Editorial Policy

The promise behind the site

Before you trust a word elsewhere on webtech1223411.site, it is fair to know how those words get made. That is the entire purpose of this page.

What the date means

The date you see is real. A tidy up of wording leaves it alone; only a change to what the piece recommends moves the modified date, along with a note saying so.

Bylines

Every article carries the name of the person who wrote it and links to their profile. We do not publish under a house byline, because a house cannot be asked to explain itself.

Lorenzo Vidal, Front-end lead. Lorenzo started as a visual designer and moved into CSS after watching too many of his layouts fall apart on phones. He writes about front-end craft, interfaces and accessibility, and still tests everything with the keyboard first.

Kofi Oosterhuis, Back-end and infrastructure writer. Kofi spent years keeping APIs and game servers alive through traffic spikes and the occasional bad deploy. He covers back-end design, scaling and networking, with a preference for boring systems that do not page anyone at night.

Maren Castellanos, Browsers and tooling editor. Maren worked in cross-browser QA before editing, and knows the DevTools Network tab better than most people know their inbox. She writes about how browsers load and render pages and about the tools that show what is really happening.

How a page gets written

1. Draft from experience, not from a page of search results.
2. Underline every claim that rests on memory rather than a source.
3. Support it or lose it. Each underline is backed by something we can name, or it comes out.
4. A cold read by a second person catches the confident guesses the writer stopped seeing.

Where money enters

Yes, some outbound links pay. What they pay for is the hosting bill, not the wording of the assessment sitting next to them.

A request to pull a criticism gets a flat no and a place in our records. Sometimes that request is more revealing than the thing complained about, and it says so in a later piece.

Where topics come from

We do not plan an editorial calendar. Articles appear when a question has come up often enough to be worth answering properly.

Our refusals

• Guarantees. Nobody in this field can honestly offer one.
• Filler written to occupy a topic rather than to answer it.
• Anything we would be embarrassed to defend in person.

Corrections

Write to [email protected] with the page address and what is wrong. Factual errors are fixed quickly. If the correction changes the conclusion of a piece, we add a short note at the foot of the page rather than quietly editing it.