🔗 Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things

Nikita Prokopov https://tonsky.me/blog/centering/ Even if it’s hard. Even if tools make it inconvenient. Even if you have to search for solutions. Together, I trust, we can find our way back to putting one rectangle inside another rectangle without messing it up. I, for one, want … | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 9 days ago

🔗 Shōgun’s Visual Style

Mark Llobrera https://www.markllobrera.com/posts/shogun-visual-style/ Shōgun and Ripley might not be your thing, but they’re both shows that have clearly put care into their visual look—they’re not lazy, and that deserves better critical engagement. | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 16 days ago

🔗 Models All The Way Down

Christo Buschek and Jer Thorp https://knowingmachines.org/models-all-the-way As artists, academics, practitioners, or as journalists, dataset investigation is one of the few tools we have available to gain insight and understanding into the most complex systems ever conceived by … | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 17 days ago

🔗 An Adventure in Small Scale

Vesa Lehtimäki https://avanaut.com/adventures-in-small-scale those old experiments I did with the brick […] caught the eye of the production team gearing up to make The Lego Movie around 2012 or 2013. In search for the look of the film they called me and wanted to know how and wh … | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 21 days ago

🔗 Best printer 2024, best printer for home use, office use, printing labels, printer for school, homework printer you are a printer we are all printers

Nilay Patel https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24117976/best-printer-2024-home-use-office-use-labels-school-homework Awesome article, not just for the advice about printers. an entire ecosystem of content farms seems motivated to constantly update articles about printers in respon … | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 21 days ago

💬 Note from 4 April 2024

Most mentions of the magical CSS object-fit: cover; in development tutorials should be accompanied by a warning: in most situations, it means the browser will download an image that is larger than required (at least in one direction), and optimization on the server side could be … | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 22 days ago

🔗 JavaScript Visualized - Promise Execution

Lydia Hallie https://www.lydiahallie.com/blog/promise-execution The cool thing about Promises is that this can trigger an asynchronous action if a handler is attached by either then or catch. Since the handlers are pushed to the Microtask Queue, you can handle the eventual result … | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 23 days ago

💬 Note from 2 April 2024

There is now a search feature on my photography site! 🔍 For example: https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/search/?q=lamine It is powered by the great pagefind project, thanks @bglw@fosstodon.org and #CloudCannon! 🙏 | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 24 days ago

🔗 An Interactive Guide to CSS Container Queries

Ahmad Shadeed https://ishadeed.com/article/css-container-query-guide#news-section Ahmad Shadeed once again offers us a very detailed and interactive article - a true work of art! While building layouts in CSS, we always wanted a way to change a specific UI based on the width of i … | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 24 days ago

🔗 67 Weird Debugging Tricks Your Browser Doesn't Want You to Know

Alan Norbauer https://alan.norbauer.com/articles/browser-debugging-tricks A list of useful, not-obvious hacks to get the most out of your browser’s1 debugger. Assumes an intermediate-level-or-higher understanding of the developer tools. | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 24 days ago

🔗 How we’re approaching theming with modern CSS

Andy Bell https://piccalil.li/blog/how-were-approaching-theming-with-modern-css/ in the context of heavy theming, semantic CSS is going to be the key for long term success, not atomic stylesheets (ASS) | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 24 days ago

🔗 Identifying Font Subsetting Opportunities with Web Font Analyzer

Paul Calvano https://paulcalvano.com/2024-02-16-identifying-font-subsetting-opportunities/ In this article, we’ll explore some potential issues around font loading and the performance benefits of a lesser used feature - font subsetting. We’ll look at HTTP Archive data to understa … | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 1 month ago

🔗 View transitions: Handling aspect ratio changes

Jake Archibald https://jakearchibald.com/2024/view-transitions-handling-aspect-ratio-changes/ When folks ask me for help with view transition animations that "don't quite look right", it's usually because the content changes aspect ratio. Here's how to handle it. | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 1 month ago

🔗 The Business Case for Digital Accessibility

Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) https://www.w3.org/WAI/business-case/ Public use of the web is more than 25 years old. It is no longer a novelty but an integrated, critical tool of modern life. As smart businesses integrate accessible design into their development and procurem … | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 1 month ago

💬 Note from 19 March 2024

🎧 Guts « Aimer sans amour » https://songwhip.com/guts/aimer-sans-amour | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 1 month ago

