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Personally I still use jQuery for things like text editors and sliders and such. This article describes how "GitHub has been working for the last few years to move away from jQuery and run its interface...

RSS is of course a staple in my toolbox. I use it every day, I've built applications around it, and it gives me this huge advantage in keeping up with developments and discussions in the field. This article is presented in the context of a Zapier marketing campaign for 'email...

I'm not sure exactly what is meant by "join" here, other than that "Automattic has hired key members of the CC Search team and will sponsor their contributions." This is at first blush a good thing, as development had stalled, as evidenced by this...

There's a classic though illegitimate move in persuasive writing, and it is this: if you want to discredit an idea, associate it with an obviously bad idea. That's what's happening in this article. The obviously bad idea is 'Zoom in a room,' where students "sit in a classroom, masked and socially distanced, with Chromebooks... while the teacher instructs...

Both sides in an argument can agree on a misinterpretation of something, if it serves their needs. But this misinterpretation may be blocking a better understanding of the issue in general. Take the concept of 'adult authority', for example. Both sides, writes Alfie Kohn, "share a key premise: Adult authority is necessarily autocratic and power-based. Their disagreement is...