🖼 If you’re building hero-style content with background images—maybe even through a CMS—you can hugely improve rendering times (LCP) with one additional line of HTML. t.co/5naEkyTZiv
Google Fonts is fast. Now it’s faster. Much faster. csswizardry.com/2020/05/the-fast…
Digging the experimental CSS Overview panel in DevTools. Relatively simple right now, but an interesting proposition for sure. t.co/3mnI6imRGb
Instead of calling them dependencies, try ‘liabilities’.
Want to view a single image on @imgur (literally its only job)? Good luck! You gotta successfully download (354KB) and run (1.21MB) of client-side React in order to get your image requested as resource 110 of 553. What should have been an IMG element became… this. t.co/XkrbZcLQQg
When I was first getting into the web around ~2006, it was my daily ritual to check on each and every one of the CSS/design gallery sites and see what had appeared overnight. Now most of them don’t even exist anymore. I miss it.
JS applications are the .swf of modern web development.