Vivian Voss

You wanted to provision a server.

In 1995, PHP rendered HTML on the server.

The average React project installs a validation library before a single input field exists.

In 1964, Douglas McIlroy wrote a memo about coupling programmes like garden hose.

In 1969, Ken Thompson wanted to play Space Travel.

React ships 136 KB to the browser.

Early access was invented so a solo developer in Stockholm could finish a game about mining blocks.

You wanted to track bugs.

Robert C.

Your frontend needs live data.

64 kilobytes.

In 1974, James Hunt and Douglas McIlroy built diff at Bell Labs.

You type ssh -i ~/.ssh/prod_key -p 2222 deploy@192.168.50.12 fourteen times a day.

A function call costs 0.001 ms.

Cory Doctorow named it.

Software used to ship when it was ready.

BEM was invented at Yandex to stop CSS from breaking across 100 services.

72% of the web runs on PHP.

In 2012, JSON was the lingua franca of the web and the Unix toolbox had nothing for it.

A compromised process inherits the full authority of the user who launched it.

GraphQL was built at Facebook for the News Feed.

Software used to come on a disc.

In 2012, you could buy Adobe Creative Suite for $2,599.

Docker solved deployment.

Europe wants digital sovereignty but builds on a kernel governed by US corporations. 84.3% of Linux commits, $500K board seats.

The demoscene taught a generation that constraint is not limitation; it is method.

For twenty-three years, CSS could only look downward.

1976.

Unix had single responsibility, API contracts, message queues, and service discovery in 1973.

558 KB median JavaScript per page. 44 per cent never executes.

John Gruber wrote the specification in 2004.

Six developers, 80 hours of sprint, 18 hours of ceremonies.

5 kilobytes.

22.5 million npm installs per week for JavaScript that recreates the native dialog element.

A psychologist at Bell Labs writes a text editor that never opens a file. 53 years later, it runs everywhere. 25 commands, two buffers, one pass.

FreeBSD init runs on 178 shell scripts and one shared library. systemd ships 690,000 lines of C across 150 compiled binaries.

Webpack solved a 2012 problem that ES Modules natively solved in 2017. esbuild is 106x faster.

MongoDB stores relational data in a document store, then spends a decade rebuilding the relational features it discarded.

In 1994, Kent Beck wrote SUnit to test isolated units of logic.

CSS Cascade Layers end the two-decade specificity war permanently.

HTTP/1.1 made bundling necessary.

In 1994, a computer science student in Mexico City wrote a file manager. 31 years later, it runs on anything with a C compiler. 220,000 lines of C. 12 MB of RAM.

The ZFS commands are identical on FreeBSD and Linux.

Same ZFS, same commands, radically different experience.

The job description is admirably brief: a request arrives, HTML leaves.

82 per cent of container users run Kubernetes in production.

ORMs hide complexity instead of eliminating it.

Docker did not solve a technical problem.

In 1979, Trygve Reenskaug invented MVC for Smalltalk desktop applications.

OOCSS arrived in 2009.