The Secret Inside One Million Checkboxes â One Million Checkboxes is/was a site with one million global checkboxes on it where checking (or unchecking) a box changed it for everyone on the site, instantly. This fun post-mortem digs into how the internet (and, specifically, a group of smart teenagers) played with the project to reach ends you'd never expect..
Nolen
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The Ultimate Guide to Font Performance Optimization â This is quite the rabbit hole indeed, but a useful one to go down if your site is using custom fonts and youâre serving them up directly yourself. Of course, step one is to consider sticking to system/web-safe fonts.. ;-)
Anna Monus (DebugBear)
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Beyond the 10x Engineer â Incredible technical skills canât save a product that no one wants. Thatâs why engineers should care about non-technical product skills. To help you figure out which of these skills matter, we wrote about the ones we look for (and use) at PostHog.
PostHog sponsor
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Supporting AVIF in Google Search â Image format AVIF is now a supported file type in Google Search and Google Images, as well as any place that uses images in Google Search.
John Mueller (Google)
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đď¸Â Join us at ViteConf! â On October 3rd & 4th, get ready to learn from the builders pushing modern web development forward. Donât miss outâget your ticket now!
StackBlitz sponsor
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Lazy Loading Isn't Just Lazy, It's Late: We Can Do Better â âWe tend only to fetch more content as the user scrolls it into view or navigates to the next page, which isnât just lazy: itâs often late and an awful user experienceâ. This post suggests a more proactive approach.
Jupiter Jayna
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âśÂ  Scroll-Enhanced Experiences â A 52-minute journey through the art of 'scrollytelling' with CSS, guiding you through the process of creating dynamic experiences that leverage a userâs scroll behavior. Covers controlling pace/rhythm of a page with the CSS Scroll Timeline API.
Carmen Ansio
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The Dev Tools Performance Monitor Panel â In Chrome, if you open 'Dev Tools > More Tools > Performance Monitor' youâll see some helpful high-level charts and graphs of the realtime performance data of your UI.
Dave Rupert
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