Mastodon: November 13, 2024 at 12:49:02 AM UTC

there is only one hard problem in computer science: abstracting the entirety of CSS into HTML classes

For the record, Bluesky can be “worse” than Mastodon (in important ways that we care about) and still be a temporarily valuable place to get folks off of Twitter/X.

For years there has been a stinky cloud of web performance misinformation and propaganda coming from folks in the React community.So much so that apparently a 57 score on Lighthouse is “fast” (even with 1160ms of TBT and a 5.4s LCP).(There is *some* nuance here, of course—but we haven’t graduated to those discussions yet!)If you too want to...

web components are good

Having a sizeable following on social media hardens you—in the same way that any small measure of power might.At our worst we think of this as a suit of armor, a sort of mental toughness.At our best we mourn this as a loss of compassion, a subtraction of our humanity and connectedness.