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orangeacme, 15 days ago to random

Yet again I am on high latency, low-bandwidth hotel WiFi and am thankful for teams that prioritise web performance #webPerf

orangeacme, 1 month ago to random

There's a large overlap between the sustainable web and web performance, so I wrote "5 tips for creating speedier, more sustainable websites with Fastly": https://www.fastly.com/blog/5-tips-for-creating-speedier-more-sustainable-websites-with-fastly
#webPerf #sustyweb

orangeacme, 1 month ago to web

What's a good way to learn about modern CSS, if I haven't paid attention to it for the last decade? #web #css

orangeacme, 2 months ago to random

Oh no, today I had to care about compiler name mangling. Naming things is hard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_mangling

orangeacme, 2 months ago to random

I finally figured out how to calculate my "Uncompressed JavaScript bytes per character" web performance metric in an easy way: WebPageTest results include the amount of JavaScript and the rendered HTML for the page, so I built a small page in Glitch to work it out: https://javascript-bytes-per-character.glitch.me/
e.g.:
According to this WebPageTest run, https://www.javascript.com/ requires 2,609,038 bytes of JavaScript to show 2,003 characters of text on the page. That's 1,302.6 JavaScript bytes per character.
#webPerf

orangeacme, 2 months ago to random

I love that we can keep building better JPEG encoders without having to upgrade any existing decoders: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2024/04/introducing-jpegli-new-jpeg-coding-library.html #webPerf

orangeacme, 2 months ago to random

I’m so annoyed that my children have to learn the imperial system at school. Who cares how many useless units are in a kilogram?

orangeacme, 2 months ago to random

I'm most definitely a prompt engineer! I engineered my prompt to look like this in my home directory:

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orangeacme, 3 months ago to random

I remember seeing a magazine page from decades ago with someone covered in weird computer gear, perhaps something like Wired?, but I can’t find it again. Does anyone know the image I mean or have tips on how to find it?

orangeacme, 4 months ago to 3DPrinting

I wanted to make a quick doodle, export it as SVG, import it into PrusaSlicer and 3D print it. Instead, I'm investigating SVG bugs, sigh. For some reason, the bottom of the cone is instead rendered as a rectangle:
#3dprinting

A sketch of a cute ice cream cone, but for some reason, the cone is glitched into a rectangle

kev, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

I love #RSS. My RSS feed reader is the page I visit most on web, I think. So it's very frustrating when folks update their site, but don't redirect their RSS feed - please remember to do it, people.
https://kevquirk.com/dont-change-your-rss-url

mike, 5 months ago to random

When was the last time you made a collect call?

orangeacme, 5 months ago to random

If your website displays a loading spinner before showing any content then you have failed at web performance #webperf

orangeacme, 5 months ago to random

This hotel WiFi restricts connections to 1 Mbps, so yet again I send love to teams that care about web performance #webPerf

rasterweb, 6 months ago to art

Hello and welcome to today’s experiment in 3D printed printing plates for printing on a printing press…

#printMaking #art #design #typography

3D printed plates on a press.

orangeacme, 6 months ago to random

I've used it for decades, but I can't for the life of me remember the magic incantation to redirect stderr to stdout. Perhaps if I think of 2>&1 as an emoticon? Some sort of hat on a snake/duck?

orangeacme, 6 months ago to web

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) guideline 1: “Information and user interface components must be presentable to users in ways they can perceive.”

https://thegameawards.com: “please rotate your device to see any content at all” #web

orangeacme, 6 months ago to random

Any tips on curating photos? I'm going through all my 2023 photos trying to pick the best 13 for a calendar. It is time consuming.

orangeacme, 7 months ago to random

We have tricked and treated all over Clapham and walked 5km. Luckily mostly treats :blobcatcandycanenom:

yaxu, 7 months ago to random

I've been trying to get into Halt and Catch Fire, three episodes in to series one and not enjoying it at all. Is it likely to grow on me or should I give up?

This syllabus around it looks awesome, but just not finding anything for me in the actual episodes so far..
https://bits.ashleyblewer.com/halt-and-catch-fire-syllabus/

orangeacme, 7 months ago to random

Changing time twice a year for daylight savings is silly. In the UK the clocks go back 1 hour at 2am on the last Sunday in October. That’s today. First bug so far: Riverford, my weekly fruit and vegetable delivery service, charged me at 1:29 and then an hour later at 1:28. Will I receive twice as many veggies?

pepicrft, 7 months ago to CSS

Is there a performance benchmark that compares bundled vs unbundled #CSS loading time across browsers?