There is only one honest measure of web performance: the time from when you click a link to when you’ve finished skipping the last ad.
Maciej Cegłowski, “The Website Obesity Crisis,” Web Directions, Sydney, 2015.
Overheard
They have a billion files in their repo, 9 million are source files. What the heck is the other 991000000?
Someone checked in a
node_modulesfolder by accident.
"The mobile web sucks"
Apps have become nearly irrelevant on desktops because the web experience is close to perfect, while apps are vitally important on phones because the web experience is dismal.
"The solid, slow-moving target"
The way that you do stability in software, like this idea that we need a very slow-moving waterfall process – it’s antiquated. It’s an accident of history that it ever worked that way.
Isaac Schlueter, Javascript Jabber #147
Declarative knobs
The HTTP cache is simply too finicky (especially across browsers and when taking mobile into consideration) to get any kind of reliable guarantees.
Churn fatigue
Stability without stagnation is not a paradox; it’s a recipe for success.