Understanding Flex Direction
If you need help understanding the main axis versus the cross axis in terms of flex direction, hopefully this helps. Enjoy. … More …
View ArticleSurvey for US Developers’ Experience
I created a survey of developer experiences for US based developers. While the results aren’t scientific in the the questions and optional answers were not all that well written, and the distribution...
View ArticleLyrinė Tālrunis: “Telephone” with Lyric Translations
Last week I hacked together a mashup of HP’s IdolOnDemand‘s free Speech Recognition API and Google’s fee-for-service Translation API to create a Lyric Translator. Of course, I had to make the site...
View ArticleSpeed Perception
TL;DR: Please take the speedPerception challenge to help us confirm results about which web performance metrics best match human perception of speed. Last summer, I was involved in a study called...
View ArticleTWELP: Twitter Help
Sometimes Twitter gets things wrong. Very, very, wrong. A few “features” that I think are bugs include Twitter Moments, To this end, I created a little bookmarklet called “TWELP”. <a...
View ArticleW3C Performance Specifications
Here are some of the W3C’s web performance specifications: High Resolution Time (Level 3) The DOMHighResTimeStamp type, performance.now method, and performance.timeOrigin attributes of the Performance...
View ArticleLet’s Encrypt on cPanel
Here is how I set up Let’s Encrypt for all sites on my hosted virtual private server running cPanel. 1. SSH as root $ ssh -p 22 root@123.1.23.123 Your port might also be 2200. Ask your VPS hosting...
View ArticleFeeding the Diversity Pipeline
Welcoming work environments require multiple components. Most notably, the environment needs to be both diverse and inclusive. A lot of attention has been focused on diversity: on ensuring the pipeline...
View ArticleWeb Performance: Video Optimization
According to HTTPArchive, sites went from an average of 2,135Kb to 3,034 KB in the two years from July 1, 2015, to July 1, 2017. Videos are a major part of that. The average web sites video weight...
View ArticleThe 6 best new features in npm 5
Last night I attended waffle.js and heard a great talk by Laurie Voss, aka seldo, the CTO of npm, about new features in npm@5. Several things have been upgraded and new features have been added in...
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