I’ve been captivated by the recent landing of the Perseverance spacecraft on Mars. The video of the landing sequence was particularly stunning. Your front-row seat to my Mars landing is here. Watch how we did it.#CountdownToMars pic.twitter.com/Avv13dSVmQ — NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) February 22, 2021 An article I found called “The Cost of Perseverance, […]
I am reading this great article on building a responsive and accessible slider. I may implement something like this on a site I am working on.
My thought has been that the Gutenberg block editor is the future of WordPress. Here is a nice article about a new block based theme with lots of links supporting the case. I want to check out this podcast about recent developments (as of 4/2021) in full site editing: Talking Full Site Editing with Matías
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I wrote before on using Lighthouse to measure website performance and on speeding up WordPress. Today I found this interesting article regarding Core Web Vitals, the push by Google to make these a factor in ranking search results, and how the burden seemingly falls on the publisher of the site to improve these parameters rather
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I found a video gallery format that I like. This is CNN’s video gallery. I created a video gallery test page to try different options.
It should be no surprise that embedding a Google Map on your page might kill performance, but what was a surprise was that proper placement of the map on the page combined with lazy loading and prefetching can provide a decent experience and a high Lighthouse/PageSpeed Insights performance score. I created a test page in
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As part of my performance improvement quest I have been looking into link prefetching. Gatsby uses prefetching to improve the apparent speed of loading subsequent pages. I would like to implement or find an implementation of this which I can use in WordPress. This article describes some prefetch plugin options for WordPress. I intend to
I previously posted about my work to better understand web performance optimization, particularly with WordPress. In doing so I have used a number of online testing resources alongside my local implementation of Lighthouse and chrome developer tools. Here are online performance testing sites I have used: Web.dev Google PageSpeed Insights GT Metrix Webpagetest.org Web.dev and
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The only essential news show is Democracy Now!, the war and peace report. This show covers world and national news with a perspective that is nowhere else in media today and with unparalleled integrity and empathy. The Democracy Now! 25th Anniversary show is a great retrospective and celebration of a remarkable and turbulent era.
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Something I need to read more thoroughly and understand is the use of typography. This is a design topic but I see the need to be design aware and at times I do it myself. This article is a good starting point regarding the art of web typography.