📙 📗 📘 📕 The History of Themeable User Interfaces: bradfrost.com/blog/post/th...

It was an incredible experience to write this piece. It blurs together the history of computers, video games, the web, design systems, and my own existence on this planet.

Because @zachleat.com and @aluhrs.com made me look, I'm sharing the pain.

Behold the power of a fully operational Next.js + Tailwind web page! 3MB (11.4 unzipped) of critical-path JS to display 1.4KB (2.8 unzipped) of text, an image, and a below-the-fold video:

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I'm not seeking it, but if I'm elected to be the next Pope, I will ban React and React Native as Thomas Aquinas wanted, immediately port Gecko and Blink to iOS so that PWAs work properly, and require Microsoft to stop all dark patterns. Hallelujah, me!

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This is Meatball. He's going home for the very first time. So excited to have a human of his own. Thinking about what he's going to call you. Maybe Bob. 12/10

Blue sky uses @tanstack.com.

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