It’s the summer of questioning, not disrupting, things. We’re asking “why policing,” “why that ugly statue celebrating a genocidal saint,” and “why 1MB of gzipped JavaScript just to display a tweet?”

Links

• Like me, Fluffy at Plaidworks has been building sites for 25 years. They wrote up a list of advice for new web developers
• HTML is almost always going to be faster than building pages on the client in JavaScript, resilient with respect to syntax errors, and backwards compatible with older browsers; you can trust it over a framework, or even vanilla JavaScript
• Max Böck summarizes several older web technologies developers are revisiting in The Return of the 90’s Web

The music

Momus, Finnegan the Folk Hero (YouTube) - Momus’ tribute to underpaid webmasters, everywhere