible.

ANSI escape sequences exist and are good enough for basic formatting like bold, italic, underlined etc.

Most screenreaders also respect ANSI escapes! A lot are using a tty interface under the covers.

However, HTML does not.

Though, in my experience, getting Chrome to adopt something new, is easier than getting Dragon to fix a bug.

This reminds me of fluxless ultrasonic “active” soldering which allows for bonding metals to ceramics and otherwise difficult metals: https://youtu.be/WuYdsStS1MQ

The short shelf life of things like bananas gave us wonderful foods like banana bread. It’s really not as big of a problem if we are just more responsible with the food we buy. But I say this mostly as a “yes, and…”

The story here is that a criminal that stole billions is staging a prison escape through an openly corrupt political administration and their subservient media apparatus.

It absolutely has breaking changes! But most developers will never notice. I work on a complex browser based web development platform and we’ve had certain specs change under our feet leading to incidents that required us to disable features until major browser vendors reverted things. I do not envy spec authors. Huge respect for their patience.

These are not mutually exclusive proposals. Houdini provides a way to extend e.g. CSS with arbitrary JS. This is merely a new abstraction for code-reuse in CSS. It’s inspired by the same concept from Sass, but doesn’t need to be compiled and thus won’t bloat your CSS bundle.

Okay you had your FUD, now for the just desserts: This is actually a feature that is likely to reduce the amount of JS that needs to run on the web. It allows for common component-oriented styling patterns to be employed without bloating CSS bundles or using runtime CSS-in-JS functionality to accomplish it. Source: I work on a web development platform (booo, hisss)

> This is actually a feature that is likely to reduce the amount of JS that needs to run on the web.

The bulk of JS executed on websites today seem to be for 2 things:

- serving ads and tracking

- running a single-page app framework

Can something like this really derail the React/Vue train?

I wish someone would give an example of why we need this. Doesn't @scope handle component-oriented styling ?

This idea has traction with other browser vendors too, FWIW. They just don’t have godlike budgets, unfortunately.

Hey look, the good guys won! It was well-deserved. Three generations within my family all loved it start to finish, including the snobs like me - that’s no small feat.

(Nothing against the other nominees though of course, just seeing the little guy take a huge W makes me feel good and … I feel a bit starved of this kind of W lately? Just me?)