Scott Andrew

Alleged to be the best overview thus far on HTTP/2 and server push. Configure your back-end to preemptively serve static assets for a page during the same request.

Posted April 25, 2017

An overview of the front- and back-end technologies used to speed up the load time of the BBC homepage. Interesting but unsurprising to note that React in the browser was unacceptably slow for their use case.

Posted April 24, 2017

Short and to-the-point tutorial on curried JS functions. Additional reading: an even simpler overview at Stack Overflow, the CS concept of arity, and the amusing history of the the term "currying."

Posted April 24, 2017

An interesting article from the Walmart platform team. For what it's worth, I still prefer the SSR approach to send the user a fully-functional base UX, with non-critical functionality wired up with JavaScript on the client side.

Posted April 19, 2017

A nice overview of the CSS box model and visual formatting model and what it all means.

Posted April 17, 2017

(PDF) Thing I learned: in Thailand, pink is the color of Tuesday. Via Six Degrees.

Posted April 14, 2017

A childhood memory, forever preserved on YouTube.

Posted April 13, 2017

The study details are interesting, but you really only need to read the last paragraph:

Exposure to the carefully curated images from others’ lives leads to negative self-comparison, and the sheer quantity of social media interaction may detract from more meaningful real-life experiences. What seems quite clear, however, is that online social interactions are no substitute for the real thing.

You don't say.

Posted April 12, 2017

I haven't even begun to scratch the surface of this. An adventure comic with an incredibly dense yet coherent mythology, with artwork that sits somewhere on the continuum between Moebius and Brandon Graham. See also this dedicated Wikia.

Posted April 7, 2017

Clever!

Posted April 6, 2017