Notices by Sophie Koonin (sophie@social.lol)

Why do people still call it “the bird site”

It frustrates me how the approach to building new tech products involves throwing accessibility out the window and building scrappy UIs by throwing frameworks at it as fast as you can to get an MVP out the door, but then the MVP inevitably becomes The Actual Product and the code stays there forever. So many SaaS products we use are completely inaccessible.

There’s a lot of fair criticism of React floating around at the mo. My one request is that people take care to separate “The React Community” from the people who just get paid to build things in React. I build stuff in React for money, but I do it as accessibly and consciously as I can. I know it’s far from ideal but that’s what we use. Switching to Not React isn’t really an option in an org of our size.
So please avoid mud-slinging and name-calling, and keep the discussion civil.

Great post from @michelle about the consequences of depending on a JS/CSS library from a complexity and future-proofing point of view. As someone who has tried to incrementally remove Tailwind from a project in the past, it can be a massively frustrating experience. https://css-irl.info/disentangling-frameworks/