Measuring your site's performance with Lighthouse
As developers, we are fixated with performance and rightly so. But we also tend to put web performance in a vacuum and not worry how our site's performance got to where it is today. In this post,...
Trying to understand DRM on the web...
We've had DRM in browsers for a while now in the shape of EME and its associated technologies but we haven't asked ourselves what does it do or if it works or not. To help frame the issue I've taken a...
Combining Houdini APIs
I've written about Houdini before and how awesome it is. The articles I've written are: CSS Houdini: Present and Future of CSS CSS Houdini: Properties & Values CSS Houdini: CSS Typed Object...
Additional updates for my Gulp build scripts
I finally decided to update my build to work with Gulp 4.x instead of 3. I'm familiar with gulp.series and gulp.parallel changes that are necessary for the build file to work in the new format. What I...
Compiling Chromium From Source
Note: This post discusses the compilation process in a Macintosh. Instructions for other operating systems can be found at Get the code A few months ago Quora started posting questions about the...
Further thoughts on performance
In the time I've been researching performance I've become even more convinced that it's not just an issue with Javascript, CSS, images, HTML or what framework you're using, although any one of those...
A new baseline for front-end development
In 2012 Rebeca Murphey wrote A baseline for front-end developers as a minimum of what people should know to work in front-end development back in the day. I went back to the article and was surprised...
Differences between CSS Custom Properties and Houdini Properties and values
CSS Custom Properties, also known as CSS Variables allow you to do awesome things. In this post, we'll explore the different types of CSS Custom properties, what they are, how they work and which one...
Understanding the CSS box model
One of the things I've always had a problem understanding is the CSS box model. I'm writing this, based on content from MDN to try and understand it better. When laying out a document, the browser...
What is a front-end developer
I'm an old school developer. The first website I made dates back to 1995 when a friend and I built our school's first website for independent study credit. The web has come a long way from those early...