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A (usually) weekly round-up of interesting links I’ve tweeted. Sponsored by Smashing Magazine who slip banknotes into my underwear so I can spend time reading stuff.

• When to use CSS vs. JavaScript – by Chris Ferdinandi
• CSS and Network Performance by Harold Roberts
• Difference between currentColor & Custom Properties by Mike Riethmuller
• Service Workies – “Learn Service Workers inside and out with the new PWA Mastery Game
• W3C Strategic Highlights October 2018 – “we believe that having two distinct HTML and DOM specs claiming to be normative is generally harmful for the community”; joint work to be at WHATWG if I understand correctly
• Chrome Dev Summit 2018 Day 2 Keynote (YouTube video) –
  good news from the Chrome team: frameworks will be 1st class citizens: included in intent to implement notices; $200K of funding to improve performance; collaboration between Chrome team and framework devs
• Braces to Pixels – Greg Whitworth explains how broozers take your CSS and make it into what you see on screen. It ain’t easy, and this is why Houdini will be so super – you’ll get all of this for free, and just hook into the bits you want to change.
• Android: a 10-year visual history – the development of the mobile OS that ate the world
• What Your Phone is Telling Wall Street – insight into corporate monetisation of mobile phone location data
• Many free mobile VPN apps are based in China or have Chinese ownership – “Chinese affiliation raises a sign of alarm in light of China’s recent clampdown of “unauthorized” VPN services.” Cites research by my cousin, @simonmigliano
• Someone just tweeted the entire works of Shakespeare with one tweet

A (usually) weekly round-up of interesting links I’ve tweeted. Sponsored by Smashing Magazine who slip banknotes into my underwear so I can spend time reading stuff.

• Internationalization techniques: Authoring HTML & CSS – comprehensive guidance from Sir Uncle Timbo’s gang
• CSS Houdini Experiments Some fab Houdini experiments, by @iamvdo
• The CSS Working Group At TPAC: What’s New In CSS? – Rachel Andrew went to TPAC and all she bought me back was this article.
• VS Code can do that?! – “All the best things about Visual Studio Code that nobody ever bothered to tell you”
• Discontinuing support for Android Nearby Notifications because of “a significant increase in locally irrelevant and spammy notifications that were leading to a poor user experience.”
• If You Charge People to Tweet, They’ll Revolt in the Street – “Uganda’s social media tax is just another way for the government to crack down on dissent” via @stopsatgreen’s always-interesting monthly newsletter.
• Forbidden Unicode – “ƃuᴉɯɐǝɹp sʇᴉɐʍ nɥlnɥʇƆ pɐǝp ɥǝʎl,ɹ ʇɐ ǝsnoH sᴉH uI”. An unsettling tale by Mr Terence Eden.