I’ll be building on my earlier post about CSS asset fingerprinting, this time adding the preload response header into the mix. Together, these techniques make sure your browser grabs my blog’s CSS right away, keeping things fast and seamless.
Frontend development never stands still. By looking back at the legacy techniques and tools that once shaped the web, we gain perspective on why today’s best practices exist and how to avoid repeating past mistakes. This post takes a trip down memory lane to uncover lessons from the early days of web development, and considers how they might guide us as we stand on the verge of another shift with the rise of AI and the evolving web platform.
In this post, I investigate how you can use a mixture of dynamic and static Brotli compression with the Cloudflare Pro plan, for optimal web performance.
In this post I tackle something from my post-MVW (Minimum Viable Website) functionality to do list, by adding a plaintext RSS Feed. I'll take you through my reasons for adding it, the implementation, and the code I used to create it.
In this post I bring two previous blog posts together to create the perfect CSS setup for my little blog.
In this blog post, I'll show you how I've written an 11ty Shortcode to manipulate my CSS file, thus allowing for optimal long-life cache-control response headers. Any feedback on this build process would be greatly appreciated.
In this post, I review Cloudflare's image optimisation library, Mirage 2.0, and explain how it caused images on my blog to fail on all mobile devices for three weeks. I'll also offer suggestions to Cloudflare on how they can prevent this issue from impacting other Pro plan customers.
In this post I investigate how you can use a mixture of dynamic and static Brotli compression with the Cloudflare Pro plan, for optimal web performance.
This post explores refactoring a web performance snippet to improve security and align with modern best practices using the PerformanceObserver and PerformanceNavigationTiming API's.
In this post, I go through why you should improve the security of your static website and how to do it on various static hosting platforms. This includes Cloudflare Pages, Netlify, Vercel, Surge, Render, Firebase Hosting, Heroku, InfinityFree, and DigitalOcean.
146 more posts can be found in the archive.