Jenn Schiffer's Medium collection of satirical web development pieces, including the CSS Perverts series and mock advice on JavaScript and CSS.
HN commenters call it hilarious and point to its articles as parody of web development, though one comment disputes how the satire should be read.
> Is it true that people actually don't care about keeping ownership over their content?
Sometimes, it can be good for things. Take parody, for instance. My favorite Medium collection is "CSS Perverts"[1], which is basically really silly, fake articles about programming stuff. Sample article: "How Node.js will replace JavaScript."
Because it's on Medium, people are more willing to believe that Jenn is serious, and so she gets confused readers[2], people who are actually quite upset[3], and serious rebuttals[4].
It's one of my favorite things on the internet right now.
1: https://medium.com/cool-code-pal
2: https://medium.com/cool-code-pal/cf72b588b1b#ad4c-7315e80e40a4
3: https://twitter.com/jennschiffer/status/424683365980069888/photo/1
4: https://medium.com/p/5133e7296592
"A Call For Web Developers To Deprecate Their CSS"[1] is most awesome thing I've read this year.
California Style Sheets are a standard, meaning there is a group of people at W3Schools who come up with new properties (like border-radius and box-shadow) every year. For some time, they did not know that the Node group at W3Schools was coming up with ways to update the styling of a page without CSS. Recently, both groups finally met and realized the overlap in functionality and therefore opened a spec to deprecate CSS entirely. That spec became HTML5. The rest of the story is present day. More and more developers are using HTML5, but do not realize the redundancy of using CSS.
[1] https://medium.com/cool-code-pal/1f6430781393
Another point of view: an exceptional article by Jenn Schiffer "A Call For Web Developers To Deprecate Their CSS" https://medium.com/cool-code-pal/a-call-for-web-developers-to-deprecate-their-css-1f6430781393 - HN Submit here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12691081
Ok, if you see this other post by him it's obvious it's a joke: https://medium.com/cool-code-pal/how-to-write-premium-javascript-d01a65b859a4
Jenn Schiffer also has an absolutely hilarious blog, CSS Perverts: https://medium.com/cool-code-pal
No, Jenn Schiffer is firmly anti-satire:
https://medium.com/cool-code-pal/2412631958ef