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Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2025-02-27T15:42:00+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult. It may even be something you do regularly with Lighthouse in Chrome DevTools, where testing is freely available and produces a very attractive-looking report. Can’t be perfect every time! (Large preview) Lighthouse is…

The Fight For The Main Thread The Fight For The Main Thread Geoff Graham 2023-10-24T18:00:00+00:00 2025-02-27T15:42:00+00:00 This article is sponsored by SpeedCurve Performance work is one of those things, as they say, that ought to happen in development. You know, have a plan for it and write code that’s mindful about adding extra weight to the page. But not everything about performance happens directly at the code level, right? I’d…

Gatsby Headaches: Working With Media (Part 2) Gatsby Headaches: Working With Media (Part 2) Juan Diego Rodríguez 2023-10-16T13:00:00+00:00 2025-02-27T15:42:00+00:00 Gatsby is a true Jamstack framework. It works with React-powered components that consume APIs before optimizing and bundling everything to serve as static files with bits of reactivity. That includes media files, like images, video, and audio. The problem is that there’s no “one” way to handle media in a Gatsby…

Gatsby Headaches: Working With Media (Part 1) Gatsby Headaches: Working With Media (Part 1) Juan Diego Rodríguez 2023-10-09T11:00:00+00:00 2025-02-27T15:42:00+00:00 Working with media files in Gatsby might not be as straightforward as expected. I remember starting my first Gatsby project. After consulting Gatsby’s documentation, I discovered I needed to use the gatsby-source-filesystem plugin to make queries for local files. Easy enough! That’s where things started getting complicated. Need to use images?…

WaterBear: Building A Free Platform For Impactful Documentaries (Part 2) WaterBear: Building A Free Platform For Impactful Documentaries (Part 2) Adrian Bece 2023-10-02T18:00:00+00:00 2025-02-27T15:42:00+00:00 In my previous article, I talked about Waterbear, a significant project I worked on as a newly-appointed lead developer, and the lessons I learned leading a team for the first time. In this second article, I’ll go over some key technical highlights from the project. Before…