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by davidweatherall 7y ago
I agree there are often more important performance issues on sites, especially with images, but that doesn't mean we should completely ignore javascript bundle sizes. In modern sites if javascript doesn't load sites then become no
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by davidweatherall 7y ago
A fetch polyfill can be added to a project for ~500 bytes[1] vs jQuery which is ~30kB [2] - or if you were to import just the ajax element from jQuery it would be 13kB [3] And by correctly using polyfills only on browsers that don't su
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by davidweatherall 7y ago
What a terrible site. "This content is copyright protected" if you try and copy text from an article, and turning javascript off means none of the content is visible.
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by davidweatherall 7y ago
I imagine anti-lazyloading extensions will start appearing soon.
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by davidweatherall 7y ago
This software is available for $3.50 through videohubapp.com $3.50 of every sale goes to the cost-effective charity Against Malaria Foundation. Appears to donate 100% straight to Charity by the looks of it.
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by davidweatherall 7y ago
You can quite often get older versions of Vegas Pro ridiculously cheap on humble bundle as well with all of the money going to charity
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by davidweatherall 7y ago
With invisible recaptcha most users won't even see a captcha challenge when they sign up to forms
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by davidweatherall 7y ago
With css scripting languages becoming a core part of the build set up I'm amazed how many people still use 100 / 1000 / 10000 / 999 style z-index values. https://gist.github.com/davidweatherall/dfc46
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by davidweatherall 7y ago
First time coming across techcrunch's "extra crunch" paywall - It's a shame they give you half the article before mentioning it.