Recently, I’ve become more deeply aware of the inherent tension between change and inertia, as it applies to the evolution and use of web technologies. These forces have always been present and opposed to each other, but it seems to me that the side effects of these collisions are impacting web development more noticeably. On one hand, we’ve never seen more progress in the expansion of the array of web platform capabilities; the web is powerful and mature in ways … Read article “Change vs. Inertia”
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