A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
FastImage, performant React Native image componentReact Native’s Image component handles image caching like browsers for the most part. If the server is returning proper cache control headers for images you’ll generally get the sort of built in caching behavior you’d have in a browser. Even so many people have noticed: Flickering. Cache misses. Low performance loading from cache. Low performance …
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Keeping a feature of the Chrome Devtools – such as the FPS Meter – running with the DevTools closed unfortunately is not possible (yet?). Kayce Basques provides us with a little workaround though: You can hack together a Puppeteer script that launches Chromium, opens a remote debugging client, then turns on the DevTools feature that …
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Recently, I decided to try to recreate the GitHub Contribution graph using CSS Grid Layout, and found it was an interesting challenge. As I always find while working with CSS Grid Layout, I end up with far less CSS than I would have using almost any other method. In this case, the layout-related part of …
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ResizeObserver now available in ChromeChrome 64 includes ResizeObserver: ResizeObserver notifies you whenever an element’s size changes, and provides the new height and width of the element, reducing the risk of layout thrashing. To use it create a new instance of it, and then make it observe one or more elements: var ro = new ResizeObserver(entries => { for (let …
The repeal of Net Neutrality is a hot topic in America, but it can be very difficult to understand. That’s why the BURGER KING® brand created WHOPPER® Neutrality, a social experiment that explains the effects of the repeal of Net Neutrality by putting it in terms anyone can understand: A WHOPPER® sandwich.
Mike Cohn: The professional programmer brings his or her full brain, experience and creativity to the job. When asked to develop a feature, the professional thinks about it: Are there gaps in what was asked for? Are there alternative and better solutions? Will it lead to later problems? And then the professional has conversations with …
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In On “Secure Contexts” in Firefox, HTTPS for local development, and a potential nice gesture by Chrome I said: One of the things that’s still not really frictionless for your local development domains is the use of certificates. To circumvent the use of self-signed certificates I explained in said article how I have a dedicated …
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Recording of a 1994 talk by Dr. Russel Ackoff on Continuous Improvement as seen through the lens of Systems Thinking. This talk really was way ahead of its time. It’s talking about Continuous Improvement long before I even heard this term in the business of web development; it’s expressed in a very clear and calm …
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