andyvanee

Fonts and external scripts can be a real performance killer for modern websites. This is the white-screen of death for front-end web development. Anytime a page is blocked for 0.5 or more seconds due to scripts and hosts outside of your control is a serious problem in my opinion. The best solution is to completely sandbox your external scripts like social media widgets. Fonts could use similar treatment. ...

Here’s an article I read a couple days ago about the founder of Udacity and his struggle with very low success rates for online courses. http://www.fastcompany.com/3021473/udacity-sebastian-thrun-uphill-climb To compensate for a high dropout rate, Udacity has made a shift to focusing on corporate training. Company sponsored courses on the practical tools and frameworks that are used today. These courses are generally taught by corporate “Technology Evangelists”, or some such title. ...

When I started reading [this article called CMS Trap](http://hakunin.com/cms- trap), I had no idea what the hell he was talking about. As I pushed through, I began saying ‘yes’ more and more, and by the time I was finished I had to go back and re-read it again because so much rang true. ...

Interesting slide deck here called Clojure: The JFDI language I haven’t done any Clojure programming, but I have done some lisp (sbcl) and Haskell, so this off-the-cuff remark caught my attention: ...

Peter Norvig is a big name in computer programming. I stumbled across some of his code and was struck by how he could often accomplish in 4 lines of code things that might take me pages. ...

OpenResty is a bit of an enigma. I first heard about the project a few months back when reading about some benchmarks of various web application platforms. OpenResty was WAY ahead of all the others. ...

As I’ve given this blog a little refresh, it’s caused me to look back on what I’ve written so far and think about what I want to write in the future. ...

This blog is now compiled with Middleman and deployed with Wercker (still deploying to S3). I’ve updated the look/feel as well, mostly taking stuff away to make it really clean & simple. I think this will be a nice setup :) ...

I haven’t been doing a lot of JavaScript lately, but every time I do i try to explore the idea of doing everything event driven. “I want the world to be made of hooks” -Andrew Plotkin ...