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The web needs to be faster. @palette_dev
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Jan 22, 2022 9 tweets 3 min read
Load all content above the fold first

We saw a 500ms win when migrating features and content to load ATF, increasing sales by 5%. Server side render everything

amazon.com is server side rendered and has no client side rendering framework. The potential latency hit didn't justify it.

We were stuck with jQuery 1.6.4 😬

SSR React wasn't fast enough for us. This blew my mind.
Jan 20, 2022 6 tweets 1 min read
Tech recruiting is so broken that I had to remove my college education from LinkedIn to land my first job.

Here's why 🧵 Before I graduated college, Google, Amazon, PayPal, and many other companies were using my open source software. I'd been writing software long before I started college.
Jan 16, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
3 browser plugins I can't live without

🧵 Find out what websites are built with using Wappalyzer

It shows everything from frameworks to servers to trackers

wappalyzer.com
Jan 7, 2022 12 tweets 5 min read
Life is to short to use dated cli tools that suck

Try these instead 🧵 `bat` is `cat` with syntax highlighting and line numbers

github.com/sharkdp/bat Image