Casey Carroll

Tangentially related to the prevalence of newsletter pop ups… Product looks at the raw numbers of people who’ve signed up for a newsletter, but usually fail to consider the negative impact of an interruption in the shopping flow holistically.

ICYM this post by @cheddybop.bsky.social, it has never been clearer that the legacy frameworks (React, Angular, etc.) will never turn the corner on mobile perf; and mobile is most of the web. The only winning move is to decamp to something *actually* modern:

lorenstew.art/blog/10-kanban-b…

Largest Contentful Paint (from Core Web Vitals) is now available in Safari Technology Preview.

webkit.org/blog/17504/r...

I say this with 0 knowledge of the legal implications lol

The web needs a system level “ask app not to track” type of mechanism for set-it-once cookie consent.

Polymer came out right as I finished up undergrad. Used it at an internship and that’s when my love for the web began. I remember setting up Polymer apps with Yeoman, Bower, etc. Such a different era!

Marko 6: Fulfilling the Promise of Less JavaScript w/ Dylan Piercey YouTube video by Ryan Carniato

There is hate for JS on the server. But none have accomplished what @markojs.com has. Forget Islands, forget serialization boundaries, forget writing code twice. Just declarative templates, low JS, automatically.

@dpiercey.me joins me Friday to show how it's done.
www.youtube.com/live/x-3RxGf...

Garmin Explore? 🤔 Leveraging the hiking hint and my negative experiences with Garmin’s software 😅

Oh, yes! I remember that one. Incredibly tricky to isolate. Stoked you have a reproducible case! Let me know when the bug report is live so I can follow. 👀

Haven't been keeping up with the webperf slack, but this was in the scrollback from March, and shows so directly how understanding the rendering engine unlocks better experiences for everyone, not just folks on low-spec machines and networks:

granola.ai/blog/dont-animat…

I get requests for line clamping. While possible on the web, it’s technically not well supported (understandably)

Not necessarily print, but a byproduct of designing within a static context.

Carousels with CSS  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers Support scroll experiences with navigation buttons and markers with just a few lines of CSS.

It's not Baseline, but CSS-only carousels are coming to Chrome 135!
developer.chrome.com/blog/carouse... by @nerdy.dev

Vue’s “quick start” guide omits routing. vuejs.org/guide/quick-...

They provide guidance for folks looking to add routing. vuejs.org/guide/scalin...

Perhaps it’s not equivalent to CRAs goals, but I like the approach. Their docs also help you understand when a meta framework is more appropriate.

una.im | Updates to the customizable select API Everything that has changed since the RFC post for this feature.

New blog post:

Updates to the customizable select API

una.im/select-updates/

I’ve had conversations with product managers that lead to statements like, “People don’t like the website because it has pop ups, so we want to add an app install banner to help people install the app” 🫠 Making the website bad on purpose is not going to have the effect you want it to have lol

I use this feature when measuring pixels with the built-in screenshot utility. I can zoom in to be more precise without affecting the pixel calculation. One of my favorite little things about using a Mac!

HTML for People HTML isn't only for people working in the tech field. It's for everyone. Learn how to make a website from scratch in this beginner friendly web book.

I guess it is time to introduce Bluesky to my latest work, HTML for People.

Anyone can make a website with HTML. No previous coding experience required. I cover everything you need to know to get started in an approachable and friendly way.

And it’s free for all. 🚀

htmlforpeople.com

Complete CSS A high quality, expansive CSS course that will elevate your CSS and core skills to a level you never thought was achievable.

Screw it, here's a 10% discount link for Complete CSS for my Bluesky pals. It's been a great year here. Long may it continue.

piccalil.li/complete-css...

The code expires on the 26th at midnight UK time!

I think a lot about how the principles of design and UX are fundamentally incompatible with capitalism; at a certain point, they have opposing priorities.

That means if you're in the field, your company is paying you to care about something it will never care about. And that's a recipe for burnout.

What does it mean for something to be Turing complete?

I answer this question, and more, through a series of fully interactive Turing machine simulations! Play, pause, step forwards and backwards, and even write your own Turing machine programs in my latest blog post.

samwho.dev/turing-machi...

Isolates: Helping eBay Engineers Shift Testing Left Let's explore how a new tool called "Isolates" (eye-so-lets) helps eBay engineering teams spin up ephemeral testing environments to run high-fidelity, multi-application tests early in the development ...

I’m looking forward to 2025. eBay has its sights set on improving developer experience, and we already have some cool things rolling out. Check out how we can test multiple systems in isolation with Isolates! www.linkedin.com/pulse/isolat...

Sometimes you gotta remind designers that the browser has a “see more” feature built in. Let’s give it up for the humble scroll bar, folks

Echoing the steel case praise. I use a Gesture at home and a Leap at the office. They are fantastic! The leap is usually cheaper. You can probably find one at an office resale store.

SpeedCurve | A Holiday Wish: Core Web Vitals in Safari Did you know that key performance metrics, like Core Web Vitals, aren't supported in Safari? Here's why, and what we and the rest of the web performance community are doing to fix it.

Did you know that key #webperf / #ux metrics (like #CoreWebVitals) aren't supported in Safari? If that's news to you, you're not alone! @cliffcrocker.bsky.social explains why that is... and what we and the rest of the web performance community are doing to fix it.

www.speedcurve.com/blog/core-we...

They should put HTML in the browser