Reading Log ForMarch 9, 2026 (#163)
A really enlightening deep dive into HTML lists, thoughts on JS-heavy sites, thoughts on the WNBA negotiations and more.
Web Development
- Navigation API - a better way to navigate, is now Baseline Newly Available - Jay Rungta
- Magic - Jeremy Keith
- Reduce the JS Workload with no- or lo-JS options - Aaron T. Grogg
- JS-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals - Sérgio Gomes
- An in-depth guide to customising lists with CSS - Richard Rutter
General Development
- You had a story - Nolan Lawson
- Technical debt as a lack of understanding - Dave Rupert
- Wishcessibility - Nic Chan
- I Am Happier Writing Code By Hand - Abhinav Omprakash
Design
- Molly guard in reverse - Marcin Wichary
The Internet
- Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is. - Mark Graham
- The View From RSS - Caroline Crampton
Technology
Sports
- The WNBA is a mess - Drew Magary
Podcasts
- Decoder: Prediction markets in the news are a dangerous gamble
- Hard Fork Podcast: At the Pentagon, OpenAI is In and Anthropic Is Out
- Fresh Air: Is the U.S. heading into a dictatorship?
- 404 Media Podcast: How to Detect Phone Spying Tech (with Cooper Quintin)
Journalism
- The American Media Polycrisis: Cascading Layers of Capture - Viktor Pickard
Everything Else
- A programmer's loss of a social identity - Dave Gauer