prepitaph

by FND November 3, 2022 After years of advocating transclusion as a simple and effective integration mechanism, we’ve identified patterns and pitfalls worth considering.

by FND September 2, 2022 In ruminations on how async-first communication could and should work within a rapdily growing team, I had concluded that unidirectional broadcasting of significant developments can provide tremendous value, if done well.

by FND November 5, 2020 The data: URI scheme is an underappreciated trick for virtual files.

by FND June 23, 2018 After repeatedly teaching the basics of HTTP caching in an ad-hoc fashion, I decided it was worth briefly summarizing the fundamental mechanisms.

by FND August 15, 2017 happy to help – it’s simple math: I spend 5 min. to save you 60 in the grand scheme of things, we just cheated god This was my response when, back in 2009, someone on IRC thanked me for spending time to help them with their website.

by FND December 2, 2016 This is a write-up of the “Progressive Web Components” presentation at GOTO Berlin.

by FND June 8, 2015 Bugs are an opportunity for the community to reveal itself.

by FND November 18, 2014 Discussing isomorphic JavaScript at dotJS, I questioned the value of client-side templating – and was confronted once again with the “but … JSON is faster!?”