Web Performance Improvement
One thing we as developers tend to forget is that not all web experiences are equal. One of the positive things I've found about AMP is that it reduces the fat of your web content by reducing the...
Codec Comparison: 2-pass encoding
We've set up 1-pass encoding for all our target codecs and we have the resulting videos to compare. Do a 2-pass encoding changes file size and video quality? Hardware Specs # Model Name: MacBook...
Codec Testing and Comparison
Warning # Message Date: 04/12/2018 The alliance for Open Media froze bitstream format on March 28, 2018 and announced version 1.0 of the codec on the same day. It is not clear if the bitstream work...
Quick Note: Using details to create no-script accordions
Hat Tip to : CSS Tricks. An accordion is a UX element to group related items like Frequently asked questions. Most libraries give you a way to create accordions. But there is an easier way to...
How many people actually browse your site without Javascript?
In reading Measuring the Hard-to-Measure I found his idea to track how many people are actually browsing your site without Javascript. It's this little image inside a noscript element. <noscript> ...
CSS Logical Properties
If you've been following the CSS specifications you will see that several of the more recent ones have adopted start and end as values for the properties and I wondered why was this, wasn't it enough...
Quick Note: fetching and displaying images
In the old days, you could get away with fetching an image, assigning the file to the src attribute of your image and then proudly display your Javascript chops to the rest of the world. The times are...
EPRDCTN in the command line: WSL Interoperability
One important thing that Windows users should know. There is a reason why we went through all the work of installing PowerShell and WSL: Interoperability. WSL and Powershell were designed to work...
EPRDCTN in the command line: Basic shell commands, pipes, globes and others
Since we're working on the command line we also need to learn about what makes the Unix/Linux command line work. Globes # There are times when we need to match commands against one or more files. It...
EPRDCTN in the command line: Node and Java
Node # Node.js (or just Node) is a cross-platform Javascript interpreter built on the V8, the same Javascript interpreter that powers Google Chrome. Initially, Node was created to run Javascript on...