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Alex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress.

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’15’20’25
Posts
99 from 18 Nov 2011 to 20 Sep 2026
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monthly (8 in the last year)
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personal blog
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2026 6

  1. From PrismJS to Better PrismJS to MicroLighter in Three Painless* Steps
  2. The Wicked Reason Removing Code Beats Better Scheduling
  3. The Absolute State of Management
  4. Abject Praise
  5. The Web Is An Antitrust Wedge
  6. Naked Power

2025 13

  1. The Performance Inequality Gap, 2026
  2. The App Store Was Always Authoritarian
  3. 11ty Hacks for Fun and Performance
  4. Apple's Antitrust Playbook
  5. Comforting Myths
  6. Web Standards and the Fall of the House of Iamus
  7. Apple's Assault on Standards
  8. Apple vs. Facebook is Kayfabe
  9. Put Names and Dates On Documents
  10. How Do Committees Fail To Invent?
  11. Links? Links!
  12. Conferences, Clarity, and Smokescreens
  13. Safari at WWDC '25: The Ghost of Christmas Past

2024 11

  1. If Not React, Then What?
  2. Platform Strategy and Its Discontents
  3. Reckoning: Part 4 — The Way Out
  4. Reckoning: Part 3 — Caprock
  5. Reckoning: Part 2 — Object Lesson
  6. Reckoning: Part 1 — The Landscape
  7. Misfire
  8. Why Browsers Get Built
  9. Home Screen Advantage
  10. The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024
  11. Why Are Tech Reporters Sleeping On The Biggest App Store Story?

2023 2

  1. Safari 16.4 Is An Admission
  2. The Market for Lemons

2022 8

  1. The Performance Inequality Gap, 2023
  2. Apple Is Not Defending Browser Engine Choice
  3. A Management Maturity Model for Performance
  4. Cache and Prizes
  5. Towards a Unified Theory of Web Performance
  6. Minimum Standards for iOS Browser Competition
  7. A Week to Define the Web for Decades
  8. Washed Up

2021 7

  1. iOS Engine Choice In Depth
  2. The Core Web Platform Loop
  3. Hobson's Browser
  4. Git Worktrees Step-By-Step
  5. Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied
  6. Reactive Data With Modern JavaScript
  7. The Mobile Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

2020 8

  1. Election Season 2020, W3C TAG Edition
  2. Resize-Resilient `content-visibility` Fixes
  3. `content-visiblity` Without Jittery Scrollbars
  4. The Pursuit of Appiness
  5. Why Browser Security UI Isn't Specified
  6. Platform Adjacency Theory
  7. A Faster Blog, Faster
  8. New Blog, Who Dis?

2018 4

  1. Alice Boxhall for W3C TAG
  2. The "Developer Experience" Bait-and-Switch
  3. Effective Standards Work, Part 2: Threading the Needle
  4. Effective Standards Work, Part 1: The Lay Of The Land

2017 2

  1. Can You Afford It?: Real-world Web Performance Budgets
  2. Web Components: The Long Game

2016 5

  1. What, Exactly, Makes Something A Progressive Web App?
  2. PWA Discovery: You Ain't Seen Nothin Yet
  3. Not The Post I Wanted To Be Writing...
  4. Service Workers and PWAs: It's About Reliable Performance, Not "Offline"
  5. EWS Melbourne

2015 3

  1. Doing Science On The Web
  2. A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Future...
  3. Progressive Web Apps: Escaping Tabs Without Losing Our Soul

2014 2

  1. PSA: Service Workers are Coming
  2. Uncomfortably Excited

2013 14

  1. Long Term Web Semantics
  2. That PE Thang
  3. For Jo
  4. Why JavaScript?
  5. That Old-Skool Smell, Part 2
  6. That Old-Skool Smell
  7. Thoughts On A Job Done
  8. s/Future/Promise/g
  9. Use-Case Zero
  10. I Swear This Blog Isn't About Elections...
  11. The Case Against Synchronous Worker APIs
  12. Why What You're Reading About Blink Is Probably Wrong
  13. Two Governments, Both Alike In Dignity
  14. Cassowary on NPM

2012 13

  1. Reforming the W3C TAG
  2. Origin(al) Sins
  3. Layers of Confusion
  4. Bits and Remainders
  5. Election Season
  6. Inadmissible Arguments
  7. Please Vote
  8. Class Warfare
  9. Hoisted From The Comments
  10. For Dave and David
  11. Bedrock
  12. Overdue Credit Where It's Due
  13. Misdirection

2011 1

  1. Vendor Prefixes Are A Rousing Success