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🖋 Users DO change font size
Evan Minto wrote a great article showing the Internet Archive has tested the actual root font-size set by their visitors, and the result shows a lot of people still change the default one: Pixels vs....
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🖋 Leaving 500px
500px once was a light in the dark, when Flickr stopped evolving, years ago. But 500px gradually descended from its pedestal, as decisions were made against users' interests.A fast growing...
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🖋 Could a MacBook Pro replace a Mac mini?
I'm fed up with waiting for an updated Mac mini, but I need to replace one that is 10 years old (yes, 10 years!), so I'm considering other options.I know Tim Cook said back in October 2017 that Apple...
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🖋 Lapeyre, y'en a pas deux. J'espère !
Je ne sais pas si vous avez déjà été confronté au SAV de Lapeyre, mais je peux vous dire qu'il vaut son pesant de cacahuètes.Le 4 octobre 2017, un technicien Lapeyre venait prendre des mesures chez moi...
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🖋 Using Cloudinary's Fetch API to convert an animated GIF to a video
I like animated GIFs, like most people these days I think, but they are really heavy, hurting the performance of web pages, and consuming data plans faster than should be needed. So we need to convert...
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🖋 The treasure behind the castle walls
Pile up enough treasure behind the castle walls and you'll eventually attract someone who can climb them.This is a nice quote about security threats caused by concentrating our personal data in a few...
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🖋 100000 tweets
100000 tweets. Already! Only? A little more than 11 years on Twitter, since I signed up May 25th 2007, and today I post my 100000th tweet. A lot have changed on Twitter, and it has brought me a lot of...
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🖋 How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer
Experienced plane pilot and software developer Gregory Travis explains in details what led to Boeing 737 Max recent disasters in this long article: How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software...
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🖋 Can we monitor User Happiness on the Web with performance tools?
I really like that SpeedCurve tried to innovate with this recent "User Happiness" metric. It aggregates multiple technical metrics to decide if users visiting the page are happy or not with it. But I...
View Article🖋 Updating npm packages versions in package.json
I chose to use npm-check-updates to check for available updates of packages in my package.json files, and it always works without issues, so I guess I can recommend it.I'm also using this as a reminder...
View Article🖋 JAMstack is fast only if you make it so
JAMstack is often promoted as a good way to provide performant sites. It's even the first listed benefit on jamstack.wtf, a "guide [which] gathers the concept of JAMstack in a straight-forward guide to...
View Article🖋 Identify which Apache rewrite rules are used
I have many rewrite rules in my Apache configuration for redirections, some dating from more than 15 years ago. So I wanted to know which ones are really useful, because there's maybe some cleaning to...
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🖋 Using Cloudinary to convert an animated GIF to a video
I like animated GIFs, like most people these days I think, but they are really heavy, hurting the performance of web pages, and consuming data plans faster than should be needed. So we need to convert...
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🖋 Viewport height is taller than the visible part of the document in some...
When trying to use a 100vh CSS value to build a new interface for a game that would use the full viewport, I discovered that this full height value meant the bottom of the game interface was partialy...
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🖋 How I build my SVG sprites
I'm using an SVG sprite on this site to make sure I don't repeat SVG code for icons that are used multiple times, and I inline it so the rendering doesn't depend on another resource loading. Here's how...
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🖋 Enhancing archives navigation, step 1
I decided years ago to remove paged navigation (aka "pagination"), because I find it not user friendly at all, and a nightmare for SEO with new content pushing one tenth of contents to another page...
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🖋 Enhancing archives navigation, step 2
In my previous article Enhancing archives navigation, step 1, I promised further archives navigation enhancements. Here they are!Remember how UX of navigation in archives by year and month where...
View Article🖋 Accessible anchor links with Markdown-it and Eleventy
I like to be able to link directly to a section in a long content. I wish every site provided anchor links associated to headings, even if Text Fragments might be a cross browser thing sometimes in the...
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Medium is only an edge server of your POSSE CDN, your own blog is the origin
People tend to be lazy (I am often) and chose the easiest tool to do the job, even if it's not the best one. Medium is the new Blogger[1], but with a much nicer content editing UI, and a cleaner...
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Optimiser la performance des images responsives
J'ai eu l'honneur de présenter une petite conférence lors du meetup WebPerf de mars 2018, sur un sujet qui me passionne, puisqu'il combine deux de mes marottes en Web front : la performance et les...
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