Reading List #93

Hi

Hope you had a great weekend as well! To start your week well, here’s a few things I’ve read.


๐Ÿ™Œ Build for the Web, Build on the Web, Build with the Web!

Harry Roberts reminds us about the true costs of using huge frameworks, or loading hundreds of kilobytes of JS just for a navigation that is slightly “smoother”. Everyone working on the web should read this.

CSS Wizardry โ€“ Build for the Web, Build on the Web, Build with the Web

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ FSE Themes & Agency work

Brian Coords talked to Amor Kumar โ€“ who’s working for WebDevStudios โ€“ about building themes in an agency in times of FSE, and it brought up a lot of the issues that agencies have today. It was good to hear that some of the “big agencies” struggle with some of the same stuff as we do.

Webmasters โ€“ Interview Amor Kumar

๐Ÿง Why you should use CSS Nesting with caution

Andy Bell about why you should use native nesting in CSS with caution. He raises some good points I wasn’t aware of.

Piccalilli โ€“ CSS nesting: use with caution

๐Ÿ˜ตโ€๐Ÿ’ซ Cloudflare Cache Leaking Location Data

This is some seriously crazy stuff. In this experiment, hankermondev was able to locate someone only by sending him an image or even just a friend request even through the deemed-secure Signal. He then used the fact that CDNs try to store said image in a datacenter nearest to you, to locate you in a radius of about a few hundred miles. All of this required no interaction on the receiving end. While a few hundred miles might not seem too exact, it could be enough to endanger journalists or other people relying on private communication. Worth a read.

hackermondev โ€“ Cloudflare research.md

๐Ÿ“ The days are long but the decades are short

I read this Bloomberg interview with Sam Altman recently, which was also somewhat interesting, but the thing I liked most about it was this 10-year-old blogpost of his where he listed 36 “life-lessons” which he wrote down when he turned 30. I know these lists are often kind of dull, but I liked this one.

Sam Altman โ€“ The days are long but the decades are short


Have a great week!

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