Significant whitespace

Yes

Yes

Where’s the notch? It’s completely gone! Amazing.

Where’s the notch? It’s completely gone! Amazing.

Performance and Google’s profit margin

This is true

This is true

Google has been trying to ruin the URL for 20 years.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-wants-to-kill-the-url/

Early microcomputers were fun because their only real purpose really was to teach you how to program.

Early microcomputers were fun because their only real purpose really was to teach you how to program.

This article reconstructs pretty accurately what it felt like to be there. I can confirm that growing feeling of excitement as the narrative of learning the machine gradually unfolded.

That’s an experience that’s hard to beat even today despite three decades of technological advancement.

https://twobithistory.org/2018/09/02/learning-basic.html

You really, truly, honestly don’t need a Virtual DOM. Srsly.

This is an interesting discussion from last year about Tagged Template String Literals (TTSL? I’m coining it right here) versus Virtual DOM systems (React, Vuejs etc).

While the focus of the discussion is on the (then recent) lit-html announcement, Andrea Giammarchi’s hyperHtml is also given the prominence it deserves. Andrea, an independent developer, invented the technique and released his library 6 months earlier than Google.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCHZJy2n8Qs&lc=UgyBaGjg7EyZsNHMmBZ4AaABAg