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An excellent feature of Eleventy1 is the official PrismJS-based syntax highlighting plugin, which adds painless build-time syntax highlighting.

My colleague Marko Ilić has published an insightful piece on how to schedule work on the critical path, and I recommend reading it before proceeding here.

It is by no means the gravest linguistic crime of the React epoch,1 but "state management" grates like nails on chalkboard.

It's perilous to disagree with someone as wise and thoughtful as Jeremy, but for the past fortnight his post in response to Apple's iOS 27 marketing invades my quiet moments like a cricket in the attic.

TL;DR: Armed with new powers to rein in the worst excesses of mobile's duopolists, antitrust bodies around the world are struggling to find their footing, and an incurious tech press is letting it pass with nary a nod.

Twitter's descent into a gutter of the lowest order has been wrenching: Elon Musk’s Grok and the Mass Undressing Scandal As I draft this, a week later, it appears pressure from civil society, investigations by regulators, and outright bans on multiple con…

The Budget, 2026 Edition Let's cut to the chase, shall we?

Eric Prouzet And now we see it clear, like a Cupertino sunrise bathing Mt.

This blog really isn't just for beating up on Apple for the way it harms users, the web, standards, and society to maintain power and profits.

Contents Lies by Any Other Name Great Artists Steal Dear Tech Reporters: Access Is Not A Beat This blog is failing on several levels.

Update: The charts below were inappropriately snapped, compressing the range of values.

Photo by Photo by Artan Sadiku Commentary about browsers and the features they support is sometimes pejorative towards pre-standardisation features.

TL;DR: Market competition underlies the enterprise of standards.

Photo by Claudia Raya Apple vs.

Anyone who has worked closely with me, or followed on social media [, ], will have seen a post or comment to the effect of: Names and dates on docs.

Mel Conway's seminal paper "How Do Committees Invent?"

Frances has urged me for years to collect resources for folks getting into performance and platform-oriented web development.

Before saying anything else, I'd like to thank the organisers of JSNation for inviting me to speak in Amsterdam.

At Apple's annual developer marketing conference, the Safari team announced a sizeable set of features that will be available in a few months.

Over the past decade, my work has centred on partnering with teams to build ambitious products for the web across both desktop and mobile.

This post is an edited and expanded version of a now-mangled Mastodon thread.

Other posts in the series: Reckoning: Part 1 — The Landscape Reckoning: Part 2 — Object Lesson Reckoning: Part 3 — Caprock Frontend took ill with a bad case of JavaScript fever at the worst possible moment.

Other posts in the series: Reckoning: Part 1 — The Landscape Reckoning: Part 2 — Object Lesson Reckoning: Part 4 — The Way Out Contents Complexity Perplexity Carrying Capacity Should This Be An SPA?

Other posts in the series: Reckoning: Part 1 — The Landscape Reckoning: Part 3 — Caprock Reckoning: Part 4 — The Way Out Contents The Golden Wait The Truth Is In The Trace Zip It Near Peers Blimey JavaScript Masshattery Maryland Enters The Chat Chattanooga

Instead of an omnibus mega-post, this investigation into JavaScript-first frontend culture and how it broke US public services has been released in four parts.

The W3C Technical Architecture Group1 is out with a blog post and an updated Finding regarding Google's recent announcement that it will not be imminently removing third-party cookies.

There are only two-and-a-half reasons to build a browser, and they couldn't be more different in intent and outcome, even when they look superficially similar.

Update: OWA is out with an open letter appealing to Apple to do better.

The global device and network situation continues to evolve, and this series is an effort to provide an an up-to-date understanding for working web developers.

The tech news is chockablock1 with antitrust rumblings and slow-motion happenings.

If you're a web developer not living under a rock, you probably saw last week's big Safari 16.4 reveal.