Why we focus on frontend performance
Frontend performance is important, especially for government services.
All my blog posts: Page 6
Joining the 100 club (#webperf)
It's amazing what a few font tweaks can do to perceived performance. Now lighthouse hits 100/100 for performance!
Making GOV.UK pages load faster and use less data
Optimising the font loading method on GOV.UK to improve performance.
Changing our testing requirements for Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10
Old versions of Internet Explorer are in decline, so let's reconsider the testing requirements.
Cloudless Chrome - Broken CSS filters
Recently something has gone slightly awry with the clouds in the header on Chrome. I wonder what it could be?
Workbox - Generate a service worker with ease
Service workers are all the rage at the moment, but how do we simplify their creation?
We've added Samsung Internet to our browser testing recommendations
GDS: The Service Manual gets an update to add Samsung Internet to the testing matrix.
Removing Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)
After over a year of using AMP, it's time to back out and remove it.
Opening Atlassian JIRA tickets with iTerm2
If you have a dig around inside the iTerm2 settings you will find lots to play with like 'Smart Selection'. We can use it to our advantage.
A boilerplate module setup using Browserify, Babel, Mocha, and Chai
Time to have a little play around with the future of JavaScript, ES2015 (and beyond!)