Episode 26: 2022 developer round-up

The state of the world, green engineering, James' wedding, Elon's meltdowns. To round off the year, James and Josh look back at the many ups and downs from the world of tech and beyond.

• 00 - State of the world
• 01 - Good to be back in the office
• 03 - Figma & its Adobe acquisition
• 04 - Mozilla started to accept Crypto then halted
• 05 - Web3
• 06 - Google Fonts Privacy & GDPR breach
• 07 - Reducing the web's carbon footprint. Optimising & green engineering
• 08 - Building a Greener Web talk by Michelle Barker
• 09 - Netify sponsoring open source eleventy
• 10 - MDN Mozilla Dev Network refresh
• 11 - '5 Web things that you don't need Javascript for'
• 12 - CSS Tricks acquired by Digital Ocean
• 13 - US announced plans to make daylight saving time permanent
• 15 - Devs for Ukraine
• 17 - Twitter embeds
• 18 - Duck Duck Go for Mac & other Chromium forks
• 20 - US court reaffirmed that web scraping is legal
• 21 - All Day Hey! 2022
• 22 - Blogging making a comeback - Own your own thoughts
• 23 - Is Mastodon any good?
• 25 - Mailing lists are back
• 25 - CSS Day is back
• 26 - Internet Explorer was retired
• 27 - Stranger Things had a hacking scene that featured Flexbox
• 28 - WWWDC - Human interface guidelines
• 29 - Apple Passkeys
• 30 - W3C became a public interest not-for-profit enterprise
• 31 - UK Online Safety Bill - a disappointment that targets individuals not big tech
• 33 - Cookie Pop-up failure of policy
• 34 - Heroku down all the time
• 36 - James got married
• 37 - Chrome version 105
• 38 - No Code Tools Article
• 40 - Don't throw away code - article
• 40 - GitHubs - What's your first github contribution
• 42 - Source code webkit is now managed on GitHub
• 43 - Heather Burns - Data Privacy Book
• 44 - Chris Coyier - Talk 'The web is good now'
• 45 - Cloudflare SVG support for images
• 46 - Leeds Digital Festival - DALLE event
• 48 - btconf - Berlin Trip
• 48 - PassKey Support by Google
• 49 - CSS Working Group - The View Transition API + Scrolled Linked Transitions
• 51 - Way Back Machine Turned 21
• 53 - Hey! Presents Social in Leeds
• 54 - ffconf pod episode
• 54 - Advent of Code
• 55 - Josh on 'Another Idea Podcast' - Creative Podcast
• 55 - Web Sustainability Resources
• 56 - Practical Accessibility Course
• 57 - re:Invent episode
• 57 - 'Engineering management for the rest of us' - book by Sarah Drasner
• 58 - Google switching to a continuous scroll
• 59 - 25 years since Microsoft FrontPage 98
• 61 - Parallax won many awards this year
• 62 - Chatloop

Resources:

• Figma
• hidde.blog
• https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2022/01/using-google-fonts-breaches-gdpr/
• https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/02/reducing-web-carbon-footprint-optimizing-social-media-embeds/
• Building a Greener Web by Michelle Barker
• https://lexoral.com/blog/you-dont-need-js/
• https://www.devsforukraine.io/
• https://heypresents.com/conferences/2023
• https://webkit.org/blog/12840/web-platform-and-web-extensions-features-highlighted-at-wwdc22/
• https://webdevlaw.uk/2022/07/11/your-compliance-obligations-under-the-uks-online-safety-bill/
• https://adactio.com/journal/19370
• https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/09/understanding-privacy-pre-release/
• https://2022.cascadiajs.com/speakers/chris-coyier