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• Post #2656093

  I was thinking about this interview question over the weekend, but was more thinking: - User hits enter - Dismisses email sign up - Dismisses cookie notice, isn't sure if cookies got stored anyway - Downloads 3mb of JavaScript that recreates a URL router, query string parser, date library, CSS rendering, buttons, accordions, and form controls - Renders one page - User closes tab The long way around. https://infosec.exchange/@SecureOwl/116584747509188880

• Post #2217425

  David Attenborough turned 100 years old today. David spent some 70 years travelling to the most remote and far-reaching places in the world, and brought it to our living rooms. To see the wonder and beauty of nature is one of life’s best gifts, one he shared with us all. What a rich legacy.

• Post #2196628

  Bunnings, a giant retailer in Australia just dropped their updated privacy policy, and boy. they like collecting data: customer identity (gore PII), credit history, income details, images of you in store, online activity/habits/interests and of course, use cookies to track you across the web

• Post #2022905

  I spent years manually taking product screenshots. Cropping them. Replacing them. Seeing many outdated images. Losing the will to live. So I automated it with Playwright. 585 screenshots, every theme, every viewport, generated in minutes. But the real surprise? Opening the output folder turned into the best design QA tool I've ever had. Inconsistencies you’d never notice while navigating suddenly become obvious when you see everything at once. https://calibreapp.com/blog/screenshot-pi...

• Post #1949367

  🆕 On the blog: How I built Calibre’s new dynamic hexagonal world map, in just 10kb. https://calibreapp.com/blog/building-our-beloved-hex-map

• Post #1913970

  RE: https://front-end.social/@benschwarz/116445796505977800 I actually wasn’t sure if anyone would really be interested. Is that imposter syndrome? TLDR: always publish. If you enjoy something, others will too. ✌️

• Post #1913969

  RE: https://front-end.social/@benschwarz/116445796505977800 I ran into a few people IRL who read this post and started talking to me about map projections. I see you map perverts!! There are dozens of us 👀 👀

• Post #1913968

  RE: https://mas.to/@assaf/116472754269477875 I recall back to a time long forgotten, with Kathy Sierra’s excellent “don’t make the demo look done”. This stuck with me since the day I read it, almost 20 years ago. TLDR: if you demo looks complete, people will believe it’s complete. But it isn’t. It’s a pile of tradeoffs, three children in a trench coat trying to act like a real man.

• Post #1913967

  ✨ New blog post by me: All about Calibre’s new UX Rating metric and how it categorises overall user experience quality and distills into something everyone can understand. You’ll learn how it works and why it’s a powerful paradigm for team focus. https://calibreapp.com/blog/ux-rating

• Post #1127733

  A new calibreapp.com customer overnight shared a review that got me all giddy 🥰 "I never thought I’d really 'enjoy' using a performance tool, but everything about Calibre seems solid and makes identifying and trying to fix these issues quite fun in a way." What a review. It made my day. Never doubt the lift you can give someone with positive feedback.

• Post #1064877

  You are *not* imagining it — Airline websites really are the slowest and most frustrating to use. Only 3.7% pass Google's Core Web Vitals. For comparison, 56.5% of news sites clear the same bar. See how your favourite airline ranks: https://calibreapp.com/tools/website-speed-leaderboard/airline-booking

• Post #987812

  🚀 Calibre’s Real User Monitoring has arrived Session-based Core Web Vitals monitoring. See actual DOM elements dragging your site down. No cookies, no bloat, predictable pricing. Let's go! https://calibreapp.com/blog/real-user-monitoring