All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 23, 2013

'This year I have not been able to publish many back-to-basics readings, so I will not close the year with a recap of those. Instead I have a video of a wonderful presentation by Butler Lampson where he talks about the learnings of the past decades that helped him to update his excellent 1983 " Hints for computer system design ". The presentation was part of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum helt in September of this year.

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Design Systems 129

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Time for the long-running (since way back in 2012 !) annual tradition of listing the top five most popular posts on this site of the past year. Here are 2013’s favorites, in order of popularity. Why We Need Responsive Images. The responsive image discussion is the Never Ending Story of web technology. Some people were, understandably, getting frustrated and questioning whether it was worth the fuss so I decided to see how much page weight could be saved by serving appropriately sized images to s

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Media Design Technology Technology 40

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

The following article was originally published in the 2013 Performance Calendar. There's 31 great articles to explore in the calendar including Steve Souders's browser wishlist and Tim Kadlec's take on what it takes to create a performance culture. -. Responsive Web Design (RWD) is now a well established technique yet it’s adoption is still surprisingly low.

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