Who will be the 100th registration for Astro Together London next week? The schedule is packed with excellent lightning demos from the core team, but it's the hangout time that I'm most looking forward to. It'll be a lot of fun. luma.com/lzh944vx
Astro 60 is out??? Did I miss 45 major releases?? 😱😱
We would never 😬
I need to play with AVIF compression ratios again but last time I tried to move LEGO.com from webP to AVIF I got a mix bag. Either savings were minimal or images got very pixelated.
Specially when red is dominant.
I came to accept that not everything needs a polyfill.
As long it’s not something that breaks the experience for the user, I just add a graceful fallback.
And pray the interop gods to add cross browser support soon 😬
Me: “I need to declutter! Time to clean my drawers”
Me 10min later: “Maybe I should keep this SCART cable, could come handy”
Looking back at 2025… I wrote some decent CSS
Memória, the duet with Carminho is just.. ❤️
@perfnow.nl is almost upon us!! Very excited for this year event!
😶🌫️
A colleague at LEGO made it very simple to remember when to use anchor or buttons: “links for going, buttons for doing”
I mean I killed a couple of Norse gods, your mortal laws mean nothing to me
Damn this HorizontalScrollView and I have a lot in common
And not enough murders on the dance floor
You’re unstoppable
BTW, I’ve been following Zach’s work for years and these are the harshest words I ever seen from Zach 😬
What kind of witchcraft is this??
Oh yeah absolutely. But I would guess that scenario represents a very very small percentage of the SPAs out in the wild.
If you target performance by default your product isn’t playing catch-up with your users.
If there's one thing a web or "full stack" engineer needs to know in 2025, it's that client-side CPU is an intermittent, highly contingent resource. Most users don't have much, and you can't count on even that.
So quit it with the SPA/JS-heavy React nonsense already.
How often do you use a £200 android device to browse?
You can run a bunch of tests with webpagetest.org to get a very detailed report.
If you’re interested on the subject this is a good read: infrequently.org/2024/01/perf...
6 - 9x faster than SWC with better compression than esbuild is insane!!
Took them long enough…
Loved when Claudia announced to the nation: “Alexander is single”
React gave us some good things in these past 10 years but also gave us a new generation of now Senior Engineers that think HTML is a bad practice.
Preact is truly amazing.
Same React app. One is bundled as is.
Another uses preact/compat to alias React imports and swaps in Preact under the hood.
Bundle size (gzip):
React: ~140KB
Preact: ~8KB
All of this by just changing a few lines and installing a couple of packages.
Exactly what I asked Father Christmas for 🎉🎉
Nice benchmarking article about Preact signals that @jviide.iki.fi found.
"Even without using the Signals primitive, Preact is impressively performant."
electricui.com/blog/benchma...
This proposal doesn’t look good for bundle sizes. Is JSSugar moves faster than JS0, it just means we need to have more and more polyfills to make sure code runs everywhere.
Unless polyfills are now a browser responsibility? But would be another can of worms
