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YouTube embeds can be expensive on page load metrics, but what alternative is there? How about loading a thumbnail that hot-swaps itself for an <iframe> when clicked? Sounds great, but wouldn't …

I recently had need to embed a Flickr album, as I've done many times before. When I published the article, however, the album was broken and only showed a single image. Odd, sure, but I figured I had …

A very interesting rundown of some common performance checks and techniques that Ben went through to boost their lighthouse score from <50 to >95! I was particularly interested that font …

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Notes from the fully remote React Summit 2020 (or at least the talks I tuned in for). Lots covered, from static-site generators and the Jamstack through to React state management and accessibility. What a fun day!

A very neat little trick. Embedding @keyframes within your SVG <style> element makes it animate when it loads, whether rendered as an image or a background (or, I assume, inlined). It can even …

Malte has put together a brilliant overview of the various techniques that are currently available on the web natively for loading images in the most performant and user-centric ways possible. I'm …

A great (and niche) website that lets you look up the history of any given Last.fm account. For example, here's my stats page: theAdhocracy's Last.fm stats. There are lots of great data …

Want to read Tweets from people you follow, without using Twitter? Readwise has a tool for that.

I read the entirety of the EAA – including all supporting documentation – so you don't have to.

A new tool that allows an organisation to check how, where, and why components are being used across shared codebases, and gain insights into their usage and …

Storybook encourages setting the same arguments over and over and over again, but this is a pain to maintain. There is a better, DRYer approach, it's just not well documented.

There are quite a few tools that claim to help find accessibility issues through automated, pre-programmed test suites. But how accurate are they? Equal Entry have pitted six of the most popular …