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Another screenshot for my "we [as an industry] can do better" folder... scrolling down on a Forbes article consistently bricks the page.
*checks console* yup, it's *that* JS framework.
It's a fucking static article 🤦♂️
This is the last photo I took of him, after we’d put him to sleep.
As he went calmly, I cradled his head while Rosie stroked him and we told him how much he was loved by all.
We made a pillow from an old tee of mine he used to sleep on in my wardrobe and an old pyjama top of Rosie’s as a blanket.
Farewell, our little prince.
Fuck cancer.
My little family has been torn apart.
Our cat Ivan had to be put to sleep on Friday.
We are blindsided – he’d had a little cough for a couple of weeks which was believed to be asthma or maybe pneumonia, but it turned out he had an aggressive lung cancer and deteriorated quickly.
We (as an industry) cross-browser test down to as little as 1% browser adoption, we A/B test to eek-out fractional improvements… so why aren’t we monitoring down to the worst 1% of interactions?!
@anniesullie explains the Core Web Vital 75th percentile threshold is just the starting point 👏🏻
An exciting new timing API from the Bloomberg team: https://github.com/bloomberg/container-timing 🎉
A common misconception by web developers is that webfonts will download once they’re discovered in CSS, but the browser will actually only download them once there’s a DOM node actually wanting to use a given webfont.
Glad @mandymichael cleared this up at #perfnow 🎉 #webperf
Something I’d never considered: narrowing the range of axis within variable fonts to remove unused extremes will reduce the file size!
