By the end of 1975, the expulsion and exile of the Chagossian people was complete. A survey showed 26 families had died together in poverty. Young…
By the end of 1975, the expulsion and exile of the Chagossian people was complete. A survey showed 26 families had died together in poverty. Young…
CDN Planet
How to Improve TTFB on Cloudflare with Speculation Rules
Speculation Rules prefetch improved TTFB on our […] website by ~300 ms for ~20% of eligible pageviews. This can be done everywhere, not only on Cloudflare.…
StaticShape — Migrate to an SSG at scale
StaticShape is a tool for automatically shaping a fully static site into an SSG site.
View transitions and stacking context: Why does my CSS View Transition ignore z-index?
Paint order, the order in which your elements are painted, cannot be easily calculated without applying a complex algorithm, especially since many…
I love (some) boring #SpeedCurve graphs… 😅
Technologists trying to maximise user agency often fall into the trap of measuring agency by looking only at time saved (in the same way that they…
Comparing Manual and Free Automated WCAG Reviews
My concern is that too many managers, bosses, stakeholders, and even testers, may do no more than run a free automated [accessibility testing] tool…
Building a photography website
Last year, I started a photography hobby. Soon after, I've created a place where I can share some of my work, without any attention-driven algorithms…
It's 2023, here is why your web design sucks.
In a lot of orgs, the people that do design are now UX designers. It's a completely different role with a different budget for head count. They sit…
Great article on #POSSE by David Pierce
By practicing POSSE, even manually, you will learn what aspects of POSSE & backfeed matter the most to you, what aspects actually involve reaching…
POSSE: a better way to post on social networks
The idea is that you, the poster, should post on a website that you own. Not an app that can go away and take all your posts with it, not a platform…
Joshua Rivera
Ahsoka never bothered telling anyone it was just the middle of a story
The current fixation on interconnected cinematic universes and the vertical integration that fuels streaming platforms does a lot to make the viewer…
The Indieweb privacy challenge (Webmentions, silo backfeeds, and the GDPR)
while a Twitter user technically “publishes” a message for all world to see as they like or retweet a tweet, the consequence that simply pushing a…
The ethics of syndicating comments using WebMentions
This is a complicated problem. I want to see what people are writing in public about my posts. I also want to direct people to the conversations which…
How I am blogging the IndieWeb way
If you’re a writer and not especially techy, this may all seem overwhelming to you, but trust me, it’s truly worth it not to be too centralised or…