Kodsnack 328 - Cacophonous, but beautiful at the same time, with Nolan Lawson

Fredrik talks to Nolan Lawson - web performance expert, Mastodon instance maintainer, creator of a highly accessible Mastodon web client, and more. We discuss, among other things, the joys of distributed social media, where unlike centralized places like Twitter nobody can stop innovation when it comes to clients and interfaces and ways of use. Nolan talks about how and why he built Pinafore - his Mastodon client. We touch on the different experiences people have and want out of social media, digital wellness, and how caring about performance cam be an act of empathy.

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Nolan Lawson
Salesforce
Pouchdb
Mastodon
Open source maintainer guilt
Toot.cafe - the Mastodon server Nolan runs
Ruby
Brent Simmons
Glitch
Darius Kazemi
Hometown - Darius' fork
Eugen Rochko - creator and maintainer of Mastodon
Mastodon terminology and ways of working
Ruby on rails
React
Webpack
How to write a carousel
Van Halen’s M&M rider clause
Built-in modules
Curl
Pinafore
Progressive web apps
Service workers
Cross-origin resource sharing - CORS
Gilbert and Sullivan - and their Pinafore
Tweetdeck
Blurhash - and on Github
OCR - optical character recognition
Tesseract.js
WASM - Webassembly
Emscripten
Wellness settings in Pinafore
Emoji mart - the emoji picker library
Svelte
Vue
Babel
JSX
Rollup
Accurately measuring layout on the web
requestAnimationFrame
High-performance input handling on the web
Browsers, input events, and frame throttling
Pointer events
Local storage
Indexeddb
Intersection observer
Resize observer

Titles

I was really excited
Falling in and out of it
Tweets are toots
The goal of a lot of web standards
I really mistrust a library
I believe in the open web
Eugene had already thought about this
Mixed degrees of success
My preference is single column
She’s on weird Mastodon
It’s all kind of cacophonous, but it’s beautiful at the same time
Every component has a bit of Svelte in it
It’s really based on empathy