128: Developer Bias

The Web Platform Podcast

• Episode: 128: Developer Bias
• Website: The Web Platform Podcast
• Feed URL: http://thewebplatformpodcast.com/rss
• Duration: 00:53:41
• Published: 2017-04-12 11:00

Developer bias is something all developers deal with either knowingly or not. Trey Shugart the creator of SkateJS joins us this week to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of developer bias. Following up on his talk at Web Componente Remote Conference we look at what problems developer bias causes us in our day to day lives and Trey provides some tips on how to step back and look at problems more objectively.

Around the Web in Two Minutes

• • Safari 10.1 Release
  • • Includes Fetch, CSS Grid Layout, ES2016-2017 Support & Custom Elements V1!
    • This release also includes support for ES6 modules making Safari the first browser to ship this feature!
    • https://webkit.org/blog/7477/new-web-features-in-safari-10-1/
  • Chrome DevTools landed JS/CSS coverage moved out of experiments
  • • Currently in Canary M59
    • Useful for identifying code which would be split/ or lazy loaded
    • https://twitter.com/addyosmani/status/848907772318015488
  • Edge confirms that an updated CSS Grid implementation is in development
  • • https://twitter.com/MSEdgeDev/status/848997331567497216
  • Interesting Blink Intent to Ship’s of the week:
  • • Writable Streams
    • • https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/qpY1dj_ND-Q
    • Animated PNGs
    • • https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/blink-dev/xEOyu8QFCr0/3oqSlHBxCwAJ
    • InputEvent
    • • https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/W-Q1yWW-zas
  • Firefox added experimental support for async iteration into Firefox nightly
  • • https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/4--twpqTrMY
  • Engineers gathered in Japan for two days of Service Worker standards meetings covering potential version2 updates.