🔗 Links Worth Sharing

Matthias Ott https://matthiasott.com/notes/links-worth-sharing Every day, we browse the Web and scroll our timelines. And every day, we find even more interesting websites, blog posts, articles, videos, podcasts, and other insights and ideas that we want to document, preserve, an … | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 1 month ago

🔗 Arguments for opening links in a new tab or window

Jason Grigsby https://cloudfour.com/thinks/arguments-for-opening-links-in-a-new-tab-or-window/ A significant percentage of web professionals believe that opening outbound links in new tabs or windows provides a benefit to site owners. Why? Is it a digital urban legend? Or are peo … | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 1 month ago

💬 Note from 12 March 2024

Happy #INP day! 🎉 | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 1 month ago

💬 Note from 8 March 2024

Wow, #Pagefind search is so easy to add to an existing static site! I'm trying it for my photography site: https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/search/ Adding the indexer in the build script and the client JS for the UI required less than half an hour. 😍 Thanks #CloudCannon ! &#x … | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 1 month ago

🔗 How many bytes is “normal” for a web font: a study using Google fonts

Stoyan Stefanov https://www.phpied.com/bytes-normal-web-font-study-google-fonts/ So here it is, folks, a web font file that supports extended Latin characters, your Às and your Ás and Â, Ã, Ä, Å... should weigh around 20K. Anything a little over (or a lot over) 20K is up to you t … | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 1 month ago

🔗 EMO: Emote Portrait Alive

Linrui Tian, Qi Wang, Bang Zhang and Liefeng Bo https://humanaigc.github.io/emote-portrait-alive/ We proposed EMO, an expressive audio-driven portrait-video generation framework. Input a single reference image and the vocal audio, e.g. talking and singing, our method can generate … | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 1 month ago

🔗 Full of Themselves: An analysis of title drops in movies

Dominikus Baur and Alice Thudt https://www.titledrops.net/ A title drop is when a character in a movie says the title of the movie they're in. Here's a large-scale analysis of 73,921 movies from the last 80 years on how often, when and maybe even why that happens. This is an awes … | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 1 month ago

💬 Note from 1 March 2024

I'm really sad to read that #ABookApart is ceasing its publishing activity, which for almost 15 years has built up a collection of must-have reference books. I still have some of these to read… 😅 | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 1 month ago

🔗 JPEG XL and the Pareto Front

Jon Sneyers https://cloudinary.com/blog/jpeg-xl-and-the-pareto-front This consolidates JPEG XL’s position as the best image codec currently available, for both lossless and lossy compression, across the quality range but in particular for high quality to visually lossless quality … | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 1 month ago

🔗 How far we’ve come: What it would mean to lose the GOV.‌UK Design System

Steve Messer https://visitmy.website/2024/02/10/how-far-weve-come/ Although the team works on a thing used by thousands of other people, it’s the invisible systems work that has a bigger impact. Reviewing. Advising. Organising. Co-ordinating. Triaging. Educating. Supporting. Allo … | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 1 month ago

Note from 16 February 2024

Dear photographers using Adobe Lightroom, is there a way to search for photos based on the content of EXIF/IPTC fields that are not available in the metadata filters of the Library Filter bar? I want to build a dynamic collection of images that don't have informations in the rece … | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 2 months ago

💬 Note from 8 February 2024

There are now 68 Twitter archives mapped in tweetback-canonical, which means links to the original tweets in other tweetback archives are transformed to links to their archived versions! 💾 https://github.com/tweetback/tweetback-canonical/blob/main/mapping.js tweetback-can … | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 2 months ago

💬 Note from 8 February 2024

As I was checking once again if #CloudCannon had finaly added a starter plan in its pricing page, I just saw that there is a (new?) partner program starting at $10 for one single user! 😲 https://cloudcannon.com/partner-program/ But I guess I can't join as an individual… & … | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 2 months ago

🔗 Opportunities for AI in Accessibility

Aaron Gustafson https://alistapart.com/article/opportunities-for-ai-in-accessibility/ I have no doubt that AI can and will harm people… today, tomorrow, and well into the future. But I also believe that we can acknowledge that and, with an eye towards accessibility (and, more bro … | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 2 months ago

