Timo Tijhof @krinkle@mastodon.technology

"Correlation is not causation" per se, but...

It does make me wonder even more about the impact of companies' tunnel focus on engagement metrics.

Interesting correlation between time spent in apps and user's (self-reported) happiness.

Relatively small scale study. But certainly a perspective I hadn't thought of explicitly before.

https://humanetech.com/resources/app-ratings/

Huh.. I just realized Apple made both iBook and iBooks. 🤔

I don't recall it causing confusion, which seems.. surprising?

(iBook, device, is now known as MacBook; iBooks, app, is now known as Books.)

The long and short of how to *really* optimize SVGs.

#webperf #perfmatters

https://codepen.io/tigt/post/improving-svg-rendering-performance

Mozilla wrote a balanced and nuanced overview of the dot ORG issue.

In short: We're not out of the woods yet.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/05/11/what-the-heck-happened-with-org/

Related:
https://jakearchibald.com/2016/streams-ftw/

"Server-side rendering is not a fallback; client-side rendering is an enhancement."

I would further and say client-side rendering can be (not "is"), a performance optimization for subsequent page loads (and offline). It's only a net-win if you invest non-trivial effort (SW, streams, race network, handle long-lived tabs and cache misses to old JS, etc).

In almost all other cases, it merely produces a slower, less usable, less available version of itself.

by @adactio

https://adactio.com/journal/9963

Think twice before disabling `user-select` on (part of) a web page.

#a11y tip via Remy Sharp (🐦@rem)

Inconvenient conveniences...
https://chriscoyier.net/2020/05/04/the-light-switch-in-my-office-is-motion-sensitive-so-fine-ill-use-a-perpetual-motion-drinking-bird/

WebKit's developer tools measure energy impact!

https://webkit.org/blog/8970/how-web-content-can-affect-power-usage/

Great song, brought to you live from the living rooms of Jagger, Richards, Wood and Watts.

via https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/04/18/rolling-stones-together-at-home

How lack of browser diversity on iOS is hurting the entire web. Apple's stance on security — shooting itself in the foot...

by @adactio

https://adactio.com/journal/16503

"Just in case you need a bit more *wat* in your life..."
– Ross Kirsling

This article goes through one of the spookiest corners of the ECMAScript specification (aka JavaScript).

https://dev.to/rkirsling/tales-from-ecma-s-crypt-annex-b-3-3-56go

The above post was from January, and in recent weeks several discussions took place on birdsite involving some big companies expressing (or finally making public) similar viewpoints.

My favourite one:

"For the record, at Uber, we're moving many of our microservices to what some call macroservices (or wells-sized services)."

🐦 https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1247260209116053507

Tech has a tendency to take cosmetic details of a thing that works well, and turn it into a trend. This is then avocated for with the expectation it'll make other things work well.

There no doubt exist principles that help build good software. But many "best practices" are just cosmetic. This is mostly harmless if they go with well-understood (theoretically) orthogonal principles.

"Microservices" not only lacks strongly related principles, it can make matters worse.

https://changelog.com/posts/monoliths-are-the-future

"My favorite part of every brand guidelines is the precious Logo Misuse section."

"Imagine if bands started making these!"

🐦 https://twitter.com/waxpancake/status/1085678304143716354?s=20