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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. Check out her writing about business and technology on her own site at rachelandrew.co.uk , and follow her on Twitter @ rachelandrew , where she tweets about CSS, tech topics, and much more. Rachel Andrew. Jake Archibald. Jake Archibald.

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40+ Best Web Development Blogs of 2018

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New technologies, libraries, and techniques are continuously emerging and if you want to stay on top of all these changes you will need to immerse yourself in communities, groups, and conferences all revolving around web development. Smashing Magazine Smashing Magazine is an established resource for those who want to master the front end.

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

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In a way, technology also created new typeface classifications. Because technology has made it possible to design typefaces easier than ever before, we seem to be reinventing “different types of wheels” that already get the job done. They were all designed for slightly different contexts and technological times. Large preview ).

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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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What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites

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population alone uses ad-blocking technology on their devices, so they’re not likely to see your on-page ads anyway. Statista data on the usage of ad-blocking technology in the U.S. If you want to see an example of this in action, you can look at pretty much any leading digital magazine or news site.

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Changing A Tire On A Moving Car (Or How To Improve Product Roadmaps)

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Especially if your technology stack has just been hacked and set up for ransom. Worse yet, once the work is batched they insert user research that should have been done to inform the original work effort to what the real benchmark (MVP) should be. You’ll need to pull over, stop the car, and get it fixed.

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

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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! ).