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csswizardry

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About csswizardry

* Consultant Web Performance Engineer * Google Developer Expert * csswizardry.com * @csswizardry

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POI5XHAU0sc

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    Comment #48293858

    > fun one first […] The recruiter died. That took a turn!

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    Comment #46265914

    My own (similar) advice from 2016: https://csswizardry.com/2016/06/speakers-checklist-before-an...

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    Comment #45633023

    Complete side note: I’m on public wifi right now and the domain used to host the images in this article is, for some reason, blocked. But as the author (or whatever tool was used t…

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    Comment #45581772

    Way ahead of its time. Unfortunately.

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    Comment #45581758

    I used to share this sentiment (and I’m a web performance consultant by profession so very few people care about performance as much as me!), but when you consider how much calcula…

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    Comment #45581719

    Please, no! https://csswizardry.com/2019/05/self-host-your-static-assets...

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    Comment #44276298

    In light of Apple’s new Liquid Glass UI, this 2017 post/paper looks at creating realistic glass-like refraction on the web.

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    Comment #42885749

    A firm here in my city once got all of their signage printed and installed _before_ securing the social media handles they’d put on them. The Instagram username they’d opted for wa…

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    Comment #42880001

    Point 13, ironically, reminds me of one of the best bits of writing[1] I ever did. I somehow lost an entire near-complete draft[2] of an article, so I had to write it again from sc…

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    Comment #42879160

    I’m on-site with a client in The Hague this week—the food and drink in this city is phenomenal, so these paintings definitely still ring true for me at least.

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    Comment #42803632

    https://status.openai.com/incidents/ts3m47vzcbc9

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    Comment #42803160

    https://status.openai.com/incidents/ts3m47vzcbc9

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    Comment #42646495

    My guess, as someone who doesn’t know the answer but works closely in this field, is that the potential downside (i.e. privacy/security) was much greater than the actualised benefi…

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    Comment #42645833

    You are correct that this is an optimisation only available to H2+, but optimising to the H/1.x use-case is a use-case not worth optimising for—if one cared about web performance t…

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    Comment #42645796

    I’ve been beating this drum for many, many years now: https://csswizardry.com/2019/05/self-host-your-static-assets...

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    Comment #42393765

    https://csswizardry.com/csscv/ !

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    Comment #42345566

    I went canvassing for RSS feeds only yesterday! Some good stuff in here: https://bsky.app/profile/csswizardry.com/post/3lckq4qo6zs22

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    Comment #42050076

    I vividly remember this happening. Firstly, because I was an affected customer and I had to cancel all of my debit/credit cards days before a two-week work trip to SF, but secondly…

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    Comment #41656867

    Hugely instrumental in my career. Landed me my first ever job (2008) and has been responsible for underpinning most of my consultancy career (2013–now): https://csswizardry.com/ As…

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    Comment #41549296

    Huge, huge improvements. I’ve been following this spec keenly. 1. https://compression-dictionary-transport-threejs-demo.glitch... 2. https://compression-dictionary-transport-shop-d…

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    Comment #41286646

    This, generally, is avoidable hand-over-fist. `NoScript` isn’t a plugin—it’s older than most web developers.