Morgan Roderick

@mroderick.bsky.social

Lean web enthusiast, organiser of Codebar Berlin, steward of Sinon

Not even going to comment on how crypto people keep pushing the idea of “stablecoins as payments” use case: completely ignoring the reason anyone sensible won’t stop using credit cards: Because credit cards offer chargebacks, and pay perks. Crypto offers neither and is a risk

Did you guys notice how quickly we got to okaying discrimination against women, people of color and LGBTQA+ people, Christi-fascists in the government, erasure of public health, not being able to trust government statistics, autocratic use of power and undermining elections?

Transmisogyny is just this bizarre clusterfuck where people treat you like a woman, in that they talk over you, call you overly emotional, sexualise you, judge you harshly on how well you embody femininity, disbelieve you when you say you've been mistreated, all the while insisting that you're a man

a web that isn't human-first is a web I want nothing to do with. I'm not going to "optimize the graph" of assertions, or whatever. I'm not a content farm for your algorithm. i'm here to build real relationships with real people - and if that's not what the web is for anymore, I'll be somewhere else.

I would like this to be true. "Instead of reaching for frameworks by default, more teams are treating HTML and CSS as first-class citizens again, leaning on JavaScript only when it genuinely enhances the experience. This isn’t nostalgia—it’s a calculated correction." thenewstack.io/html-first-f...

HTML-First, Framework-Second: Is JavaScript Finally Growing Up?

Instead of starting with a framework, smart frontend developers now begin with HTML and enhance it progressively with JavaScript.

thenewstack.io