Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Stuff like this is why Gabriel Gianordoli was voted World’s Best Designer at the 2020 Society for News Design awards. This article on exponential spreading from March 2020 (remember that?) The Marshall Project Mixes Media. The Washington Post Visualises Exponential Spread.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 28, 2020

2020-07-28T09:30:00+00:00. 2020-07-28T14:04:40+00:00. Depending on the OpenType features available in the font you’ve chosen, you can also improve tabular data readability by specifying lining rather than old-style numerals. Those brightly coloured blocks would dominate the limited space available on a small screen.

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Design Media C++ Availability 97

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Apple continues to self-preference through exclusive API access for Safari; e.g., the ability to install PWA s to the home screen, implement media codecs, and much else. There's no point in recommending a better browser because none is available. Instead, Fruit Co. This line is frankly insulting to the good people that work on WebKit.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

2020-12-17T15:00:13+00:00. 2020-12-17T16:33:49+00:00. Work out what your priorities are, how you can measure progress, and the limitations of the available data. In acknowledgement of this trend, Google went fully mobile-first in early 2020. There are numerous free tools available for tracking search analytics.

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Tech News Gather

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

New XR add-ons will be available to enhance your adventure. In 2020, California-based startup Mojo Vision announced it was creating AR contact lenses with micro-LED screens. This causes less strain on the system, less delay, and less sickness. XR technology may integrate with the human body beyond external accessories and devices.

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Development Virtualization Government Media 52

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 17, 2019

While bandwidth does continue to increase each year, so does the quality and size of most Internet media. What that means is that even though data can be transferred more quickly, the need for compressing media into smaller files without losing visual quality has not gone away. Why is AVIF Better than its Competitors?

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Media Internet Internet Speed 43

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In my research, I was looking into sites found in the December 2020 mobile HTTPArchive , and it wasn’t difficult to spot a good number of sites loading huge video files by default, both on mobile and on desktop. In general, the bitrate of your video should be about 80% of the available throughput on the network. Large preview ).

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CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Back in August 2020, when the content-visiblity property in CSS trickled its way into Chrome browsers, Una Kravets and Vladimir Levin wrote about it and we covered it. Sorta like lazy loading, but everything rather than media alone. He notes that content hidden this way should not be available to screen readers, per the spec.

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Media Performance Code Availability 66

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

In the end of last year we’ve noticed that we’ve seen quite a drop in performance in 2020, so we rolled up our sleeves and got to work. We couldn’t fix the AVIF issue quickly due to the way media management is running currently, but then Barry Pollard suggested to test if using base64-encoding for images would help. What Is TypeScript?

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

What is 5 Nines Availability?In However, consumers often prioritize availability in many systems. Furthermore, there are many recognized standards to measure the availability of a service or system, and the most common one is to measure it as a percentage."Five This level of availability equates to only about 5.26

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

What is 5 Nines Availability?In However, consumers often prioritize availability in many systems. Furthermore, there are many recognized standards to measure the availability of a service or system, and the most common one is to measure it as a percentage."Five This level of availability equates to only about 5.26

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Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

All the maps are available as clone links below, and these links create your own private copy of the live map that you can play around with. I also re-worked the evolution of society map that I produced for Map Camp 2020, to align with the beginning and current points in the age of IT.

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Energy Government Innovation AWS 52

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Reducing The Web’s Carbon Footprint: Optimizing Social Media Embeds. Reducing The Web’s Carbon Footprint: Optimizing Social Media Embeds. Measuring the carbon footprint of the web isn’t an exact science, but a report by the BBC in 2020 estimates that all internet activity accounts for around 3.7% Michelle Barker. Webmentions.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. How To Boost Media Performance On A Budget. Unquestionably, media enlivens websites, adding appeal, excitement, and intrigue, let alone enticements to stay on a page and frequently revisit it. Of the many factors that affect page-load speed, media is a significant one.

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Media Performance Mobile Latency 117

O'Reilly

JULY 15, 2020

The survey ran from January 31, 2020 through February 29; we had 1502 respondents from the readers of our mailing lists. The share of adoption for the 12-month period between January of 2019 and January of 2020 likewise suggests that microservices remains a topic of interest to O’Reilly users. Are they having success?

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Database Architecture Education Systems 135

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

Both the financial and real economies have suffered quite a few shocks in the last 20 years: the dot-com bubble bursting (2000); September 11 (2001); the Great Recession (2008); and today in 2020 the COVID-19 crisis is wreaking economic havoc. No company forecast the economy falling off a cliff in Q1 2020, so all bets are off.

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Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4). Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4). 2020-06-25T12:30:00+00:00. 2020-06-25T15:34:35+00:00. But unfortunately, when dealing with static assets and media files, there are a lot of caveats to deal with. Media Files.

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Media Cache Storage AWS 69

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

But here are some recent PWA-related findings by Maximiliano Firtman regarding Chrome: The number of origins with PWAs grew 170% in 2020. However, at the end of 2020, about 1% of websites included a Service Worker, and 2.2% But this “look” is now available in browsers. had an installable Web App Manifest file.

