Links on Performance

Making GitHub’s new homepage fast and performant — Tobias Ahlin describes how the scrolling effects are done more performantly thanks to IntersectionObserver and the fact that it avoids the use of methods that trigger reflows, like getBoundingClientRect. Also, WebP + Read more…

proxy-www

I like a good trick. What if… a URL was… a promise… that fetched said URL? www.codepen.io.then((response) => { console.log(response); }); That’s what @justjavac did with JavaScript Proxys. A clever trick, that. Don’t @ me about the practicality. Trick, folks. Read more…