Web Dev: Stop pushing the web forward
Peter Paul Koch of QuirksMode argues that we are maneuvering the web into a dead end. Instead of trying to compete with native apps by cramming more and more features into browsers, we should focus on the web’s strengths: simplicity, URLs and reach.
We get ever more features that become ever more complex and need ever more polyfills and other tools to function — tools that are part of the problem, and not of the solution.
Web Dev: A hex editor in the browser
https://hexed.it/ - Just another instantiation of Attwood’s Law:
Any application that can be written in JavaScript will eventually be written in JavaScript
Work: Long Hours Backfire for People and for Companies
In sum, the story of overwork is literally a story of diminishing returns: keep overworking, and you’ll progressively work more stupidly on tasks that are increasingly meaningless.
JavaScript: Angular 2 Migration
The supported migration scenario from Angular 1 to Angular 2 will not be based on the Angular New Router (aka. Component Router) any more (it seems as the New Router has been killed as a standalone project anyways). The Angular team posted a sophisticated plan how migration will look like. It looks interesting, but as far as I gather it’s still only a plan, the bits are not available yet …
WebDev: Phoenix Framework 1.0
The hype moves on: Elixr seems to get traction. And the Phoenix Framework is certainly worth having a look at for modern web development …
Online Education: A lucrative business
Online courses are sprouting out of the internet like mushrooms in autumn … I for myself have currently a subscription to Pluralshigt and to Egghead.io. But there is so much more …
The business seems to be lucrative, at least for some teachers …
Funny: Readable code - and the long lost secret of how to achieve it
(funny and provocative … see the comments)
Readable code - and the long lost secret of how to achieve it from JavaZone on Vimeo.
Tweets of the week
If you actually believe creating software takes 50 programmers and 75 people in mgmt, no wonder you think a couple of reports'll be cheaper
— Christin Gorman (@ChristinGorman) August 23, 2015Trying to center something in CSS pic.twitter.com/BQfw8wq6gX
— Thomas Fuchs (@thomasfuchs) August 29, 2015
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