Infrequently Noted

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从 PrismJS 到 Better PrismJS 再到 MicroLighter：三步无痛迁移记

作者以 Eleventy 1 自带的 @11ty/eleventy-plugin-syntaxhighlight（基于 PrismJS）为起点，分享把构建时语法高亮逐步换到 MicroLighter 的实操路径。先讲官方插件的便利——避免客户端 JS 体积膨胀、减少语言包重复引入；再指出一旦需要更多控制（行号、样式定制等）就会感到受限；最后引入 MicroLighter 这类更轻量的客户端方案。属于对前端构建工具链的踩坑与选型记录，适合关注 Eleventy、静态站与代码高亮工具链的开发者。

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删代码比调顺序更有效：性能优化的一个反直觉理由

减少代码比优化调度更能提升性能。作者与同事 Marko Ilić 就关键路径调度问题展开讨论，核心观点是消除代码（减少运行负担）比在现有代码上优化调度顺序更有效。文章从组织视角分析"对鹅对鸭都一样"的逻辑，并将预加载视为一种调度策略，最终结论指向"调度是给收尾者准备的"。

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关于“状态管理”的绝对真相

作者强烈批评 React 生态中“状态管理”概念的滥用，指出许多开发者误以为必须引入 MobX、Recoil 等重型库来处理简单 UI。文章通过苏格拉底式对话揭示：React 本身已具备响应式能力，过度抽象反而导致组件臃肿。核心观点是回归简单，避免为状态管理而状态管理。

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Abject Praise

It's perilous to disagree with someone as wise and thoughtful as Jeremy, but for the past fortnight his post in response to Apple's iOS 27 marketing invades my quiet moments like a cricket in the atti...

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The Web Is an Antitrust Wedge

TL;DR: Armed with new powers to rein in the worst excesses of mobile's duopolists, antitrust bodies around the world are struggling to find their footing, and an incurious tech press is letting it pas...

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Naked Power: Apple and Google's Duopoly

Twitter's descent into a gutter of the lowest order has been wrenching: Elon Musk’s Grok and the Mass Undressing Scandal As I draft this, a week later, it appears pressure from civil society, investig...

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The Performance Inequality Gap

The Budget, 2026 Edition Let's cut to the chase, shall we? Updated network test parameters for 2026 are: 9 Mbps downlink 3 mbps uplink 100 millisecond RTT Regarding devices, my updated recommendations...

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The App Store was always authoritarian

And now we see it clear, like a Cupertino sunrise bathing Mt. Bielawski in amber: Apple will censor its App Store at the behest of the Trump administration without putting up a fight. It will twist wo...

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11ty Hacks for Fun and Performance

This blog really isn't just for beating up on Apple for the way it harms users, the web, standards, and society to maintain power and profits. So here's some fun stuff I've been doing in my 11ty setup...

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Apple's Antitrust Playbook

Contents Lies by Any Other Name Great Artists Steal Dear Tech Reporters: Access Is Not A Beat This blog is failing on several levels. First, September 2025 is putting the “frequent” in “infrequently”,...

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Awash in revisionist histories about Apple's web efforts, a look at the evidence

Update: The charts below were inappropriately snapped, compressing the range of values. This has been corrected. Feature availability numbers also changed since drafting and have been updated. In seve...

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Web Standards and the Fall of the House of Iamus

Photo by Photo by Artan Sadiku Commentary about browsers and the features they support is sometimes pejorative towards pre-standardisation features. Given Apple's constriction of Mozilla's revenue str...

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Apple's Assault on Standards

TL;DR: Market competition underlies the enterprise of standards. It creates the only functional test of designs and lets standards-based ecosystems route around single-vendor damage. Without competiti...

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Apple vs. Facebook Is Kayfabe

Apple vs. Facebook is, and always was, kayfabe. In reality, Apple is Facebook's chauffeur; holding Zuck's coat while Facebook 1 wantonly surveils iPhones owners. 2 Facebook and Apple mugged convincing...

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Put Names and Dates on Documents

Anyone who has worked closely with me, or followed on social media [ ,  ], will have seen a post or comment to the effect of: Names and dates on docs. Every time. Don't forget. This is most often ta...

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How Do Committees Fail to Invent?

Mel Conway's seminal paper " How Do Committees Invent? " (PDF) is commonly paraphrased as Conway's Law: Organizations which design systems are (broadly) constrained to produce designs which are copies...

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A Compendium of Web Performance

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Links? Links – Infrequently Noted

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Conferences, Clarity, and Smokescreens

Before saying anything else, I'd like to thank the organisers of JSNation for inviting me to speak in Amsterdam. I particularly appreciate the folks who were brave enough to disagree at the Q&A sessio...

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Safari at WWDC '25: The Ghost of Christmas Past

At Apple's annual developer marketing conference, the Safari team announced a sizeable set of features that will be available in a few months. Substantially all of them are already shipped in leading-...

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Browser Choice Must Matter

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If not React, then what?

Over the past decade, my work has centred on partnering with teams to build ambitious products for the web across both desktop and mobile. This has provided a ring-side seat to a sweeping variety of t...

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