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“On the benefits of performant software, and how it affects user perception of engineering quality and overall usability. I love fast software. That is, software speedy both… Read More »Fast Software, the Best Software

“Anyone who uses the internet knows the hassles of using a user name and password to access their own information, whether it’s their banking, online… Read More »Preparing your enterprise to eliminate passwords

“Manoush Zomorodi explores the surprising environmental impact of the internet in this episode of IRL. Because while it’s easy to think of the internet as… Read More »The Internet’s Carbon Footprint

“Last month, I gave a 30-minute talk at the Awwwards? conference in San Francisco. I used to give talks fairly often, mostly covering CSS and… Read More »What I Learned Co-founding Dribbble

“There is another obscure way of tracking users without using cookies or even Javascript. It has already been used by numerous websites but few people… Read More »Cookieless cookies

“We’ve been restoring an Apollo Guidance Computer1. Now that we have the world’s only working AGC, I decided to write some code for it. Trying… Read More »Bitcoin mining on an Apollo Guidance Computer

“Just over six months into a job doing React development, I’ve been trying to figure out why it has taken me so long to feel… Read More »Why Did I Have Difficulty Learning React?

“The most common reason to put username and password on two different pages is to support both: 1. single-sign on (SSO) (i.e. sign in with Google or a… Read More »Why are the username and password on two different pages?

“The latest version of the bot detector reCaptcha is invisible to users and has spread to more than 650,000 websites. It’s great for security—but not… Read More »Google’s new reCAPTCHA has a dark side

“One of the quickest wins—and one of the first things I recommend my clients do—to make websites faster can at first seem counter-intuitive: you should… Read More »Self-Host Your Static Assets