Week 31 of 2024

Weeklies are my notes of things not big enough for a blog post but worthy of being mentioned and linked to. Find all of my Weeklies at /weeklies.

• An Inside Look at Firefox Translations

  Mozilla hosted a discussion with Firefox Translation team to discuss how the built-in translations engine works.

• The anchor element

  A wonderful article about one of Internet’s most important elements: the a tag in HTML.

• The One Who Kept VLC Free

  An interview with VLC’s Jean-Baptiste Kempf popped up on my radar this week.

• A handful of reasons JavaScript won’t be available

  Progressive enhancement is such a powerful way to build software in the web. How well does your site work without Javascript? Andy lists a few reasons why a site might not be able to run Javascript to show how common it might be.

• Why are open source nonprofits so weird?

  Fascinating read about how the non-profit open source foundations operate in the US.