Monthly Shaarli

All links of one month in a single page.

June, 2023

"How To Say No", Starter Story
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Saying no is hard, but it's also essential for your sanity. Here are some templates for how to say no - so you can take back your life.

"Watch Out for Layout Shifts with ‘ch’ Units", Paul Hebert (@paulhebert@sunny.garden)
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In our case, we were using ch units to define our page layout. This meant that our post content was equal to 50ch units (or the width of fifty 0 characters all lined up in a row).

But the width of the 0 character differs from font to font. So when our web font was swapped, the width of 1ch changed, which impacted our layout

Je pense donc je cuis
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Découvrez la science et les techniques pour réussir la mousse au chocolat

"Performance Is Not a Checklist", Tim Kadlec (@tkadlec@mastodon.social)

There’s an tendency at times for organizations to treat performance as a checklist of sorts, particularly as we’ve seen the core web vitals metrics bring more attention to performance than ever before. You try to tick the box on those metrics to get them green, then call it a day. (This organization, to their great credit, did not do that.)

But none of that matters if those metrics aren’t painting a complete picture of how users interact with our sites.

Performance, like accessibility, is not about conformance.

It’s not about a checklist.

It’s not even about simply making things fast.

It’s about providing a better experience for the people using our sites and applications to make sure they can efficiently accomplish their goals. Doing that requires that we pay close attention to what those goals are, how they are trying to achieve them, and then making sure that the way we measure performance matches up.