My name is Nicolas Hoizey.
I am passionate about the Web and photography, among many other interests.
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Identify which Apache rewrite rules are used
I have many rewrite rules in my Apache configuration for redirections, some dating from more than 15 years ago. So I wanted to know which ones are really useful, because there's maybe some cleaning to do. I'll explain here how I got the list.
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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.
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. 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.
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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