Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Google's Search App and Facebook's various apps for Android undermine these choices in slightly different ways. [3] Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. Web OTP (for easier/faster sign-in).

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Most Linux users cannot afford the amount of resource large enterprises like Google put into custom Linux performance tuning… For Google of course, there’s an economy of scale that makes all that effort worth it. On the exact same hardware, the benchmark suite is then used to test 36 Linux release versions from 3.0

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

If you're a web developer not living under a rock, you undoubtedly got word of last week's big Safari 16.4 By mandating proof of developer enthusiasm for features, extensive test suites, and accurate specifications, the catch-up process has been put on rails for Apple. What choice do developers have, but to sit and stew?

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Energy Games Engineering Design 79

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As a trend, it’s not performing well on Google; it shows little long-term growth, if any, and gets nowhere near as many searches as terms like “Observability” and “Generative Adversarial Networks.” Hyperautomation may just be another ploy in the game of buzzword bingo, but we need to look behind the game to discover what’s important.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

When the researcher can see through the user’s eyes, recognizing a usability problem sooner would save the client and developer time and money. Eye-tracking is nothing but new, but recent developments in technology made the methodology accessible to businesses of all sizes. “. For developers who know enough JavaScript to be dangerous.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

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O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

Examples include popular home assistants and smart displays like the Amazon Echo, Google Home, Apple HomePod, and many others. In Privacy in Context, Nissenbaum talks about the privacy implications of Google Street View when it places photos of people’s houses on Google Maps. Source: Google Face Match video, [link] ).

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Mobile phones are rapidly becoming touchscreens and touchscreen phones are increasingly all-touch, with the largest possible display area and fewer and fewer hardware buttons. The hardware matters, but the underlying OS is the same , and pretty much all apps will run on any device of the same age. This is not true. Large preview ).

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Mobile Design Internet Internet 104

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

is an open collaboration between Google, Microsoft , Intel , Samsung , and others to safely bring capabilities to the web which native developers have come to expect. 1] Expansions of the web's power can seem by turns scary, capricious, or a distraction from the real problems developers face. [2]. Chromium's Project Fugu ??

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Hardware Games Java Media 55

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Meanwhile, developer behaviour offers little hope: Median mobile JavaScript payloads have only grown since 2016, now hovering above 400KiB of script transferred, or nearly 2.5MiB of uncompressed JS. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Compared to devices wealthy developers carry, the performance is night and (blinding) day.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The same can be said for web development. Thus, implementing error tracking from the very beginning of the development cycle will save your team a lot of time and headaches. The Google DevTools console can give you real-time feedback to help you trace the source of errors, and you can set handlers to automate exception data collection.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This part is a bit more technical than the first, though it offloads most of the really deep stuff to outside sources, focusing on explaining why these things matter to the average web developer. As such, tuning congestion logic is usually only done by a select few developers, and evolution is slow. What does it all mean?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what strategies should be used to fix them. Establish a performance culture. Large preview ).

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 28, 2011

VC firms late to the game will add more froth to valuations. Tech behemoths such as Oracle, Microsoft and Google are sitting on large cash piles. There is also a sea-change in tech from hardware and services to software. M&A in the tech sector is back to pre-crisis levels.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what loading patterns should be used to fix them. Run performance experiments and measure outcomes — both on mobile and on desktop (for example, with Google Analytics ). Establish a performance culture. thanks, Guy Podjarny!

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Tim Kadlec

JULY 31, 2013

If the site’s not available to people, game over, we might as well not even bother. guiding principle, richness: Another thing to keep in mind about richness, as a developer, is that you’re probably not the average user. In a comment on my last post I referenced the Boston Globe and how it appears on Google Glass.

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Google Website Hardware Games 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what loading patterns should be used to fix them. The former is particularly useful during development as it will help you identify, isolate and fix performance issues while working on the product. Establish a performance culture.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

After the latest redesign in late 2017, it was Ilya Pukhalski on the JavaScript side of things (part-time), Michael Riethmueller on the CSS side of things (a few hours a week), and yours truly, playing mind games with critical CSS and trying to juggle a few too many things. It’s used in development and editing but obviously not in production.

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