I was today years old when I found out the Ghostbusters theme song had an official music video

youtube.com/watch?v=Fe93CLbHjxQ

We’re pleased to announce our first group of speakers! Please stay tuned over the next few days to meet all of our lovely speakers for this year’s WordCamp DC!

2020.dc.wordcamp.org/2020/02/19/…

My Mac just rebooted itself to install an update and now it says “41 minutes remaining…”

Please post funny pictures.

software engineering is an endless process of asking is this code fucking stupid or am i fucking stupid and the answer is usually both

I am currently available for front end development projects! As well as front end builds, I also do WordPress and HTML emails – hit me up for a chat 🙂 joannaeyre.co.uk

In which the AMP team over-engineer a search input field in order to work around the self-imposed lack of custom JavaScript, instead of just admitting that they probably just shouldn’t use AMP for this purpose…

blog.amp.dev/2020/02/14/in-searc…

This cat from my kid’s sticker book is everything you need right now.

do NOT discuss this is a drunk tweet from yesterday that just popped from my iphone when i charged it

php counts as frontend development. discuss

Instead of calling them dependencies, try ‘liabilities’.

Reasons to ship your whole website as an img+map tag:

– Images parse way faster than JS (duh)
– Responsive for free (width: 100%)
– Trivial SSR (image to base64 and inline)

Then you just sit back and profit from all the dev salaries you would have wasted building it in react 💸

5 year old: What do pigs sleep in?
Me: Mud
5 year old: Not blankets?

* Eats a pig in a blanket *

If you like it you should put a URL on it

I was curious how long browsers these days will wait for a JavaScript file to load before displaying content that comes after it in the page. So I tested it!

Chrome: 30s
Firefox: 30s
Edge: 20s
IE 11: 7s
Safari: 60s
Android Chrome: 63s
iOS: 75s

Test runs tinyurl.com/swngjl3

What if we all just tweeted our job titles, salary, and current location? twitter.com/RefreshDC/status/122…

Receives a SVG wrapping a base64’d PNG. twitter.com/boop/status/12289075…

That means April 7, 2020 according to en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_…

HTML attribute loading=”lazy” is coming to Firefox!

“Mozilla plans to support lazy loading for images and iframes in Firefox 75.”

ghacks.net/2020/02/15/firefox-75…

#webperf

Oh no! @StackOverflow is down for maintenance. Now how will I get programming done?

Today I learned about the download attribute for HTML links. Handy if you want the link to download a file.

davidwalsh.name/download-attribu…