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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

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What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? These devices consisted of glass disks (one per typeface) that spun in front of a light source, which exposed characters onto light-sensitive paper. Jump to table of contents ?.

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HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2)

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However, TCP is typically implemented in the operating system’s (OS’) kernel, a secure and more restricted environment, which for most OSes isn’t even open source. As such, one best practice or optimization can end up undoing another. And it gets worse. Did You Know? Finally convinced?

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HTTP/3: Practical Deployment Options (Part 3)

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You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. This is because, as I stated in the introduction to part 1 , much of the early HTTP/2 content was overly optimistic about how well it would work in practice, and some of it, quite frankly, had major mistakes and bad advice.

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