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The lowest common denominator of the Web. The foundation. The rhythm section. The ladyfingers in the Web trifle. It’s the HTML. And it is becoming increasingly clear to me that there’s a whole swathe of Frontend Engineers who don’t know or understand the frontend-est of frontend technologies.

All the talks from ffconf over the last 10 years! Including me!

Each person has their own reasons for choosing their assistive technologies. Accessibility isn’t a technological problem to be solved. It’s an essential part of the human condition: we all have different needs and abilities.

This is so sweet and true!

I love the idea of a /now page!

I MUST try to use this in something soon!

While we are getting faster flagship phones every cycle, the vast majority of people can’t afford these. The more affordable phones are stuck in the past and have highly fluctuating performance metrics. These low-end phones will mostly likely be used by the massive number of people coming online in the next couple of years. The gap between the fastest and the slowest phone is getting wider, and the median is going down.

Das makes some excellent points about writing code that works fast on all devices.

The Apple Knowledge Navigator looks very similar to the actual iPad that exists over 30 years later.

Apple played the long game.

How the hell have I only just heard of this survey? It's fantastic!

Oh this is fantastic! The low level tools available on most *nixy systems are powerful, but very inconsistent and hard to use. These little wrappers make things so much easier!

37% of Americans now go online mostly using a smartphone.

If you're not designing for performance and low-CPU devices, you're not designing for your users. 💁‍♀️