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Innovation Can’t Keep the Web Fast


Every so often, the fruits of innovation bear fruit in the form of improvements to the foundational layers of the web. In 2015, HTTP/2 became a published standard in an effort to update an aging protocol. This was was both necessary and overdue, as HTTP/1 rendered web performance as an arcane sort...

Techniques for Rendering Text with WebGL


As is the rule in WebGL, anything that seems like it should be simple is actually quite complicated. Drawing lines, debugging shaders, text rendering… they are all damn hard to do well in WebGL. Isn’t that weird? WebGL doesn't have a built-in function for rendering text. Although text seems like...

Getting Started with GraphQL


GraphQL was developed by Facebook in 2012 to power up its mobile apps. Since open-sourcing GraphQL specification in 2015, it gained a lot of popularity and is now used by many development teams, including giants like GitHub, Twitter or Airbnb. Why so? And what exactly is a GraphQL? Let's take...

A Business Case for Dropping Internet Explorer


The distance between Internet Explorer (IE) 11 and every other major browser is an increasingly gaping chasm. Adding support for a technologically obsolete browser adds an inordinate amount of time and frustration to development. Testing becomes onerous. Bug-fixing looms large. Developers have...

Bitcoin’s Big Price Drop Is the Latest in a Long History of Flash Crashes


On Wednesday, June 26, the price of BTC came close to reaching $14K. One hour later, it had dropped by close to 18%. Such events are known as a flash crash, a moment in time where a rapid-sell off happens and often times a few exchanges become inoperable. Over the last few years, especially when...

Coming Next: Bitcoin Correction and Best Buying Opportunity Since 2015


___ Juan Villaverde is an econometrician and mathematician devoted to the analysis of cryptocurrencies since 2012. He leads the Weiss Ratings team of analysts and computer programmers who created Weiss cryptocurrency ratings. Bitcoin surged to a 2019 high of USD 8,373 on May 16. And on that same...

Brontosaurovi potvrdili jméno až v roce 2015. Práskal ocasem jako bičem


Brontosaurus, tedy v doslovném překladu „hřmotný ještěr“, patří k nejznámějším a nejpopulárnějším dinosaurům vůbec. Celosvětově je sice populárnější mnohem mladší teropodní dinosaurus tyrannosaurus, například u nás se mu však brontosaurus minimálně vyrovnává. Další články k tématu:Jak se největší...

Revisiting prefers-reduced-motion, the reduced motion media query


Two years ago, I wrote about prefers-reduced-motion, a media query introduced into Safari 10.1 to help people with vestibular and seizure disorders use the web. The article provided some background about the media query, why it was needed, and how to work with it to avoid creating...

That Time I Tried Browsing the Web Without CSS


CSS is what gives every website its design. Websites sure aren’t very fun and friendly without it! I’ve read about somebody going a week without JavaScript and how the experience resulted in websites that were faster, though certain aspects of them would not function as expected. But CSS. Turning...

Perfect Image Optimization for Mobile with Optimole


(This is a sponsored post.) In 2015 there were 24,000 different Android devices, and each of them was capable of downloading images. And this was just the beginning. The mobile era is starting to gather pace with mobile visitors starting to eclipse desktop. One thing is certain, building...

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