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Simon McManus
Javascript Engineer
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Adactio: Journal—Hydration
This leads to a terrible situation for performance. The user is left staring at a blank screen, waiting for something—anything!—to appear. Browsers are optimised to stream HTML as soon as they can. Delivering your content via JavaScript rather than HTML means you’re not taking advantage of that optimisation. Your users suffer.
February 10th 2020 -
The design systems we swim in. — Ethan Marcotte
Among the many (many, many) points Ursula Franklin makes in The Real World of Technology, she suggests that technology is best understood not as software or gadgets, but as a practice: as a way of doing something.
February 10th 2020 -
7 really good reasons not to use TypeScript | everyday.codes
Everyone loves TypeScript. It “solves” many problems JS has, it is a “superset” of JS, it will make your code error-prone and pleasant to read. There are a lot of good reasons to use TypeScript, but I am going to give you 7 really good reasons not to.
February 9th 2020 -
(4) Why Web Browsers Are FREE - YouTube
Why Web Browsers Are FREE
February 9th 2020 -
Monads on the Cheap I: The Maybe Monad
Don’t worry, this isn’t YAMT (Yet Another Monad Tutorial ). This is a practical post about a code smell that afflicts everyday code, and about an idiom that eliminates that smell. It just so happens that this idiom corresponds to one of the uses for monads in Haskell, but that’s just theory behind the practice, and I’ve saved the theory for the end.
February 9th 2020 -
Metrics
User-centric performance metrics are a critical tool in understanding and improving the experience of your site in a way that benefits real users.
January 31st 2020 -
complate: declarative, component-oriented HTML templating
Modern JavaScript frameworks come with batteries included and everything but the kitchen sink.We do a lot less and we think that is a good thing.complate provides a lightweight JSX implementation to allow us to write declarative component-based templates (macros).
January 29th 2020 -
Real Time Lightning Map :: LightningMaps.org
Realtime Lightning maps
January 25th 2020 -
January 25th 2020Jobs and careers with BBC
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Anatomy of a Bug Report · ariya.io
ed in a step-by-step fashion. Each step must be clear to everyone who is familiar with the product but not necessarily aware of the problem yet. The complete set of the described steps needs to be minimal, it should only contain the absolute minimum of steps t
January 23rd 2020