JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

Web development's lost decade

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Amal sits down for a one-on-one with Alex Russell, Microsoft Partner on the Edge team, and former Web Standards Tech Lead for Chrome, whose recent post, The Market for Lemons, stirred up a BIG conversation in the web development community.

Have we really lost a decade in potential progress? What happened? Where do we go from here?

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    • Featuring:

    • Alex Russell – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
    • Amal Hussein – GitHub, X

    Show Notes:

    • The Market for Lemons
    • The case for frameworks - a rebuttal post by Laurie Voss
    • A visual for session depth & frequency - a potential rubric for app architecture
    • How Browsers Work
    • How to build a Browser in Python
    • Life of a Pixel
    • WebPageTest
    • The Mobile Performance Inequality Gap, 2021
    • Alex’s Blog post on Performance Baseline’s
    • Principal Agent Problem
    • Alex’s talk on Progressive Enhancement @ Chrome Dev Summit
    • React just released experimental support for web
    • Chromium University
    • Vincent Scheib - tweets lots of cool things
    • Summertime Afternoon - a fun little WebGL app which sparks joy

      • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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