The treasure behind the castle walls
Pile up enough treasure behind the castle walls and you’ll eventually attract someone who can climb them.
Using Cloudinary’s Fetch API to convert an animated GIF to a video
I like animated GIFs, like most people these days I think, but they are really heavy, hurting the performance of web pages, and consuming data plans faster than should be needed. So we need to convert them to videos, which are much lighter, for the same visual result. Let’s use Cloudinary.
Lapeyre, y’en a pas deux. J’espère !
Je ne sais pas si vous avez déjà été confronté au SAV de Lapeyre, mais je peux vous dire qu’il vaut son pesant de cacahuètes.
Could a MacBook Pro replace a Mac mini?
I’m fed up with waiting for an updated Mac mini, but I need to replace one that is 10 years old (yes, 10 years!), so I’m considering other options.
Leaving 500px
500px once was a light in the dark, when Flickr stopped evolving, years ago. But 500px gradually descended from its pedestal, as decisions were made against users’ interests.
Users DO change font size
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.
Optimiser la performance des images responsives
J’ai eu l’honneur de présenter une petite conférence lors du meetup WebPerf de mars 2018, sur un sujet qui me passionne, puisqu’il combine deux de mes marottes en Web front : la performance et les images en Responsive Web Design. Je vous invite à découvrir mes slides et la vidéo.
Medium is only an edge server of your POSSE CDN, your own blog is the origin
People tend to be lazy (I am often) and chose the easiest tool to do the job, even if it’s not the best one. Medium is the new Blogger, but with a much nicer content editing UI, and a cleaner presentation of content to readers. People can create and account and start publish in a few minutes, it’s really easy. But how can all this be free?
Chrome fails showing big emojis
It was the first time I really tried to use Web technologies instead of Powerpoint to create slides for a talk. The aim was to be able to demonstrate some cool responsive images features right inside the slides. But when I tried to put big emojis is these slides to emphasize reactions to these features, I discovered Chrome didn’t show some of them!
So long Disqus, hello Webmention
Enough. I’m fed up with Disqus. It’s been useful, easy to plug on this blog, but it’s a mess for web performance, and I don’t own my data, so… bye bye. Webmention is now a great alternative, with more people implementing it, so let’s try to keep only that.