Mike Swanson
let’s make software that respects your attention, does its job well, and lets you get on with your life. That’s what good software used to feel like…
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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Overview of CSS-only scrolling shadows and content fading techniques
When content overflows and the scrollbar is insufficient or intentionally hidden, visual cues such as scroll shadows or fading effects signal that…
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We built the web on optimistic assumptions. We assumed good faith. We assumed people would respect robots.txt because we all understood we were building…
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Try text scaling support in Chrome Canary
Just like how the
tag tells the browser that your website is designed to work for small viewport sizes, thetells the browser, 'Hey, I've designed… -
Joe Wilkins
Furious AI Users Say Their Prompts Are Being Plagiarized
Some power users of generative AI have grown so comfortable with their new tools — especially image-generating ones — that they now feel entitled…
Francesco Schwarz
Matthias Ott
Josh Tumath
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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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