NYT buying Wordle (a lightweight webapp) for low 7 figures….maybe your next Startup also can also be built on this emerging hot platform called the Web.

AWS CloudFront: $3,172.35
Bunny.net: $382.50 ($190.75 volume tier)
CloudFlare: Free probably

Doing some Wordle math:
127 KB of data transferred per page load
Let’s assume 10 million people play every day
127 KB * 10 million = 1.27 TB
* 30 days = 38.1 TB of bandwidth per month

How much would that cost at different CDNs?

If you’re like me and have always been confused by responsive images, I wrote a 1600 word explanation for you tinybit.com/blog/solving-properl…

GDPR: Embedding Google Fonts violates GDPR.

GDPR official site:

An update on Wordle

When I die I want coding stickers on my urn

The website operator could have embedded the fonts on their own domain and not made a request out to a third party.

The website visitor could have concealed their IP address by using a VPN.

🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷 twitter.com/FascinatingTech/stat…

I just read most of an article before the paywall finally kicked in and this is probably the first time I was thankful for slow JavaScript on a website

Everyone seems mad at Spotify. Get YouTube Premium to:

1) Use YouTube Music
2) Remove ads from YouTube videos

the short answer to this question

@TheBlackNerd When I was a bartender, there were a couple of college kids at one end of the bar arguing about whether they’d rather be shot or stabbed, when an old guy who was just quietly drinking well whiskey said “stabbing hurts worse when it happens, gettin’ shot hurts worse the next day”.

To replace programmers with Robots, clients will have to accurately describe what they want.
We’re safe.

METAIRIE, La. – Sean Payton has decided to MARCH IN (another direction) as the New Orleans Saints’ coach after 16 years.

WordPress 5.9 is available for download! Named after international jazz vocalist Josephine Baker, this release represents the work of more than 600 contributors and comes with a host of new tools. #WordPress wordpress.org/news/2022/01/josep…

When’s the last time you actually read an email?

Take a walk on the wild side and eat Froot Loops for dinner with a fork

When I was your age, this was Wordle

Server side render everything

amazon.com is server side rendered and has no client side rendering framework. The potential latency hit didn’t justify it.

We were stuck with jQuery 1.6.4 😬

SSR React wasn’t fast enough for us. This blew my mind.