make shit snappy by queuing functions blah blah

You can do Futamura projections!

Windows 10 has plenty of features that help SSDs operate to their full potential, but it doesn’t always enable them by default. In addition, many of the “must-do” rules from the early days of SSDs aren’t necessarily valid anymore, and we’re going to dispel those here.

So I want to call it out: where we are today is bullshit. As engineers, we can, and should, and will do better. We can have better tools, we can build better apps, faster, more predictable, more reliable, using fewer resources (orders of magnitude fewer!). We need to understand deeply what are we doing and why. We need to deliver: reliably, predictably, with topmost quality. We can—and should–take pride in our work. Not just “given what we had…”—no buts!

Filament Group helps companies design and build super-fast responsive sites and web apps that are simple to use and accessible to everyone

"There are all sorts of factors that might be responsible for odd performance, but, beyond those covered in the first part of this blog post, there are two that seem both particularly likely and relatively easy to test for: garbage collection and JIT compilation. [...] We therefore took two of the VMs under examination – HotSpot and PyPy [1] – and performed a second experiment, separate from the first [2], where we also recorded how long each in-process iteration spent in garbage collection activities and JIT compilation. To be clear, the aim of this second experiment wasn’t to find causations (i.e. to find definitive reasons for odd performance), but to see if there are plausible correlations (i.e. good candidates for further investigation"

some wisdom

very good checklist with links to libraries etc

free in-progress online book (with paper copy available $$)

the OG shit that kicked of Basscss and my love of functional CSS

This talks is for Unity developers who are interested in the performance of continuously loading and unloading game assets during active gameplay without stutters. The developers of award-winning game INSIDE dive into the tools and technologies developed to achieve the above.

When I look back at the last four years that I’ve spent learning everything I could about web fonts and how web fonts load, I can distill it all down to a small checklist of ideals that I continue to chase. Our goal as web developers is to maximize the experience and raise user expectations to the level of what the web is capable of delivering, but also to manage our performance budgets to ensure that we are fulfilling the promise of the web—it’s ubiquity. This checklist should help you deliver on those two often competing ideals.