What a fascinating rollercoaster of a read! Innovation, GTM, tradeoffs, IP, capitalism, regulation, market forces, and many tough ethics conundrums.

🚨 JS devs, I need your help!

My MEng student and I are working on an open-source library that handles JS hierarchical data of (almost) any type. You just set a few properties to describe your tree structure (how to get to children, what is a node, etc.) and you get a host of…

I keep reading this thread hoping for some happy ending in the long tail of tweets but nope.

I can't believe people like that have the privilege of having their mom alive with them during their forties and waste it by being judgmental for how she expresses herself. I wish my mom…

In order to explain to my daughter that all colors together make white, I tried to use CSS to recreate the usual hue wheel top. Not with great results: it sort of becomes white, but flashes a lot. I suspect I’m hitting a hardware limit at high fps.

codepen.io/leaverou/pen/X…

Henri Helvetica 🇭🇹 👨🏾‍🚀 🚀 Chance I do think it's a shame smaller companies don't see the business value of participating in web standards. I've seen companies spend countless person hours solving problems they could solve for good on the actual platform. Yes, with a delay, but not a crazy delay, and then they'd…

The advice I give most frequently to junior devs is to resist the urge to jump straight into implementation. Use the API first. Write out a few code snippets that use the API for common use cases. How does it feel? Can the user express their intent without friction and…

Been working on this for over a year, and super excited to launch the Kickstarter for Web Awesome and Web Awesome Pro today!

In a bit over an hour, we hit the funding goal. And we've since hit our first stretch goal at $50k and doubled the funding goal.

kickstarter.com/projects/fonta…

I just backed Web Awesome by Font Awesome on Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/fonta…
Such an interesting project! So much potential in this space.

I started collecting my web standards contributions since 2011 on a page, with detailed timelines from proposal to spec to shipping in browsers etc.

lea.verou.me/standards/

Q: What to call it (2 words max) that would be understood by the widest possible audience on e.g. a…

I understand why npm had to disallow package names too similar to other package names, really.

But as a package publisher, I now have no way to tell if a name is free. In the past visiting the package URL worked to tell name availability. Now it’s a total crapshoot.

There…