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AMP And The Mobile Web Performance Problem Becoming Harder To Ignore
A practical 2015 article about AMP and why the announcement reflected a wider frustration with slow, heavy mobile pages.
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Node.js 4 And Rebuilding Trust Around Server-Side JavaScript
A practical article about Node.js 4, the io.js reunification and why stability mattered as much as features for server-side JavaScript in 2015.
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Bootstrap 4 Alpha And Rebuilding A Shared Front-End Base
A 2015 reflection on Bootstrap 4 alpha and why the more interesting discussion was the need to rebuild shared front-end systems once real projects had exposed their limits.
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jQuery 3 Alpha And The Question Of How Long To Carry Old Browsers
A practical look at the jQuery 3 alpha release in 2015 and the wider question of when a project should stop carrying older browser behaviour by default.
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ECMAScript 2015 And Writing JavaScript With A Longer View
A practical 2015 article about ES2015, and why the new JavaScript features mattered most when they made larger codebases easier to understand over time.
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HTTP/2 And The Performance Conversation Changing Shape
A practical article about HTTP/2 in 2015, and why front-end performance work was starting to move beyond simply reducing the number of requests.
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Service Workers And The First Serious Conversation About Offline Web Pages
A 2015 reflection on service workers, offline behaviour and why web pages needed to start thinking more carefully about unreliable networks.
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React Native And Component Thinking Moving Beyond The Browser
A practical look at React Native in 2015, and why the interesting part was not only mobile development but the idea that interface thinking could travel across platforms.
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AngularJS 1.3 And When Two-Way Binding Needed More Discipline
A practical look at AngularJS 1.3, richer client-side interfaces and why two-way binding needed structure once applications started becoming more serious.
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React 0.12 And Components Starting To Feel Less Strange
A practical look at React 0.12, JSX, component thinking and why the idea of building interfaces from self-contained pieces was starting to make more sense in 2014.