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Let’s make 2021... fast! An annual front-end performance checklist, with everything you need to know to create fast experiences on the web today, from metrics to tooling and CSS/JavaScript techniques.

A blog about (mostly) computery things

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Paul Miller — entrepreneur. I make projects which help developers to build awesome things.

The latest AMP messages in Google Search Console are intended to enforce full equivalency in AMP versions. The underlying message is clear. And so is my response.

SPA is great in its own domain. But for consuming different domain it comes with its own cost, and if the API has not been designed…

INTO THE WEEDS OF CSS LAYOUT There are lots of reasons to get excited about new layout methods in CSS, but what impact does moving to Flexbox and Grid have on performance? And once you have decided to adopt new layout methods, are some techniques more performant than others? In this talk we’ll take a serious look at the algorithms your browser is using in order to lay things out using Flexbox and Grid. By understanding how these algorithms work, you’ll be in a better position to make good decisions around layout, and fully take advantage of the possible performance gains of new CSS layout.

winamp2-js - A reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and Javascript

The feature set of ECMAScript 2018 was finalized during the latest TC39 meeting (23-25 January 2018). This blog post describes it.

Personas are useful tools for UX work, so why do they often fail? Find out what pitfalls cause personas to fail, and how to avoid and overcome them.

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Updated Jan. 21st, 2018: Added AppRun and dva. Keeping up with JavaScript frameworks can be a challenge. There are a lot of them, and seemingly another one every month. How do you know which ones might be right for your project? What are their strengths and weaknesses? How do you

Laws of UX is a collection of the key maxims that designers must consider when building user interfaces.

An Exhaustive List of all the Elements you need to have/test Before Launching your Website To Production.

webpack is a brilliant tool for bundling frontend assets. When things start to slow down, though, its batteries-included nature and the…

JavaScript UI frameworks and libraries work in cycles. Every six months or so, a new one pops up, claiming that it has revolutionized UI development. Thousands of developers adopt it into their new projects, blog posts are written, Stack Overflow questions are asked and answered, and then a newer (and even more revolutionary) framework pops up to usurp the throne.