Throttle individual network requests | Blog | Chrome for Developers This will be nice little improvement. You’ve always been able to throttle the network on a page but it did that for all requests so it was pretty annoying if you only wanted to test out a single slow-loading requets but then the page would a long time to load if you needed to refresh it.
Em Dash Appreciation Society As someone who discovered the em dash fairly late in life, I appreciate this effort to keep it alive.
I can’t believe I only just discovered that the designer of the Star Trek UI style (known as LCARS) created a css framework for it: LCARS Website HTML Template Now I just need something to build with it…
Rod Prazeres Astrophotography in Project Hail Mary End Credits
Scientific Thinking - Crash Course This is a great mini youtube series on the scientific process that’s easily digestible and really should be required learning for society. In 7 episodes, Crash Course Scientific Thinking will teach learners the foundational principles underlying scientific thought, pulling back the curtain on processes like peer review, interrogating what makes sources reliable (or not), unpacking how consensus is reached, and revealing how scientific understanding changes over time. ...
30 Years of <br> Tags A great look back over the last 30 years of building things on the web.
Are people migrating away from GitHub? I don’t know if you’d say GitHub is enshittified, but it is striding forward in a more corporate manner. This post gives a nice concise summary of the recent complaints people have had about Github.
Our response to a recent security incident The noteworthy thing about this news to me is how it can serve as an example of how not to disclose a security incident. The post is incredibly vague and doesn’t make clear what actually happened like what systems were exposed or how or the scale of the “incident”. The most specific they get is “detected a smishing campaign”, which feels like an intentional use of jargon that doesn’t add much value… why not just say “phishing” as it’s not that important that it was via SMS instead email especially since they don’t even say who the campaign targeted (internal or end users?). They do mention they “Performed global password resets for all Mixpanel employees” which sounds like an attacker used social engineering to compromise employee credentials and exfiltrate user data. That’s kinda the definition of a data breach yet they only refer to it as a vague “security incident”. ...
How to Optimize Viewport for Mobile for Faster Interactions | DebugBear If the viewport isn’t configured properly (e.g., the meta tag has a fixed value), mobile browsers delay all responses by up to 300 milliseconds. As a result, users will have to wait after each tap, the UI will feel sluggish, and Interaction to Next Paint (INP) scores will increase dramatically.
Over 100 VS Code Extensions Exposed Developers to Hidden Supply Chain Risks VS Code users are advised to limit the number of installed extensions, scrutinize extensions prior to downloading them, and weigh the pros and cons of enabling auto-updates This is the approach I’ve been taking and being more selective with what I install in general. This also applies to browser extensions.