Optimising LCP
Harry has created an absolutely phenomenal talk here that provides an immense amount of depth whilst still being completely accessible to someone like me who largely doesn't deal with the technical […]
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The self-fulfilling prophecy of React
I've been saying for years that React feels like jQuery did circa 2010: it's used everywhere, its devotees are numerous, but the leading edge left it in the dust a while ago. I do think that Hooks […]
Space Jam
Max has done a performance analysis of the new Space Jam website versus the old, classic variation, with a damning […]
Maximally optimising image loading for the web
Malte has put together a brilliant overview of the various techniques that are currently available on the web natively for loading images in the most performant and user-centric ways possible. I'm […]
Estimate page savings with modern JS
A quick tool to check how much page weight could be saved if you removed all legacy JavaScript from a webpage, in favour of modern […]
Animated Content Placeholders
What do you do when a website has loaded but the content is still being fetched from an API? One answer is to fill the page with animated placeholders, creating a skeleton of what the user can expect, with a dash of CSS animation to let them know that something's still going on behind the scenes.
The ransomware superhero of Normal, Illinois
The story of Michael Gillespie, a brilliant (yet modest) programmer who has become one of the world's leading ransomware crackers. He works for free, sometimes alone and sometimes with others in the […]
The beauty of progressive enhancement
Manuel wanted to see how a new site he'd built worked on the updated Nokia 3310, which rocks a paired-down version of Opera Mini (yikes!). The answer? Surprisingly well, thanks to some clever […]
How Edge is becoming the best browser for PWAs
I still have my reservations over the whole Edge-Chromium combination but it has enabled the Edge team to begin taking a leading stance on certain topics, and it looks like PWAs are one they're […]
A guide to responsive images
A pretty exhaustive overview of the HTML and CSS options that we now have for responsive image layouts. Here are some key […]
How to tame line-height in CSS
An interesting read that covers some of the basic terminologies of typesetting, as well as the technicalities of how browsers actually interpret the line-height value. Hint: it's not what you'd […]
Oh, embed!
YouTube embeds can be expensive on page load metrics, but what alternative is there? How about loading a thumbnail that hot-swaps itself for an <iframe> when clicked? Sounds great, but wouldn't […]