ryantownsend

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by ryantownsend 1y ago
In my view, DX should be renamed "Developer Convenience" as we all know that convenience is often a trade-off. Please forgive the self-promotion but this was exactly the premise of a conference talk I gave ~18 months ago at perf
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by ryantownsend 2y ago
iirc, most content delivery networks have now configured initcwnd to be around 40, meaning ~58kb gets sent within the TCP slow start window and therefore 14kb is no longer relevant to most commercial websites (at least with H1/H2, as y
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by ryantownsend 3y ago
Great to see presentation of actual facts rather than unsourced anecdotes – it cleared up some of my own misinterpretations.
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Core Web Vitals for Search Engine Optimisation: What Do We Need to Know?(csswizardry.com)
3 points by ryantownsend 3y ago|2 comments
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by ryantownsend 4y ago
This will make complex upserts so much more simple, fantastic addition. I really hope `RETURNING` support gets added to `MERGE` asap though (I believe it's been noted as a fairly trivial addition to come in future), then it'll be
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by ryantownsend 4y ago
You've got a fairly heafty JS file on the critical rendering path (350kb), so one option to help your roundtrips 3 is to preload the other files it uses so it's not dependent on the JS download and executing before they are discov
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by ryantownsend 4y ago
Another thing to be mindful of with Render: currently there's no native high-availability Postgres / Redis.
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by ryantownsend 6y ago
I don’t want to distract from the tragedy itself but, even after all this, more people will continue to suffer due to the subsequent cladding scandal. The UK government are trying to pass the costs of remediation for other cladded buildings
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by ryantownsend 8y ago
> Mandrill has a `render` endpoint which makes this easy. None of the others have this yet. Campaign Monitor have the ability to take an API call and render into HTML using templates, this might do what you want: https://www.c
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by ryantownsend 8y ago
> schwinn: were the filmstrips enough to convince them, or did your bosses want to see numbers/stats like how many were dropping off your site for each x-seconds of delay? There are some great stats on bounce rate / abandonment
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by ryantownsend 8y ago
One technique I've seen work well for getting bosses to care is showing them how much slower their sites are than their competitors - nobody wants to be worse than their competition. In SpeedCurve, for just around $8/mo per page&#
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by ryantownsend 9y ago
You might want to read https://jakearchibald.com/2017/h2-push-tougher-than-i-though... This is specific to H2 Push
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by ryantownsend 9y ago
iOS is getting Service Worker support in 11.3 [1], this is one of the key foundations for PWA support, so the situation is improving. I reckon it’ll be a long time before we see PWAs in the App Store though! 1: https://caniuse.co
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by ryantownsend 9y ago
It makes sense as an approach – Dropbox open-sourced a library along these lines, called zxcvbn: https://github.com/dropbox/zxcvbn
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by ryantownsend 9y ago
I'm going to guess Google would penalise that behaviour for showing different content, justifying it as "harming the user experience" or something. If they don't do this already, they probably will if they keep going dow
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by ryantownsend 10y ago
Are 16x TB3, 4x TB2 AND 4x USB3 actually achievable with current/near-future hardware? If Apple were to implement this, I'd imagine it would be N x TB3/USB3 USB-C format ports, an ethernet port and maybe HDMI (though a dongle
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by ryantownsend 10y ago
Can anyone comment on the best way to run multiple DNS services? Is this as simple as setting up the same records on multiple providers and updating your nameservers to point to the different providers? Or is there more involved? Are there
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by ryantownsend 10y ago
It's not so much about performance, it's about specificity. To override anything in `.c-button.primary` you'd need something to have equal or greater specificity (meaning you couldn't do `.c-button--large`). Obviously th
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by ryantownsend 10y ago
Does anyone know if this is going to be available via the standardised Web Payments API? [1] (support being worked on by Chrome [2] and Microsoft Edge [3]) That way web developers won't need to build different implementations for diffe
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by ryantownsend 11y ago
I agree with the above. That said, even if you are doing something new, you don't need to reinvent the wheel – it may be worthwhile taking a look at https://www.contentful.com/ (not affiliated, just an interesting serv
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by ryantownsend 12y ago
Ditto this, the integrations are really the icing on the cake for Slack. We've even written notifications from our own applications to push into Slack, so we get notified on everything from continuous integration test results and deplo
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by ryantownsend 13y ago
This is excellent news - SNI very widely supported in browsers now, so there is little excuse to avoid it. Would be great to see SPDY/HTTP2 support so the overhead of serving many small assets (i.e. typical website use) would be reduce
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by ryantownsend 13y ago
I also use this setup. Sometimes Sketch can be a little fiddly to get SVG export working properly, so iDraw fills that niche nicely for me. I'm glad to finally see Layer Styles in Pixelmator, for years this feature has been preventing
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by ryantownsend 13y ago
If you happen to be doing Rails development, it may be worth checking out Ninefold: http://ninefold.com/pricing [no affiliation of mine]
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by ryantownsend 13y ago
I also have this problem intermittently - using Chrome v26, Mountain Lion.
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by ryantownsend 14y ago
WebSockets enables two-way communication between the server and client. ActionController::Live is merely an improvement of the HTTP Streaming functionality where the server will send HTML (or other data) down to the client part way through
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by ryantownsend 14y ago
I'm curious as to whether you can submit an app to the MAS which integrates with non-MAS apps? Any idea whether Apple allows that? e.g. so you could offload any frowned-upon functionality into external apps/services, and maybe promote or of
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by ryantownsend 14y ago
And randomly a different serif font. The line-height on the actual app's UIToolbar title is a bit too much too, should be slightly higher up, imo.
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by ryantownsend 14y ago
I believe this kind of attack is already referred to as EDoS (Economic Denial of Service/Sustainability) - basically killing of a service through bankruptcy. This is why most cloud services have a customisable limit on how many virtual serv
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by ryantownsend 14y ago
http://www.epipheostudios.com/ have had some big clients, including Facebook, Google, Yelp, Microsoft

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