A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
A Frontend United I was lucky to see Harry Roberts give this talk on CSS and Performance. You can watch it to, as the recording has been published to YouTube Ahh… CSS and performance. Two of my favourite things! But how well do they play together? It depends… In this very matter-of-fact talk, we’ll be …
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Insightful post by the folks over at LogRocket on the rendering pipeline: If your site takes forever to load, chances are your users aren’t gonna wait for it to finish, even if there’s valuable content to be found there. Some studies have shown that up to 50% of users leave a page after 3 seconds …
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Alexander Zlatkov from SessionStack on how to implement Web Push Notifications: There are three general steps to implementing a push: The UI — adding the necessary client-side logic to subscribe a user to a push. This is the JavaScript logic that your web app UI needs in order to enable the user to register himself to push …
yett – A small webpage library to control the execution of (third party) scripts like analyticsIn order to provide GDPR compliant consent-first-analytics (and other stuff), you can use yett: Blocking execution of analytics script (until consent is given) can be done manually, but the problem is that analytics providers often provide minified code embeds that you have to include in your html as they are. If you want to exercise …
While researching a performance issue in a React Native app by doing a deep dive into the bridge, I stumbled upon this nice list of tips by jamsch. The list – which touches react-navigation, the types of lists one can use, etc. – was originally posted as a comment on a Github Issue, but deserves …
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🗣 This was originally posted as a reply over at Dave’s blog. Unfortunately Disqus – the commenting system Dave uses – thinks it’s spam, so I’m posting it here as a full post instead. In his blogpost The React is “just” JavaScript Myth, Dave Rupert said this: React shows up on the scene with Babel, …
I like the cartoons that have been appearing for some time now over at Mozilla Hacks, in which they explain technical things in layman’s terms. The latest article again is a good one: first it explains regular DNS (pictured above), and then continues on to DNS over HTTPS. A cartoon intro to DNS over HTTPS …
Ruslan Habalov and Dario Weißer found a way to read contents from an iframe, using CSS3: Accessing the DOM of an iframe that includes a cross-origin resource is forbidden by default. However, the content of the iframe was displayed in the same context as the rest of the site so we wanted to verify if …
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Great site developed by Sara Vieira (@NikkitaFTW): Awesome Talks is an awesome list of tech talks to watch that is constantly updated by the community and is a great way to find an interesting talk to watch during downtime. The talks are categorised, and one can submit talks themselves (if they’re on YouTube that is). …