Weird things engineers believe about Web development
I wrote most of this post sometime in 2022 but I think it holds up alright in 2024 so I decided to publish it for posterity. I don’t really like doing posts like this—I’d much rather share some innocuous learnings or tips but it turns out I have opinions too 😓 Sorry! Since I quit Mozilla and went back to full-time Web development, I’ve discovered a few surprises. It turns out Web development is actually pretty hard, Web developers are actually very smart, and some of these frameworks and techniques we mocked as browser engineers aren’t so bad. Oops. At the same time, it turns out some Web developers have ideas about browsers and the Web that, as a former browser engineer and standards editor, I’m a bit dubious of. Here are a few of the things that surprised me.
Dog meat production and sales will soon become illegal in South Korea
South Korea’s parliament has passed a landmark ban on production and sales of dog meat, as public calls for a prohibition have grown sharply over concerns about animal rights and the country’s international image.
I pay for Fantastical mainly for the improved UX; but Calendar.app is functionally good enough | There and Back Again: Foregoing Fantastical
Don’t get excited, it’s just… Calendar. Last month, I took a bit of an odyssey and explored the idea that maybe there aren’t that many must-have third-party apps, only nice-…
'everything' blocks devs from removing their own npm packages
Over the holidays, the npm package registry was flooded with more than 3,000 packages, including one called "everything," and others named a variation of the word. These 3,000+ packages make it impossible for all npm authors to unpublish their packages from the registry.
Blog: Blixt - A load-balancer written in Rust using eBPF born from Gateway API
Blog: Blixt - A load-balancer written in Rust, using eBPF, born from Gateway API https://www.kubernetes.dev/blog/2024/01/08/blixt-load-balancer-rust-ebpf-gateway-api/
This blog post explains why cybersecurity shouldn’t be a special stream of work in organizations, and presents opportunities for security programs to become more constructive and less gatekeepy.
“I just never thought it could happen this way, this fast and to us,” Eli said. | Transgender adults in Florida are blindsided that a new law also limits their access to health care
A new Florida law banning gender-affirming care for minors is getting a lot of attention nationally as Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis runs for president, but it's also impacting transgender adults. Children were the main focus of debate and coverage of the new law that DeSantis signed last month. However, it also includes restrictions on adult care. That's creating chaos for patients and providers in the state with what's estimated to be the nation's second-highest transgender population. Patients now have to be treated face-to-face by a medical doctor. Those restrictions have proved particularly onerous because many trans adults were seeing nurse practitioners and using telehealth.
“I just never thought it could happen this way, this fast and to us,” Eli said.