If you've read the second edition of Mindful Design I would love love love it if you could drop a review on Amazon. Yes, it's the devil site, but also, it's the best way for it to get noticed and I’m super proud of this edition.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mindful-Design-Survival-Responsible-Designers/dp/B0CP8VMW8C

It's interesting how thin a skin the React crowd has. They think I'm being deeply antagonistic when, in fact, I've been holding my fire (and the confidences of consulting counterparties) for ~8 years. This has only served to make things look *better* than they really are.

The damage I'm seeing isn't just in the public sector, or limited to exceptionally bad cases. It's now ecosystem-wide, and JS-first culture owns a share of the blame.

But why do I care? A short thread.

In case you missed it, I recently made a video named “What Is React.js”

https://briefs.video/videos/what-is-react/

If you haven’t watched it, please do. It is very short. If you have and you liked it, please share it with your friends.

And if you are able, please support me on https://opencollective.com/webbed-briefs. I want to do more of these, but they take a lot of time. Thank you!

My one big piece of advice to anyone entering tech:

Don't get used to tech company salaries.
Don't get mortgages and car payments that you can only afford with tech company salaries.
Build as much emergency funds as you possibly can with tech company salaries.
Fully expect that you'll get laid off the exact same time the entire rest of the industry stops hiring people, and it may be a couple years before hiring starts back up again.

Sure, you may think those 6 figure salaries means you're living on easy street, but when it comes with only working 8 out of every 10 years, those numbers aren't near as good.

New post: The Interminable Pursuit of an Anticapitalist Web

Nice light read.

https://www.scott.is/writing/about/the-interminable-pursuit-of-an-anticapitalist-web

Here is my unofficial guide to the HTML `<blockquote>` element.

https://heydonworks.com/article/the-blockquote-element/

Remember how dismissive Mullenweg was of WordPress’s own WCAG commitments in his rush to deploy Gutenberg to compete with Wix, Squarespace, Weebly?

He did nothing in 5 years to address those mistakes:
https://adrianroselli.com/2019/05/a-model-for-wordpress-accessibility.html

I encourage #accessibility practitioners to be cautious of volunteering for the WordPress accessibility team:
https://make.wordpress.org/accessibility/2024/10/12/accessibility-team-meetings-suspended/#comment-73270

Also, I may judge those who choose to associate with him now. For whatever that’s worth.

#WordPress #a11y