Reviewing PicPerf's Impact on SongwriterCity.com
By 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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Building a Two-Way Data Binding Hook for Form Inputs in React
Two-way form input binding is a popular feature offered by JavaScript frameworks like Vue and Svelte. I took a minute to explore what the React version of it might look like. I don't hate the result.
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Taking Variable Fonts for a Spin
It's been a minute since they were introduced, but I finally took some time to see how variable fonts stack up to their static counterparts. At least for my own blog, it was worth the effort.
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Run Puppeteer with Docker on Fly.io
Walking through the process of running Dockerized Node & Puppeteer on Fly.io.
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How to Better Leverage Browser Preloading
It's all too common to see websites preload assets already embedded in their HTML. But doing so often doesn't gain you much, and fails to leverage the tool for the greatest impact.
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Mount a Multi-Page SPA into an App with Server-Side Routing
Using React Router + Laravel as an example, let's explore how to mount a multi-page SPA into an application with traditional, server-rendered routes, as well as the reasons you might want to do so.
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Why I Moved from Notion to Ghost for My Headless CMS
After building content on Markdown and Notion for my blog posts, I think I've finally found a CMS I can see myself sticking with for a while.
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Why Your Website Should Use Modern Image Formats
With respect to performance, the format you choose for your site's images can have a huge impact on your site's performance and overall user experience.
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Why I Like Using Maps (and WeakMaps) for Handling DOM Nodes
Breaking down some of the reasons Maps (and WeakMaps) are especially useful tools when working with a large number of DOM nodes.
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Elegant Memoization with Ruby’s .tap Method
There are a few different ways to memoize complicated chunks of code in Ruby. Here's why .tap is my personal favorite.
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