Mijn alternatief voor m.deredactie.be

Dat ik niet content was met de vernieuwde mobiele redactie.be schreef ik hier al. Maar commentaar spuien kan iedere blogger, afbreken is makkelijker dan opbouwen en het beste argument is een uitgewerkt alternatief. Vandaar; ik werkte de afgelopen maanden tussen de soep en de patatten aan een eigen “progressive enhanced” Proof of Concept van een … Read more

The Broken Smartphone Breakdown

I’m a spoiled, clumsy brat. Spoiled because my (previous) employer hands out yearly vouchers, which I use to buy me a new top-notch smartphone every 2-3 years. And clumsy as I all too often loose of break those expensive gadgets, forcing me to look for cheaper replacements. So here’s the breakdown of my smartphone history; … Read more

Nieuwe m.deredactie.be niet meer mobiel!

(Update December 2014: ik bouwde zelf een alternatieve versie die sneller en toegankelijker is op http://futtta.be/redactie/) Ik ❤ mobiele websites, zelfs op de desktop. Bij het refreshen van m.deredactie.be vandaag (12 mei) kwam ik op de nieuwe versie uit. De developers hebben zich ongetwijfeld goed geamuseerd om niet alleen de nieuwe look & feel te … Read more

PHP HTML parsing performance shootout; regex vs DOM

As I wrote earlier an Autoptimize user proposed to switch from regular expression based script & style extraction to using native PHP DOM functions (optionally with xpath). I created a small test-script to compare performance and the DOM methods are on average 500% slower than the preg_match based solution. Here are some details; There are … Read more

Should you inline or defer blocking CSS?

You care about web performance and so you dutifully aggregate and minify your CSS. But then a couple of months ago Google PageSpeed Insights (for mobile) started identifying CSS as a render blocking resource and so you wonder if you should you inline your CSS, or even defer loading it. Based on tests executed on … Read more

Looking at 2013 disappearing fast in the rear view mirror

Another year behind us, another overview in numbers (as done previously for 2011 and 2012). My blog: 121,971 pageviews 129 posts (52 lifestream items, 77 real blogposts 410 comments (including trackbacks and my own replies) busiest day was April 25th with 1,395 pageviews, due to WP Caching plugin vulnerability debrief, which was also this the … Read more

As found on the web (November 25th)

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As found on the web (August 26th)

frank shared Sprite madness. Sprite madness frank shared Music from our Tube; Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti with ‘Only In My Dreams’. Music from our Tube; Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti with ‘Only In My Dreams’ frank shared Comment by futtta on Embedded YT on mobile: autohide=0&controls=1 but controls invisible. Comment by futtta on Embedded YT on … Read more