talk

Here's a neat transcript of a talk by Mat Marquis where he details how he made the Bocoup website lightning fast, particularly with snazzy font loading tricks and performance tools to help monitor those improvements over time.

Although, my favorite part of the talk is when Mat goes into why he wants to make websites:

I don't get excited about frameworks or languages—I get excited about potential; about playing my part in building a more inclusive web.

I care about making something that works well for someone that has only ever known the web by way of a five-year-old Android device, because that's what they have—someone who might feel like they're being left behind by the web a little more every day. I want to build something better for them.

Una Kravets walks us through blend modes, gradients and CSS filters in this excellent talk from dotCSS. It’s especially interesting to see how some of these cool tricks might let us circumnavigate design tools completely so that we can let the browser do all the work for us.

She also has a six-part blog post series on CSS image effects (vintage washout, 3D Glasses, Vignettes, Bokeh, Lomography, and Infared).

Maciej Ceglowski’s latest talk is all about front-end performance, the advertising bubble and surveillance on the web. It’s interesting that he argues how each of these separate problems are really interrelated issues that ultimately damages how the web is built.