How to embed AV1 Image File Format (AVIF) images

New in Chromium 85 is support for the AV1 Image File Format (AVIF), which is pretty impressive: AVIF offers significant file size reduction for images compared with JPEG or WebP; ~50% savings compared to JPEG, and ~20% savings compared to WebP. 🦊 Using Firefox and can’t wait to use AVIF images? Set the image.avif.enabled flag …

The difference between aria-label and aria-labelledby

Léonie Watson (@LeonieWatson) explains the difference between aria-label and aria-labelledby: The aria-label and aria-labelledby attributes are both used to give an element it’s accessible name. The difference between aria-label and aria-labelledby is where they get that piece of text, and the clue is in the name. The aria-label attribute gives an element its label; an …

Serverless functions with Vercel

Have a static site but looking to add backendy stuff — such as subscribing to a newsletter — to it? Geoffrey Dhuyvetters from madewithlove walks us trough setting up a serverless function with Vercel (formerly known as Zeit): In this article I’ll walk you through the steps to create serverless functions with Vercel. These functions …

What’s new / coming to Google Cloud Run?

At Google Cloud Next ’20, Cloud Run Product Manager Steren Giannini (@steren) walked us through some of the new things that are coming to Google Cloud Run. Some highlights: VPC Peering Gradual Rollouts (with custom URLs per tagged release) New Load-Balancing Features (Multi Region, Cloud CDN, IAP) Easy Continuous Deployment Min instances (no cold starts) …

Going Serverless with Google Cloud Run (JSConf.be)

Back in June I was invited to speak at JSConf.be. This year’s edition focused on DevSecOps and Security. My talk “Going Serverless with Google Cloud Run” — which I have brought forward before at Full Stack Ghent and PHP-WVL — was a perfect match for it. Cloud Run is a fully managed compute platform by …