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by csswizardry 6d ago
All of my pals laugh at me for carrying a packing square with USB C–C, A–C, Lightning, EU adapters, and three-pin plugs. Until they need to borrow one.
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by csswizardry 27d ago
I’m a web performance engineer — I help clients find and fix site speed issues — but recently I spotted what I thought might be a security/privacy issue. Security not being my specialism, I asked Fable to help me triage and, if necessa
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by csswizardry 2mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POI5XHAU0sc
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by csswizardry 4mo ago
> fun one first […] The recruiter died. That took a turn!
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by csswizardry 9mo ago
My own (similar) advice from 2016: https://csswizardry.com/2016/06/speakers-checklist-before-an...
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by csswizardry 11mo ago
Complete side note: I’m on public wifi right now and the domain used to host the images in this article is, for some reason, blocked. But as the author (or whatever tool was used to generate the article) has taken time to write decent `alt`
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by csswizardry 11mo ago
Way ahead of its time. Unfortunately.
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by csswizardry 11mo ago
I used to share this sentiment (and I’m a web performance consultant by profession so very few people care about performance as much as me!), but when you consider how much calculation we _happily_ let our JS do at runtime, I don’t think fo
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by csswizardry 11mo ago
Please, no! https://csswizardry.com/2019/05/self-host-your-static-assets...
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Advanced Realtime Glass Refraction Simulation with WebGL (2017)(beclamide.medium.com)
1 points by csswizardry 1y ago|1 comments
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by csswizardry 1y ago
In light of Apple’s new Liquid Glass UI, this 2017 post/paper looks at creating realistic glass-like refraction on the web.
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What happens when you hit your browser's refresh button?(csswizardry.com)
2 points by csswizardry 2y ago|1 comments
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by csswizardry 2y ago
A firm here in my city once got all of their signage printed and installed _before_ securing the social media handles they’d put on them. The Instagram username they’d opted for was actually literally impossible to register as it contained
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by csswizardry 2y ago
Point 13, ironically, reminds me of one of the best bits of writing[1] I ever did. I somehow lost an entire near-complete draft[2] of an article, so I had to write it again from scratch. It came out much, much better than the original. 1.
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by csswizardry 2y ago
I’m on-site with a client in The Hague this week—the food and drink in this city is phenomenal, so these paintings definitely still ring true for me at least.
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by csswizardry 2y ago
https://status.openai.com/incidents/ts3m47vzcbc9
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by csswizardry 2y ago
https://status.openai.com/incidents/ts3m47vzcbc9
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by csswizardry 2y ago
Amen!
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by csswizardry 2y ago
My guess, as someone who doesn’t know the answer but works closely in this field, is that the potential downside (i.e. privacy/security) was much greater than the actualised benefit (i.e. performance). Safari (who make a big deal about
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by csswizardry 2y ago
You are correct that this is an optimisation only available to H2+, but optimising to the H/1.x use-case is a use-case not worth optimising for—if one cared about web performance that much, they wouldn’t be running H1/.x in the fi
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by csswizardry 2y ago
I’ve been beating this drum for many, many years now: https://csswizardry.com/2019/05/self-host-your-static-assets...
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by csswizardry 2y ago
https://csswizardry.com/csscv/ !
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by csswizardry 2y ago
I went canvassing for RSS feeds only yesterday! Some good stuff in here: https://bsky.app/profile/csswizardry.com/post/3lckq4qo6zs22
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by csswizardry 2y ago
I vividly remember this happening. Firstly, because I was an affected customer and I had to cancel all of my debit/credit cards days before a two-week work trip to SF, but secondly… I was approached by BA to tender for a web performanc
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by csswizardry 2y ago
Hugely instrumental in my career. Landed me my first ever job (2008) and has been responsible for underpinning most of my consultancy career (2013–now): https://csswizardry.com/ As long as one sticks with it, I cannot overs
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by csswizardry 2y ago
Huge, huge improvements. I’ve been following this spec keenly. 1. https://compression-dictionary-transport-threejs-demo.glitch... 2. https://compression-dictionary-transport-shop-demo.glitch.me...
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by csswizardry 2y ago
This, generally, is avoidable hand-over-fist. `NoScript` isn’t a plugin—it’s older than most web developers.
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by csswizardry 2y ago
All three of your points are correct, so please don’t resent my response: Client-side A/B testing exists because ‘we should be able to do this without a deploy’. And they’re right.
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by csswizardry 2y ago
Yes! Perfect scenario. This is a question of a slower but more trustable experience. I would always fight for both, however.
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by csswizardry 2y ago
Honestly, I should add the point that client-side A/B testing is the devil and should be avoided in the first place.

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