I realize this is hyperbole. With that said, the person in italics is dropping buzzword a mile a minute. Ergo, they are blowing smoke, or being a poseur as we called it years ago. No one knows or uses 90% of the newest stuff, and that’s okay. We complain about the state of JS tooling because we allow ourselves to be overrun by the litany of choices…

This post was inspiring for its frankness and practicality. The point about understanding fundamentals could not be more true. I haven’t written Python in months, but I have been writing a lot of JavaScript. Because I understand the core of functional programming and data structures, I was able to dig back in with zero distortion.

This is a pattern I’ve struggled with, too. I tend to favor the visibly hidden accessible label as it’s the least pieces to fail. ARIA markup is pretty well supported, but CSS removes it ad a dependency, and degrades gracefully.

If CSS isn’t honored, the worst you have is a layout with an extra label showing. If ARIA fails…