2021 has been an eventful year! From January's launch of the AVIF format, April's Basecamp employee speech controversy and the web hitting 30 years old plus much more. Hosts James & Josh take us on a journey through the highs and lows of the year.
Thanks to Cooper Press’ Frontend Focus and Ruby Weekly, invaluable resources that helped us go back in time to compile the monthly breakdown.
Google Cloud Functions adds Ruby support
GitHub makes it easier to rename branches
Google migrating Puppeteer to TypeScript
AVIF
The Web didn't change, you did
Edge Kids Mode
Sonic Pi 3.3
Homebrew 3.0
10 Years of Open Source D3.js
Basecamp's Employee speech controversy
All Day Hey! Live
25 Years of CSS
Sublime Text 4
Prawn library update
Tim Berners-Lee NFT
Github Codespaces
Chrome Removing IFRAME support
30 Years of the web
Decline of Firefox users
Cloudflare outages
Netlify
Dev tooling
LOG4J
Resources:
* Google Cloud Functions (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/ruby-comes-to-cloud-functions)
* GitHub - Support for Renaming an Existing Branch (https://github.blog/changelog/2021-01-19-support-for-renaming-an-existing-branch/)
* Hotwire (https://hotwired.dev/)
* Migrating Puppeteer to TypeScript (https://developer.chrome.com/blog/puppeteer-typescript/)
* AVIF has landed - Jake Archibald (https://jakearchibald.com/2020/avif-has-landed/)
* The web didn't change; you did - Remy Sharp (https://remysharp.com/2021/02/11/the-web-didnt-change-you-did)
* The Verge - Microsoft Edge (https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/16/22285839/microsoft-edge-browser-kids-mode-safe-search-themes-allow-list)
* GitHub - Sonic PI (https://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi/releases/tag/v3.3.0)
* Homebrew (https://brew.sh/2021/02/05/homebrew-3.0.0/)
* Observable (https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/10-years-of-open-source-visualization)
* WordPress Tavern (https://wptavern.com/chrome-is-testing-a-follow-button-for-websites)
* Ghost (https://ghost.org/changelog/4/)
* Chromium Blog (https://blog.chromium.org/2021/03/a-safer-default-for-navigation-https.html)
* GitHub - Rails (https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/41750)
* John Nunemaker (https://www.johnnunemaker.com/speakerdeck/)
* The Verge - Breaking Camp (https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/27/22406673/basecamp-political-speech-policy-controversy)
* All Day Hey! (https://2021.alldayhey.com/)
* Ruby on Rails (https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/effect-of-the-last-week-on-ruby-on-rails/77702)
* Sublime Text (https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-4)
* Meyerweb (https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2021/05/25/25-years-of-css/)
* Web Design Museum (https://twitter.com/WebDesignMuseum/status/1397228466693681163)
* The Register (https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/08/fastly_outage_takes_down_half/)
* GitHub - Prawn (https://github.com/prawnpdf/prawn/discussions/1210)
* CNN Style (https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/tim-berners-lee-nft-auction/index.html)
* Microsoft Edge Blog (https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2021/07/16/easier-debugging-developer-tools-in-visual-studio-code/)
* GitHub Copilot (https://copilot.github.com/)
* GitHub - Codespaces (https://github.blog/2021-08-11-githubs-engineering-team-moved-codespaces/)
* The Register - Chrome (https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/05/google_chrome_iframe/)
* W3C (https://www.w3.org/blog/2021/08/30-years-on-from-introducing-the-web-to-the-world/)
* PC Gamer (https://www.pcgamer.com/firefox-has-lost-46m-users-over-the-last-three-years/)
* 9to5 Mac (https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/25/analysts-google-to-pay-apple-15-billion-to-remain-default-safari-search-engine-in-2021/)
* The Verge - Mozilla (https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/13/22671182/mozilla-default-browser-windows-protections-firefox)
* Cloudflare (https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/)
* Matthias Ott (https://matthiasott.com/articles/into-the-personal-website-verse)
* Missouri Independent (https://missouriindependent.com/2021/10/14/missouri-governor-vows-criminal-prosecution-of-reporter-who-found-flaw-in-state-website/)
* Lea Verou (https://twitter.com/leaverou/status/1452571681839534082)
* Microsoft Edge Insider (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/articles/introducing-buy-now-pay-later-in-microsoft-edge/m-p/2967030)
* Netlify (https://www.netlify.com/press/netlify-raises-usd105-million-to-transform-development-for-the-modern-web/)
* David Heinmeier Hansson (https://world.hey.com/dhh/programmers-should-stop-celebrating-incompetence-de1a4725)
* Wired (https://www.wired.com/story/log4j-log4shell/)
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