Harley Turan
Any app that can access your photo library can, with enough effort, determine your address, where you shop, where your friends live, where you go…
Hi, I'm Nicolas Hoizey.
I've been passionate about the Web since 1996. I also love photography (here's my photography portfolio), and have many other interests.
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An Interactive Guide to SVG Paths
The SVG `` element is notoriously tricky. When I first encountered it, I found it totally inscrutable. Its syntax isn’t quite as bad as Regex, but…
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David Bridie
Spotify used to seem like a necessary evil for musicians. Now it just seems evil
We can’t keep handing our creativity, our loyalty and our cash to amoral tech giants who see music as content and war as business. I’d rather earn…
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Pedro Tavares
Writing Code Was Never The Bottleneck
The marginal cost of adding new software is approaching zero, especially with LLMs. But what is the price of understanding, testing, and trusting…
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Elena Rossini ,
Samuel Aaberg and
Riyen Patel
Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media is a 4-minute video explainer about the Fediverse, a galaxy of interconnected, free, open-source…
Josh W. Comeau
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JAMstack is fast only if you make it so
JAMstack often promotes itself as an excellent way to provide performant sites. It's even the first listed benefit on jamstack.wtf, a "guide [which] gathers the concept of JAMstack in a straight-forward guide to encourage other developers to adopt the workflow". But too many JAMstack sites are very slow.
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Can we monitor User Happiness on the Web with performance tools?
I really like that SpeedCurve tried to innovate with this recent "User Happiness " metric (original version ). It aggregates multiple technical metrics to decide if users visiting the page are happy or not with it. But I see several issues in this metric.
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Evan Minto wrote a great article showing the Internet Archive has tested the actual root font-size set by their visitors, and the result shows a lot of people still change the default one: Pixels vs. Ems: Users DO Change Font Size.
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