I always love seeing how other people approach writing a new talk. Jeremy was kind enough to share some snapshots of his prep.
What a fantastic deep-dive! Antin walks through how Google Photos built a performant photo grid in great detail. There’s a lot of careful thinking in here and some clever solutions.
At times I think “will anyone reads this, does anyone care?”, but I always publish it anyway — and that’s for two reasons. First it’s a place for me to find stuff I may have forgotten how to do. Secondly, whilst some of this stuff is seemingly super-niche, if one person finds it helpful out there on the web, then that’s good enough for me. After all I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve read similar posts that have helped me out.
We need to be able to candidly and thoughtfully talk about technology without people assuming you’re calling that technology and the people who create/use it garbage. We have to be mindful of the community we’re fostering, and encourage people to freely discuss all this stuff without getting dog piled on.
The Tarot Cards of Tech are a set of provocations designed to help creators more fully consider the impact of technology.
Some important questions here to answer before building any new piece of technology.
Harry’s been doing a lot of digging into third-party performance in his performance work and he was kind enough to share his process with the rest of us. Lots of good ideas here!
What a great overview of how NerdWallet made their site significantly faster (6s faster time to visually complete as measured on a 3G network) in the last 6 months or so.
Surma talks about the different ways of forcing an element to be on its own element, and—most interestingly—the side-effects of each.
As per his usual, good advice from Zach about loading fonts: this time, advising not to pair font-display: optional with preload.
Wonderful walk-through of just how much data you’re sharing when you do something as simple as pizza and a movie.