Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The only time the Internet was mentioned was as a tool for communicating with one another without the need to chop down more trees, or for working without a commute. So, when people first started talking about the Internet having similar carbon emissions to the airline industry , I was a bit skeptical. Jump to table of contents ?.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Thanks to their simplicity and widespread support, GIF files remain wildly popular despite the dozens of other image and video formats available today. There’s a debate among web developers whether or not animated image formats should be ditched altogether in favor of video formats.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Measuring the carbon footprint of the web isn’t an exact science, but a report by the BBC in 2020 estimates that all internet activity accounts for around 3.7% While working on a site recently, I noticed that an embedded YouTube video loaded around 600kB of JS for any visitor regardless of whether that user even chose to watch the video.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

All industries have a part to play, and that includes web design and development. The internet accounts for an estimated 3–4% of global emissions — equivalent to some countries. The carbon emissions of the internet are roughly equivalent to those generated by the entire aviation industry, or the whole of Africa.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

We use Python through the full content lifecycle, from deciding which content to fund all the way to operating the CDN that serves the final video to 148 million members. video streaming) takes place in the Open Connect network. We use and contribute to many open-source Python packages, some of which are mentioned below.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

False negatives are closely related to the statistical concept of power , which gives the probability of a true positive given the experimental design and a true effect of a specific size. Continuing on an example from Part 3 , a false negative corresponds to labeling the photo of the cat as a “not cat.”

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The video is now on [YouTube]: The slides are [online] and as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom In Q&A I was asked about CXL (compute express link) which was fortunate as I had planned to cover it and then forgot, so the question let me talk about it (although Q&A is missing from the video).

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

In almost every area, Apple's low-quality implementation of features WebKit already supports requires workarounds not necessary for Firefox (Gecko) or Chrome/Edge/Brave/Samsung Internet (Blink). Next-generation video codecs, supported in many modern chips, but also a licensing minefield. Fundamentally enabling for video creation apps.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It’s also one of the reasons we can keep using the Internet with many concurrent users, because it smartly limits each user’s bandwidth usage to their fair share. As another example, most applications on the Internet use TCP internally to ensure that all of their data are transmitted in full. Did You Know? Did You Know?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. Sustainable Web Design.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The video is now on YouTube : The slides are online and as a PDF : first prev next last / permalink/zoom In Q&A I was asked about CXL (compute express link) which was fortunate as I had planned to cover it and then forgot, so the question let me talk about it (although Q&A is missing from the video).

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O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

GPT-3 is essentially an auto-complete bot whose underlying Machine Learning (ML) model has been trained on vast quantities of text available on the Internet. Indeed, Google recently announced LaMDA , a model at GPT-3 scale that is designed to participate in conversations. Targeted Manipulation at Scale. Prompt Engineering.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This is because HTTP/3 and QUIC mainly help deal with the somewhat uncommon yet potentially high-impact problems that can arise on today’s Internet. On the Internet, however, we typically have a long series of connected pipes , some of which can be wider than others (leading to so-called bottlenecks at the narrowest links).

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Testsigma

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Shift-left: Testsigma supports the shift-left testing approach and allows testing right from the design phase of the site or app. Bug management : It takes screenshots, logs, and detailed videos of bugs and crashes. It offers precise insights into efficiency, productivity, and test performance in multiple environments.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. You work with a designer and developer to create a bespoke website. But, when it worked, it was magical. Let’s fix that!

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly.

