The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

I was listening to a BBC Radio 4 podcast recently ( More or Less: Behind the Stats – Ants and Algorithms ) in which the host Tim Harford is interviewing David Sumpter about his recent book, ‘ The ten equations that rule the world.’ TLDR; this is the last edition of The Morning Paper for now.

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Tasktop

APRIL 28, 2021

Let’s look at the numbers according to the BBC News. Well, bring on the Suez Canal catastrophe to help me reiterate this important point and why companies need to continue to understand that value should be measured by what is being delivered, not in lost productivity. The Cost of Delay.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

For example, BBC and CNN benefit greatly from dynamic content. The adaptive nature of dynamic content fosters a sense of personal connection with the users, thereby boosting customer loyalty.Real-time Updates: Dynamic content provides the advantage of real-time updates, ensuring that users always see the most recent information.

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CSS Wizardry

APRIL 22, 2020

For example, it’s much simpler for the BBC to say that they lose an additional 10% of users for every additional second it takes for their site to load than it is to work out what happens for a 1s speed-up. It’s much easier to make a site slower, which is why so many people seem to be so good at it.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

For example, BBC and CNN benefit greatly from dynamic content. The adaptive nature of dynamic content fosters a sense of personal connection with the users, thereby boosting customer loyalty.Real-time Updates: Dynamic content provides the advantage of real-time updates, ensuring that users always see the most recent information.

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Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

Tim Kadlec

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

The BBC site is a good example. The BBC site is a great example of how good the NOSCRIPT preview can look when JavaScript is treated as progressive enhancement: all the content and branding is in place. The less your site relies on client-side JavaScript, the better it will appear when the intervention is applied.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

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% The COP26 climate conference has thrown into a sharp light the importance of reducing carbon emissions in every area of our lives.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

An interesting write-up from the BBC iPlayer team about their use of Server Timing. (ra). If you’d like to read more about Server Timing, you might try the following: The W3C Server Timing Specification. The MDN page on Server Timing has examples and up to date detail of browser support.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Jake worked at the BBC for four years, writing low-level JavaScript that catered to their strict accessibility, performance and browser support requirements. With a client list ranging from the United Nations to Google, the BBC to the Financial Times , he has helped some of the world’s largest organizations make their websites faster.

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Sutter's Mill

APRIL 30, 2012

Wasik Farhan-Roopkotha showed an aptitude for computing at an early age and started typing in Microsoft Word at just three years old, BBC News reports. But this one just beats all [Facebook link added]: A six-year-old child from Bangladesh is hoping to be officially recognised as the world’s youngest computer programmer.

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C++ Programming Media Games 40

Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2022

In January 2022, BBC reported that 1/3rd of people’s waking time, around 4.8 Developers and business owners have to brainstorm about what they need to put, where they need to put and how important it is. hours, is being spent on mobile applications.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 27, 2013

The BBC did this with their responsive mobile site. A performance budget is just what it sounds like: you set a “budget” on your page and do not allow the page to exceed that.

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Performance Internet Internet Design 64

Tim Kadlec

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

I’m a big fan of “cutting the mustard” , an approach made popular by the BBC. That number is probably different on today’s devices, but the approach still stands. Cut the mustard.

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Latency Google Hardware Servers 41

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 1, 2012

We had phenomenal case study presentations from people like Tom Maslen of the BBC and Christopher Bennage of Microsoft. This was certainly true of Dallas. Lyza Danger Gardner talked a lot about the real-world challenges she’s faced building for mobile.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

The BBC manages a transfer size of just 3.1 I’m not convinced the Pinterest experience was the most optimal in terms of data usage – subsequent pages were around the 0.5 KB for return-visits to articles that are renderable via the single page application.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Can the Internet Ever Be Green? ”, The Climate Question, BBC. World Wide Waste , Gerry McGovern. “ Is WebP Really Better Than JPEG? ”, Johannes Siipola. Make Jamstack Slow? Challenge Accepted. ”, Steve Keep, CSS-Tricks. “ Could Your Data Center Not Just Power Your Website, But Also Grow Your Salad? ”, Tom Greenwood, Wholegrain Digital.

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