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For a while there on Twitter yesterday, web people took some time to give props to other web people who have inspired them. #HonoringWebFolk was the hashy sack (or whatever that thing is called that the lawn kids use).

There are so many generous people I could mention: Veen, Zeldman, Champeon, Holzschlag, Çelik, Meyer…

But I want to give special mention to an unsung hero of the web: Dean Edwards, a JavaScript genius who created the mother of all polyfills—before polyfills were even a thing. Take a look through the annotated jQuery to see how large his influence looms.

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The Web is not Fashionable. - The blog of Ada Rose Edwards

This is such a great perspective on what it’s like to build for the web over the long term. The web will always be a little bit broken, and that’s okay—we can plan for that.

The Web has history. If you build with web technology it will stick around. We try not to break the web even if it means the mistakes and bad decisions we have made in the past (and will make in the future) get set in stone.

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Previously on this day

13 years ago I wrote Botonomy

What if we had a Singularity and nobody showed up?

14 years ago I wrote Seattle Apart

Another excellent event apart.

16 years ago I wrote Spaces

It’s the small things that irritate and delight.

17 years ago I wrote Conceptual and photographic art in Brighton

An SMS-based adventure game plus an exhibition by our local Flickrstar.

17 years ago I wrote Machine Tags of Loving Grace

Revish sets the tagging machinery in motion.

19 years ago I wrote The campaign trail of destruction

Even before the election was announced, the Tories had been actively peddling their particular breed of populism.

21 years ago I wrote Live from Baghdad

"Men, we have got to find Saddam Hussein."

22 years ago I wrote The Mirror Project

Needless to say, while I was in Paris, I took the obigatory photograph in the bathroom mirror at the hotel.

22 years ago I wrote City of Love

I’m back from Paris.