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Enforcing performance budgets with webpack
18.9.2020
As you probably know, a single monolithic JavaScript bundle — once a best practice — is no longer the way to go for modern web applications. Research has shown that larger bundles increase memory usage and CPU costs, especially on mid-range and low-end mobile devices.
webpack has a lot of features...
Optimizing CSS for faster page loads
18.9.2020
A straightforward post with some perf data from Tomas Pustelnik. It’s a good reminder that CSS is a crucial part of thinking web performance, and for a huge reason:
Any time [the browser] encounters any external resource (CSS, JS, images, etc.) it will assign it a download priority...
Miny.CC – Innovation in the Cryptocurrency Mining Sphere
16.9.2020
Aberdeen, Hong Kong, September 16, 2020. – More than 10 years after the first cryptocurrency was successfully mined, the mining space is more controversial than ever. The process was created to be democratic; to allow any PC with spare computing resources to contribute the surplus to help...
How to Start a Blog: a Step-by-step Guide
14.9.2020
These days it seems like nearly everyone has a blog. Blogs can be a great way to document your hobbies or interests, keep a record of your daily activities,...
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IRS to Pay $625K to Crack Monero, Crypto Proponents Scoff at Contract
11.9.2020
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) wants to pay a contractor $625,000 if they can crack layer-two privacy schemes and the privacy-centric crypto asset monero (XMR). The tax agency says that the entity has “limited investigative resources” for tracing these types of cryptocurrency...
Design.dev Review: A New Place to Find Free High-Quality Design Resources
27.8.2020
The hip new design resource site Design.dev will provide you with unique resources and premium designs that you won't find anywhere else.
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Geeq Integrates with Chainlink to Access Off-Chain Data Resources
21.8.2020
Decentralized multi-blockchain platform Geeq has announced its integration with Chainlink, blockchain data oracle provider, to access Chainlink’s off-chain data resources. In the official tweet, Chainlink said that Geeq developers will now be able to access price data, secure nodes, API, and other...
Building Custom Data Importers: What Engineers Need to Know
6.8.2020
Importing data is a common pain-point for engineering teams. Whether its importing CRM data, inventory SKUs, or customer details, importing data into various applications and building a solution for this is a frustrating experience nearly every engineer can relate to. Data import, as a critical...
Lazy Loading Images in Svelte
16.7.2020
One easy way to improve the speed of a website is to only download images only when they’re needed, which would be when they enter the viewport. This “lazy loading” technique has been around a while and there are lots of great tutorials on how to implement it.
But even with all the resources...
Lazy Load IFRAMEs
13.7.2020
We’ve known for a decade that lazy loading resources like JavaScript, CSS, and especially images is a massive performance win for web pages. At first we used tricks and JavaScript to do the lazy loading, but more recently native image lazy loading has debuted in browsers. Did you know that...
Diverse Illustration
7.6.2020
Hey gang, #BlackLivesMatter.
One tiny way I thought we could help here on this site, aside from our efforts as individuals, is to highlight some design resources that are both excellent and feature Black people. Representation matters.
Here’s one. You know Pablo Stanley? Pablo is a wonderful...
10 Interesting JavaScript and CSS Libraries for May 2020
11.5.2020
A collection of our favorite web dev resources for the month of May, featuring useful JS tools, React components, and more!
9 Best Device Mockups for Your Web and Mobile App
7.5.2020
What are the main graphical elements of a modern presentation? If you think it is beautiful fonts or stocks taken from the big online image retailers, then you are...
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Static Hoisting
6.5.2020
The other day in “Static or not?” I said:
[…] serving HTML from a CDN is some feat.
What I meant is that serving resources like images, CSS, and JavaScript from a CDN is fairly straightforward. The industry at large has been doing that for many years. An asset with a URL can...
Advice for Writing a Technical Resume
27.4.2020
Marco Rogers asked a very good question on Twitter:
I talk to a lot of people new to tech from non-traditional backgrounds, e.g. bootcamps or self-taught. I'm looking for good information for those people on how to build out a strong resume when they don't have work experience yet. Advice...
Everything You Need to Know (But Never Asked) About a Website Privacy Policy
20.4.2020
You see them on almost every website you visit. Click throughs to accept cookies and read privacy policies. But this isn’t just a default state for web designers to...
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Front-End Challenges
17.4.2020
My favorite way to level up as a front-end developer is to do the work. Literally just build websites. If you can do it for money, great, you should. If the websites you make can help yourself or anyone else you care about, then that’s also great. In lieu of that, you can also make things...
Bitcoin.com’s Market Aggregator Now Features Into the Block Crypto Asset Statistics
17.4.2020
At Bitcoin.com we take pride in providing the best cryptocurrency resources online so people can learn about the great benefits of bitcoin. One particular service we offer is a cryptocurrency market valuation and price data aggregator called markets.Bitcoin.com. This week our team is pleased...
10 Interesting JavaScript and CSS Libraries for April 2020
13.4.2020
Our compilation for the month of April comes packed with awesome new web dev tools, including lots of Bootstrap goodies, a new testing framework, and more!
Free Market Think Tank FEE Now Accepts Bitcoin Cash Donations
11.4.2020
The oldest free market think tank in the United States, the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) has announced the 501(c)3 educational foundation now accepts bitcoin cash (BCH) for donations. The libertarian organization promotes sound economic theory, publishes books and articles regularly...