Blogposts on blog.futtta.be in English (mostly because these posts are republished in a non-Dutch-speaking context).
Wilco is in town tonight, playing the “Lokerse Feesten” ; an open air 9 day festival here, a mere 5 minutes bicycle ride from home.
I’m not counting on it, but it would be great if I could see, hear and feel “Impossible Germany” live …
Update the day after; they did play Impossible Germany, as always impressed by Cline’s (improvised) solo.
I just released Autoptimize Pro 2.0 as beta and now AO(Pro) finally includes page caching. If you’re on Cloudflare (APO), if your host offers page caching at server level (nginx/ varnish or similar) or if you already have a page caching plugin then you don’t need page caching in AOPro, but based on discussions with current customers page caching is still an important missing piece on a lot of WordPress sites, so for those page caching in AOPro will be a big help to get better performance.
If you’re on AOPro already you can switch to the beta-channel yourself (Settings -> Autoptimize Pro -> Account) or you can ask me to enroll you in the Beta. If you’re not using AOPro yet maybe this is the moment to give it a go? You can use the nowwithpagecache coupon code to get a 15% discount 🙂
So I heard Edward November on the (online) radio a couple of times already and the first and only single “Cold Street Light” is magic.
He (aka Edmund Lauret) should either stop making music entirely or (a lot more difficult) he could try to do even better.
The latter will be very hard though, because “Cold Street Light” is a perfectly unhappy pop-song, beautifully moody, slightly quirky and somewhat unpredictable but with an immensely catchy (downbeat) chorus.
About #Eurovision; Loved Croatia, Finland and I’m happy my fellow-Belgian #Gustaph did (very) well. But my favorite by far this year was Spains #BlancaPaloma
Flamenco-ish, intense, great voice, beautiful act, uncompromising electro-track that completely avoids the standard 4 to the floor beat that is way to present in Liverpool.
So much to like & discover, I’ve got it on repeat!
There’s a first for everything and so last week I did a presentation at a WordPress Meetup in Antwerp titled “Autoptimize: 5 secrets and an intermezzo” which at least I had fun with.
You can find a PDF export of the presentation here.
Questions go below, in the comments (or in the form on the contact page).
Thoughts & prayers or Thoughts & actions?
New booster in Autoptimize Pro 1.3: instant.page, a 3rd party JS component that can significantly improve performance for visitors going from one page to another on your site by preloading a page based on visitor behavior.
Do take into account that it could increase the number of page requests as the preloaded page might end up not being requested after all.
More info on https://instant.page.
Critical CSS (either through Autoptimize with your own Critical CSS account or through Autoptimize Pro which includes Critical CSS) requires WordPress’ scheduling system to function to be able to communicate with criticalcss.com on a regular basis. In some cases this does not work and you might see this notification in your WordPress dashboard;
It looks like there might be a problem with WordPress cron (task scheduling)
If this is the case, go through these steps to troubleshoot:
Autopti
mize Pro has “Boosters” to delay JavaScript (esp. interesting for external resources), CSS and HTML (which can be very impactful for long and/ or complex pages). Up until today’s release the delay was either until user interaction OR a set timeout of 5 seconds, but now you can choose the delay time yourself, setting it to e.g. 20s or 3s or -and that’s where things get a teeny bit shady- 0s to disable the time-out, waiting for user-interaction to load the delayed resources.
Setting the delay to 0 is a bit shady because at that point you are hiding those assets for performance tests which -although artificial- is likely to improve (lab test) performance scores. If you do use the 0s delay then do take into account that *real* users will still need to load/ render those assets and that that still may be a sub-optimal experience.
Someone uploaded an amateur recording of an entire (?) Jeff Buckley solo concert at the Sin-é from July 1993 (one year before Grace was released). A gem!
