Alex Russell

DECEMBER 31, 2023

" The implication is clear: browsers unchained can do to mobile what the web did to desktop, where more than 70% of daily "jobs to be done" happen on the web. ." In through eagle-eyed press coverage, regulatory reports, and legal discovery the shady dealings of Apple and Google's app stores are now comprehensively documented.

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Alex Russell

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Why is this important? I tend to think it depends on how much you ascribe the rise of the web as a platform to luck and how much you attribute to its particular attributes; my guess is ~40/60 luck+timing vs. attributes. It’s difficult to design or run experiments about UI framework adoption. Simple and direct is good.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

The initial WordPress architecture is monolithic , so the user interface and data access are combined on the same platform. The initial WordPress architecture is monolithic , so the user interface and data access are combined on the same platform. How Thinking In Components Can Increase Your Productivity ”. Alba Silvente.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

Throughout this tutorial, we will be looking at practices that should be adopted, things that should be avoided, and have a closer look at some helpful tools to make writing Vue.js Note: This article is aimed at both beginners and seasoned developers who want to better their Vue.js Tools And Practices To Speed Up The Vue.js Uma Victor.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

That was until we went to production with our highest traffic customer. In this Deloitte study: Milliseconds Make Millions , the investigators analyzed mobile site data of 37 different brands. is something you just need to experience. The code you write visualizes instantly in your browser and productivity goes through the sky.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

How To Build An Amazon Product Scraper With Node.js How To Build An Amazon Product Scraper With Node.js I wanted to talk to you today about Astro, but before we do, why don’t you tell us a little bit about your background and how you’ve got to where you are today? Matthew: I think so. Show Notes. Weekly Update.

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Media Website Architecture Servers 87

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

This article summarizes what I learned from that experience. The inspiration (and title) for it comes from Mike Loukides’ Radar article on Real World Programming with ChatGPT , which shares a similar spirit of digging into the potential and limits of AI tools for more realistic end-to-end programming tasks.

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Testsigma

MAY 19, 2020

Therefore, it is important to understand the scope of testing that needs to be performed before starting the execution. Most often, when beginners start testing, they think they would be able to remember all the test cases needed to be executed and don’t need a formal test plan. So, the testing team stays focused.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Like all Core Web Vitals, INP has a set of thresholds: INP thresholds for Good, Needs Improvement, and Poor Many sites tend to be in the Needs Improvement or Poor categories. Interaction to Next Paint (INP) will become a Core Web Vital on March 12th. INP measures how responsive a page is to visitor interactions.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

You would need to make that change on every page. Throughout the web’s history, static websites have always been a popular option due to their simplicity, scalability, and security. However, unlike the early days of the web, static sites are no longer limited to developers working in a code editor. But, when it worked, it was magical.

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

You’d be thinking of a no right? To answer all these questions we need exhaustive mobile testing in place. Functional testing is a broad testing term can be applied to other types of products too and not only mobile. But here, because in this article, we will keep the scope limited to mobile. . Functional Testing.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

When it comes to organising engineering teams, a popular view has been to organise your teams based on either Spotify's agile model (i.e. squads, chapters, tribes, and guilds) or simply follow Amazon's two-pizza team model. Secondly, you need flexibility and room for error when iterating with organisational structure.

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Engineering Retail Airlines Healthcare 61

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This article is sponsored by Storyblok. It has never been easier to build a personalized website, digitalize a product and start seeing results. It has never been easier to build a personalized website, digitalize a product and start seeing results. Why Image Optimization Is So Important For A Jamstack Site?

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

then this final piece includes all you need to know to get started! , then this final piece includes all you need to know to get started! First, we’ll discuss which changes you need to make to your pages and resources to optimally use the new protocols (that’s the easy part). HTTP/3 performance features. Single Connection.

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Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

TL;DR: performance budgets are an essential but under-appreciated part of product success and team health. We’ve had the pleasure of working with dozens of teams over the past few years. We’ve had the pleasure of working with dozens of teams over the past few years. Maybe "ambush by JS"?

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Policies built for a different era don't make sense today, and we no longer need to accept sweeping restrictions in the name of safety. Policies built for a different era don't make sense today, and we no longer need to accept sweeping restrictions in the name of safety. This post reviews these from a technical perspective.

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Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2020

Teams working remotely have long been excluded from the real power of collaborative domain modelling. And when not enforced, we may see a big shift in people wanting to work remotely, and the need to prevent climate change may prohibit travel. This means we should think about remote modelling from a fresh perspective.

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CSS - Tricks

JUNE 5, 2020

The HBO sitcom Silicon Valley hilariously followed Pied Piper, a team of developers with startup dreams to create a compression algorithm so powerful that high-quality streaming and file storage concerns would become a thing of the past. This article is about my experience using Brotli at production scale. And what’s zlib?

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Cache Website Servers Open Source 79

O'Reilly

MARCH 2, 2020

I read an article on the death of Agile. It’s not the first article I’ve seen claiming that Agile is dead, and I’m sure it won’t be the last. ” That kind of Agile needs to die. But it’s worth some time thinking about the Agile Manifesto and what it means, maybe even meditating on it.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what exactly our performance bottlenecks are?

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 8, 2019

And when the adoption of such techniques and technologies become widespread, they tend to become trends. In this article, we will be talking about the technologies and techniques that are expected to become test automation trends in 2020. According to Gartner , Hyper automation is a technology trend to look out for in 2020.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? And, most importantly, where do we even start improving performance and how do we establish a performance culture long-term? Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? And, most importantly, where do we even start improving performance and how do we establish a performance culture long-term? Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Vitaly Friedman.

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