Den Odell
Browsers Treat Big Sites Differently
Standards were supposed to eliminate browser-specific code. We dug ourselves out of the IE era, celebrated, and then built exactly the same hole again…
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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J.D. Hodges
MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble
The MacBook Neo is a genuinely impressive piece of engineering at an unprecedented Apple price point, strategically timed to exploit a market in crisis.…
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Siddhant Khare
AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it
If you're an engineer who uses AI daily - for design reviews, code generation, debugging, documentation, architecture decisions - and you've noticed…
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The story of Chrome 148 is that Google – in the very same release – shipped the Prompt API, a feature that was met with explicit opposition from both…
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The CSSWG deserves a lot of credit, in my opinion, for repurposing/extending CSS keyframe animations for scroll-driven animations. Rather than invent…
Matthias Ott
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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