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#313Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure, I use Feedly myself, but RSS is increasingly marginalized. I use to follow blogs, but it's not usable for mainstream media, Reddit, HN, etc etc.
> Reddit, HN Hacker News still has a feed (that's the only reason why I saw this thread). And Reddit gives you a feed for your subscribed subreddits.
You can also get feeds for any subreddit, user or post
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#314I started on this when project when I was at The New Yorker. I had just manage to convince people to give us space to do web performance optimization - and then we had to drop it quickly to work on AMP. Very frustrating. This site was created to give developers and pms some ammunition to work on improving load speed https://webperf.xyz/
Great project and we definitely need to maintain these public lists. Well done!
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#315Earlier quoted context omitted.
For Firefox users, here's where it's hidden (and it really is hidden): Hamburger menu -> More tools -> Web developer tools, then keep clicking on the ">>" until the Network tab appears, then scroll over on about the third menu bar down until you see "No throttling", that's a combobox that lets you set the speed you want. Alternatively, run uBlock Origin and NoScript and you probably won't need it.
What a weird comment, not sure what you are trying to achieve. Any web developer knows how to find the network tab of the web developer tools in any browser including Firefox, and then the throttle option is immediately there. You can make it look like any feature in any UI is hidden by choosing the longest path to reach it, using many words to describe it despite the target audience already knowing this stuff, and m…
Any web developer knows how to find the network tab of the web developer tools
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#316Author here. Woke up in today to see this on the front page, thank you to the person who submitted it! Initially, my biggest fear was the HN "Hug of Death" taking it down. Happily, Cloudflare's edge caching absorbed 19.24 GB of bandwidth in a few hours with a 98.5% cache hit ratio, so the origin server barely noticed. The discussions here about DNS-level blocking and Pi-hole are spot on. It's interesting that the bur…
Out of curiosity, do you have (and want to share) stats about requests per second? It's always nice to know these things for future reference. No worries if not :)
Not the author, but last year I wrote about my experience being on #1 on HN [0]. I created a visualization of the requests hitting my server.
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#318> 422 network requests and 49 megabytes of data Just FYI how this generally works: it's not developers who add it, but non-technical people. Developers only add a single ` ` in the page, which loads Google Tag Manager, or similar monstrosity, at the request of someone high up in the company. Initially it loads ~nothing, so it's fine. Over time, non-technical people slap as many advertising "partner" scripts they can…
Yeah, never allow non-technical people to put something like google tags manager on the business' website, that can load arbitrary other stuff. The moment this is pushed through, against engineering's advice, distancing yourself from the cesspool, that the website will inevitably become sooner or later, is the healthy choice. It is difficult to uphold the dam, against wishes of other departments, like marketing and sales, and it takes an informed and ethically aware engineering department lead, who upholds principles and remains steadfast. Rare.
GDPR-compliance is the first thing that goes out of the window, and with that conforming to the law, when in the EU. Ethics fly out of the window at the same time, or just slightly afterwards, when they add tracking, that no one agreed to, or when they forget to ask for consent, or when they have a "consent" popup, that employs dark pattern, or when they outsource consent to a third party tool, that informed visitors don't want anything to do with.
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#319> 422 network requests and 49 megabytes of data Just FYI how this generally works: it's not developers who add it, but non-technical people. Developers only add a single ` ` in the page, which loads Google Tag Manager, or similar monstrosity, at the request of someone high up in the company. Initially it loads ~nothing, so it's fine. Over time, non-technical people slap as many advertising "partner" scripts they can…
I tried to fight against the introduction of GTM in a project I worked on; we spent a lot of effort on coding, reviewing, testing, optimizing and minimizing client-side code before our end-users would see it, and the analytics people want a shortcut to inject any JS anywhere? I didn't win that one, but I did make sure that it would only load after the user agreed to tracking cookies and the like.
Similar story here. I had to remind them multiple times, that the website was not conforming with the law, and explain multiple times, that the consent dialog was not implemented correctly, or point out, that stuff was loaded before consenting, etc. They mostly found it annoying, of course. And of course no one thanked me for saving the business from running into any complications with the law. As far as I know, I was the only one there pointing out the issues, as a backend dev, and even the frontend team was blissfully ignorant of the issues.
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#320The newest thing is “please wait a minute while Cloudflare decides you’re not a bot.” So you sit through that, then deal with the GPDR banner, then you get to watch an ad.