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40+ Best Web Development Blogs of 2018

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It also includes a handy CSS reference, a web development experiment playground, tutorials, blueprints to get started from and Collective - a digital design magazine that makes it easy to keep up with trends. Smashing Magazine Smashing Magazine is an established resource for those who want to master the front end.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

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Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine, a British web developer, writer, and speaker. Vitaly is a co-founder of the Smashing Magazine brand. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine until October 2017 when he passed the baton to the remarkable Rachel Andrew. Rachel Andrew. Vitaly Friedman. Rick Viscomi.

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This week in review: GPUs, Zombies, Biomimicry and Tom Waits.

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There was an excellent first benchmarking report of the Cluster GPU Instances by the folks at Cycle Computing - " A Couple More Nails in the Coffin of the Private Compute Cluster " The Top500 supercomputer list. Physics and the limits of human perception - Why goalkeepers have trouble stopping long-range shots - Seed Magazine.

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Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties

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Every major website on the Internet today relies — to some degree — on third-party services. The HTTP Archive tracks third-party usage across a large swath of all active websites on the Internet today. They are more of a benchmark than a true measurement of real user experience. of mobile sites and 94.1%

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. If you want to get started with GraphQL, Eric Baer published two fantastic articles on yours truly Smashing Magazine: A GraphQL Primer: Why We Need A New Kind Of API and A GraphQL Primer: The Evolution Of API Design ( thanks for the hint, Leonardo! ).

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

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Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. On Smashing Magazine, we could measure 19-32% improvement , too. Not to mix up with Microsoft’s JPEG-XR coming from good ol' Internet Explorer 9 times). compared to early 2015. Are JPEG/PNG/SVGs properly optimized?