The Image Compression Challenge (Donating Money for Excess-Free Projects)

Here’s a frontend challenge. Run an image compression tool capable of near-losslessly compressing PNG, JPG, GIF, WebP, and AVIF images over one of your main projects. Share if nothing could be compressed. I donate money for each of such projects.

Published on October 30, 2024, filed under Development.

Website Optimization Measures, Part XXVII

On improvements involving Eleventy (3), Lightning CSS, Imagemin Guard, early hints, ads, creator metadata, and custom/programmable search engines.

Published on October 24, 2024, filed under Development.

Results = ƒ(Competence × Time)

On a model that can tell us something about how we work, and how we could work.

Published on October 23, 2024, filed under Management.

Growth

A rant.

Published on October 20, 2024, filed under Everything Else.

Boring Web Development

Web development is boring—or should be more boring. On us tending to celebrate the wrong side of web development.

Published on October 15, 2024, filed under Development.

HTML/CSS Frameworks, in Their Own Words (by Word Cloud)

Checking in on Bootstrap, Tailwind, Foundation, Bulma, Milligram, Pure, and UIkit.

Published on October 11, 2024, filed under Development.

JS Frameworks, in Their Own Words (by Word Cloud)

Handing the microphone to React, Vue.js, Angular, Svelte, Express, Meteor, and Next.js.

Published on October 11, 2024, filed under Development.

Automatable Defensive Core Image Compression With Imagemin Guard 4 (Now With No Imagemin)

The Imagemin Guard package was just updated to move away from the unmaintained Imagemin family, and to improve code, tests, documentation, and usability. If you like to avoid unnecessary image payload, even in your repos, especially in environments where not everyone pays attention to it, this is a good update to try.

Published on October 9, 2024, filed under Development.

What Germany May Not Have Learned From the Holocaust

No matter who is being violated, learning from a genocide means fighting against any genocide.

Published on October 8, 2024, filed under Everything Else.