Jessica Davies
After GDPR, The New York Times cut off ad exchanges in Europe — and kept growing ad revenue
Great demonstration that GDPR is not a threat for publishers who favor quality:
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Lighthouse changes how Performance Score is calculated
Lighthouse 6 is the first major release of the popular auditing tool since May 2019, introducing critical changes that will impact everyone relying on the scoring. Remember, the PageSpeed Score (which contributes to your SEO ranking) is the same as the Lighthouse Performance Score.
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Apple’s attack on service workers
After the link to Aral's post yesterday, some details in this post from Jeremy Keith.
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Climbing the 11ty Performance leaderboard with Cloudinary, critical CSS and more
This is an excellent writeup of the different paths Bryan went to optimize the performance of his site built with Eleventy. I will definitely look for inspiration in this code.
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deleting all local storage (including Indexed DB, etc.) after 7 days effectively blocks any future decentralised apps using the browser (client side) as a trusted replication node in a peer-to-peer network. And that’s a huge blow to the future of privacy.
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Another big benefit of RSS is that you curate your own feeds. You get to choose what you subscribe to in your feed reader, and the order in which the posts show up. You might prefer to read the oldest posts first, or the newest. You might group your feeds by topic or another priority. You are not subjected to the “algorithmic feed” of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, where they choose the order for you. You won’t miss your friends’ posts because the algorithm decided to suppress them […]
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Eleventy’s New Performance Leaderboard
Eleventy doesn’t do any special optimizations out of the box to make your sites fast. It doesn’t protect you from making a slow site. But importantly it also doesn’t add anything extra either. This sort of developer empowerment over the final product has seemed to attract an amazing group of performance oriented developers using the project and I am so grateful to every one of you.
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Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You
When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don’t know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don’t actually mean anything at all.
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The case of the 500-mile email
Let me quote just one phrase:
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Great article where Kitty shows how React helps providing N26 clients the features they're looking for even if they unfortunately have JavaScript issues.
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I remember seing a clever design years ago that had this effect on scroll, but it was just for a logo, with a single image.
Karolina Szczur
Jeremy Keith
Bryan L. Robinson
Laura Kalbag
Zach Leatherman
Joel Spolsky
Trey Harris
Kitty Giraudel
Sebastiano Guerriero