Stephan Boyer created a website with some JS injected content and waited for Google to crawl it. It got indexed, but without JS execution. Only after having submitted the site manually via the Google Search Console it got indexed with JS executed. His conclusion: Google may or may not decide to run your JavaScript, and …
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Marky, a high-resolution JavaScript timer
Marky, by Nolan Lawson: JavaScript timer based on performance.mark() and performance.measure(), providing high-resolution timings as well as nice Dev Tools visualizations. For browsers that don’t support performance.mark(), it falls back to performance.now() or Date.now(). In Node, it uses process.hrtime(). The greatest win to me is the visualization in the Dev Tools timeline. After installing it …
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Show Facebook Computer Vision Tags Chrome Extension
Since April 2016, Facebook has been automatically adding alt tags to images you upload that are populated with keywords representing the content of your images. This Chrome Extension visualizes the tags (which can be found in the markup) <img src="https://facebook.com/some-url.jpg" alt="Image may contain: golf, grass, outdoor and nature" width="316" height="237"> Show Facebook Computer Vision Tags …
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Private Packagist
Mid-December Nils Adermann – Co-Founder of Packagist Conductors & Creator of Composer for PHP – announced Private Packagist. Being a hosted service, setting up your own Composer package repository on Private Packagist is done with a few clicks. No matter if your private source code is hosted on GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, any of their on-premise …
Front-end Style Guides – Creating and Maintaining Style Guides for Websites
Anna Debbenham – creator of styleguides.io – wrote a book on … Style Guides: Designers and developers have taken different approaches to putting together their own web-based style guides. This book highlights the various techniques and the projects that have used them. It’s packed with practical tips, whether you’re starting from scratch or assembling one …
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Resilient Web Design
Jeremy Keith wrote a book, “Resilient Web Design”, on how to build a web that lasts: With a title like Resilient Web Design, you might think that this is a handbook for designing robust websites. This is not a handbook. It’s more like a history book. […] You won’t find any code in here to …
How and why the leap second affected Cloudflare DNS
At midnight UTC on New Year’s Day, deep inside Cloudflare’s custom RRDNS software, a number went negative when it should always have been, at worst, zero. A little later this negative value caused RRDNS to panic. This panic was caught using the recover feature of the Go language. The net effect was that some DNS …
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A billion dollar gift for Twitter
Anil Dash was asked by Jack Dorsey (CEO of Twitter in case that name doesn’t ring a bell) if they could have a talk to spewing some ideas on fixing Twitter. Anil declined the talk. Instead, he wrote an article on Medium. Jack: I’ll give you this one for free, just because I still have …
10 things I learned making the fastest site in the world
Great writeup by David Gilbertson on creating this super fast loading website. Try not to make a slow site Do mobile first. Like, really do it. Be a benchmark hussy Client Side Rendering is expensive Don’t server-render HTML Inline stuff, probably Preload, then load Reward good behaviour Service workers: like me in high school (cool …
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