Heydon Pickering
Is Progressive Enhancement Dead Yet?
Progressive enhancement is Scary Mary™ to some but there is no need to cry or pass out. Let me use a shark in a fez, Tony Hawk, and a couple of zombie…
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I accidentally moved my hero image onto Cloudinary (who I also adore!). But, a less-optimised image served from the same origin is always faster than a more-optimised image from a third party. Self-host your static assets! csswizardry.com/2019/05/self-host-your-static-assets/
True!
But most images are currently not or badly optimized. 😔
They would benefit a lot from an image CDN: resize, compression, modern formats, etc.
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Oooh, thanks a lot @dbanksDesign for these gorgeous stickers! 😍🙏
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Could sustainable websites increase energy consumption?
Having lost some sleep over this, I am relieved to find that when it comes to the web, Sustainable Web Design is the solution to the Jevons paradox.By…
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a tool that automatically matches the fallback font to the custom font–because computers are good at that stuff. The tool allows you to select every…
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Reduce Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) by adjusting web fonts and system font fallbacks using special @font-face descriptors.
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This is the first time I notice #CanIUse mentions Chrome in "Safari on iOS" compatibility versions.
Why Chrome only? Why not Firefox? And Edge? Why not "Safari & other browsers" instead of "Safari & Chrome"?
Doesn't seem fair. 😔
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Media chapter of the 2022 Web Almanac by HTTP Archive
I had the honor to review the Media chapter of the 2022 edition of The Web Almanac by HTTP Archive, "a comprehensive report on the state of the web,…
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Using :has() as a CSS Parent Selector and much more
let’s take a step-by-step hands-on look at what web developers can do with this desperately desired tool. It turns out, the
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Joe Liccini
Why Your Cached JavaScript Is Still Slow and Incurs Performance Overhead
Caching assets is a fantastic way to optimize the network overhead of your web application, there is still plenty of computational overhead associated…
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There are no rules to blogging except this one: always self-host your website because your URL, your own private domain, is the most valuable thing…
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Nate Baldwin created an amazing resource about colors, with interactive examples that help understand many concepts. This website is for designers…
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I just discovered that @radiosoulwax released last year a video montage for their cult mashup "As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2"! 😍
(Unfortunately, there are some missing audio tracks… 😭)
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À quand une « My Ami Vice », @CitroenFrance ?
C'est la nouvelle version haut de gamme de l'Ami. www.automobile-propre.com/la-citroen-ami-fait-sa-rentree-avec-une-nouvelle-tenue-la-my-ami-tonic/
Tom Greenwood
Malte Ubl
Brian Louis Ramirez
HTTP Archive
Jen Simmons
Robin Rendle
Nate Baldwin
