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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

As I was determined to become great at my new occupation regardless of my location, I read every sysadmin book, article, and magazine I could find on the shelf.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

As I was determined to become great at my new occupation regardless of my location, I read every sysadmin book, article, and magazine I could find on the shelf.

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How We Improved SmashingMag Performance

Smashing Magazine

The build process on its own has become quite a beast over time as well, with critical CSS injects, Webpack’s code splitting, dynamic inserts of advertising and feature panels, RSS (re)generation, and eventual A/B testing on the edge. So we looked into options on automating this process as a part of the build routine.

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Eye-Tracking In Mobile UX Research

Smashing Magazine

Nowadays, hardware and software are designed to conduct eye-tracking studies for marketing , UX , psychological and medical research , gaming , and several other use cases. However, the price of eye-tracking used to be much higher than heatmaps, as measuring users’ gaze required special hardware to be used in-lab. Online Shopping.

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Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt)

Smashing Magazine

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.

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

how much data does the browser have to download to display your website) and resource usage of the hardware serving and receiving the website. In this screenshot below, for example, we can see that loading the Smashing Magazine website for the first time incurs just under a megabyte of data transfer. These include data transfer (i.e.

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Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober

Smashing Magazine

Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces presents and shares real information on hardware, people, interactions, and environments. Chapter 8 covers the issues around imprecision and probability and shows how we need to design systems, interactions, and processes that prevent mistakes — especially avoiding catastrophe when mistaken taps are made.

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