If you were to pick one web development blog post that played a huge part in changing or influencing how you build on the web—which blog post would it be?

@zachleat The obvious one would be @beep’s https://alistapart.com/article/responsive-web-design/ both for its broader influence and for sucking me into the responsive images blackhole with @Wilto.

But if I were to pick something earlier and less well known, maybe Yahoo’s Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Site: https://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html

And if we include books, a long forgotten gem is Speed Up Your Site by Andrew King which opened my eyes to #webperf.

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@grigs @beep @Wilto Absolutely—Yahoo used to be *the* company for front-end