Smashing Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

A New Way To Reduce Font Loading Impact: CSS Font Descriptors. A New Way To Reduce Font Loading Impact: CSS Font Descriptors. Barry Pollard. 2021-05-25T09:30:00+00:00. 2021-05-25T11:07:35+00:00. Font loading has long been a bugbear of web performance, and there really are no good choices here. If you want to use web fonts your choices are basically Flash of Invisible Text (aka FOIT) where the text is hidden until the font downloads or Flash of Unstyled Text (FOUT) where you use the fallback syst

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O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

OpenAI’s text generating system GPT-3 has captured mainstream attention. 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. The output produced from this autocomplete bot can be used to manipulate people on social media and spew political propaganda, argue about the meaning of life (or lack thereof) , disagree with the notion of what differentiates a hot-dog from a sandwich , take upon the

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Speed Curve

MAY 25, 2021

Phew! Between the fast-paced release cycle for Chrome and the rapid evolution of Core Web Vitals, the month of May has been a busy one here at SpeedCurve. With that, we are excited to bring you some new features and enhancements to help you stay focused and ahead of the game as we move into summer. Read on to learn more about: Chrome Beta and Canary support.

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InfoQ

MAY 25, 2021

AWS recently released Warm Pools for EC2 Auto Scaling, which reduces the time and cost to scale out (aka horizontal scaling) applications by maintaining a pool of pre-initialized instances. By Mostafa Radwan.

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Sutter's Mill

MAY 25, 2021

This special Guru of the Week series focuses on contracts. Now that we have considered assertions, postconditions, and preconditions in GotWs #97-101, let’s pause and reflect: To what extent does a failed contract imply “UB”… either the Hidden Dragon of Undefined Behavior, or the Crouching Tiger of Unspecified Behavior? JG Question 1. Briefly, what is the difference among: (a) undefined behavior (b) unspecified behavior (c) implementation-defined behavior Guru Questions 2.

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