Multi-stroke text effect in CSS
Creating complex retro text outlines by stacking CSS elements with varying stroke widths, despite performance limitations.
Web Performance
Coverage of techniques, metrics, and best practices for optimizing the speed, efficiency, and resource usage of websites and web applications.
Reading List
The Architecture of Non-Consent: Why Web Surveillance Was a Choice
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The web's surveillance system is a profitable architectural choice made by tech companies, not an inevitable or consented-to necessity.
ShaderPad: A Lightweight Library for Web Shaders
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ShaderPad is a 5.8kb library that simplifies adding high-performance shaders to websites by removing the need for complex graphics scaffolding.
TanStack Start: RSCs as Composable Data Primitives
TanStack Start redefines React Server Components as composable data primitives that integrate with existing client-side tools to give developers total control over rendering and caching.
The Adversarial Web: How Hostile Design Is Killing the User Experience
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The modern web has become a hostile, bloated environment where publishers sacrifice user experience for ad metrics, effectively driving their own audience away.
The 49MB Web Page: How Ad-Tech Ruined the News
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Modern news websites have sacrificed user experience and performance for aggressive, resource-heavy ad-tech and tracking, creating a 'hostile' web environment.