Raindrop.io Bookmarks 2026-02-22

2026年2月22日

• JS-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals

  "Unfortunately, where it comes to performance, JS-heavy development approaches often behave the opposite way: they make it easier to do the wrong thing than the right thing."

• Handling breaking changes in a design system without causing chaos - zeroheight

  "Breaking changes can feel like an inconvenience, but they're also a healthy sign of a living, evolving system. A design system that never introduces breaking changes is stagnating. You're carrying forward compromises, workarounds, or debt that will weigh you and your customers down."

• Using Maturity Models to Build Accessibility That Lasts - ::Last-Child - Ted Drake

  "Accessibility is not just technical correctness. It intersects with disability, cognition, stress, time pressure, and human variability. That means progress is as much cultural as it is procedural."

• The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling - POLITICO

  "The Commission could eventually agree with platforms on a wide range of changes that address addictive design. What they decide will depend on the different risk profiles and patterns of use of each platform -- as well as how each company defends itself."

• The design system paradox: How abstraction can hollow out quality - zeroheight

  "The best way for a design system to succeed is to make sure everyone has the skills to never have to use it. Systems can define the shape of quality. They can enable quality. But at the end of the day, they rely on capable people to wield the system."

• The open source design stack - Piccalilli

  "The future can be bright for open source tooling, we just need to break away from the exploitative and extractive machinations of venture-capital-backed SaaS monstrosities."

• Everything you never wanted to know about visually-hidden - David Bushell - Web Dev (UK)

  "Once you've written 3000 words on a twenty year old CSS hack you start to question why it hasn't been baked into web standards by now."