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Maximally optimizing image loading for the web in 2021

CSS - Tricks

Apparently, there is but one tool that does it all: eleventy-high-performance-blog. You need to make sure your AVIF version is both better and smaller, which feels like a manual process right now. I’m not super convinced blurry placeholders are in the same category of necessary as the rest of this stuff.

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?The Modern Web?

CSS - Tricks

A couple of interesting articles making the rounds: Tom MacWrite: Second-guessing the modern web Rich Harris: In defense of the modern web. React is a bunch of JavaScript and it does lots of stuff, but does not grant superpowers that make the web faster than it was without it. This stuff gets fiendishly difficult to do by hand.

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JSON and Relational Databases – Part One

Percona

One is very free form with minimal rules on the formatting and the other is very strict and formal. In this multi-part blog series, we will start with an overview of using JSON in a relational database. Making a key/value pair a required item or of a certain data type or format is not part of the JSON standard.

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Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial

Smashing Magazine

Even now, overwhelmed by the content production line, the good stuff still shines through. It makes for snappy, immediate reporting — and that’s to say nothing of the excellent data visualization on show. Any fool can make complicated topics hard to understand, but making them easy to understand? Large preview ).

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Avoid Surprises When Restarting MySQL — Ensure Dynamic Changes Won’t Be Lost

Percona

Here’s a brief story of how this could happen, to make it clearer: You’re a DBA managing a few MySQL servers. Side note: This is not advice on how to fix things; the story only introduces stuff that can happen when restarting MySQL and how to prevent it. See more in this blog post: Using MySQL 8 Persisted System Variables.

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Migrating From MariaDB to Percona Server for MySQL 8: The Security Witchcraft

Percona

A comment worth clarifying is that, although Percona Server for MySQL is a drop-in replacement for MySQL since it offers compatibility continuity (Percona Server for MySQL even offers certain features that the community version does not, for free!), Basically, it would be something like: Make a logical backup from MariaDB using mydymper.

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Frameworks Helping Image Usage

CSS - Tricks

I recently blogged about how images are hard and it ended up being a big ol’ checklist of things that you could/should think about and implement when placing images on websites. The project does all sorts of stuff, including hand out money to help fund open-source tools, and direct help specific initiatives.

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