A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
The folks at Voorhoede share how they integrated the actions/cache@v2 build step into their GitHub Workflow so that it caches npm install results. Super fast npm install on Github Actions → Related: By Shallow + Single Branch Cloning you can speed up the git clone step of your build pipeline. The actions/checkout@v2 build step already …
Nolan Lawson, on how we might focus too much on JavaScript bundle size: Performance is a multi-faceted thing. It would be great if we could reduce it down to a single metric such as bundle size, but if you really want to cover all the bases, there are a lot of different angles to consider. …
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Jodah Adkins from Stamen Design: For the past year and a half, it’s been our privilege to work on one of our largest and most ambitious undertakings ever: collaborating closely with a team of Facebook engineers, designers, and data experts to roll out a global, multi-scale base map for all of Facebook’s billions of users. …
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Dan Abramov shares 2 techniques to try before resorting to optimize with React.memo() In this post, I want to share two different techniques. They’re surprisingly basic, which is why people rarely realize they improve rendering performance. These techniques are complementary to what you already know! They don’t replace memo or useMemo, but they’re often good …
At first sight the new visual identity for the San Francisco Symphony (pictured below, on the right) looks a bit off … Those letters sure look a bit oddly sized, no? Turns out there’s a dynamic drive behind them: Leveraging new creative technology including variable font design, our new visual language (of which the logo …
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Relive the whole Mars 2020 Entry Descent Landing in your browser, in 3D, powered by Three.JS/WebGL 🤯 Here’s a few pointers to use: Use the ⏪ ⏩ at the bottom to speed up / slow down the animation Scroll over the pane on the left to jump between phases of the landing You can click …
Photo by Alex on Unsplash Late 2019 Brad Frost already pondered about The Great Divide and introduced the terms “front of the frontend” and “back of the frontend”. In a new post he gives the easily-shareable overview that lists the differences between both. A succinct way I’ve framed the split is that a front-of-the-front-end developer …
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Putting libraries like GSAP and Framer Motion and React Spring aside, Josh W. Comeau digs into the transition property — “the CSS motion workhorse” as he calls it — and easing functions. I especially like the sandbox at the very end of the post that lets you play the various easing functions and framerate An …
