The Web’s Next Transition | Epic Web Dev by Kent C. Dodds

The primary benefit of Progressive Enhancement is not that “your app works without JavaScript” (though that’s a nice side-benefit) but rather that the mental model is drastically simpler.

I think that’s the primary benefit to developers. The primary benefit to users is that what you build will faster and more resilient.

Anyway, this is a really good deep dive into different architectural choices for building on the web. Although I was surprised by this assertion in the first paragraph:

The most popular architecture employed by web developers today is the Single Page App (SPA)

Citation needed. Single Page Apps do indeed dominate the discussion, but I don’t think that necessarily matches the day-to-day reality.

Another Lens - News Deeply x Airbnb.Design

A series of questions to ask on any design project:

• What are my lenses?
• Am I just confirming my assumptions, or am I challenging them?
• What details here are unfair? Unverified? Unused?
• Am I holding onto something that I need to let go of?
• What’s here that I designed for me? What’s here that I designed for other people?
• What would the world look like if my assumptions were wrong?
• Who might disagree with what I’m designing?
• Who might be impacted by what I’m designing?
• What do I believe?
• Who’s someone I’m nervous to talk to about this?
• Is my audience open to change?
• What am I challenging as I create this?
• How can I reframe a mistake in a way that helps me learn?
• How does my approach to this problem today compare to how I might have approached this one year ago?
• If I could learn one thing to help me on this project, what would that one thing be?
• Do I need to slow down?

In Praise of On Resilient Web Design by Jeremy Keith

I’m really touched—and honoured—that my book could have this effect.

It made me fall back in love with the web and with making things for the web.