I’m happy to see that the GOV.UK Service Manual’s “Building a robust frontend using progressive enhancement” page was updated this week and made it to the top of Hacker News today. The technology industry would collectively save unimaginable quantities of time, money, energy and stress if this single page were required reading for everyone involved in building a web site. https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/using-progressive-enhancement

GOV.UK

Building a robust frontend using progressive enhancement

How to build web pages so they work in HTML first: starting with HTML, extra styles and features, using JavaScript.

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Tom Stuart @tom@social.tomstu.art

· 5mo ago

The content itself is great as always, but a brief nod to the increasingly noteworthy meta: what a breath of fresh air to read about someone knowledgeable using their own mind to first understand a computer program and then change it to be better. https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2026/04/18/faster-paths.html

byroot’s blog

Optimizing Ruby Path Methods

Back in November last year, I started a new job at Intercom, and one of the first projects I got to work on was improving the Intercom monolith CI with some of my new colleagues.

Tom Stuart @tom@social.tomstu.art

· 7mo ago

@denis@ruby.social re: making decisions about photo management software, fellow weeknoter @philgyford@mastodon.social’s recent explorations might be useful:

* https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2025/09/27/escaping-lightroom/
* https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2025/09/29/migrating-lightroom-digikam/
* https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2025/12/12/lightroom-apple-photos/

Phil Gyford’s website

Escaping from the Lightroom

Trying out eight macOS alternatives to Lightroom Classic to see if I could switch to one of them.