Just a Spec

Congratulations! You’ve got yourself a nice little World-Wide Web site. Now it’s time to deploy it for everyone to enjoy through their World-Wide Web browser. Easy, right? WRONG! Deploying web apps today is the portal to madness and pain, with many levels of misery awaiting as you descend into the depths of Hades. Or…if you play it right, it’s little more than the press of a button. Let’s talk about that in this our Season 2 finale of Just a Spec.
Hosted by Jared White & Ayush and produced by Intuitive Future
Links & Show Notes:
Follow Just a Spec on Mastodon
The Spicy Web & That HTML Blog
Haggis Ruby, 24th October 2024 (Ayush is a speaker)
Social Web Foundation
Render (hosting)
“Premature optimization is…”

It's time for some acronym soup: SSG SSR CSR SPA MPA…MEAN? SSI?? PERL??? (Officially not an acronym…) If you're coming down with a headache already, trust us, you're not alone. It's…a lot. Thankfully, Ayush and Jared are here to break it all down for you, as well as talk about some of the history behind the many different rendering modes to be found on the web and when you might reach for one or the other…or on so many projects these days, both!

Hosted by Jared White & Ayush and produced by Intuitive Future

Links & Show Notes:
Follow Just a Spec on Mastodon
The Spicy Web & That HTML Blog
Haggis Ruby, 24th October 2024 (Ayush is a speaker)
Follow up: i-html
Hear also Episode 9 (“server components”, “islands”, etc.)
Blast from the 2003 past: Review of Blosxom blogging tool
Movable Type (Wikipedia)
Bulma 1.0 CSS framework
Ayush: Rails and Hotwire Codex updated

What if your backend could drive reactive UI changes on your frontend? Without dependencies? Without relying on any particular framework? What if your HTML could gain full-stack programming superpowers?

Introducing Action Web Components—inspired by clever Ajax techniques of the past & present and ready to march boldly into the future.

Hosted by Jared White & Ayush and produced by Intuitive Future

Links & Show Notes:
Follow Just a Spec on Mastodon
The Spicy Web & That HTML Blog
Haggis Ruby, 24th October 2024 (Ayush is a speaker)
Bridgetown 2.0 Beta is out!
Action Web Components Which Span the the Server-Client Divide (article)Demo
Repo

How did the Internet first begin? Why was it developed at the Advanced Research Projects Agency? Where was it initially launched at the end of the 1960s? Is it pronounced r-OO-ter or r-OW-ter?? These and other hard-hitting questions are answered as Jared & Ayush take a deep dive into the birth of humanity’s global computer network…with a dash of 90s nostalgia thrown in for good measure.

Hosted by Jared White & Ayush and produced by Intuitive Future

Links & Show Notes:
Follow Just a Spec on Mastodon
The Spicy Web & That HTML Blog
Episode 15: The Plumbing That Makes the Web Move
Packet switching (Wikipedia)
The first Internet connection, with UCLA's Leonard Kleinrock (YouTube)
How the Internet Was Invented: Part 1 (YouTube)
How the Internet Came to Be | Part 2 (YouTube)
Did the U.S. Government Invent the Internet? | History (YouTube)
How the Internet was born: The network begins to take shape (The Conversation)
The Internet Review (born in 1996, reborn in 2024)
1989 Networking Poems!

It’s been a wild, wild ride getting from the anything goes origin story of the mainstream web—anyone still remember “Netscape Navigator” and “Trumpet Winsock”?—to today’s carefully-curated experience in the age of Interop and using GitHub to achieve spec consensus.

But the relative calm we enjoy today when it comes to progress and feature parity across browser engines perhaps doesn’t quite tell the whole story…there are still threats to an open web which works well for all, protects our privacy, and guards us from bad actors.

In this episode, we look back at the history of the web browser—touching on such memorable moments as the & tags, DHTML with the launch of JavaScript, and the arrival of responsive design for mobile as well as desktop—while attempting to learn from history so that we’re not doomed to repeat it.

Hosted by Jared White & Ayush and produced by Intuitive Future

Links & Show Notes:
Follow Just a Spec on Mastodon
The Spicy Web & That HTML Blog
Wikipedia Links:
Netscape Navigator
Internet ExplorerIE for Mac

DHTML
Firefox
Safari
Chrome
Responsive Design
Sir Tim Berners-Lee on threats to the open web (as reported by The Internet Review)