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When the Web Was Actively Trying to Kill You: A Field Guide to Early Front-End Lore
In the ongoing retrospective series I have kicked off on LinkedIn and YouTube about the maturation of the web platform, I am going to be focusing on how Boston and Cambridge served as ground zero for modern front-end engineering between 2008 and 2013. We will talk about the launch of HTML5 Boilerplate, the transition to…
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H5BP As an Open Source Incubator
I’m looking at the future of the HTML5 Boilerplate (H5BP) organization and repos right now and, in addition to formulating plans for the existing projects, I’ve decided to try something new. Maintenance of the existing projects is vital, but passive stewardship isn’t enough for where I’m at right now. The web changes too quickly. AI…
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HTML5 Boilerplate 9.0.1 Released
See it on GitHub! View it on npm! This release was kicked off because of Gulp 5. Gulp 5 has breaking changes so we had to work through the upgrade manually. In the process of doing that upgrade we discovered a couple of bugs. Christian Oliff noticed that tests were failing on Windows I noticed…
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I Didn’t Realize How Much I Rely on GitHub Codespaces Until This week
How much do I rely on GitHub Codespaces for open source development? Super double-plus much. I can illustrate exactly how much with one short anecdote. Gulp 5 was recently released and I created several PRs across repos in the H5BP organization to update Gulp across the board. I missed one issue with the encoding of…
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HTML5 Boilerplate v9.0.0 Released
That took a while! This release features a ton of changes. We removed Modernizr, Normalize.css, Babel, Internat Explorer support, Google Analytics and the server configs. We also swapped out Parcel for Webpack. Here’s the full Changelog: Removing tile images #3023 Add Prettier #3011 Remove Modernizr #3002 Drop Normalize.css #2960 Create WebPack build to ship with…