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Testsigma

JULY 24, 2021

per year; the internet users are increasing at an annual growth of 7½%, especially in the developing countries. To guarantee your apps or sites run as designed on multiple devices, it’s vital to test them before shipping them. As per Data Reportal , there are over 5.27 Picture credit: Leapwork.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

I hope to raise the profile of difficulties faced by real people, which are avoidable if we design and develop in a way that is sympathetic to their needs. Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. Any other application’s internet access is automatically blocked. The video is clipped off-screen.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Considering how important images are to web design, this isn’t an element we can dispose of so easily nor can we afford to cut corners when it comes to optimizing them. On2 had worked on a number of video compression technologies, which ended up serving as the basis for Google’s new audiovisual format WebM and next-gen image format WebP.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Codrops Codrops features blogs with topics ranging from UI design and page animations to image formatting and general JavaScript practices. Its videos and blog articles address issues such as web performance, extensible component development and the intersection of CSS with other technologies, like HTML and JavaScript. Visit website 3.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Moreover, a GSI''s performance is designed to meet DynamoDB''s single digit millisecond latency - you can add items to a Users table for a gaming app with tens of millions of users with UserId as the primary key, but retrieve them based on their home city, with no reduction in query performance. Efficient Queries. Start with DynamoDB.

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VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

These systems were designed to have a lifetime of half a decade or more, and rapidly changing hardware meant that the initial deployment had to be sized for 5-7 years out. Bear in mind that the internet currently takes 4ms from New York to Philadelphia. Some of these will serve large urban areas and will be sensitive to efficiency.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

Low-end phones on the other hand are getting cheaper , making the mobile internet accessible to demographics that previously maybe couldn’t afford it. JavaScript was designed to run in lock-step with the browser’s main rendering loop. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. At the same time, we have a widening performance gap.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term.

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Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2022

Another research supported this conclusion by providing data that depicts 90% of the total internet time of the users is spent on mobile apps. The developers had not designed the popup to disappear when a user clicks outside the region. Since the popup was not visible and was designed from corner to corner, it could not be closed.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly. thanks, Guy Podjarny! ).

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

Amazon Elastic MapReduce takes away much of this muck by providing a hosted Hadoop framework that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and efficiently spin up resizable clusters for distributed processing of large data sets. However, this cannot be done without efficient, scalable data analytics.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today, creating content on the Internet is the norm, not the exception. Serve In Next-generation (Next-gen) Formats, Encode Efficiently. If we have a responsive design, we will want the image to stay within the margins of the container, using the CSS below for that: img { max-width: 100%; height: auto; }. The change of design.

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Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

For example, OWNERs and experts in video and audio codecs can agree to extensive changes in their domain but cannot green-light changes in areas such as layout, networking, storage, or JavaScript engines. Developers can provide feedback from using features and lobby other browsers to adopt (or re-design) them.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

JavaScript-based frameworks like React made the process of developing web applications streamlined and efficient, for better or worse. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX.

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The Morning Paper

APRIL 11, 2019

The design has the following goals: Isolation : operation is independent of any browsing session thread or process (so that more heavyweight computation can be done with less chance of detection). MarioNet can conduct a subset of DDoS attacks by instructing Servants to connect to a specific Internet host. MarioNet use cases.

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Alex Russell

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Dimitri Glazkov , Alex Komoroske , and I started the project that designed and (for many years) iterated on Web Components with a few primary goals in mind: Enhance component portability. First, compatibility requires stability and a commitment to a specific design. There are also costs associated with compatibility.

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Tim Kadlec

JULY 31, 2013

One of the ones that stands out is Nate Koechley’s “Professional Frontend Engineering” presentation ( transcript and video ). Instead, to support a browser, we want to give the browser what it can handle, in the most efficient way possible. A Dao of Web Design was written by John Allsopp in 2000. Here at Yahoo!, That was 2008.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Such policies would be designed to mitigate legal problems and require regulatory compliance. The applications of generative AI with the fewest users were web design (42% total; 28% experimenting, 14% using) and art (36% total; 25% experimenting, 11% using). Another piece of the same puzzle is the lack of a policy for AI use.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 23, 2023

They’ve all had additional specialized training; and they all have a reasonably well-designed user interface. The design of Transformers lends itself to parallelism, making it much easier to train a model (or to use a model) in a reasonable amount of time. The design of Transformers lends itself to large sets of training data.

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