Spent the afternoon over at @TheSkiff scheming with @Rem. I’m biased but I think our joint @FronteersConf talk is gonna be gooood.
https://fronteers.nl/congres/2019/speakers#jeremy-keith
Now onwards to @CogApp for @CodebarBrighton!
Archive: September 10th, 2019
Replying to a tweet from @Mandy_Kerr
W00t! See you there!
Request mapping
The Request Map Generator is a terrific tool. It’s made by Simon Hearne and uses the WebPageTest API.
You pop in a URL, it fetches the page and maps out all the subsequent requests in a nifty interactive diagram of circles, showing how many requests third-party scripts are themselves generating. I’ve found it to be a very effective way of showing the impact of third-party scripts to people who aren’t interested in looking at waterfall diagrams.
I was wondering… Wouldn’t it be great if this were built into browsers?
We already have a “Network” tab in our developer tools. The purpose of this tab is to show requests coming in. The browser already has all the information it needs to make a diagram of requests in the same that the request map generator does.
In Firefox, there’s a little clock icon in the bottom left corner of the “Network” tab. Clicking that shows a pie-chart view of requests. That’s useful, but I’d love it if there were the option to also see the connected circles that the request map generator shows.
Just a thought.
Simplicity (II)
When you ever had to fix just a few lines of CSS and it took two hours to get an ancient version of Gulp up and running, you know what I’m talking about.
I feel seen.
When everything works, it feels like magic. When something breaks, it’s hell.
I concur with Bastian’s advice:
I have a simple rule of thumb when it comes to programming:
less code === less potential issues
And this observation rings very true:
This dependency hell is also the reason why old projects are almost like sealed capsules. You can hardly let a project lie around for more than a year, because afterwards it’s probably broken.
Website Carbon Calculator – Calculate your websites carbon emissions
Get an idea of how much your website is contributing to the climate crisis.
In total, the internet produces 2% of global carbon emissions, roughly the same as that bad boy of climate change, the aviation industry.
SVG Artista
A handy tool for tweaking the animations in your SVGs.