Notices by Nolan (nolan@toot.cafe), page 18

Now that requestPostAnimationFrame is starting to get implemented, the question of how to avoid layout thrashing starts to get a lot simpler: put your DOM writes in requestAnimationFrame, and your DOM reads in requestPostAnimationFrame. https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/m-UwqK3cdjA #webperf

@jamesgecko Ah, must be, yeah.

@jamesgecko AngularJS is the name of the old version of the framework (v1). Angular is the name of every version since v2 which is basically a complete rewrite.

"A RealWorld Comparison of Front-End Frameworks with Benchmarks (2019 update)" by Jacek Schae
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/a-realworld-comparison-of-front-end-frameworks-with-benchmarks-2019-update-4be0d3c78075

Svelte still blows the other frameworks out of the water. Smaller output *and* smaller input (less source code to have to write).

"Perceived Velocity through Version Numbers" by Dave Rupert https://daverupert.com/2019/04/perceived-velocity/

It's still weird to me that, even with SemVer, people tend to interpret a major version bump as a big event (as opposed to *removing* functionality, which it often is).

"How I Eat For Free in NYC Using Python, Automation, Artificial Intelligence, and Instagram" by Chris Buetti https://medium.com/@chrisbuetti/how-i-eat-for-free-in-nyc-using-python-automation-artificial-intelligence-and-instagram-a5ed8a1e2a10

This is pretty brilliant, but at what point does social media become full of bots trying to learn from other bots? If it's this easy to game Instagram, then I can't imagine that this technique will work for forever. Kudos to the author for sharing it though.

"Reducing Notification Permission Prompt Spam in Firefox" by Johann Hofmann https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2019/04/01/reducing-notification-permission-prompt-spam-in-firefox/

There's a reason Pinafore doesn't show this prompt until you've explicitly enabled push notifications. These things are seriously annoying.

@szbalint Great post. The backup codes especially are a real Achilles' heel of these systems. Who in the heck actually prints those out?

"request" going into maintenance mode. This is a classy way to retire an OSS project: https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142

"A Decade at the Fruit Company" by Don Melton (video) https://vimeo.com/110571205

Pretty fascinating look at the origins of WebKit and Safari inside of Apple.

I've definitely observed that online newspapers are getting pretty boring, and it's not for lack of novelty. Every day (every hour?) there are new stories, but they're not all that interesting.

"On Flooding: Drowning the Culture in Sameness" by Soraya Roberts https://longreads.com/2019/03/29/on-flooding-drowning-the-culture-in-sameness/

"[N]ewspapers online, now with a borderless audience, publish more than twice as many stories as they used to, often with a much smaller staff."

@lifning Pinafore Ultimate Edition 2019 & Knuckles