🔗 Mobile INP performance: The elephant in the room

Cliff Crocker https://www.speedcurve.com/blog/core-web-vitals-inp-mobile/ Unfortunately, due to lack of Safari support for some performance metrics – including Core Web Vitals – iPhone performance continues to be a blind spot. When we look at Interaction to Next Paint data, we're … | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 2 months ago

🔗 The Power of Bryce Dallas Howard’s Body in Argylle

Belinda Luscombe https://time.com/6622198/bryce-dallas-howard-argylle-body-interview/ A beautiful, smart, non-sample-size woman in a $200 million action movie by a major director should not be that rare in 2024, but it is. And it should also not feel like such a blow for rightsiz … | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 2 months ago

🔗 JPEG XL has not been selected for Interop 2024

the Interop team https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop/issues/430#issuecomment-1921864485 Thank you for proposing JPEG XL image format for inclusion in Interop 2024. We wanted to let you know that this proposal was not selected to be part of Interop this year. This is rea … | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 2 months ago

💬 Note from 1 February 2024

Judging by this #SpeedCurve graph comparing TTFB from last 3 months to the 3 months before, it looks like TTFB has improved lately with #Netlify, while it has degraded with #Cloudflare: I'm currently using Cloudflare in front of Netlify, but I'm not sure it's worth it anymore. &# … | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 2 months ago

💬 Note from 1 February 2024

Tag pages on my photographie site can now be sorted by dates and popularity, just like galleries. For example, here are the "night" photos sorted by popularity: https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/tags/night/by-popularity/ This is all static HTML generated with #Eleventy, no need for an … | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 2 months ago

An Interactive Intro to CRDTs

Jake Lazaroff https://jakelazaroff.com/words/an-interactive-intro-to-crdts/ Have you heard about CRDTs and wondered what they are? Maybe you’ve looked into them a bit, but ran into a wall of academic papers and math jargon? […] In this series, we … | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 3 months ago

All Mobile Apps Expand Until...

Luke Wroblewski https://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1696 Every mobile app attempts to expand until it includes chat. Those applications which do not are replaced by ones which can. | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 4 months ago

The Indieweb privacy challenge (Webmentions, silo backfeeds, and the GDPR)

Sebastian Greger https://sebastiangreger.net/2018/05/indieweb-privacy-challenge-webmentions-backfeeds-gdpr/ while a Twitter user technically “publishes” a message for all world to see as they like or retweet a tweet, the consequence that simply p … | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 6 months ago

The ethics of syndicating comments using WebMentions

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/12/the-ethics-of-syndicating-comments-using-webmentions/ This is a complicated problem. I want to see what people are writing in public about my posts. I also want to direct people to the conversations which are happening else … | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 6 months ago

HTML with Superpowers

Dave Rupert https://htmlwithsuperpowers.netlify.app/ What makes Web Components different than JS frameworks is that they're a set of Web Standards built into the platform. | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 11 months ago

The intersectionality of web performance

Jeremy Keith https://adactio.com/journal/20154 Sure, those people almost certainly do care about the business. Who doesn’t? But they’re also humans. I feel like if really want to convince them, speak to their hearts. Show them the bigger picture. | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 11 months ago

SupportsCSS

Stephanie Eckles https://supportscss.dev/ Live, in-browser detection of modern CSS support for selectors, features, and at-rules. Applies support-based classes, exposes a results object, and allows custom tests. | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 11 months ago

[Algolia] introducing new developer-friendly pricing

Nick Vlku https://www.algolia.com/blog/algolia/introducing-new-developer-friendly-pricing/ Algolia’s freemium journey has been heralded in the developer community for many years, and today we’re doubling down. We’ve replaced the Free plan with so … | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 11 months ago

Note from 3 April 2023

I'm so happy to go soon to We ❤️ Speed 2023, the list of speakers and talks is amazing! https://www.welovespeed.com/2023/interventions/ | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 1 year ago

Ten tips for better CSS transitions and animations

Josh Collinsworth https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/great-transitions#5-multiple-properties-multiple-easings users may not realize what it is about the transitions or animations on our websites and apps, but they can keenly spot the difference be … | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 1 year ago

Note from 21 March 2023

Looks like Google likes it when we start improving websites performance! | Continue reading


@nicolas-hoizey.com | 1 year ago