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Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2020

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) in its simplest terms is what practitioners use to ensure consistent availability, performance, and response times to applications. Every day we access applications to shop online, stream TV shows, connect to social media, manage finances, and work. Dynatrace news. Performance monitoring.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 23, 2020

2020-03-23T13:00:00+00:00. 2020-03-23T15:36:17+00:00. By combining media queries with multiple images, a browser can select an image which is most appropriate for a layout. Inspired Design Decisions With Otto Storch: When Idea, Copy, Art And Typography Became Inseperable. Andrew Clarke. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2020

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) in its simplest terms is what practitioners use to ensure consistent availability, performance, and response times to applications. Every day we access applications to shop online, stream TV shows, connect to social media, manage finances, and work. Dynatrace news. Performance monitoring.

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Monitoring Performance Social Media Artificial Intelligence 132

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%. Enhanced Media Delivery. Dan Shappir. 2021-11-22T10:30:00+00:00.

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Website Performance Google Media 126

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In early 2020, after months of background conversations and research, Mason Freed posted a new set of design alternatives , which included extensive performance research. An updated proposal was presented to the Web Components Community Group in March 2020; Apple objected on spurious grounds, offering no constructive counter. [2]

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Energy Games Engineering Design 79

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

As a database tailored towards enterprise workloads, this provides the ability needed to explore large data sets along with the high performance achieved by paralleling the analytics across your available segment hosts. So who’s using Greenplum today? How to Get Started.

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Tasktop

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Congrats to @mik_kersten on completing this book that I think is incredibly important to our profession: “Project to Product” Now available!!! Tasktop Viz is available in limited release now and will be available in general release in January 2020 — learn more about what Flow Metrics can do for you.

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Social Media DevOps Metrics Media 10

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 9, 2020

2020-03-09T11:30:00+00:00. 2020-03-09T13:41:45+00:00. However, when you use CSS like below to ensure images do not overflow their available space, then you run into problems as soon as the available width becomes smaller than the actual image size. Setting Height And Width On Images Is Important Again. Barry Pollard.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2020

2020-06-26T14:00:00+00:00. 2020-06-26T14:19:08+00:00. The flex-grow property with its value of 1 ensures all images expand to fill any available space, while flex-basis makes sure these flex items start from a minimum of 640px; header svg { flex-grow: 1; flex-basis: 640px; } header svg:not(:last-of-type) { margin-right: 2rem; }.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

It is our first Region in Africa, and we're shooting to have it ready in the first half of 2020. The new AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region will have three Availability Zones and provide lower latency to end users across Sub-Saharan Africa. This news marks the 23rd AWS Region that we have announced globally.

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AWS Cloud Education Programming 167

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2020

2020-08-18T10:00:00+00:00. 2020-08-28T03:04:26+00:00. While the original hardcover copy I’d like for my collection is now prohibitively expensive, reprinted paperback versions are available at more realistic prices. The extra space available on larger screens allows me to develop a distinctive asymmetric design.

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Design Media Entertainment Website 119

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Knowing how that control happens, and how it fails, will help us to understand the breakdown of social media. We saw those feedback loops in 2016, we’ve been seeing them ever since, and we will certainly see them used in 2020. There’s no sense in attacking a hard target when a weaker one is available.

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Social Media Media Network Energy 53

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 13, 2020

2020-04-13T10:00:00+00:00. 2020-04-13T12:35:21+00:00. In pre-war American advertising agencies, the job of a layout artist was simply to place headlines, copy, and images into available space, but that changed after WW2 with an influx of immigrant designers from Europe. Andrew Clarke.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2020

2020-03-02T13:00:00+00:00. 2020-03-02T13:36:53+00:00. I feel the same way about exploring ideas from print and other media and applying them to the web without questioning what we’re aiming to achieve and why we’re doing it. You can still find copies available on eBay. Andrew Clarke. For this, I use a feature query.

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Testsigma

MARCH 12, 2021

Consequently, there has also been an increase in the range of channels or media through which these websites are accessed. A report by StatCounter in 2020 suggests that the market share grabbed by the Chrome Browser is a whopping 64.6%. For instance, the WebM media format is not supported by Safari. Let’s consider a scenario.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Since early 2020, Netflix has been iteratively developing systems to provide internal stakeholders and business leaders with up-to-date tools and dashboards with the latest information on the pandemic. were raised about providing open access to database tables with a SQL-like query interface.

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CSS - Tricks

MARCH 29, 2021

You might also want to check out this article by Umar Hansa , who compiled a whole bunch of great DevTool features that released in 2020. This tool summarizes CSS properties like colors, fonts, contrast issues, unused declarations, and media queries. But there are other available tools we can use to audit CSS. Online tools.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Technically, Elena joined us at the very end of 2020, but since this marks the end of her first full year at SpeedCurve, I wanted to include her here. rolled out real user monitoring (RUM) and why they believe it will help them improve accessibility and availability for all users. Here are some of the highlights. for everyone.

Retail 52

Retail Benchmarking Metrics Website 52

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

form elements, decode (but not always encode) a subset of popular media formats, and marry that to a constraint-solver for laying out text and drawing boxes? [3] POSIX filesystems & removable media (e.g. GPU-accelerated graphics, compute, and media encode/decode. 86 06:16 PM · Jun 21, 2020. high-color image raster.

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