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So long Disqus, hello Webmention
Enough. I’m fed up with Disqus. It’s been useful, easy to plug on this blog, but it’s a mess for web performance, and I don’t own my data, so… bye bye. Webmention is now a great alternative, with more...
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Chrome fails showing big emojis
It was the first time I really tried to use Web technologies instead of Powerpoint to create slides for a talk. The aim was to be able to demonstrate some cool responsive images features right inside...
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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 Blogger1, but with a much nicer content editing UI, and a cleaner...
View ArticleVoulez-vous une conférence sur les images responsive à ConFoo ?
J’ai proposé pour la première fois un sujet à la conférence canadienne ConFoo de février 2016. Le sujet correspond bien évidemment à une de mes passions du moment, l’optimisation de la taille des...
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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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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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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...
View ArticleTechnical credit
Awesome (old) post by Chris Taylor about progressive enhancement, seen as Technical Credit:With such a wide array of both expected and unexpected properties of the current technological revolution,...
View ArticleTwitter search
Twitter search finds this tweet with from:nhoizey to:tapbots but not with from:nhoizey to:tweetbot…@tapbots@tweetbot is there a way on Tweetbot Mac v3 to get back the first column with all accounts?...
View ArticleContextes Opquast
J’adore me tromper… Non, j’adore apprendre de mes erreurs, surtout si ça peut aider d’autres à apprendre en même temps.Nouveau beau billet de Élie Sloïm avec du Opquast et un peu de moi dedans :...
View ArticleJust
Every time I hear or read “just”, I remember this awesome post Brad Frost wrote back in 2015: “just”.Read it. And stop using “just”.
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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 ArticleUpdating 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...
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