I revived yuiblog.com, Yahoo's defunct front end engineering blog

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yuiblog.com was Yahoo's blog for YUI (Yahoo User Interface library) and one of the earliest places "frontend engineering" got taken seriously as its own discipline. It was home to early explorations on JS patterns, performance, accessibility, and design systems, years before any of that was mainstream. It featured over 1,000 posts from dozens of authors, including Douglas Crockford, Nicholas Zakas, Steve Souders, & Stoyan Stefanov.Sadly, Yahoo did as Yahoo does, and killed the blog sometime in the 2010s. Upon realizing what the web lost, I scraped everything off the Wayback Machine in 2020, before it eventually disappeared from there as well. The scraped HTML was badly mangled, with broken l

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