Good-bye PhoneGap 🖖🏽Hello firt.dev! 👋

Adobe has announced the end of the PhoneGap line and I'm happy to announce my new project!

New website: firt.dev 👋

A collection of 100 articles, notes, and learning experiences I've authored.
Includes RSS feed, content by topic, and some retro dev content. 

My first blog (mobilexweb) was published 10 years ago and I abandoned it for a while 4 years ago moving newly published content to Medium and magazines. I've now moved the content of that blog and syndicated all that content that was published somewhere else into firt.dev. 

With some exceptions, I will now publish my new content in http://firt.dev and syndicate it in other places. I will continue adding more "retro" content published in printed media and other places as well, with time. 
You have a  section for Learning experiences, including videos available online from talks, online courses, info about my workshops, and books published.

I will use Notes section for content that is updated frequently, that is short, that it's a draft, or that it's not suitable for an article. It's like keeping living Twitter threads on different topics. For example, you can check the current status of my living document with research on changes for web developers on iOS 14 beta. This will become the final article in a couple of weeks.

There are many articles and video sessions on PWA, Web Performance and also some Retro content, such as an interview to the Windows Kernel responsible, a WAP article I published in 2001, the Google Glass browsing experience, all my iOS findings from iOS 4 to iOS 14, and the appearance of Google Chrome on Android (there was a time where it wasn't there!)

I hope you like it!  If you find any bug or issue, or if you have any suggestions, let me know!
 

Good-by PhoneGap 🖖🏽

The PWA platform pushed the end of PhoneGap and Adobe's investment in Apache Cordova. The first original article for firt.dev is now published: Is the Phone Gap closed in 2020? 

PhoneGap started as a project to fill the gap between the native and the Web world in 2008. Adobe announced the end of the PhoneGap product line and the end of the investment into Apache Cordova because "PWAs are increasingly bridging the gap between web and native mobile apps (...) without the need for containers."

Is the native-web gap closed in 2020 thanks to PWAs?

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