Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

The Budget, 2024 JavaScript-Heavy Markup-Heavy Calculate Your Own Situation Report Mobile Desktop Takeaways The Great Branch Mispredict The Budget, 2024 # In a departure from previous years, we'll evaluate two sets of baseline numbers for first-load under five seconds on 75 th ( P75 ) percentile devices and networks. In the U.S.,

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

In the early idealistic days of internet expansion, the leading companies earned outsized profits by solving the attention allocation problem. As the internet grew, the amount of information available to consumers became so vast that it outran traditional human means of curation and selection. The market was maturing.

Social Media 108

Social Media Google Internet Internet 108

CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

In March 2024, First Input Delay (FID) will be removed, and Interaction to Next Paint (INP) will take its place. If you have a substantial amount of traffic from a country with, say, slow internet connections, then your performance in general will go down. Until then, INP is not a part of Core Web Vitals.

Engineering 246

Engineering Google Speed Mobile 246

Percona

JUNE 23, 2023

These problems have been rectified, but the old reputation lives on in the annals of the Internet and the memories of critics. JSON_TABLE() may make it into PG 17 in 2024 after being dropped at the last moment from PG 15. PostgreSQL is playing catchup, as its alternatives are not as simple to implement.

Database 123

Database Transportation Servers Cloud 123

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

The iOS system has traditionally provided support for Home Screen web apps by building directly on WebKit and its security architecture. Browser makers have become masters of origin separation because they run totally untrusted code from all over the internet. Security is paramount because browsers have to be paranoid.

Storage 100

Storage Games Engineering Design 100