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Developer Clarity

Paul Kinlan

Paul Kinlan

Lead of Chrome DevRel

Disclaimer. This article is a draft.

This article might look complete but it is completely un-developed and is a snapshot of my thoughts at the time (which might also be a long time ago). It will be refined over time with research, education and conversations with people in the industry.

There are many errors including and not limited to: spelling, grammatical, lack of ecosystem awareness understanding and plain ignorance.

I am making it public to get feedback. You might completely disagree, you might agree violently. Either way, teach me. I want to hear from you: (Email, @paul_kinlan.)

  • Drip feed of API's
  • Deprecate and Break. Recent events were a stark reminder that empathy is key.
  • Time for a change.
    • On one hand people don't like Apple's model of ship twice a year with an OS update, on the other Chrome is pushing too quickly. Alex Komoroske talked about elastic band and tension and stretch too far it snaps.
      • Have we reached that points
    • web.dev - appears Chrome only.
      • too much change.
      • too quickly.
    • Refernce - too fast, can't keep up. Other's shouldn't have to work because of our lack of support.
    • How can we slow down, but keep pace? Maybe batch more. The general population of developers don't need to know about all new API's on the day they launch.

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