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Leszek Swirski offers some advice about code caching for JavaScript developers to improve startup time on commonly visited sites. Leszek focuses on caching in Chrome/V8, but most of his examples probably apply to other browsers as well.
Timothy Vernon outlines how inlining your CSS can improve site performance. Lots of useful information here. 🏃 Timothy mentions that Chrome has a tool to find unused JavaScript and CSS; he also mentions Penthouse, which generates “critical CSS” for your webpages.
Read WordPress stories from PostStatus members as we take time to reflect and celebrate 20 years of WordPress.
As usual, we start off with a few Gutenberg updates. Gutenberg 2.5 was officially released on March 29th, with a heavy focus on new and improved tools to extend and interact with the editor. On the user side, there are updates to shared blocks, font size UI, accessibility, mobile, stability, and many bug fixes. Zac Gordon explains…
Chris Pearson and Matt Mullenweg have hardly communicated with one another in the last five years, but they are ideological enemies. They have very strong personalities and unshakable beliefs on business and software. This is a story of their dispute, their idealism, and the implications it will have on the WordPress project.
Danny van Kooten relates how and why he rewrote his application for Boxzilla from PHP/Laraval to the Go programming language. He shares some differences and benchmarks, but since Go is a compiled language it’s not a straight “apples to apples” comparison. Danny believes, “we’ll see a crazy amount of people switching from dynamically typed languages…
Move Over CSS, Here’s JSON • A New Generator Goes Turbo • The Hidden World of Javascript in WordPress • Cool Tool: URL Params
