Sat.Jul 21, 2018

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Getting to Know a Legacy Codebase

CSS Wizardry

The other day, Brad dropped me a message asking me about the topic of getting to know a brand new (specifically CSS) codebase. The kind of codebase that no one person truly understands any more; the kind of codebase that’s had a dozen different contributors over just as many years; the kind of codebase that’s never had a full-scale refactor or overhaul, but that’s grown organically over time and changed with new techniques, styles, and trends.

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Website Size: The Average Web Page Size Is More than 2MB – Twice the Size of the Average Page Just 3 Years Ago

MachMetrics

Can you imagine if you doubled your weight from 180 lbs to 360lbs in 3 years? You’d be a little embarrassed, right? Yet this is what has happened to web pages, and no one seems to be taking much action. Web pages have become massive since their minuscule proportions in the early 2000s. But what’s shocking is that despite our faster connection speeds, sometimes sites are loading even slower than they did back then.

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