Quickly check Core Web Vitals
A quick way to check for PageSpeed metrics, Lighthouse scores (are those the same thing these days?), and Core Web Vitals, all in one […]
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Core web vitals reporting
A semi-official reporting tool to interrogate trends in web technologies versus Core Web Vitals (including the upcoming INP metric). Things look particularly bad for React-based frameworks, but […]
Core web vitals & SEO
A solid overview of the impact that Core Web Vitals, PageSpeed, Lighthouse, and other metrics actually play in terms of a website's Google Page […]
Optimising for INP
Google have recently announced a change to their Core Web Vitals metrics. The existing FID stat is being sunset, and replaced with a new way of measuring responsiveness: Interaction to Next Paint, […]
Home invasion
Like many other folk, I've been dipping my toes back into the Fediverse and checking out Mastodon. It isn't my first rodeo in this particular ring, but somehow it does feel a little different this […]
Au revoir, mon AMPmour?
I'm late to the "goodbye AMP" party, but Ethan's has been the best take I've read so far (no surprise there). In brief: it's good that AMP is on the way out, but we're stuck with it for some time, […]
My GPT-3 blog went viral
The tale of an AI-driven blog using GPT-3 that managed to garner 26,000 views in just two weeks and trend on Hacker News (where, ironically, the few people that called it out as potentially fake were […]
Lucas the Spider
Lucas the spider has been doing the rounds of the internet this week and I fully understand why. I'm not the world's biggest fan of spiders but I'm also far from arachnophobic, even finding certain […]
Cube Food
Created by design studio Lernert & Sander, I'm a big find of this recent "viral" piece of art-meets-food-porn. The concept is a simple one, executed perfectly and arranged with the precision […]