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Big Tech's big downgrade

businessinsider.com

In Silicon Valley, the user’s experience has become subordinate to the company’s stock price. Google, Amazon, Meta, and other tech companies have monetized confusion, constantly testing how much they can interfere with and manipulate users. And instead of trying to meaningfully innovate and improve the useful services they provide, these companies have instead chased short-term fads or attempted to totally overhaul their businesses in a desperate attempt to win the favor of Wall Street investors.

Something Pretty Right: A History of Visual Basic

retool.com

Coolest website i’ve seen a quite a while.

Childish Font Sizes

cloudfour.com

These days, the arguments for a 16-pixel baseline are widely accepted: We have plenty of data supporting its readability, it can prevent unintentional zoom in mobile browsers, and it’s been the default in every major browser for many years.

But there are plenty of reasons to go even larger…

Why Lighthouse Performance Score Doesn't Work

calibreapp.com

For a long time, the Lighthouse Performance Score was the page speed metric to track. Often, sharing a perfect 100 Performance Score was considered a sign of success. But as the page speed evolves, we need to critically evaluate if the metrics we’re using are still relevant and helpful.