Links

• # 06-26-2024 - Web Performance

  CPUpro - A tool that offers a different view into DevTools traces than Edge/Chrome DevTools. A few interesting approaches like the list of functions that seem super helpful for starting investigations.

• # 06-26-2024 - LLMs

  a whole bunch of clever tricks - Great practical little demo of LLMs in action and a basic VS Code extension.

• # 06-21-2024 - Design

  9 rad tools in tabs I’m trackin - I love posts with links to other things, and this is no exception. A lot of nifty design-related tools.

• # 06-19-2024 - Developer Productivity

  No Best Tool For The Job - An interesting analogy for deciding what tech stack is right. The direction that I take these conversations might be more like buying a car. Take a few for a test drive, figure out if it feels right for you. Sometimes a “bake-off” - make a few MVPs using different approaches and see what feels will do best.

• # 06-19-2024 - Web Performance

  Web Performance Regression Detection (Part 2 of 3) - I love seeing how other companies track and resolve performance issues. Pinterest has a really detailed write-up here.

• # 06-19-2024 - Web Performance

  A Complete Guide to Performance Budgets - A really basic but thorough intro to some of standard web performance metrics, and more importantly a dive into navigating some of the politics of setting budgets and goals.

• # 06-19-2024 - Debugging

  Made some notes on how @JinaAI_ Reader works - their… - This is a super cool concept. One of the biggest problems software developers face is understanding large coddebases and how things work. This kind of stuff can be game-changing.

• # 06-18-2024 - CSS

  CSS :has() Interactive Guide - :has() is another recent CSS selector that I want to make sure I thoroughly understand and use, and this is a fantastic overview.

• # 06-18-2024 - CSS

  The Gap - Another beautiful, succinct overview of a relatively recent CSS feature - Gap. I definitely need to adjust some of my normal CSS patterns to use gap more.

• # 06-18-2024 - Quantified Self

  Automating My Now Page - I love the idea of a “now page” but suck at maintaining things. I really like the idea of automating it like this.

• # 06-18-2024 - LLMs

  Clustering ideas with local ML/AI models - A solid intro to a good use-case for vector embeddings and LLMs using entirely local AI models.

• # 06-18-2024 - Web Performance

  Latency numbers every frontend developer should know - Handy list of some basic performance-related numbers like latency, parsing, etc. for anyone thinking about the performance of their APIs or web apps.

• # 04-14-2024 - CSS

  An Interactive Guide to CSS Container Queries - An absolutely beautiful, descriptive, and easy to follow guide on everything CSS Container Queries, something everyone in front-end should start to learn soon.

• # 02-27-2023 - Cool Stuff

  /uses - /uses is another page that I’d like to maintain myself but never do. I love learning about what makes other people productive, so these pages are awesome.