Links from a talk

I’m coming to a rest after a busy period of travelling and speaking. In the last five or six weeks I’ve been to Copenhagen, Freiburg, Prague, Portland, Seattle, and Austin.

The trip to Austin was lovely. It was so nice to be there when it wasn’t South by Southwest (the infrastructure of the whole town creaks under the sheer weight of the event). I wasn’t just there to eat tacos and drink beer in the sunshine. I was there to talk at An Event Apart.

Like I said months before the event:

Everyone in the line up is one of my heroes.

It was, as always, a great event. A personal highlight for me was getting to meet Lara Hogan for the first time. She was kind enough to sign my copy of her fantastic book. She gave an equally fantastic talk at the conference, featuring some of the most deftly-handled Q&A I’ve ever seen.

I spoke at the end of the conference (no pressure!), giving a brand new talk called Resilience—I gave a shortened version at Coldfront and Smashing Conference but this was my first chance to go all out with an hour long talk. It was my chance to go full James Burke.

I assembled some related links for the attendees. Here they are…

Books

• The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage, 01998
• Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet by Katie Hafner, 01996
• Weaving the Web by Tim Berners-Lee, 01999
• The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke, 01979

References

• On Distributed Communications by Paul Baran, 01964
• Transmission Control Protocol by Jon Postel, 01980
• WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project by Tim Berners-Lee, 01990
• The Rise of the Stupid Network by David S. Isenberg, 01997
• Delay-Tolerant Networking Architecture by Vint Cerf, et al, 02007
• There is a Horse in the Apple Store by Frank Chimero, 02010

Resources

• Submarine Cable Map by Telegeography
• Everyone Has JavaScript, Right? by Stuart Langridge
• Government Service Design Manual
• Introduction to Service Worker by Matt Gaunt
• The Offline Cookbook by Jake Archibald

Related posts on adactio.com

• 02014-02-26 Continuum
• 02014-10-23 Be progressive
• 02014-11-03 Just what is it that you want to do?
• 02015-07-02 Baseline
• 02015-09-06 Enhance!

Here’s a readlist of those links.

Further reading

• Grade components, not browsers by Scott Jehl, 02013
• Building for the device agnostic web by Orde Saunders, 02013
• Device-Agnostic by Trent Walton, 02014
• Stop Breaking the Web by Nicolas Bevacqua, 02014
• The Practical Case for Progressive Enhancement by Jason Garber, 02015
• Let Links Be Links by Ross Penman, 02015
• Thriving in Unpredictability by Tim Kadlec, 02015
• Designing with Progressive Enhancement by Jason Garber, 02015
• A fictional conversation about progressive enhancement by Tom Morris, 02015

Here’s a readlist of those links.

See also: other links tagged with “progressive enhancement” on adactio.com

The Layers of the Web - Jeremy Keith - YouTube

Here’s the video of the talk I gave at the Web Stories conference back in February.

Chris Ferdinandi: The Lean Web – WordPress.tv

This video of Chris’s presentation is well worth watching:

The web in 2020 is a bloated and over-engineered mess! Many modern web development “best practices” are making the web worse. This thought-provoking talk shares ideas on how to fix the problem as it explores an alternate set of best practices.

Chris Ferdinandi: The Lean Web | July 2020 - YouTube

A great presentation on taking a sensible approach to web development. Great advice, as always, from the blogging machine that is Chris Ferdinandi.

The web is a bloated, over-engineered mess. And, according to developer and educator Chris Ferdinandi, many of our modern “best practices” are actually making the web worse. In this talk, Chris explores The Lean Web, a set of principles for a simpler, faster world-wide web.

Responsive web design turns ten. — Ethan Marcotte

2010 was quite a year:

And exactly three weeks after Jeremy Keith’s HTML5 For Web Designers was first published, “Responsive Web Design” went live in A List Apart.

Nothing’s been quite the same since.

I remember being at that An Event Apart in Seattle where Ethan first unveiled the phrase and marvelling at how well everything just clicked into place, perfectly capturing the zeitgeist. I was in. 100%.

Move Fast & Don’t Break Things | Filament Group, Inc.

This is the transcript of a brilliant presentation by Scott—read the whole thing! It starts with a much-needed history lesson that gets to where we are now with the dismal state of performance on the web, and then gives a whole truckload of handy tips and tricks for improving performance when it comes to styles, scripts, images, fonts, and just about everything on the front end.

Essential!