All Things Distributed
FEBRUARY 4, 2014
In the 2013 Amazon Shareholder letter , Jeff Bezos spent time explaining the decision to pursue a customer-centric way in our business. As regular readers of this letter will know, our energy at Amazon comes from the desire to impress customers rather than the zeal to best competitors.
Smashing Magazine
JUNE 3, 2022
Our focus is on typefaces for reading large amounts of text and information in the most efficient, legible, pleasurable, comprehensible, and effective way possible. What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? Thomas Bohm.
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CSS - Tricks
AUGUST 18, 2020
A ASUS X550CC laptop from 2013 running Windows 10 on Chrome 83. React does alright here, but Preact seems to handle event listeners a bit more efficiently. Admittedly, these were the results I was most excited to see: how does an ASUS laptop from 2013 with Windows 10 and an Ivy Bridge i5 of the day handle this stuff?
Speed Curve
DECEMBER 25, 2013
The following article was originally published in the 2013 Performance Calendar. Recently Grigorik has been championing this approach and the Google Pagespeed Insight rules have been updated to reflect this best practice with recommendations on how to reduce the size of "above the fold" content.
The Agile Manager
SEPTEMBER 30, 2013
Technocracy was, too: "best practice" was derived from people performing narrowly defined tasks in rigid processes that yielded poor quality products at a high cost. Microcomputers improved the efficiency of data collection and made it easy to consolidate operational data. American business exited the 1970s in terrible shape.
Smashing Magazine
JANUARY 15, 2019
In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. I predominantly use Nginx, and I have a particular fondness for FastCGI cache and have found it to be especially efficient. We should make serving our website as easy for our server as possible. Carbon offsetting is sometimes derided, and with good cause.
Smashing Magazine
JANUARY 6, 2020
From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). In exchange, your team gains maintainability and developer efficiency, of course. A sample output by imaging-heap , a command line tool that measure the efficiency across viewport sizes and device pixel ratios. Image source ) ( Large preview ).
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