Evaluating Technology
summary
Starts from DNA and hand‑axes and lands on concrete browser tech: CSS Shapes, Service Workers, Web Components, HTTP/HTML design principles and progressive web apps. Shows failures as tests — the toaster project melts after seconds, Apollo’s onboard software (Margaret Hamilton) actually works, the Guardian ships an offline crossword via service workers — and insists the key question is how well does it fail so every adoption weighs user cost, assumptions and backward compatibility.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:54ubiquity
- 10:08internet computers
- 12:03Humans are allergic to change.
- 15:16principles
- 17:45service workers
- 19:32How well does it fail?
- 20:51web components
- 22:43How well does it work?
- 30:51Who benefits?
- 31:14developers
- 35:42What are the assumptions?
- 44:10The Inevitable
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