Inventor of the world wide web Tim Berners Lee has announced the launch of a new open source project called Solid. The project aims to provide a new paradigm for access and sharing personal data online. Users control their own data in a POD and explicitly grant read and write permissions on their data.
The Tilda Publishing Blog have a great post describing the most common webdesign mistakes made with layout, positioning, fonts and colours that are best avoided.
This interesting article describes how one line of Javascript code caused the Financial Times website to become 10 times slower, and how the problem was diagnosed. The cause was a blocking call to JSON parse and stringify which involved unnecessary deep copying of data.
Retool is a drag and drop tool that lets you create web based apps to manage data. It aims to allow you to build internal tools easily with a set of building blocks.
Hackernoon have an interesting aricle about the Web Share API, used to natively provide sharing functionality in-browser. Sadly, Chrome is the only browser that supports it, so far.
