Web Weekly #185 (#blogPost)
Weekly web development newsletter covering Chrome soft navigations, Firefox setHTML, CSS centering, UX laws, and code golfing.
Weekly web development newsletter covering Chrome soft navigations, Firefox setHTML, CSS centering, UX laws, and code golfing.
Explores new .NET 10 features for System.Text.Json, including duplicate property rejection and PipeReader integration for better performance.
A response to critiques of the JavaScript Streams Standard, discussing its design philosophy, performance, and role as a web platform primitive.
Compares iterative vs. Binet's formula for computing large Fibonacci numbers in Python, analyzing performance and precision.
A guide to the best GUI tools for tailing and monitoring log files on Windows in 2026, focusing on performance and features.
A guide to upgrading to HTML Minifier Next 5, covering breaking changes, configuration updates, and new features for HTML optimization.
A guide on enabling 120Hz scrolling in Safari for iOS/iPadOS, improving browsing smoothness, with a link to a frame rate test site.
Explains a technique using reflection and dynamic methods to eliminate allocations when using foreach on an IEnumerable<T> in C#.
Explores performance and efficiency improvements in .NET 10's Zip and GZip compression APIs, including better async handling and support for concatenated streams.
A developer details optimizing a server-side analytics system, reducing processing time for 11 million rows from hours to minutes.
A developer details their journey through three load testing approaches for a high-traffic election website, focusing on cost-effective scalability.
A developer shares a list of outdated JavaScript and CSS tricks they've removed from their code, including performance hacks and modern alternatives.
A technical guide to obtaining the Java version in under 1ms by reading the release file, avoiding the slow 'java -version' command.
Proposal for a 'poster' attribute on the HTML <canvas> element to provide a static placeholder and improve archiving, performance, and accessibility.
A technical analysis comparing the startup performance of OpenJDK and GraalVM, focusing on the speed of the `java -version` command and underlying JVMCI initialization.
A technical benchmark comparing Python, NumPy, Numba, Rust, and Mojo for simulating permutation cycles, with corrected results.
A developer's experience migrating from ImmutableList/ImmutableDictionary to the more efficient ImmutableArray and FrozenDictionary in C# for specific usage patterns.
Introducing ty, a new, extremely fast Python type checker and language server from Astral, promising massive speed improvements over mypy and Pyright.
Analyzes performance differences between ToListAsync and ToArrayAsync in Entity Framework, concluding ToListAsync is faster.
WebAssembly (Wasm) is becoming a core web technology, enabling high-performance applications in the browser by compiling languages like Rust and C++.