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Talking about technology (mostly)

An article that popped up on lobste.rs today: Optimizing Your Web App 100x is Like Adding 99 Servers, it has a few performance optimization tips.

This on r/programming today: What’s New in PHP 8.

Today is a historic day! I’m now running Firefox 83 an have enabled the new HTTPS-Only mode!

Today I discovered Low Hanging Fruits in Frontend Performance Optimization which is chock full of performance tips for websites.

Here’s a fun article about Double-clicking On The Web from way back in 2015. Ah, the good old days.

Read a good article about Box Sizing over on CSS Tricks.

In summary:

html {
  box-sizing: border-box;
}
*, *:before, *:after {
  box-sizing: inherit;
}

To download a web page along with its scripts and styles etc:

wget --page-requisites --convert-links --execute robots=off https://www.example.com/whatever/

Today I discovered Data Visualization with JavaScript. I would like to read that one, I will see if I ever find the time.

This article about Wikimedia’s CDN popped up on lobste.rs today.