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JavaScript Libraries Are Almost Never Updated Once Installed

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Some commentary from Zack Bloom on the Cloudflare Blog, looking at requests to CDNJS for versions of jQuery.

What we don’t see is a decline in our old versions which come close to the volume of growth of new versions when they’re released. In fact the release of 3.4.1, as popular as it quickly becomes, doesn’t change the trend of old version deprecation at all.

Sorta makes sense. We make CDNJS easy to use at CodePen, where people … Read article “JavaScript Libraries Are Almost Never Updated Once Installed”

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PSA: It’s That Time to Update the Copyright Year on Your Site

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Every year about this time I see articles going around reminding people how to update the copyright on their websites. Usually somewhere in the footer. You know, a line like:

© Copyright 2007-2019 CSS-Tricks

I am very absolutely not a lawyer, but this is how I understand it:

  • You don’t actually need that if your goal is copyrighting blog posts. Blog posts are copyrighted (in the United States) the second you publish them, with or without a copyright notice. You
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Simplicity

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Earlier this week, Bastian Allgeier published some interesting thoughts about complexity in web development and how changing simple things can often feel far more difficult than they need to be:

You want to build a JS file? Please update Webpack first. Oh, that new version of Webpack is no longer compatible with your Node version. Oh, your new Node version is no longer compatible with that other dependency. Oh, now you have 233 detected security issues in all your node_modules

… Read article “Simplicity”
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Decaying Sites

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Chris Coyier

Websites have a tendency to decay all by themselves. Link rot, they call it. Unpaid domain name registrations. Companies that have gone out of business. Site owners that have lost interest. What’s sadder than a 404? Landing on a holding page of a URL that used to exist, but now has fallen into the hands of some domain hoarder after it expired, hoping someone will pay a premium to get it back.

That stuff is no fun. But what … Read article “Decaying Sites”

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Approaches to Deprecating Code in JavaScript

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Recently, I had to dig into the topic of code deprecation in JavaScript. I feel like this topic gets less coverage even though it may a play key role in certain projects, especially when working in bigger teams or dealing with external APIs.

In JavaScript-land, I don’t know of any true industry standards for deprecating JavaScript. It could be different per any team, library or vendor.

That’s why my goal here is to sum up my findings and thoughts on … Read article “Approaches to Deprecating Code in JavaScript”

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An Open Source Etiquette Guidebook

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Kent C. Dodds and Sarah Drasner

Open source software is thriving. Large corporations are building on software that rests on open collaboration, enjoying the many benefits of significant community adoption. Free and open source software is amazing for its ability to bring together many people from all over the world, and join their efforts and skills by their interests. … Read article “An Open Source Etiquette Guidebook”

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On Style Maintenance

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I was talking to a brilliant engineer friend the other day who mentioned they never get to build anything from the ground up. Their entire career has consisted of maintaining other people’s (often quite poor) code.

In a perfect world, we’d all get to write code from scratch, it would work perfectly, and we would put it into a bin in the sky, never to be looked at by anyone again.

We all know that’s not how it works. Code … Read article “On Style Maintenance”