Dion Almaer: English will become the most popular development language in 6 years

I've been noodling on how we might lower the cost to create prototypes of sites for people who aren't technical. When I speak to a lot of people about websites, they kinda know what they want and can describe it, but it's a lot of work for them to get a functional skeleton of a site working, so ultimately they don't build that site or they just...

I fondly remember the early days of the web. I remember my first time on the Web in an Internet cafe with my friend Bob, patiently waiting for the only thing we knew to load (cnn.com). It was a time intertwined with a lot of other personal discoveries: ICQ, uh-oh and a/s/l; software modems that didn't work with my Cyrix P150+, Quake @ 2fps on the...

I saw The success of Interop 2024! in Stefan Judis's Web Weekly Newsletter. Jen Simmons at Apple on WebKit pulled together this great post about the progress that has been made in 2024. In 2024, there were 17 such focus areas: Accessibility, CSS Nesting, Custom Properties, Declarative Shadow DOM, font-size-adjust, HTTPS URLs for WebSocket,...

My approach to running a link blog I really like Simon's approach to running a link blog and his principles really resonate with me I always include the names of the people who created the content I am linking to, if I can figure that out. Credit is really important, and it’s also useful for myself because I can later search for someone’s name...

My buddy Dion made a great post "English will become the most popular development language in 6 years". Dion's vision is pretty expansive, but it really tickled my brain. I've been creating a fair number of web-apps with Replit. These "agents" are awesome, they take me through the entire app process. But what if I just want a small bit of my...