Reading List 227

• Planning for Responsive Images with some magical CSS Grid
• What’s new on iOS 12.2 for Progressive Web Apps by Maximiliano Firtman
• Bit, a distributed virtual component repository for projects built in a modular way (open source)
• Standardizing WASI: A system interface to run WebAssembly outside the web by Lin Clark
• HTTP State Tokens – draft spec by Mike West (Google) on a mechanism for”better cookies”
• HTML email reborn, as Google brings AMP to your inbox -“With AMP embeds, email can now contain rich interactivity, not just text and pictures”. Whoop-de-fucking-doo.
• Grindr ‘up for sale on security grounds’ – “US authorities expressed concern that [Kunlun Group] the firm’s ownership of the US-based firm is a national security risk”. Kunlun is the leading partner in the consortium that own Opera browsers.
• Idiosyncracies of the HTML parser – a fabulously geeky book by Simon Pieters
• aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com – a useful URL lengthener

from Bruce Lawson's personal site /2019/reading-list-227/