A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Harry Roberts has done an extensive write-up on Time To First Byte (TTFB), an often overlooked metric when it comes to measuring the performance of websites. While a good TTFB doesn’t necessarily mean you will have a fast website, a bad TTFB almost certainly guarantees a slow one. To see what happens during your TTFB, …
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Another great video in the Vox Earworm series, a must see for any (house) music lover. Perfect fit to watch right after their previous “The Disco Invention that Changed Pop Music” video. On June 12, 1979, thousands of disco records were destroyed at Chicago’s “Disco Demolition Night”. Within one year, Chicago DJs and producers had …
Kent C. Dodds: As hot as it is, React Hooks require a bit of a change in the way you think about React Component Lifecycles, State, and Side Effects and it can be easy to fall into problematic scenarios if you’re not thinking about React Hooks properly. So let’s look a bit at what pitfalls …
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Version 4 of the React DevTools have been released, with a lot of improvements. At a high level, this new version should offer significant performance gains and an improved navigation experience. It also offers full support for React Hooks, including inspecting nested objects. The release notes hold a detailed list of changes, with example gifs. …
In honour of the upcoming 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing – which launched on July 16th, 1969 – Destin from SmarterEveryDay went to the NASA facility where they keep about 70% of the Moon Rocks that were ever collected (Apollo Missions 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17). The video offers us a …
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By randomly changing the opacity and adding a little text-shadow, one can create this old typewriter effect: Makes good use of currentColor for the shadow, so it can be applied on any coloured text. Old Typewriter Text Effect → 💁♂️ Don’t confuse this effect with a typing carousel which types the letters one-by-one.
Deploying one site (from a single source repo) to Netlify ain’t that hard – see my instructions here – but what if your sources are spread out across multiple repos? How do you combine the data without duplicating it into a monorepo? That’s exactly the problem Spatie was having for their docs.spatie.be: the website holds …
Interesting announcement from Facebook: Hermes is an open-source JavaScript engine optimized for running React Native apps on Android. For many apps, simply enabling Hermes will result in improved start-up time, decreased memory usage and smaller app size. At this time Hermes is an opt-in React Native feature, and this guide explains how to enable it. …
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Vasilis had some fun and created these experimental clock interfaces. First up is the “Decimal Clock”: If we had ten hours in a day, instead of 24, and if each of these hours had 100 minutes instead of 60, and if every minute had 100 seconds, our clocks would look like this, and the time …
