Web development's lost decade (JS Party #263)

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?

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 – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteAmal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub

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!