There are a surprising number of ways to hide elements in the browser, each with their own trade-offs and advantages. Let's explore some of the classics, as well as a few modern approaches.
Read ItLet's explore bringing some of the magic of TypeScript's discriminated unions to polymorphic lists in a Spring Boot +Jackson application built with Kotlin.
Read ItIn rare moments, you might want to execute script tags injected with React's dangerouslySetInnerHTML prop. Here's how to make it possible.
Read ItThinking back on the process of troubleshooting why a small number of people weren't able to access PicPerf’s .dev domain. Best guess: old firewall rules still block certain TLDs out of caution.
Read ItFor the best performance, there’s no good reason content-focused sites should ever serve an uncached page to a visitor. With modern caching directives and other approaches on the table, it’s easier than ever to preventing visitors from knowing your origin exists at all.
Read ItBy activating the PicPerf WordPress plugin, Jane Ross Tutoring's website saw a drop of 1.2MB in image page weight -- 78% of the total image weight being loaded on the home page.
Read ItI just realized that using the "download" attribute on HTML links works only for same-origin resources by default. Fortunately, the "fix" is pretty simple, as long as you have control over your server’s response headers.
Read ItThe browser is very good at prioritizing resources requests on its own. But it's not always great. Priority hints makes it easy to provide explicit instructions as to how and in what network activity occurs.
Read ItIt's common for modern hosts to cache static assets in a flexible, but not most optimal way. Let's explore why that is and what we can do to push cache performance (for some assets) even further.
Read ItBy using PicPerf, Songwriter City's saw a sizeable reduction in total page weight and a healthy boost in its overall performance score. Here are the details.
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