Bryce Wray writes about web development, static site tools, CSS, browser market share and privacy issues like Google Fonts.
HN commenters cite his Firefox market share post and his Google Fonts privacy article, and one links his take on feed readers.
My heart sank a bit when reading the phrase, "absolutely massive amount of new stuff" in Tailwind's release note. I agree with the article that this may be the inflection point where I return to just using Sass. (So far I've been using both.)
But Sass has been recently introducing seemingly unnecessary changes in syntax, making their documentation incompatible with existing compiler implementations - and I'm getting tired of trying to catch up.
I'm thinking of moving to PostCSS with a small subset of features, like nested selectors, to stay close to the CSS specs and hopefully one day we can do without any preprocessor.
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Edit: The author of the posted link has an in-depth article on Sass, with much of which I heartily agree.
https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2021/04/speaking-up-for-sass/
And once Firefox falls below 2%, then the web developer pool for Firefox web browser will start to shrink dramatically.
Given the newest but seemingly inert MF board makeup and their lack of zeal to shore up this Firefox market share, it looks to be a certain lost cause.
https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2023/11/firefox-brink/
> Google Fonts downloads are used for fingerprinting and browser identification: https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2020/08/google-fonts-privacy...
ctrl-F for "fingerpr": 0 matches
I skimmed the article and it looks like the only thing that's logged is your IP? Calling that "browser identification" seems like a stretch.
The article really should be "Everything Is Chrome + Safari", the "Firefox on the brink?"[1] article even shows that Safari has ~37% market share (Although the underlying site[2] currently shows me ~34%.)
[1] https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2023/11/firefox-brink/ [2] https://analytics.usa.gov/
One reason you may want to self host your fonts vs Google Fonts is to respect your users privacy. Google Fonts downloads are used for fingerprinting and browser identification: https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2020/08/google-fonts-privacy/
Possibly some perspective on why NNW gets so much love vs. News Explorer:
https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2022/04/gems-in-rough-17/#feed-readers-and-built-in-browsers